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Penrod and Sam
Read by Jonathan Burchard
Booth Tarkington
Follow more of the hilarious life of the boy Penrod Schofield, his friends Sam Williams, Herman, Verman, Georgie, Maurice, and the love of h…
Letter from China
Read by Peter James Froning
Peter James Froning
This is a poignant and irreverent diary of the author's yearlong (2001-2) experience of teaching English to college students in Beijing, Peo…
Pee-Wee Harris: Fixer
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Percy Keese Fitzhugh
Pee-Wee Harris, Boy Scout of America and Boy of Superior Appetite returns for another adventure -- just normal events in the life of a boy. …
Fidelity
Read by Arielle Lipshaw
Susan Glaspell
The small Midwestern town of Freeport was scandalized years ago when Ruth Holland, then a young girl, ran away to the West with a married ma…
My Story of the Civil War and the Under-Ground Railroad
Read by J Denning
Marvin Benjamin Butler
Story of the Civil War as told by a private soldier's perspective of daily routines, challenges, anxieties, skirmishes, battle. (summary by …
Out of Mulberry Street
Read by Lee Smalley
Jacob A. Riis
These riveting accounts by Jacob A. Riis are from the late 19th century, when lower Manhattan was teeming with struggling, near-starving imm…
The Purging Of Ruen
Read by Thomas Corfield
Thomas Corfield
When assigned to determine the cause of brewing tensions in the exclusive seaside city of Ruen, Oscar Teabag-Dooven discovers it’s on the br…
Lilian
Read by Simon Evers
Arnold Bennett
Lilian works in a typewriting office owned by Felix Grig, a middle-aged man of means. The office is run by his spinster sister, Miss Grig, w…
Benjamin Franklin: Self-Revealed, Volume 1
Read by Jim Locke
William Cabell Bruce
His life was like a full five-act play—prophetic prologue and stately epilogue, and swelling scene imposed upon swelling scene, until the ta…
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
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William Wordsworth
This was the weekly poetry project for 14 May 2006. Spring’s flowers come and go all too quickly, but Wordsworth’s classic poem reminds us …
Grandes Esperanzas - Volumen 2
Read by mareba
Charles Dickens
El segundo volumen de Grandes Esperanzas empieza a partir del capítulo 20 en el cual, Pip llega a Londres.
Consequences
Read by Caroline Driggs
E. M. Delafield
Set in late Victorian England, “Consequences” follows the life of Alexandra Clare, a girl born into an upper class Catholic London family. R…
Dorothea's Song
Read by Ron Vitale
Ron Vitale
Peter is your typical high school student, but when his mother's failing marriage to his stepfather begins to split his family apart he cope…
Reading: An Essay
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales
Stories by English Authors: London
Read by Kirsten Wever
F. Anstey, J. M. Barrie, Marie Corelli, Beatrice Harraden, Arthur Morrison, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch and Israel Zangwill
This book collects seven short stories by some of England's best turn-of-the-(last)-century's writers. The collection begins with the humor …
The Passionate Friends
Read by Peter Eastman
H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells is best known for his science fiction, but some of his greatest works were in other genres. The Passionate Friends is a love sto…
Blancanieves Y Los Siete Enanitos
Read by fatigg_27
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Blancanieves era una chica muy guapa a la que su madrastra tenía mucha envidia. Esta madrastra intentó matarla varias veces, p…
The Orange-Yellow Diamond
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J. S. Fletcher
A novelist finds himself struggling to make ends meet. In his effort to raise a bit of money to get him by, he finds himself in the middle o…
My Life: The Story of a Provincial
Read by Expatriate
Anton Chekhov
A provincial youth of wealth and noble status refuses to employ himself in the typical occupations of the higher classes, thus acquiring a r…