Culture & Heritage
The Loves of Great Composers
Read by Peter Thomlinson (1940-2022)
Gustav Kobbé
Gustav Kobbe was a German/US music critic who worked at the time of Liszt and Wagner in particular, and was clearly in the Wagnerian rather …
Visions and Revisions
Read by Keri Ford
John Cowper Powys
Powys presents a set of literary devotions of great figures in Literature who have obsessed him. He attempts not so much a reasoned critique…
The Portion of Labor
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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
This is the story of Ellen Brewster, pretty little daughter of shoe-mill workers in a Northeastern US town of the late 19th century. After t…
Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906
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Max Baginski, Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman, Sadakichi Hartmann, Peter Kropotkin and Friedrich Nietzsche
"Mother Earth was an American anarchist journal that described itself as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literat…
The Complete Works of George Savile, first Marquess of Halifax, with an Introdu…
Read by John Greenman
George Savile Marquis Of Halifax
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (11 November 1633 – 5 April 1695) was an English statesman, writer, and politician who sat in the Hou…
Lebensgeschichte der Erde
Read by lorda
Willy Pastor
Willy Pastor versteht die Umwelt (Erde, Sonnensystem, Universum) als eigenständigen Organismus. Am Beispiel der Erde grenzt er sich von…
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 16
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Various
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends,…
The Crock of Gold
Read by Michele Fry
James Stephens
This is a comic novel written by Irish author James Stephens, a quick-witted storyteller whose pantheistic philosophy is revealed in his adu…
The Road To Mandalay
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Bithia Mary Croker
Sophy Leigh and Douglas Shafto come to Burma on the same ship in 1912. They come for different reasons. Through them, we learn about British…
Mémoires d'outre-tombe. Tome 2
Read by Christiane Jehanne
François-René de Chateaubriand
Suite des Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe, deuxième partie. Après la jeunesse, sa famille, les évènements ré…
The Imperialist
Read by Bruce Pirie
Mrs. Everard Cotes and Sara Jeannette Duncan
“The Imperialist,” a novel by Sara Jeannette Duncan, published in 1904, is a portrait of life in small-town Ontario at the beginning of the …
The Mikado, Or The Town of Titipu (version 2)
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W. S. Gilbert
In the town of Titipu, flirting is punishable by death on the command of the Mikado himself! But what happens when the Lord High Executioner…
La Fée des Grèves
Read by Christiane Jehanne
Paul Féval, père and Paul Féval, Père
Roman historique, pendant la Guerre de Cent Ans. Le Duc François de Bretagne est dénoncé pour fratricide.Un ouvrage ple…
With Her in Ourland
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Third in the trilogy of the feminist classics, after Moving the Mountain and Herland. It was published serially in Perkins Gilman's periodic…
Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey
Read by Greg Giordano
Washington Irving
Although this book may not have the immediately recognizable title of, say, “Rip Van Winkle” or “Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” this book deserve…
It Is Never Too Late to Mend
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Charles Reade
A ruthless squire becomes obsessed with a younger woman and conspires against her lover, George Fielding, so that the squire can win her. Wi…
The Chronicles of America Volume 06 - The Fathers of New England
Read by Jim Locke
Charles Andrews, Charles Mclean Andrews and Charles Morris
This sixth installment in the series, as one would expect, deals with events in the northern settlements that were taking place at the same …
Sketches by Boz, version 2
Read by Hamlet
Charles Dickens
A collection of early writings of Charles Dickens under his early pseudonym, "Boz." They first appeared in various publications f…
Christmas Short Works Collection 2008
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Various
The multilingual Christmas Short Works Collection 2008, containing public domain short stories, essays, poems, hymns, and scripture passages…
Legends of Saints and Sinners
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Douglas Hyde
"I have called the present volume "Legends of Saints and Sinners," which to a certain extent it is; but I mean it for a book …