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CHAPTER VIII RALPH BOYD THE ENGLISHMAN

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Kirk Munroe


In Through Swamp and Glade: A Tale of the Seminole War

The principal incidents in the story of Coacoochee, as related in the following pages, are historically true. The Seminole War, the most pro…

15 - Southpaws

Read by Nigel Boydell


Heywood Broun


In Seeing Things at Night

This Book is a collection of humorous short stories which describe the comedy in everyday things and situations. (Summary by Carolin)

Biltmore Oswald

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J. Thorne Smith, Jr.



The hilarious diary of a young man's recruitment into, and service in a navy, which, though well equipped and disciplined, remains woefully …

The Two Questions

Read by Sonia


Alice Meynell


In A Father of Women and Other Poems

Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' S…

Chapter 18

Read by Alexander Boyd Strickland


Matthew Henry


In Concise Commentary on the Bible - Book of Matthew

Spiritual and practical lessons are extracted from every verse of the Book of Matthew, as well as detailed explanation of the text. The Book…

Scots

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Ivor Gurney


In Severn and Somme

The English poet Ivor Gurney wrote these poems while serving in the First World War. In them he contrasts the wartime desolation of the area…

Fox of Derby, Murray of Leeds, Roberts and Whitworth of Manchester

Read by Clive Catterall


Samuel Smiles


In Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers

Short Biographies of some of the most influential engineers who developed the modern manufacturing methods behind the Industrial Revolution.…

THREE IN CONSULTATION

Read by Scotty Smith


William Macleod Raine


In Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West

Dave Sanders, a young Arizona cowboy, is a classic western hero: honest, brave, intelligent and caring. This is a story of how he navigates …

To You Who Read My Book

Read by Michael MacTaggert


Countee Cullen


In Color

Countee Cullen’s poetry in Color contemplates Black Americans’ fractured sense of self—at once spiritually tied to homelands where their anc…

Passing

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James Hebblethwaite


In The Poems of James Hebblethwaite

James Hebblethwaite (22 September 1857 – 13 September 1921) was an English-born Australian poet, teacher and clergyman. Hebblethwaite was a …

19 - Chapter XIX. Return to England

Read by Cate Barratt


Jacob Abbott


In Margaret of Anjou

Margaret of Anjou, wife of England’s Henry VI, played a key role in launching the storied War of the Roses – the 30-year civil conflict fuel…

To Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough

Read by Arthur Krolman


Jonathan Swift


In The Poems of Jonathan Swift, Volume One

Sit back and listen to these light-hearted witty rhymes and see the world Jonathan Swift saw -- and maybe recognize your own. Think there is…

Bensersiel

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Erskine Childers


In The Riddle of the Sands

Containing many realistic details based on Childers' own sailing trips along the German North Sea coast, the book is the retelling of a yach…

Scotland

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Harry Graham


In Verse and Worse

A collection of dark and humorous verse from "Col D. Streamer". This collection includes poems from The Baby's Baedeker, Perverted…

Mungo Boyd

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Neil Munro


In Doom Castle

Doom Castle is the story of young Count Victor's journey to Scotland after the Jacobite Rebellion, searching for a traitor to the Jacobite c…

Groote Verwachtingen

Read by Marcel Coenders


Charles Dickens



De arme wees Pip komt in goede doen, wordt een vreselijke snob, maar na financiële tegenslagen komt hij toch weer op het rechte pad. Sa…

The Perfect Reader

Read by Carol Box


Christopher Morley


In Christmas Short Works Collection 2013

A selection of poems, short stories and other prose for the Christmas season in English, Finnish and German.

Book 1, Chapter 7, Part 3

Read by Elsie Selwyn


Catherine Carswell


In Open The Door

This award-winning book tells the coming of age story of Joanna Bannerman. Considered largely autobiographical, it shows Joanna with all her…

To the Earl of Chesterfield by Samuel Johnson

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Samuel Johnson, Variousandcharles William Eliot and Various And Charles William Eliot


In Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books

Charles W. Eliot, 21st President of Harvard University, edited this volume of prefaces ... authored by a Who's Who of World Literature: Baco…

Peter Giles to the Right Honourable Ierome Buslyde

Read by Ruth Golding


Sir Thomas More and Thomas More


In Utopia (Robinson translation)

Originally entitled A frutefull pleasaunt, and wittie worke of the beste state of publique weale, & of the newe yle, called Utopia: writ…

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