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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 054
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Various
Sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include Science and Exploration--a tribute …
Reading: An Essay
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Hugh Walpole
A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales
Beyond These Voices
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
This novel tells the fictional life story of Veera Davis. The daughter of a poet and a poor noble woman, who is left in the care of her gran…
My First Book
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Various
This is not a children's book, as may be supposed from the title, but a collection of essays first published in The Idler magazine, in which…
Peggy Delaney by James W. Nichol
SANWAL CBC
PEGGY DELANEY by James W. Nichol A hard-drinking, hard-writing forty-ish Toronto newspaper columnist who can more than hold her own wi…
Dramatic Reading Scene and Story Collection, Volume 001
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LibriVox readers present a collection of their favorite chapters and short stories, with the original author’s words all brought to life wit…
The Lost Art of Reading
Read by Joseph Tabler
Gerald Stanley Lee
Gerald Stanley Lee speaks here-in of books and self in the time of factories, tall buildings and industry and big city making, the effects o…
008 The Marilynne Robinson Interview
Sheridan Voysey
An interview with Pulitzer Prize- winning author Marilynne Robinson
The Lady's Museum, Volume 1
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Charlotte Lennox
Published in 11 issues between 1760 and 1761 and believed largely to be written and edited by Charlotte Lennox (it was marketed as “by the A…
Love Stories
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
Ailing and Impatient Patients, Nurturing Nurses, and familial bond. A collection of Love affairs, young and old, deftly told by "Americ…
Actions And Reactions
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Rudyard Kipling
A collection of short stories by the author of the Jungle book, Kim and Just So Stories. Each story is followed by a poem, so if you like If…
The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems
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Vachel Lindsay
This is a collection of poems on various topics by Vachel Lindsay.Please note that the Booker T. Washington trilogy had to be omitted from t…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 063
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Various
Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Volume 63 features essays on a variety of topics: t…
The Wit of Women
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Kate Sanborn
It is refreshing to find an unworked field all ready for harvesting.While the wit of men, as a subject for admiration and discussion, is now…
Letters to Catherine E. Beecher in Reply to an Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism
Read by Amelia Chesley
Angelina Emily Grimké
This is a collection of thirteen letters from Angelina Grimké on the subjects of abolitionism and human rights in the United States.
The Lady's Museum, Volume 2
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Charlotte Lennox
Published in 11 issues between 1760 and 1761 and believed largely to be written and edited by Charlotte Lennox (it was marketed as “by the A…
Peeps at People - Being Certain Papers from the Writings of Anne Warrington Wit…
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John Kendrick Bangs
Written by a fictitious first-person narrator, this book puts a humorous spin on encounters with several famous people of the time. "I …
Transition
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Emma Francis Brooke
Honora Klaper is beautiful, distinguished, smart, and charming. A woman who turns heads. She is on an errand. No, it is not an errand to get…
A Bundle of Letters from over the Sea
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Louise B. Robinson
In presenting my little book to the public, I feel that I should apologize for so doing, instead of introducing it; for at the time my lette…