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Literary Taste: How to Form It

Read by Timothy Ferguson


Arnold Bennett


Arnold Bennett describes a method for enjoying literature, and suggests the contents of a comprehensive library. Chapters 1-10 and 14 descri…

Patricia Brent, spinster

Read by Anna Simon


Herbert George Jenkins


A romantic comedy, written in 1918, but with a modern feel to it. Patricia Brent one day overhears two fellow-boarders pitying her because s…

White April

Read by Laurie Banza


Harold Vinal


In five section parts, Golden Windows, Sonnets for Weeping, Of Mariners, White Glamour, and Overtones, Harold Vinal writes about deep feeli…

Petticoat Government, Volume 3

Read by Mark Leder


Frances Milton Trollope


The adventures--in society, in love--of Judith Maitland conclude.

Mortal Coils

Read by Kirsten Wever


Aldous Huxley


Aldous Huxley is best known as a philosopher and novelist – notably as the author of Brave New World. He also wrote poetry, short stories an…

John Marchmont's Legacy

Read by Cate Barratt


Mary Elizabeth Braddon


Like Wuthering Heights, the center of this story is a dramatic love triangle, the setting is a huge English manor. Olivia Marchmont has alwa…

Robert Rigby A Kestrel For A Knave


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A Kestrel for a Knave Robert Rigby’s dramatisation of Barry Hines’s 1968 coming-of-age novel set in a mining town in South Yorkshire. Young …

Ingersoll on THOMAS PAINE, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 1, Lec…

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Robert G. Ingersoll


Col. Ingersoll begins his lectures on famous people as follows: [i]"It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of ge…

Crome Yellow, Version 2

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Aldous Huxley


Fascinating and brilliant at many levels, Huxley's spoof of Lady Ottoline Morrell's famous bohemian gatherings is difficult to categorize. T…

Lotta Schmidt and Other Stories

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Anthony Trollope


In this collection of short stories by Anthony Trollope: A Viennese musician courts a much younger woman. A young man must choose between pu…

Seed Thoughts

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Joseph Caryl


There is a work which few men possess, and which we are assured that no man alive ever ventured to read through. It is in two mighty folios,…

Ultima Thule

Read by Karen Savage


Dallas Mccord Reynolds and Mack Reynolds


Ronny Bronston has dreamed all his life of getting a United Planets job that would take him off-world. He finally gets the opportunity when …

Fame and Fortune Weekly No. 7: Winning His Way

Read by Keith Salis


Frank Tousey


The recent death of Frank Morris' father, Owner and Editor of the Green River Argus, has left his 18 year-old son, Frank to take up the chal…

Rosemary and Pansies

Read by AnnaLisa Bodtker


Effie Waller Smith


Effie Waller Smith was recognized as a promising young black poet. Her poems reflect her love of nature, her faith, and her experience as a …

Howie Wing - A Saga of Aviation


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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 062

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Various


Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Volume 62 features several introspective essays: b…

Hughes Airplane Investigation


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A special radio report about the United States Senate hearings setup to investigate Howard Hughes's military airplane contracts. Includes re…

The Spinster Book

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Myrtle Reed


A cross between guidebook and social commentary, The Spinster Book gives clever and humorous insights on topics such as courting, handling m…

Molly Make-Believe

Read by Nathalie J.


Eleanor Hallowell Abbott


Carl Stanton is an invalid suffering from an unusual bout of rheumatism. His fiancee is gone for the winter and though he begs her to write …

There's a certain slant of light

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Emily Dickinson


In tribute to the first real snowfall this year. - Summary by David Lawrence

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