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The Boy Scout And Other Stories For Boys

Read by David Wales


Richard Harding Davis


RICHARD HARDING DAVIS, as a friend and fellow author has written of him, was “youth incarnate,” and there is probably nothing that he wrote …

A Narrative of the Life of Rev. Noah Davis, A Colored Man

Read by Bryan Ness


Noah Davis


The object of the writer, in preparing this account of himself, is toRAISE SUFFICIENT MEANS TO FREE HIS LAST TWO CHILDREN FROM SLAVERY.Havin…

Benjamin Franklin: Self-Revealed, Volume 2

Read by Jim Locke


William Cabell Bruce


His life was like a full five-act play—prophetic prologue and stately epilogue, and swelling scene imposed upon swelling scene, until the ta…

White April

Read by Laurie Banza


Harold Vinal


In five section parts, Golden Windows, Sonnets for Weeping, Of Mariners, White Glamour, and Overtones, Harold Vinal writes about deep feeli…

Escape From The Confederacy

Read by David Wales


Benjamin F. Hasson


Benjamin F Hasson was a Union officer in the Civil War of the United States. After being captured by the Confederacy, he escaped from a pris…

A Rebel's Recollections

Read by Lee Smalley


George Eggleston


George Cary Eggleston's Civil War memoir begins with a separate essay on the living conditions and political opinions of Virginia’s citizenr…

Star Born

Read by Mark F. Smith


Andre Norton


Andre Norton's "Star Born" pictures a human colony in another galaxy, driven away from Earth generations ago by a repressive gover…

A Lincoln Conscript

Read by KevinS


Homer Greene


A heartwarming novel which visits the last two years of the American Civil War. The center of the story is the conflict of emotions and deed…

Stephen Mitchell's Journey

Read by TriciaG


Pansy


Stephen Mitchell is a young man without a place in the world. He hates farming, although he works endless hours on the poor family farm. He …

A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier: Some of the Adventures, Dangers, and Su…

Read by Barry Eads


Joseph Plumb Martin


Joining the Continental Army as a teenager, Joseph Plumb Martin spent the next eight years fighting in the Revolutionary War as an enlisted …

The Pupil

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


Pemberton, a young American with an Oxford education and out of money, takes a job tutoring Morgan Moreen, the 12-year old son of an America…

In the Pecos Country

Read by Thomas Rose


Edward S. Ellis


Edward Sylvester Ellis was a major American author during the era of inexpensive fiction of the nineteenth century (dime novels). Because he…

Benjamin Franklin: Self-Revealed, Volume 1

Read by Jim Locke


William Cabell Bruce


His life was like a full five-act play—prophetic prologue and stately epilogue, and swelling scene imposed upon swelling scene, until the ta…

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…

The Spirit of the Border

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Zane Grey


This is an early novel by the phenomenally successful author of frontier, western and sports stories. It deals with historical characters an…

The Negro

Read by Jim Locke


W. E. B. Du Bois


Nevertheless, I have not been able to withstand the temptation to essay such short general statement of the main known facts and their fair …

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

Read by Jim Clevenger


Ulysses S. Grant


In preparing these volumes for the public, I have entered upon the task with the sincere desire to avoid doing injustice to any one, whether…

Discoveries: Essays in Literary Criticism

Read by Jim Locke


John Middleton Murry


Introductory Note: I have called these essays and lectures by a title that some people may think presumptuous: first, because it is the titl…

The Lincoln Story Book

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Henry L. Williams


Subtitle: A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Fo…

Reid's Critique of Hume

Read by Dan Robinson


Dan Robinson


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