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Candide (version 2)

Read by Ted Delorme


Voltaire


Candide is a relentless, brutal assault on government, society, religion, education, and, above all, optimism. Dr. Pangloss teaches his youn…

The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories

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Mark Twain


Here's a Mark Twain story that's very unlike those he became famous for, but when I read it back in Catholic high school, it left a deep imp…

Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers

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Charles Bradlaugh


This book presents a brief bio and a summary of important ideas & events in the lives of 23 great philosophers from ancient times throug…

The Enchanted Island of Yew

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L. Frank Baum


A fairy has become bored with her life, and convinces some young girls to transform her into a human boy so she can go on adventures. The ad…

Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll, Volume 1

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Robert G. Ingersoll


Colonel Robert Green Ingersoll was a Civil War veteran, American political leader and orator during the Golden Age of Freethought, noted for…

Love Conquers All

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Robert C. Benchley


Robert Benchley, 1889-1945, was a writer, humorist and actor of note during the 1920s through the early 1940s. Born in Massachusetts, he spe…

Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll, Volume 2

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Robert G. Ingersoll


A second volume of lectures by the most famous orator of the 19th century. Ingersoll was a tireless crusader for the dignity of humanity, an…

The Story of the Trapper

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Agnes C. Laut


Canadian outdoors-woman and popular author Agnes Laut vividly portrays the men who braved the western wildernesses of Canada and U.S. year-a…

Gallipoli

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John Masefield


John Masefield was an English novelist and poet who would later be named England's Poet Laureate. In early 1916, immediately after the termi…

Historical Backgrounds of the Great War; The War: Its Origins and Warnings

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Frank James Adkins


Author Frank J. Adkins, a lecturer at Cambridge University, arranged a series of European history lectures at the beginning of World War I f…

What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile

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John Hanning Speke


This volume by British explorer Captain John Hanning Speke contains accounts of his first two expeditions into East Africa in the 1850s. Vol…

My War Experiences in Two Continents

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Sarah Broom Macnaughtan


Sarah Macnaughtan was a Scottish novelist who took part in the women's suffrage movement, worked for the Red Cross in the Second Boer War (1…

Camp and Trail

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Stewart Edward White


Stewart Edward White was a popular and respected novelist who set his stories on the western frontier and in the wilderness. For his novels …

The Great Lakes and the Vessels That Plough Them

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James Oliver Curwood


The author sets forth the facts of the Great Lakes' largest fleet of freighters in the world, explaining what an enormous role Great Lakes c…

An Englishwoman in the Philippines

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Enid Dauncey


Enid Gambier Dauncey was a travel writer who, with her businessman husband, lived in a provincial city in the Philippines for nine months fr…

With Poor Immigrants to America

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Stephen Graham


Stephen Graham, a Brit with Russian language skills, traveled by sea in 1913 with a group of poor Russian and other Slavic immigrants to New…

America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer

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Fredrika Bremer


When Fredrika Bremer arrived in New York from Sweden in October 1849, she was already famous throughout America for her novels and for her r…

When Railroads Were New

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Charles Frederick Carter


This history of American railroads originated as a series of articles in Railroad Man's Magazine before being compiled into a book in 1909. …

Letters from the West

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James Hall


James Hall was a soldier, lawyer, circuit judge, newspaper editor, historian, and author of fiction. He was also the first publisher of a li…

Germany Before the War

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Napoleon-Eugène Beyens


Baron Beyens was a senior member of the Belgian diplomatic service who was posted to Berlin in 1912. His book, published in early 1916, is i…

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