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In Mountain Idylls, and Other Poems

Read by George Emerson

Alfred Castner King

"The author of this unpretentious volume has long questioned the advisability of adding a book to our already inflated and overloaded l…

The Stratagems, Book 1, Part 3

In The Stratagems and The Aqueducts of Rome

Read by Emerson Wells

Sextus Julius Frontinus

Frontinus' Stratagems is a collection of examples of military stratagems from Greek and Roman history, which the author comments based on h…

In the Wilderness

In Stories of the Bible, Volume 1: The People of the Chosen Land

Read by Laurel Emerson

Myles Endicott

Brief Bible stories from the Old Testament, many accompanied by poems. - Summary by Larry Wilson

The Imperial Institute

In Dagonet Ditties

Read by Emerson Wells

George R. Sims

George Robert Sims was an English journalist, poet, dramatist, novelist, prolific in his output and known for his satire and humor. These q…

Edgar Allan Poe, Part 1, An Appreciation

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 085

Read by George Emerson

Unknown

"A regard for decency, even at the cost of success, is but the regard for one's own dignity" was novelist Joseph Conrad's take on …

Ch.27 The Legal Position of Hare and his Wife

In The History of Burke and Hare, And of the Resurrectionist Times

Read by Catherine Emerson

George Macgregor

From the preface: ".....of all the criminal events that have occurred in Scotland, few have excited so deep, widespread, and lasting an…

Fir-cone Mushroom to Maned Mushroom

In Mushrooms and Toadstools (Third Edition)

Read by Catherine Emerson

Worthington George Smith

This is a useful, but not comprehensive description of both edible and poisonous fungi found in Great Britain. Although the book is well ill…

Wingfold and Barbara

In There and Back

Read by George Emerson

George MacDonald

An unscrupulous baronet is left a widower and couldn't care less what happens to his ugly newborn heir. But when an icy stepmother moves in …

Georgic I

In The Georgics: A Poem of the Land

Read by George Emerson

Virgil

A poem by the Latin poet Virgil, the second of his three known works. "Georgic" means "to work the land," and on such ma…

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