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How Gloves Came to Grenoble

In Gloves Past and Present

Read by Chad Gates


Willard M. Smith


From the preface: "For thirty years I have devoted myself to the practical problems of the glove industry, and my connection with one o…

The Palace of Wonders

In Dot and Tot of Merryland

Read by Chad


L. Frank Baum


Dot and Tot of Merryland is a 1901 novel by L. Frank Baum. After Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, he wrote this story about the advent…

Shakespeare and Voice

In Interviews on Great Writers

Read by Linda Gates


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Shakespeare and Voice

In Great Writers Inspire

Read by Linda Gates


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Snob Royal

In The Book of Snobs

Read by Gates Maru


W M Thackeray and William Makepeace Thackeray


The necessity of a work on Snobs, demonstrated from History, and proved by felicitous illustrations:—I am the individual destined to write t…

Don in the City

In Don, a Runaway Dog: His Many Adventures (Version 2)

Read by Chad Jackson


Richard Barnum


Don is a dog with a yearning for adventure. After he escapes from home, he makes new friends and has a run-in with the dog-catcher, but he p…

The Original Hudson Tunnel

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 075

Read by Chad Sawyer


Gilbert Haskell Gilbert


Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. Is the sound of a dripping faucet music? According to Aldous Huxley, "The music of…

The Art of Living, Part 1

In Thrift

Read by Chad Jackson


Samuel Smiles


"This book is intended as a sequel to Self-Help and Character. It might, indeed, have appeared as an introduction to these volumes; for…

Preface

In The Forgotten Man and Other Essays

Read by Chad Jackson


William Graham Sumner


Sumner's popular essays were to give him a wider audience to distribute his anti-imperialism, his advocacy of free markets and the gold stan…

Nathaniel Greene, the Hero of the South, and Francis Marion, the ''Swamp Fox,''…

In American Leaders and Heroes

Read by Chad Jackson


Wilbur F. Gordy


Historian Wilbur F. Gordy presents short chapters on well-known American figures from the viewpoint of the early twentieth century, includin…

Real Troubles in Birdland

In How To Have Bird Neighbors

Read by Chad Jackson


S. Louise Patteson


The author provides the listener with anecdotes from her life of her experiences with birds. She describes their habits and antics, their fo…

The Danger of the Ballot

In Is the Bible Worth Reading and Other Essays

Read by Chad Sawyer


Lemuel Kelley Washburn


These are more than 100 short essays on all things atheism and freethought penned by Lemuel K. Washburn, an American freethought writer and …

The Gracchi and Their Reforms, BC 133, by Theodor Mommsen

In The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02

Read by Chad Jackson


Charles F. Horne


A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…