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In A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln

Read by Rob Powell


John G. Nicolay and John George Nicolay


John G. Nicolay was Abraham Lincoln’s private White House secretary. With assistant secretary, John Hay, he wrote the two volume definitive …

Chapter 10 Part (2) THE ESCAPE

In Moonfleet

Read by Rob Powell


J. Meade Falkner and John Meade Falkner


The novel is set in a fishing village in Dorset during the mid 18th century. The story concerns a 15 year old orphan boy, John Trenchard, wh…

Twelve Years a Slave

Read by Rob Marland


Solomon Northup


Twelve Years a Slave is the memoir of a freeborn African American from New York who is kidnapped and sold into slavery. After being held for…

The Beast in the Jungle

Read by Rob James


Henry James


'The Beast in the Jungle' is a 1903 novella by Henry James, first published as part of the collection, The Better Sort. Almost universally c…

Aristotle's Masterpiece

Read by Rob Marland


Pseudo-Aristotle


Aristotle's Masterpiece, also known as The Works of Aristotle, the Famous Philosopher, is a sex manual and a midwifery book that was popular…

Oscar Wilde: The Story of an Unhappy Friendship

Read by Rob Marland


Robert Sherard


Robert Sherard was Oscar Wilde's friend of 20 years and first biographer. The Story of an Unhappy Friendship was the first of his four biogr…

The Life of Oscar Wilde

Read by Rob Marland


Robert Sherard


Robert Sherard was Oscar Wilde's friend of 20 years and first biographer. The Life of Oscar Wilde was the second of his four biographies of …

Prisoner for Blasphemy

Read by Rob Marland


George William Foote


George William Foote, a British secularist, was convicted and imprisoned on the charge of blasphemy after founding "The Freethinker&quo…

A Lost Lady

Read by Rob Marland


Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather


The young Niel Herbert idolizes Marian Forrester, the beautiful and charismatic wife of a pioneering railroad magnate. After discovering Mrs…

Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 1 (1868-1890)

Read by Rob Marland


Oscar Wilde


This first collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde begins with the Irish playwright's earliest extant letter, thanking his mother fo…

Oscar Wilde and Myself

Read by Rob Marland


Lord Alfred Douglas


The first memoir by the poet Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas was written 14 years after the death of Oscar Wilde and in the aftermath of Douglas…

Oscar Wilde: The Complete Interviews

Read by Rob Marland


Various


This complete collection of Oscar Wilde’s English language interviews gives listeners the opportunity to hear one of history’s greatest conv…

The Real Oscar Wilde

Read by Rob Marland


Robert Sherard


The Real Oscar Wilde is the third book about the Irish poet and playwright by his earliest and most prolific biographer. Since writing his e…

Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (1890-1895)

Read by Rob Marland


Oscar Wilde


This second collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes letters written when the Irish playwright was at the height of his succ…

Dere Mable

Read by Rob Kunkel


Edward Streeter


Bill is in training camp, preparing to go off to World War I. This book is a collection of love letters written to his sweetheart, Mable. Th…

Meme

Read by Rob Cummins


Rob Cummins


Molly is a thought, an idea who is born to do one thing, to communicate herself into as many other minds as possible. However, things are no…

A Ride Across the Peloponnese

Read by Rob Marland


George Macmillan


In the spring of 1877, a young Oscar Wilde visited Greece with his classics professor, J. P. Mahaffy, and two friends. One of these friends,…

The Oscar Wilde Calendar

Read by Rob Marland


Stuart Mason and Oscar Wilde


A compendium of Oscar Wilde's wit, including some of his most famous epigrams as well as unpublished quotations supplied by his friends. The…