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Mr. Waddington of Wyck

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May Sinclair


May Sinclair’s 1921 novel tells the story of the ridiculous Mr. Horatio Bysshe Waddington, a pompous, self-deluded poser making his way thro…

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Collection Vol. 001

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


A collection to celebrate Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 200th birthday, on 27th February, 2007.

Pipefuls

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Christopher Morley


A delightful collection of 48 essays on various topics of the human condition that caught his fancy. Witty, insightful and funny of course a…

Helen with the High Hand

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Arnold Bennett


James Ollerenshaw is a middle-aged, wealthy bachelor who lives in Bursley, one of the Five Towns. A chance encounter with Helen, his great s…

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (Version 2)

Read by John Greenman


Mark Twain


It was published in 1893–1894 by Century Magazine in seven installments, and is a detective story with some racial themes. The plot of this …

The Colonel's Dream

Read by James K. White


Charles Waddell Chesnutt


In this novel, Chesnutt described the hopelessness of Reconstruction in a post-Civil War South that was bent on reestablishing the former st…

The Rainy Day

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


LibriVox volunteers bring you 25 recordings of The Rainy Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September…

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…

J. Poindexter, Colored

Read by Grant Hurlock


Irvin S. Cobb


This comic novel relates the first-person adventures in New York City of Jefferson Poindexter, personal assistant to Cobb's famous Judge Pri…

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

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Mark Twain


In one of his later novels, the master storyteller spins a tale of two children switched at infancy. A slave takes on the identity of master…

A Brief History of English and American Literature

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Henry A. Beers


Henry Augustin Beers, native of Buffalo, NY and professor of English at Yale, with the help of John Fletcher Hurst (1834-1903), Methodist bi…

More Tish

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Mary Roberts Rinehart


Mary Roberts Rinehart wrote 6 books about the elderly Letitia (Tish) Carberry and the escapades she gets her elderly lady cronies into. The…

Somehow Good

Read by Helen Taylor


William Frend De Morgan


A mysterious man arrives in London and, in a freak accident, gets electrocuted on an underground train and loses his memory. A young lady ca…

The Shepherd of the Hills

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Harold Bell Wright


The story depicts the lives of mountain people living in the Ozarks and the mystery surrounding an old man called 'The Shepherd of the Hills…

Washington Square

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Henry James


Washington Square is a short novel by Henry James. Originally published in 1880 as a serial in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Ma…

Jonathan Frock

Read by Ramona Deininger-Schnabel


Heinrich Zschokke


Jonathan Frock hat es nicht leicht, zunächst wird er als Hauslehrer entlassen, weil er den Kindern zu viele freie Gedanken einflös…

Discoveries: Essays in Literary Criticism

Read by Jim Locke


John Middleton Murry


Introductory Note: I have called these essays and lectures by a title that some people may think presumptuous: first, because it is the titl…

The Art of Fiction

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Henry James


A lecture on the art of fiction, given by the English critic Walter Besant on April 25, 1884, and an answer to the lecture by American write…

Eternity

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Casey S Townsend


The world you know has changed. Science has been replaced by dark, supernatural forces and those that know how have harnessed them to contro…

Wanted: A Husband

Read by Deborah Knight


Samuel Hopkins Adams


This serious, yet witty and hilarious, romantic comedy by Samuel Hopkins Adams is a must read/listen! From the very beginning it intrigues y…

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