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The Domestic Slave Trade Of The Southern States

Read by David Wales


Winfield Hazlitt Collins


This 1904 history of slavery in the southeastern United States reflects the state of knowledge at that time, of course. The text contains s…

Old Hampshire Vignettes

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Mary Elizabeth Hawker


Lanoe Falconer is the pseudonym of the English writer, Marie Elizabeth Hawker (1848 - 1908). Her works, though few, were well received. She …

Oscar Wilde: A Study

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André Gide


This is a 1905 memoir of one great litterateur’s latter days written by another great litterateur. This recording omits the numerous footnot…

The Mikado, Or The Town Of Titipu

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W. S. Gilbert


In this recording, one person reads the entire play, all parts, including the stage directions. Even without the support of Arthur Sullivan…

California Sketches New And Old

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Oscar Penn Fitzgerald


Here we meet all sorts of characters and situations in California’s early history: gunmen, outlaws, lynch mobs, raging storms, mining camps,…

With The American Ambulance Field Service In France; Personal Letters Of A Driv…

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Leslie Buswell


This 1915 publication collects letters written by a driver for the American ambulance service. The incidents they relate occurred before the…

William -- The Fourth

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Richmal Crompton


The world’s most confident, most chaos-creating eleven year old boy is at it again in these fourteen glorious and funny 1924 short stories. …

That House I Bought; A Little Leaf From Life

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Henry Edward Warner


This is a whimsical, entertaining, tongue in cheek narrative of the author’s purchase of a house, circa 1911. - Summary by david wales

The Grim Smile Of The Five Towns

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Arnold Bennett


The Grim Smile of the Five Towns (1907) is the second major collection of stories written by Arnold Bennett. (The first is Tales Of The Five…

Who Burnt Columbia?

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Augustine T. Smythe


This LibriVox reading consists of selections from depositions in a lawsuit brought after the end of the American Civil War by some businessm…

The Obedience of a Christian Man

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William Tyndale


"The obedience of a Christian man" begins by contrasting the life of a true Christian to those holding high positions within the R…

The Romance Of Modern Sieges; Describing The Personal Adventures, Resource And …

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Edward Gilliat


Lively narratives of some of the great siege battles of war. The book was written before World War I, in 1908. Some of the narratives contai…

A Soldier's Diary

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Ralph Scott


This 1923 memoir of a World War I soldier (Royal Engineer and hand-to-hand combatant) is a well written much respected first-hand account of…

Johann Sebastian Bach

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Herbert Francis Peyser


Compared with the unimaginable richness of his inner life as the overpowering volume and splendor of his works reveal it, Bach’s day-to-day …

Naval Occasions And Some Traits Of The Sailor-Man

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Bartimeus


Twenty-six stories of pre-World War I British naval life in war and peace. - Summary by david wales

Regulations for the order and discipline of the troops of the United States : p…

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Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron Von Steuben


More commonly know as "The Blue Book" written by "Baron von Steuben" this publication was key to organizing the young Am…

Hospital Transports; A Memoir Of The Embarkation Of The Sick And Wounded From T…

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Frederick Law Olmsted


In the American Civil War, The United States Sanitary Commission, staffed by volunteers, may be viewed as a precursor to The Red Cross. It s…

Work Of The Sisters During The Epidemic Of Influenza October, 1918

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Francis Edward Tourscher


In 1918 over 2,000 Roman Catholic nuns left their convents in the Philadelphia area to nurse the sick and dying of the influenza epidemic. …

The Hurricane Hunters

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Ivan Ray Tannehill


This 1955 book by an acknowledged authority is an absorbing account of meteorology before the advent of weather satellites. “This is the li…

Canyon de Chelly; The Story of its Ruins and People

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Zorro A. Bradley


A 1973 U.S. government publication describing the history and physical characteristics of this Arizona national monument within the boundari…

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