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The Booklover and His Books
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Henry Lyman Koopman
This book about books was written by Harry Lyman Koopman, who served as the head librarian for Brown University from 1893 to 1930. Published…
A Student's History of American Literature
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William Simonds
Engaging history of American Lit from the 1600's up through the late 1890's. The author, who was a professor at Knox College, really put a …
Bel Ami, or The History of a Scoundrel
Read by Martin Geeson
Guy de Maupassant
“He had faith in his good fortune, in that power of attraction which he felt within him - a power so irresistible that all women yielded to …
The Outcast
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For many nineteenth-century Christians, the new biological and geological discoveries of that era brought on severe crises of faith. Winwood…
The Garden Party
Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)
Katherine Mansfield
A collection of short stories on a variety of subjects, by one of New Zealand's premiere female writers.
Greenmantle (Version 3)
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John Buchan
Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to m…
Oxford Book of American Essays
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Various
Collection of 32 essays by American authors ranging from Benjamin Franklin to Emerson to Whitman to Henry James to Theodore Roosevelt. On su…
John Wyndham Chocky
Adapted for radio by John Tydeman
With Eric Thompson Matthew is twelve, and a completely normal child. Suddenly he starts asking unusual qu…
Jyl of Breyntfords Testament
Read by Grant Hurlock
Robert Copland
Introduction - This is a collection of ten comic pieces from the 16th century and earlier, as compiled and edited by Frederick Furnivall for…
The Times
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Arthur Wing Pinero
Percy Egerton-Bompas, M.P., and Mrs Bompas have secrets in their family. Which promise grave difficulties as they try to marry off their dau…
The Dial, May 1920
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Various
An example of one of the leading literary magazines of the early 20th Century. Poetry by e.e. cummings and Louise Bryant (aka Mrs. John Reed…
The Splendid Outcast
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George Gibbs
_What else?_—What else had happened? Something to do with the remarkable likeness between himself and Harry? The likeness,—so strong that on…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 051
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Various
Seventeen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include philosophy--Bertrand Russell, Spi…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 102
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Various
"It is difficult for the human mind to take a comprehensive view of a subject." This is how librarian Arthur Bostwick begins his e…
Paul Clifford
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Most men who with some earnestness of mind examine into the mysteries of our social state will perhaps pass through that stage of self-educa…