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When the Little Boy Ran Away

In The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 09

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Frank L. Stanton


The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the ninth volume, 37 short stories and poems have been gathered from 31 authors…

Nevada Sketches

In The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 10

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Samuel L. Clemens and Mark Twain


The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the tenth volume, 62 short stories and poems have been gathered from 42 authors…

28 - Chapter 18

In Pirates of Panama

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


A. O. Exquemelin and Alexandre Exquemelin


This volume was originally written in Dutch by John Esquemeling, and first published in Amsterdam in 1678 under the title of De Americaenech…

22 - Chapter IX - The Conservation of Archaic Traits, Part Three

In The Theory of the Leisure Class

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Thorstein Veblen


Originally published by the Norwegian-American economist Thorstein Veblen while he was a professor at the University of Chicago in 1898, the…

Preface & Introduction

In The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Part 1

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Charles Darwin


A book on evolutionary theory by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871. It was Darwin's second great book on evolutiona…

13 - Toby Attempts to Resign His Situation

In Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus

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James Otis


Toby Tyler tells the story of a ten year-old orphan who runs away from a foster home to join the traveling circus only to discover his new e…

Vol 2 - The Dinner of Trimalchio, Ch 27-37

In The Satyricon

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Gaius Petronius Arbiter


Satyricon (or Satyrica) is a Latin work of fiction in a mixture of prose and poetry. It is believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius,…

08 - Chapter 3 Part 1

In My Life in the South

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Jacob Stroyer


My Life in the South is the vivid and touching autobiography of African-American former slave, Jacob Stroyer. It recounts experiences from …

1 - A Strange Woman

In The Curtezan Unmasked

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Anonymous


"The Curtezan unmasked or, the Whoredomes of Jezebel Painted to the Life: With Antidotes against them, or Heavenly Julips to cool Men i…

23 - Pauperism in the Tenements

In How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York

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Jacob Riis and Jacob A. Riis


How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890) was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting…

Fable

In The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 07

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Ralph Waldo Emerson


The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the seventh volume, 43 short stories and poems have been gathered from 35 autho…

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