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The Powder of Sympathy
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Christopher Morley
Another collection of mostly short “soliloquys” from Christopher Morley, an American literary luminary, who introduces them thus: “… these p…
The Forgery
Read by Lynne T
George Payne Rainsford James
Humphrey Scriven is a fine, genial, mercantile man, left widowed to raise three daughters and a son. Two of the daughters marry well althoug…
Nonsense Novels
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Stephen Leacock
Ten silly stories by Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by Tricia G)
Tim Bobbin: A View of the Lancashire Dialect
Read by Phil Benson
Various
A comic dialogue written in John Collier's idiosyncratic version of the 18th century South Lancashire dialect together with a collection of …
Biographia Literaria
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nominally an autobiography, Biographia Literaria ranges widely across the realms of philosophy, poetry and memoir, in Coleridge's trademark …
A Book of Scoundrels
Read by Greg Lewin
Charles Whibley
An ironic history of British criminals, mostly pre-Victorian pickpockets, highwaymen and thieves. Here we meet Moll Cutpurse the Queen of th…
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 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…
David Copperfield, Band 03 (Version 2)
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Charles Dickens
David Copperfield von Charles Dickens ist ein viktorianischer Bildungsroman, der die Lebensgeschichte des Protagonisten David Copperfield er…
Winnowed Wisdom
Read by David Wales
Stephen Leacock
This 1926 volume comprises thirty-five essays by the masterful Canadian humorist. - Summary by david wales
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…
The Rising of the Tide
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Ida M. Tarbell
The subtitle is "the story of Sabinsport", and the town is the major character. It is a small, Midwestern town in the USA, in 1914…
Maarten Chuzzlewit
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Charles Dickens
De familie Chuzzlewit is op jacht naar de erfenis van de oude Maarten Chuzzlewit. De kleinzoon, Martin Chuzzlewit, heeft daarnaast ook zijn …
David Copperfield, Band 05 (Version 2)
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Charles Dickens
David Copperfield von Charles Dickens ist ein viktorianischer Bildungsroman, der die Lebensgeschichte des Protagonisten David Copperfield er…
David Copperfield, Band 09
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Charles Dickens
David Copperfield von Charles Dickens ist ein viktorianischer Bildungsroman, der die Lebensgeschichte des Protagonisten David Copperfield er…
David Copperfield, Band 04 (Version 2)
Read by josvanaken
Charles Dickens
David Copperfield von Charles Dickens ist ein viktorianischer Bildungsroman, der die Lebensgeschichte des Protagonisten David Copperfield er…
EDWY: A Poem, in Three Parts
Read by Grant Hurlock
Ann Radcliffe
In Edwy, Ann Radcliffe gives us a delightful piece of poetic moonshine, whose eponymous hero seeks assistance from the world of faerie in or…
007 The Phil Vischer Interview
Sheridan Voysey
A conversation with VeggieTales creator Phil Vischer on losing everything but discovering through the process what you can never lose.
Twentieth Century Negro Literature or A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topi…
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Daniel Wallace Culp
The object of this book is... (1) To enlighten the uninformed white people on the intellectual ability of the Negro. (2) To give to those, w…
Black No More
Read by Jim Locke
George Schuyler
Being an account of the strange and wonderful workings of science in the land of the free, A.D. 1933-1940. (Summary by author)