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John Gutenberg, First Master Printer: His Acts and Most Remarkable Discourses a…
Read by Claudia Salto
Franz Von Dingelstedt
This is a brief sketch of the last years of the life of Johannes (John) Gutenberg, the man who invented the movable letter press. We join hi…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 083
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Various
“Oh, mother, I would like to know everything.” “You can never know everything, my child, but you can learn many things from books.” Accordin…
An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding Book I
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John Locke
John Locke's essays on human understanding answers the question “What gives rise to ideas in our minds?”. In the first book Locke refutes th…
Autobiography of Anthony Trollope
Read by Jessica Louise
Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope's autobiography will delight you whether or not you've read (or listened to) any of his many works. His honest if self-depr…
The Powder of Sympathy
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Christopher Morley
Another collection of mostly short “soliloquys” from Christopher Morley, an American literary luminary, who introduces them thus: “… these p…
Chance
Read by James E. Carson
Joseph Conrad
Apparently a two part story about a Damsel and a Knight, perhaps a damsel who depends upon the kindness of strangers. It was originally enti…
John Wyndham Trouble With Lichen
Adapted for broadcasting by Archie Campbell Published in 1960, John Wyndham’s Trouble with Lichen tells the story of Dia…
Poems
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Hattie Howard
"This poet's ear is so attuned to metric harmony that she must have been born within sound of some osier-fringed brook leaping and hurr…
New World Orders
Read by Edward G. Talbot
Edward G. Talbot
In the nineteen-sixties, a group of wealthy men concludes that it's already too late to stop global warming from destroying the planet. But …
Psychology of the Unconscious
Read by Jim Locke
Carl Gustav Jung
Jung says in his subtitle that this work is a study of the transformations and symbolisms of the libido and a contribution to the history of…
Desperate Remedies
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Thomas Hardy
Cytherea Graye is poor, but accepts a post as lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, the woman whom her father had loved but had not b…
The Man of Feeling
Read by Jim Locke
Henry Mackenzie
A man of refined taste, who caught the tone of the French sentiment of his time, has, of course, pleased French critics, and has been transl…
Ligeia und Andere Novellen
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Edgar Allan Poe
Dies ist eine Sammlung von sieben Geschichten des Meisters der Spukgeschichten Edgar Allan Poe. Enthalten sind unter Anderem die drei ber&uu…
The Tale of a Tank, and Other Yarns
Read by Steve C
Harold Ashton
Harold Ashton was the War Correspondent of The Daily News during the First World War and reported extensively on the British army’s involvem…
The Time Machine (Version 7)
Read by Cliff Stone
H. G. Wells
The story follows a Victorian scientist, who claims that he has invented a device that enables him to travel through time, and has visited t…
Spoon River Anthology
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Edgar Lee Masters
This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, goss…
A Lad of Mettle
Read by Ryan Jakob
Nat Gould
When Edgar Foster came to Redbank School he was sixteen, small for his age, but muscular and active. Alumni of the school included accomplis…
Stories Of Balloon Adventure
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Frank Mundell
In the following pages will be found brief narratives of some of the more famous incidents and exciting episodes which mark the history of b…
Adaptation
Read by Phil Chenevert
Mack Reynolds
In 1960 when this was published, the Cold War was at its height. Communism and Free Enterprise (Democracy) were locked in a ferocious strug…