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James

Read by Robert Scott


World English Bible



The Book of James : Supposed to have been written by James the Brother of Jesus and First Leader of the Christian movement in Jerusalem afte…

James

Read by Sam Stinson


American Standard Version



The Epistle of James is a book in the Christian New Testament. The author identifies himself as James (James 1:1), traditionally understood …

Section 02

Read by James E. Carson


Leo Tolstoy


In Father Sergius

Prince Stepan Kasatsky experiences a disappointment with his fiancé and decides to become a monk! There is a story line, but beneath …

Selected excerpts

Read by James E. Carson


Charles Dudely Warner, ed. and Jane Barlow


In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 04

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…

James

Read by Susan Denney


King James Version



The writer of this letter instructs the early Christians on the value of showing patience, controlling an unruly tongue and treating all peo…

Oxford Book of American Essays

Read by James E. Carson


Various



Collection of 32 essays by American authors ranging from Benjamin Franklin to Emerson to Whitman to Henry James to Theodore Roosevelt. On su…

The Life of Kit Carson

Read by Laura Victoria


Edward S. Ellis



Christopher Carson, or as he was familiarly called, Kit Carson, was a man whose real worth was understood only by those with whom he was ass…

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…

Kit Carson

Read by Roger Melin


Jessie Benton Fremont and Jessie Benton Frémont


In The Will and the Way Stories

Simply put, this is a book of 9 short vignettes each of which describes a different scenario which demonstrates the age old adage: 'where th…

NEXT TO READING MATTER

Read by Scott Foster


O. Henry


In Roads of Destiny

This is another collection of O. Henry short stories. - Summary by Sid

To Dr. James Newton Matthews

Read by Andrew Kennedy


Paul Laurence Dunbar


In Oak and Ivy

"Oak and Ivy" is Paul Laurence Dunbar's first collection of poetry. He was by far the most successful Black American to write poet…

The Divine Companion

Read by Andrea Fiore


James Allen



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…

My Late Senatorial Secretaryship

Read by Ben Tucker


Mark Twain


In A Curious Dream and Other Sketches

Celebrated American humorist Mark Twain delivers a delightful collection of the witty stories for which he is so well known. From the stran…

Diogenes the Wise Man

Read by Laura Caldwell


James Baldwin


In Fifty Famous Stories Retold

Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin is a collection of short stories that give a snapshot into the life of a legendary hero or an e…

Isaac Johnson

Read by Scott Leonard Fortune


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…

Canto IV

Read by Peter Tucker


Sir Walter Scott


In The Lay of the Last Minstrel

An aging minstrel seeks who hospitality at Newark Castle and in recompense tells a tale of a sixteenth-century Border feud. In the poem, Lad…

Selected works

Read by David Leeson


John Quincy 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…

5

Read by Scotty Smith


E. E. Cummings


In XLI Poems

A book of 41 poems by E. E. Cummings classified as Songs I-XII [poems 1-12], Chansons Innocentes I-II [poems 13-14], Portraits I-IX [poems…

Saturn

Read by Rosslyn Carlyle


Clark Ashton Smith


In The Star-Treader and Other Poems

Clark Ashton Smith, referred to as one of the big three of Weird Tales, was a romantic-style poet, a Lovecraftian-style writer and a literar…

Remarks as Chairman - Lincoln Celebration, Benefit of Lincoln Memorial University, Carnegie Hall, New York, February 11, 1901

Read by John Greenman


Mark Twain


In Mark Twain's Speeches, Part 2

This collection of the 195 known, publicly-printed speeches of Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) was compiled by Paul Fatout and publish…

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