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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…
Babbitt
Read by John W. Michaels
Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis’ George F. Babbitt is a complicated and conflicted character. When you think you have his next move figured out he surprises …
Cunning Workmen
Read by TriciaG
Pansy
Miss Cora Parkhurst is an irresponsible and flighty Sunday school teacher for a group of young ladies. She has simply no time to prepare the…
The Man-Eater
Read by Joseph DeNoia
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Africa: The land of savagery and splendor. Where a marriage between an adventurer and a missionary's daughter is cut short by invading local…
Lord Jim
Read by Stewart Wills
Joseph Conrad
A classic of early literary modernism, Lord Jim tells the story of a young "simple and sensitive character" who loses his honor in…
Finding a Way Out: An Autobiography
Read by Jim Locke
Robert R. Moton
He says about this work: "I have tried to record the events that have given character and colour to my own life, and at the same time t…
Seed Thoughts
Read by InTheDesert
Joseph Caryl
There is a work which few men possess, and which we are assured that no man alive ever ventured to read through. It is in two mighty folios,…
This Burning World
Read by Jeff Lane
Jeff Lane
Picking up where This Paper World left off, Jim Hunt is at home with friends and family for summer break... but only briefly. He has committ…
An Amiable Charlatan
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E. Phillips Oppenheim
An Englishman is enjoying his dinner at Stephano's, at which he is a regular diner. A man enters quickly, sits at his table, starts eating h…
Literary Taste: How to Form It
Read by Timothy Ferguson
Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett describes a method for enjoying literature, and suggests the contents of a comprehensive library. Chapters 1-10 and 14 descri…
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…
Get Next!
Read by Laurie Banza
Hugh Mchugh
John Henry has a comedic commentary and opinion on everything that goes on in his life. This time, he tackles the subjects of race tipsters,…
Piccadilly Jim
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P. G. Wodehouse
A young red-head plots to kidnap her irritating cousin with the help of a former boxer, her uncle, and a rogue who has his eye on her. Thing…
The Innocents, A Story for Lovers
Read by Don W. Jenkins
Sinclair Lewis
“Mr. and Mrs. Seth Appleby were almost old. They called each other 'Father' and 'Mother.' But frequently they were guilty of holding hands, …
It's a Good Old World
Read by Stephen Escalera
Bruce Barton
In this collection of essays, Bruce Barton, considered to be among the most influential advertising men of the 20th century, uses history, r…
Putting the Most Into Life
Read by Andrew Kennedy
Booker T. Washington
The chapters in this little book were originally part of a series of Sunday Evening Talks given by the Principal to the students of the Tusk…
Writing Wrongly
Read by Thomas Corfield
Thomas Corfield
When the worst writer in history self-publishes his books, the world of literature is decimated overnight. Illiteracy becomes something to a…
The Art of Fiction
Read by Julie VW
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…
The Westminster Alice
Read by Ruth Golding
Saki
Published five years before John Kendrick Bangs had the same idea with Alice in Blunderland, Saki, in his 1902 series of satirical articles,…
Cupid in Africa
Read by Kevin Green
Percival Christopher Wren
Bertram Greene, brilliant student, aesthete, intellectual and shy, decides to make his military father proud of him at last and joins the co…