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Irish Idylls

Read by James E. Carson


Jane Barlow


Irish Idylls is a collection of short stories about Irish peasantry during the 19th Century. Ms Jane Barlow, an Irish lass, having, unbeliev…

The Wreck of the Golden Mary

Read by James E. Carson


Charles Dickens


A short story of a ship wreck in 1851 trying to round Cape Horn on its way to the California gold fields. Poignant and well written. ( Summa…

The Highwayman

Read by James E. Carson


H. C. Bailey


A romance and adventure novel, set in England during the reign of Queen Anne. The book is much unlike the author's later detective short sto…

Talks by Abdul Baha Given in Paris

Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater


Abdu’L-Bahá ‘Abbás


“Much has already been written of the visit of Abdul Baha, Abbas Effendi, to Europe,” writes Lady Blomfield in her Preface to Paris Talks, “…

The Black Prophet: A Tale of Irish Famine

Read by James E. Carson


William Carleton


A story about the Irish, just before the onset of the famine of 1847, with all the color and dialogue of a man who lived it. (Summary by JCa…

The Persian Hidden Words

Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater


Bahá'U'Lláh


Kalimát-i-Maknúnih (کلمات مکنونه) or The Hidden Words is a book written in Baghdad around 1857 by Bahá'u'lláh, t…

Oxford Book of American Essays

Read by James E. Carson


Various


Collection of 32 essays by American authors ranging from Benjamin Franklin to Emerson to Whitman to Henry James to Theodore Roosevelt. On su…

A Traveller’s Narrative Written to Illustrate the Episode of the Báb

Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater


Abdu’L-Bahá ‘Abbás


“This book is the history of a proscribed and persecuted sect written by one of themselves,” writes Professor Edward Granville Browne, the C…

La Aventuroj de Alicio en Mirlando

Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater


Lewis Carroll


La aventuroj de Alicio en Mirlando (angle Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) estas verko de porinfana literaturo de la brita matematikisto ka…

Dr. Esperanto’s International Language, Introduction and Complete Grammar

Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater


L. L. Zamenhof


In July 1887, Esperanto made its debut as a 40-page pamphlet from Warsaw, published in Russian, Polish, French and German: all written by a …

Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon

Read by James E. Carson


Henry Fielding


Sailing voyage from England to Portugal in the mid Eighteenth Century, by one of the premier humorists, satirists, novelists and playwrights…

The Revelation of Baha-ullah in a Sequence of Four Lessons

Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater


Isabella Matilda Davis Brittingham


Isabella Matilda Davis Brittingham was a significant early American Bahá'í and was posthumously designated by Shoghi Effendi a…

Arabic Language Learning Collection, Vol. 001

Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater


Various


This is a collection of chapters and sections from materials designed to teach the Arabic language, as well as reference materials related t…

His Family

Read by James E. Carson


Ernest Poole


The 1910s is historically considered the decade of greatest social change in history. It saw the advent and proliferation of the automobile,…

The Universal Religion: Bahaism - Its Rise and Social Import

Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater


Hippolyte Dreyfus-Barney


“Bahaism is not a new religion,” writes Hippolyte Dreyfus-Barney, “It is religion renewed… it does not pretend to represent the whole Truth;…

Letter from China

Read by Peter James Froning


Peter James Froning


This is a poignant and irreverent diary of the author's yearlong (2001-2) experience of teaching English to college students in Beijing, Peo…

Echoes of the War

Read by James E. Carson


J. M. Barrie


Short stories with dramatic parts about civilian life in London during the First World War. Some humorous moments. By the author of "Pe…

The Bahai Revelation

Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater


Thornton Chase


Thornton Chase is commonly recognized as the first convert to the Bahá’í Faith of Occidental background. During his life he or…

The House on the Cliff

Read by James R. Hedrick


Franklin W. Dixon


The second of The Hardy Boys' series, The House on the Cliff involves Frank and Joe, along with their father, the famous detective, in the i…

Gobseck

Read by James E. Carson


Honoré de Balzac


Part of the La Comedie Humane and something of a sequence to Balzac's Father Goriot, the short book's title is the name of the pawn broker/m…

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