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W. Somerset Maugham
This is a collection showing W. Somerset Maugham's early attempt in the short story genre, which he comes to master as one of 20th century's…
Little Eve Edgarton
Read by Nathalie J.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Eve Edgarton is not who she seems she is. A short encounter with Mr. Barton show that first impressions are not always right or indicative o…
Black No More
Read by Jim Locke
George Schuyler
Being an account of the strange and wonderful workings of science in the land of the free, A.D. 1933-1940. (Summary by author)
Men of the Deep Waters
Read by Ben Tucker
William Hope Hodgson
Directly afterwards, a shrill, yelling noise seemed to fill the whole sky with a deafening, piercing sound. I glanced hastily over the port …
Theft
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Jack London
This is a political play which is set in Washington DC. Howard Knox is a congressman and believes that there are corrupt practices going on …
Biographia Literaria
Read by Nicole Lee
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nominally an autobiography, Biographia Literaria ranges widely across the realms of philosophy, poetry and memoir, in Coleridge's trademark …
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 2 (version 2)
Read by Tony Addison
Edgar Allan Poe
An eclectic, catholic even, collection from the exquisitely excellent tale-telling of Mr. Edgar Allan Poe. Hilarious and terrifying. Need…
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…
The History of Britain
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
John Milton
A reader of this history, encountering the frequent references to “my author,” meaning the current source, will be reminded of DON QUIXOTE a…
The Furthest Reaches of Space (Ed Reads Short Sci-fi, vol. VIII)
Read by Edmund Bloxam
Mack Reynolds, Roger Dee Aycock, Allen Kim Lang, Stephen Marlowe, Alan E. Nourse, Lester del Rey, Ross Rocklynne, Clifford D. Simak and Harl Vincent
'Wanderlust' by Alan E. NourseBefore the great journey comes the hope, the dream, the familial disappointment...and the truth. ‘The Sense of…
Benjamin Franklin: Self-Revealed, Volume 2
Read by Jim Locke
William Cabell Bruce
His life was like a full five-act play—prophetic prologue and stately epilogue, and swelling scene imposed upon swelling scene, until the ta…
Retort
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Retort by Paul Laurence Dunbar. This was the weekly poetry project for August 23rd, 2009.
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 070
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Various
Twenty short nonfiction works selected by the readers. “Shall we ever be able to visit the moon?” queries journalist Charles Nevers Holmes i…
Heroines of Fiction
Read by Jim Locke
William Dean Howells
This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bro…
Notes on Life and Letters
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
Conrad described the twenty-six essays collected here as a "one-man show" comprising "Conrad literary, Conrad political, Conr…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 098
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Various
"The moment a man attempts to tell the truth as he not only thinks but feels it, what he says becomes charged with that man himself.&qu…
The Bee People
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Margaret Warner Morley
"The Honey-bees are buzzy-fuzzy little pepper pots" Thus this wonderful nature writer begins to tell us about bees, their habits, …
Library Book
Library Book By Cornell Woolrich Suspense CBS Radio September 20, 1945 A prudish librarian deduces a kidnap plot from a torn page in, "…
Four Hundred Years of Freethought, Part 1
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Samuel Porter Putnam
This is Samuel Putnam's tour of European literature which began to appear once the globe was circumnavigated and the printing press made boo…