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The Human Boy Again

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Eden Phillpotts


Published in 1908, this is a further collection of twelve humorous short stories about English school boys. The author wrote two other book…

A Christmas Miscellany

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Various


A selection of eight short works, chapters, or poems about Christmas. - Summary by david wales

Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World

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David Coleman


University of Oxford Podcasts

A Picture Book Of Merry Tales

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Anonymous


Forty European folk tales. Caveats: 1. Some of these stories are not suitable for young children. 2. In two stories (10 and 25) appear the n…

Resurrecting Randi

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David Shepherd


When college professor Travis Harrison meets the copper-headed seductress, Layla Sommers, the two are drawn together with a fierce attractio…

Phillips Brooks

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Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe


Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893) was one of the finest and most famous clergyman in the nineteenth century; he was acknowledged as a masterful …

Travel Stories Retold From St. Nicholas

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Various


St. Nicholas was a popular magazine aimed at young folks in the late nineteenth – early twentieth century. Its articles were usually well-w…

Pope Adrian IV; An Historical Sketch

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Richard Raby


Pope Adrian IV (c. 1100-1159, pope 1154-1159) was the only English pope. Written by a Catholic in 1849, this biography of the pope appeare…

Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi

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William C. Everhart


In the American Civil War, the Vicksburg campaign (December 1862-July 1863) was a pivotal victory for the Union under the generalship of Uly…

Recollections of Oscar Wilde

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Franz Blei


This 1906 collection of memories of Oscar Wilde is by friends. Wilde said that his genius was his life; only his talent was in his works. (S…

Purity of Heart

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William Booth


William Booth, who co-founded The Salvation Army with his wife Catherine in 1865, wrote several books on the subject of holiness. Purity of …

H.M.S. Pinafore; Or, The Lass That Loved A Sailor

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W. S. Gilbert


In this recording, one person reads the entire play, all parts, including the stage directions. Even without the support of Arthur Sullivan…

Clergymen Of The Church Of England

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Anthony Trollope


This 1866 book was published in a time of great change in the Church of England. Trollope began as a High Church adherent and then worked h…

William The Conqueror

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Richmal Crompton


William is at it again. The world’s most chaos-creating and confident eleven year old boy. Thirteen more humorous stories in this 1926 col…

Mendelssohn And Certain Masterworks

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Herbert Francis Peyser


In the compass of the present pamphlet it is impossible to give more than a cursory survey of Mendelssohn’s happy but extraordinarily crowde…

The Crimson Gardenia And Other Tales Of Adventure

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Rex Beach


Published in 1916, this book collects eleven stories originally published in several different magazines. Beach’s adventure stories were im…

Trivia (1917) And More Trivia (1921)

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Logan Pearsall Smith


Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) was an American-born British essayist who was known for his epigrams and aphorisms, often humorous. This re…

Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance

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Ford Madox Ford


Joseph Conrad (1857 – 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though…

Elsie And The Child; A Tale Of Riceyman Steps And Other Stories

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Arnold Bennett


Thirteen short stories (1924) by a master story teller of the early twentieth century. His writings, fiction and nonfiction, were popular wi…

The Best Church Hymns

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Louis Fitzgerald Benson


This 1898 book is the result of a survey of 107 hymn-books. The thirty-two hymns are ranked in order of popularity. The texts in this reco…

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