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Read by Steven Watson
Samuel Johnson
In Prayers and Meditations
The prayers and meditations of Samuel Johnson, published posthumously by George Strahan to whom Johnson had entrusted the manuscripts. Johns…
The Life of Samuel Johnson
Read by Bev J Stevens
James Boswell
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 05
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Ben Johnson
Read by Kevin Waters
Various
In Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XI, North Carolina Narratives, Part 2
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
Andrew Johnson - part 2
Read by John Greenman
Andrew Johnson
In Presidential Farewell and Last Addresses
This collection will put in one place, all the Farewell (or last) Addresses made by each of the 43 ex-US presidents.The first, George Washin…
One and Twenty
Read by David Federman
Samuel Johnson
In Eighteenth Century Poetry and Prose
A collection of prose and poetry written principally in the 18th Century. These works of world literature are written in the English languag…
Forward
Read by Audio Andrea
James Allen
In The Divine Companion (Version 2)
It cannot be said of this book that James Allen wrote it at any particular time or in any one year, for he was engaged in it over many years…
A Reminiscence Of Dr. Samuel Johnson
Read by Cameron Halket
H. P. Lovecraft
In The Collected Public Domain Works of H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft’s name is synonymous with horror fiction. His major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: the idea that life is incom…
Selected works
Read by Joshua Paul Johnson
John Adams
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 01
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Andrew Johnson, December 9, 1868, part 2
Read by Pete McElveen
Abraham Lincoln
In State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1861 - 1868)
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…
CHARLES BERTRAM JOHNSON
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
James Weldon Johnson and Joseph S. Cotter, Jr.
In The Book of American Negro Poetry
The Book of American Negro Poetry is one of the earliest and most essential anthologies of African-American verse ever brought to print. Edi…
Johnsonham, Junior
Read by KirksVoice
Paul Laurence Dunbar
In The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories
One of four books of short stories written in his brief career. These stories are written using African-American dialect which provides dee…
About the Author
Read by Larry Wilson
Robert W. Service
In Rhymes of a Red Cross Man
Robert Service was born in Lancashire, England, but at age 21 moved to Canada and eventually ended up in the Yukon during the gold rush. Hi…
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. I (version 2)
Read by Barbara Baker
James Boswell
This is the first of four volumes of a what was a new, intimate, type of biography when it was first published in 1791 and which has been an…
Plan and Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Samuel Johnson
The published dictionary was a huge book: with pages nearly 1½ feet tall and 20 inches wide, it contained 42,773 words; it also sold …
The Political Career of Andrew Jackson Part 2 - Thomas H. Benton
Read by Ted Lienhart
Various
In The World's Best Orations, Volume 2
Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of…
Mrs. Johnson
Read by Kenneth Sergeant Gaghan
William Dean Howells
In The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 01
The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the first volume, 53 short stories and poems have been gathered from 44 authors…
Doctor Johnson: A Play
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A. Edward Newton
The life of Doctor Johnson, told in his own words and (mostly) those of others around him. "Anyone with a teaspoonful of imagination ca…
To the Memory of Ben Jonson by John Cleveland
Read by Tomas Peter
Various
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 1)
The seventh of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, con…
English Walnuts
Read by Betsie Bush
Walter Fox Allen
In Insomnia Collection Vol. 001
Soporific dullness is in the ear of the listener, and what's tedium incarnate to one person will be another person's passion and delight. Ho…