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Still - William
Read by David Wales
Richmal Crompton
More humorous adventures (1925) by the world’s most misunderstood English boy. - Summary by david wales
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 …
George Washington
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Ferdinand Schmidt
Among all the numerous life stories written by Ferdinand Schmidt for the delectation and education of German youth, none surpasses that of W…
The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat (Version 2)
Read by Jude Somers
Thornton W. Burgess
Jerry Muskrat and his friends love their homes in the Smiling Pool and Laughing Brook. So when the Smiling Pool suddenly stops smiling, and …
Tad Coon's Great Adventure
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John Breck
“Tad Coon was lost! And Doctor Muskrat and Nibble felt pretty discouraged over their chances of ever seeing him again.” Tad Coon’s adventur…
The Garden Of Folly
Read by David Wales
Stephen Leacock
A 1924 collection of essays by the celebrated Canadian humorist, popular in the first half of the twentieth century throughout the English s…
Bill Nye's Funniest Thoughts
Read by Phil Chenevert
Bill Nye
Bill Nye was a famous American humor columnist in the middle 1800's. He said "We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willi…
Grim Tales
Read by Peter Yearsley
E. Nesbit
A collection of gentle stories that draw us into that hidden world where fear is just around the next corner, and where loving hands can tou…
The Uses of Diversity
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G. K. Chesterton
A collection of 35 essays by G.K. Chesterton originally published in his weekly columns in "The Illustrated London News" and the &…
Die Nase
Read by Herr_Klugbeisser
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Dies ist die Geschichte eines Petersburger Beamten, dessen Nase davonläuft und ihr eigenes Leben entwickelt.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
Depiction of a dystopian society in the future in which manipulative social control is exercised on a gullible population… (summary by Peter…
An Essay on Man
Read by Martin Geeson
Alexander Pope
Pope’s Essay on Man, a masterpiece of concise summary in itself, can fairly be summed up as an optimistic enquiry into mankind’s place in th…
Nibble Rabbit Makes More Friends
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John Breck
Enjoy the further adventures of Nibble Bunny as he travels through wood and dell where he meets so many more friends such as Chaik Jay, Chew…
At The Sign of The Jack O'Lantern
Read by Daryl Wor
Myrtle Reed
This begins with an odd inheritance at the end of a honeymoon, both parties being inexperienced. Then someone comes to visit, then another, …
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…
The Best Nonsense Verses
Read by Grace Buchanan
Josephine Daskam Bacon
From Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky to limericks written by Anonymous, some of the crankiest, most logical and lyrical people turn common sense…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 083
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Various
“Oh, mother, I would like to know everything.” “You can never know everything, my child, but you can learn many things from books.” Accordin…
Certain Personal Matters
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H. G. Wells
Although best known for his works of science fiction, social commentary and history, H.G. Wells here gives us humorous and light-hearted pi…
Robert Browning (Version 2)
Read by Owlivia
G. K. Chesterton
This mystery of the unconscious man, far deeper than any mystery of the conscious one, existing as it does in all men, existed peculiarly in…
The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories
Read by Kirsten Wever
George Gissing
George Gissing was a prolific English writer of novels and short stories. Among his best known novels is The Odd Women, which was influenced…