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Christmas Every Day and Other Stories Told for Children
Read by David Wales
William Dean Howells
Five short delightful stories for children, told in the voice of "the papa" to "the girl" and "the boy" Willia…
The Job
Read by MichelleHarris
Sinclair Lewis
'The Job' is an early work by American novelist Sinclair Lewis. It is considered an early declaration of the rights of working women. The fo…
Moving the Mountain
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Moving the Mountain is a feminist utopian novel written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It was published serially in Perkins Gilman's periodica…
Revolution, and other Essays
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Jack London
A collection of 13 essays written between 1900 and 1908, published in 1910. The lead essay, "Revolution", outlines how and why Lon…
The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line
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 (Version 2)
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: A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln
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…
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…
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Weston Translation)
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 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 (Version 2)
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…
Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving
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 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…
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 2
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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…
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…
The Mill on the Floss (Version 2)
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…
British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions
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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…
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…
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