Essays & Short Works
Tales of the Cities
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Various
This is a collection of city stories, fiction or non-fiction, in English and published before 1923. Contributions have been chosen by the re…
Short Nonfiction Collection
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Various
A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the rea…
The Man in the Iron Mask
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
In the late 1600s a man was doubly-imprisoned: his body in an iron cell and his face in an iron mask. Who the “man in the iron mask” was, wh…
Short Nonfiction Collection
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Various
A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the re…
Editorials from The Dial magazine
Read by KevinS
Martyn Johnson
Editorials published in Volume 66 of The Dial magazine, a fortnightly political and literary review. The source available to us features iss…
On Reading The Bible
Read by David Wales
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
These are three lectures (numbers 8, 9, 10) excerpted from the author’s 1920 book On The Art Of Reading. The lectures were delivered to stu…
The Crisis
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W. E. B. Du Bois
The Crisis is the official publication of the NAACP first published in 1910 with W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the founders, as editor. He exerci…
Shadowland
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Various
Shadowland was an American monthly magazine about art, dance, and film published from 1919 to 1923 before being absorbed by Motion Picture C…
Reading: An Essay
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales
The Honour of the Gout
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Philander Misaurus
This droll and 'enflammatory' pamphelet doth be a grondebreaking worke of musing upon a great aflicktion of Man, upon the better nature of t…
Seen on the Stage
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Clayton Hamilton
A fourth collection of essays on theatre by American critic Clayton Hamilton, intended as a suffix to his earlier works, The Theory of the T…
Short Nonfiction Collection
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Various
"Can we solve the problems confronting us? Well, the answer is an unequivocal and emphatic yes." This quote, from U.S. President R…
The Home of the Echoes
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Frank W. Boreham
Frank Boreham was a well known preacher who served in England, Australia, and New Zealand. He published dozens of books and thousands of edi…
Unfinished Rainbows
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George Wood Anderson and George Wood Anderson
George Wood Anderson was educated at Ohio Wesleyan University, and became a noted pastor and evangelist as well as an accomplished musician …
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
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Robert G. Ingersoll
Enjoy listening to some of The Great Agnostic's fiery articles, speeches and introductory remarks at a variety of banquets, expositions (lik…
Shadowland
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Various
Shadowland was an American monthly magazine about art, dance, and film published from 1919 to 1923 before being absorbed by Motion Picture C…
The Penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
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Charles Knight
The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was published in competition to Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, which …
The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
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Charles Knight
The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was published in competition to Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, which …
The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
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Charles Knight
The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was published in competition to Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, which …
Shadowland
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Various
Shadowland was an American monthly magazine about art, dance, and film published from 1919 to 1923 before being absorbed by Motion Picture C…