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The Aristocrats
Read by TR Love
Gertrude Atherton
Being the impressions of the Lady Helen Pole during her sojourn in The Great North Woods as spontaneously recorded in her letters to her fri…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 102
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Various
"It is difficult for the human mind to take a comprehensive view of a subject." This is how librarian Arthur Bostwick begins his e…
Cobb's Anatomy (version 2)
Read by Phil Chenevert
Irvin S. Cobb
Irving S. Cobb discusses the human body and its various strange parts in his own inimitable hilarious style. He discusses the tummy and th…
Bread
Read by WildShimmeringPath
Charles G. Norris
Bread by Charles G. Norris reads like a working class Great Gatsby with a tragic female main character. The author is said to have influence…
Earth's Enigmas
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Sir Charles G. D. Roberts
Most of the stories in this collection attempt to present one or another of those problems of life or nature to which, as it appears to many…
Lenz
Read by Rolf Kaiser
Georg Büchner
Büchner schildert in dieser Erzählung, wie der deutsche Schriftsteller Jakob Lenz dem Wahnsinn verfällt.Vor dem abwechselnd d…
Six lectures on literature
Read by Phil Benson
Charles Harold Herford
C. H. Herford was Professor of English Literature at the Victoria University of Manchester in era when public lectures were published in pam…
J. M. Synge and the Ireland of His Time
Read by Kyle James Maclean
William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats recounts his experiences with friend and colleague, John Millington Synge. - Summary by Kyle James Maclean
John Smith's Funny Adventures on a Crutch! or The Remarkable Peregrinations of …
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A. F. Hill
Follow a Very Funny Man make the best and the worst of his infirmity!! (Summary by Christine Rottger)The language and ideas in this book ref…
Dr. Heidenhoff's Process
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Edward Bellamy
Henry Burr's fiance, Madeline, is seduced by another man. The guilt and painful memories she has as a result cause him to refer her to Dr. H…
The Cabinet Minister
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Arthur Wing Pinero
Mr. Pinero holds that farce should treat of probable people placed in possible circumstances, but regarded from a point of view which exagge…
Walker's Appeal
Read by Jim Locke
David Walker
The Appeal grabbed readers’ attention in as dramatic a manner as Walker could have possibly imagined. In her book, Maria W. Stewart and the …
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 063
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Various
Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Volume 63 features essays on a variety of topics: t…
The Lost Art of Reading
Read by Joseph Tabler
Gerald Stanley Lee
Gerald Stanley Lee speaks here-in of books and self in the time of factories, tall buildings and industry and big city making, the effects o…
Warm Honey
Read by Steve McAlpine
Steve McAlpine
Do you parents fill you up with their faults and add a few extra ones as a special bonus?
Rob meets Charis at the same time as he is making …
Follies in Fiction
Read by Winnifred Assmann
Stephen Leacock
A pamphlet from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto, containing selections from Further Foolishness and Frenzie…
The Book of This and That
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Robert Lynd
From the pen of the Irish poet and essayist, Robert Lynd, comes a collection of humorous and satirical essays on topics as wide ranging as s…
Speeches: Literary and Social
Read by Bryn Roberts
Charles Dickens
Speeches: Literary and Social is a collection of speeches given by Charles Dickens in various settings, including banquets, public gathering…
The Egregious English
Read by David Wales
T. W. H. Crosland
This 1903 book is a tongue-in-cheek send-up of English people and subjects. Within the humor (or humour), the listener may be surprised by s…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 090
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Various
In his autobiographical essay "The Intellectuals and the Boston Mob," Booker T. Washington wrote: "It is not argument, nor cr…