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In The Uncommercial Traveller

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Charles Dickens


The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of literary sketches and reminiscences written by Charles Dickens. In 1859 Dickens founded a new …

The House by the Churchyard

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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu


Murder, mystery, mayhem, romance and relationships. Our classic who-done-it takes place in olde Dublin, Ireland in the village of Chapelizod…

The Gold of Fairnilee

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Andrew Lang


A fairy story set in Scotland about Jean and Randal and what happens when Randal disappears into fairyland. This is Lang's second fairy tal…

The Submarine Boys and the Smugglers

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Victor G. Durham


Three American naval officers are assigned to a newly commissioned submarine, the Grant. The US navy wants commander Jack, ensigns Hal and E…

The Spy Company, a Story of the Mexican War

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Archibald Clavering Gunter


The Exciting adventures of a beautiful Texan debutante. She was raised in New York City high society and attended the best schools. When her…

Purgatory

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Rev. Francois Xavier Schouppe


Purgatory by FX Schouppe, SJ, a french Catholic theologian who died in November, 1904 details the place where saved souls go before Heaven. …

The Art of Dying Well

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St. Robert Bellarmine


The Art of Dying Well is a guide book for people who want to go to heaven. It was written over 400 years ago by Saint Robert Bellarmine in l…

Secret history revealed by Lady Peggy O'Malley

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Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson


"If, two years ago, when I was sixteen, I hadn’t wanted money to buy a white frock with roses on it, which I saw in Selfridge’s window,…

The Wild Irishman

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T. W. H. Crosland


History and customs of the Irish and Ireland. A word of warning to the listener: The Wild Irishman contains the biased, uncomplimentary opin…

Arizona Argonauts

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H. Bedford-Jones


Imagine it's early 1900's and you want to get away from it all. So you head to Two Palms, Arizona. Where for entertainment, people await the…

The Four Last Things: Death, Judgement, Hell, Heaven

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Fr. Martin Von Cochem


We are all going to die! Heaven is our ultimate destination. Sadly not all are bound for Glory. Many well intentioned people are of the beli…

The Arizona Callahan

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Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones and H. Bedford-Jones


The same distinguished writer who gave you such thrilling stories of far places as “The Brazen Peacock” and “Lou-Lou” knows the odd corners …

Fairhaven; a Story of Pilgrim Land

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Henry Grattan Donnelly


Fairhaven is the story of a very wealthy couple who lived in New York City in a palatial mansion. They had all the trappings of the super ri…

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…

John Keats: Selected Poems

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


John Keats


John Keats is perhaps the most talented poet of the English Romantic Period. Although his life was cut short by disease at the age of 25, he…

Kazan

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


James Oliver Curwood


Kazan (sometimes published with the subtitle The Wolf Dog) is a once very popular novel by environmentalist and author James Oliver Curwood.…

Shelley: Selected Poems and Prose

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Percy Bysshe Shelley


The English Romantic Period in literature featured a towering group of excellent poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats. If …

Orley Farm

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Anthony Trollope


Orley Farm is Trollope at his best (as good as the Barsetshire series), which means some of the best characterizations in the English langua…

Evangeline

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Evangeline is one of Longfellow’s most popular poems and was once a great favorite with the American people. For many years almost every sch…

The Courtship of Miles Standish

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


During the late nineteenth century and until the middle of the twentieth, many elementary classrooms in America featured (along with a Gilbe…

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