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Modern Monologues
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Marjorie Benton Cooke
The monologue is a character study in little; the apotheosis of a chosen individuality. All the little studies in this book have stood the t…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 102
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Various
"It is difficult for the human mind to take a comprehensive view of a subject." This is how librarian Arthur Bostwick begins his e…
Raven's Gift
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Tobias D. Robison
When Raven comes to Redthwen to meet her mentor Orvannon, she encounters a vicious traveler, a hag with an extraordinary Voice of Command, a…
Capitol Coven
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Peter E. Abresch
Ninety percent of the federal laws, resolutions, and appropriations pass or fail in the U. S. Congress by a handful of votes. When Alexand…
The Bronze Hand
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Anna Katharine Green
A political society secretly operates in Baltimore. When he tries to help his beautiful neighbor Miss Calhoun recover a stolen ring which mi…
My First Book
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Various
This is not a children's book, as may be supposed from the title, but a collection of essays first published in The Idler magazine, in which…
The Forgery
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George Payne Rainsford James
Humphrey Scriven is a fine, genial, mercantile man, left widowed to raise three daughters and a son. Two of the daughters marry well althoug…
The Henry Morgan Show-Part Two
Various
More caustic half-hour satires by the cantankerous comedian and future "I've Got a Secret" panelist.
The Complete Works of Artemus Ward Part 2, War
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Jefferson B. Browne and Artemus Ward
Charles Farrar Browne, a native of Maine, became famous as a writer and lecturer under the name of Artemus Ward. Like his friend Mark Twain…
The Henry Morgan Show-Part Three
Various
Even more caustic satires from the cantankerous comedian and future "I've Got a Secret" panelist.
Flemington (version 2)
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Violet Jacob
Archie Flemington, a spy in Government service during the 1745 Jacobite rising, is sent to investigate the suspected rebel James Logie. Desp…
The Lost Art of Reading
Read by Joseph Tabler
Gerald Stanley Lee
Gerald Stanley Lee speaks here-in of books and self in the time of factories, tall buildings and industry and big city making, the effects o…
A London Life
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Henry James
A devoted sister attempts to check her sibling's scandalous behavior in the world of British high society. A delightful comedy of Anglo-Ame…
The Island Pharisees
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John Galsworthy
Richard Shelton is wrestling with his conscience. As a member of the upper class at a time when the British Empire is at its height, he sees…
Say and Seal, Volume 1
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Susan Warner
The arrival of a new schoolteacher causes quite a stir in the small New England town of Pattaquasset, not the least of it in the house of Mr…
The Wrong Letter
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Walter S. Masterman
The Home Secretary is found murdered. Even more bizarre is that the fact is communicated to the Scotland Yard before the commission of the d…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 098
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Various
"The moment a man attempts to tell the truth as he not only thinks but feels it, what he says becomes charged with that man himself.&qu…
Ann
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Lechmere Worrall
Edward Hargraves, a young author, is encouraged by his mother and friend, Billy, to marry a woman in order to understand the fairer sex bett…
A Cabinet Secret
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Guy Boothby
Witty spy adventure set during the Boer Wars of the late 19th Century. - Summary by BellonaTimes
Five O'Clock Tea
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William Dean Howells
A light-hearted romantic comedy in twelve short scenes, set during a tea party in the home of Mrs. Amy Somers, a widow who is courted by the…