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The Transport Gen'ral Ferguson

Read by DebK


H. L. Mencken


In Ventures into Verse

Better known for his biting satire, Mencken's first book was this small volume of verses. - Summary by Larry Wilson

Chapter 5

Read by Ben Tucker


Ferguson Findley


In Murder Makes Me Mad

REVENGE IS FOR MEMurder makes me mad. Me, Rex Howard, private eye. And when a tough waterfront boss killed my kid sister, I swore I'd get my…

Wallace Ferguson

Read by frankjf


Edgar Lee Masters


In Spoon River Anthology

This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, goss…

Criminal Manchester: Experiences of a Special Correspondent

Read by Phil Benson


William James McGlothlin



Follow the Manchester Evening News 'special correspondent' and his guide - recently back from a 'seven stretch' - as they take you on a tour…

Chapter 2, Part 1

Read by Carl Manchester


John Stuart Mill


In The Subjection of Women

The Subjection of Women is the title of an essay written by John Stuart Mill in 1869, possibly jointly with his wife Harriet Taylor Mill, st…

Fox of Derby, Murray of Leeds, Roberts and Whitworth of Manchester

Read by Clive Catterall


Samuel Smiles


In Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers

Short Biographies of some of the most influential engineers who developed the modern manufacturing methods behind the Industrial Revolution.…

The Forging of the Anchor by Samuel Ferguson

Read by Craig Franklin


Various


In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 2)

The seventh of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, co…

15 - Chapter 15


Steele Rudd


In Green Grey Homestead

This book describes the experiences of Dick Gall, a young Australian countryman, from the time of his first application for ‘a homestead sel…

Bk. 3, Chapter 10

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E. Phillips Oppenheim


In The Cinema Murder

Phillip Romilly is a poor art teacher in London. He finds out that his wealthy cousin Douglas has been seeing his girl friend Beatrice behin…

Ambrose Douglass

Read by Greg Giordano


Various


In Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume III, Florida Narratives

These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…

Redress


BBC/Charles Dickens/Leon Garfield/Ian Holm/John Moffat


In Charles Dickens The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Classic Serial Sun 4th Mar 1990, 14:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM The Mystery of Edwin Drood By Charles Dickens, concluded by Leo…

Samuel Sutton

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Various


In Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XII, Ohio Narratives

These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…

Following the Colour Line in the North - part 2

Read by Roger Melin


Ray Stannard Baker


In Following the Color Line

Subtitled "An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy", we are presented an in-depth and essentially non-opinionate…

South-West Wind, Esq.

Read by Linda Ferguson


John Ruskin


In The Ontario Readers: Third Book

The Ontario Readers is a school book first published in 1919, by the Ontario Ministry of Education, containing short excerpts of literary wo…

Part 3, chapter 1: Forebodings Regarding the Fate of the Negro

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Robert Dale Owen


In The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation, and the Future of the African Race in the United States

"The Wrong of Slavery" is a work written by Robert Dale Owen based largely off of the work of the Freedmen's Inquiry Commission wh…

Plessy v. Ferguson

Read by Matthew Datcher


US Department of Homeland Security, United States Department Of Homeland Security, United States Of America and U. S. Citizenship And Immigration Services


In The Citizen's Almanac - Fundamental Documents, Symbols, and Anthems of the Unit…

New citizens of the United States were given this pamphlet when they became citizens. The Citizen's Almanac contains information on the hist…

The Red Headed League

Read by James Evans


Various


In Short Story Collection Vol. 109

Here we have the 109th edition of the LibriVox Short Story Collections. Here we have frequent contributors, Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe and …

Scenes 7: Hackney-Coach Stands

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Charles Dickens


In Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People

Sketches by Boz is a collection of short pieces published by Charles Dickens in 1836 accompanied by illustrations by George Cruikshank. It c…

In England's Worst Prison

Read by Richard Vogel


Rufus Jones


In The Story of George Fox

A biography of George Fox, founder of The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). - Summary by Richard Vogel

P2 Chapter 4 The Red Bean

Read by Andy Sames


Edgar Wallace


In The Four Just Men

In the atmosphere of political turmoil before the First World War it seemed there were villains, spies and anarchists around every corner. S…

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