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The Wife of His Youth
Read by James K. White
Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Published in 1899, The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line is a collection of narratives that addresses the impact of Jim …
King Alfred of England
Read by Ryan Cherrick
Jacob Abbott
The life and accomplishments of England's sole title holder of "The Great." King Alfred defended England from Viking invasions an…
Main Street
Read by Mark Nelson
Sinclair Lewis
Carol Milford, a college-educated, progressive, ambitious young woman, is self-sufficient working as a librarian in St. Paul, when she meets…
Havelok the Dane
Read by Tony Foster
Charles Watts Whistler
Troy, Athens, Rome... each has its founding legend. So too does the Lincolnshire town of Grimsby, once the largest fishing port in the world…
La maison du péché
Read by Christiane Jehanne
Marcelle Tinayre
Histoire d'amour.Voici un très beau roman, riche et profond, très apprécié et commenté, écrit d’un…
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Read by Tony Addison
The Gawain Poet, The Gawain Poettranslated Byjessie Laidlay Weston and The Gawain Poettranslated By Jessie Laidlay Weston
King Arthur lies at Camelot upon a Christmas-tide and will not eat until he hears tell of a marvel of knightly feats. In among them rides th…
Myths and Legends of the Great Plains
Read by Kyle Van DeGlast
Katharine Berry Judson
Myths and Legends of the Great Plains is a compendium of myths and legends from the Great Plains region of the US. It includes many short st…
Myths And Legends Of California And The Old Southwest
Read by David Wales
Katharine Berry Judson
"...The preparation of a volume of the quainter, purer myths, suitable for general reading, authentic, and with illustrations of the co…
Siddhartha
Read by Peter Kuhn
Hermann Hesse
A major preoccupation of Hesse in writing Siddhartha was to cure his "sickness with life" (Lebenskrankheit) by immersing himself i…
Lucinda
Read by Craig Campbell
Friedrich Von Schlegel
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel was born in 1772 at Hannover, Holy Roman Empire, to Johann Adolf Schlegel and Johanna Christiane Erdmuthe H&…
Old Christmas
Read by Greg Giordano
Washington Irving
Washington Irving's Old Christmas tells of an American's travels through England during the Christmas season. Through a chance meeting with…
The Mill on the Floss
Read by Tom Denholm
George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot’s second novel, and was published in 1860, only a year after her first, Adam Bede. It centres on the l…
The Chaucer Storybook
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Geoffrey Chaucer and Eva March Tappan
Geoffrey Chaucer's classic "Canterbury Tales" has here been rendered into clear and contemporary English prose. These classic stor…
American Big-Game Hunting
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Theodore Roosevelt
The first book published by The Boone and Crockett Club founded by Theodore Roosevelt and George Grinnell, who declared in their Editors Not…
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects
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Giorgio Vasari
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti…
British Goblins
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Wirt Sikes
The British Isles, in particular Wales, are renowned for legend and folklore. The author, an American journalist working in Europe, was appo…
Les Destinées de la poésie
Read by Christiane Jehanne
Alphonse De Lamartine
Une réflexion sur la Littérature, par un homme de Lettres, aussi poète, et homme politique actif, à médit…
An heiligen Wassern
Read by Eva K.
Jakob Christoph Heer
Im Dorf Sankt Peter im Schweizer Hochgebirge leben die Bewohner des regenarmen Glottertales mit der ständigen Gefahr von Gletscherabbr&…
Nina Balatka
Read by Anthony Ogus
Anthony Trollope
A romance set in Prague between a Catholic and a Jew. In this short novel, Trollope moves away from his usual milieu to explore a theme whic…
The Indian Story Book
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Richard Wilson
Richard Wilson has taken tales from the two great Indian epics, the Rāmāyaṇa and the Mahābhārata, as well as other early sources, and has re…