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Ambassador Morgenthau's Story

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Henry Morgenthau


Ambassador Morgenthau’s memoirs of his years in the service of the United States in Constantinople, (today Istanbul), are an important prima…

Martyred Armenia

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Fa'Iz El-Ghusein


This is a first hand account of the Armenian Genocide written by a Syrian who had been a Turkish official for three and a half years. His ac…

Our Old Home

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Nathaniel Hawthorne


These essays, based on Hawthorne’s stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool, were first published in the form of a …

Contending Forces

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Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins


Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, despite an impressive record of productivity and creativity as a novelist, playwright, short fiction writer, edit…

Arthur Mervyn

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Charles Brockden Brown


Arthur Mervyn is the story of a young man from the country who arrives in a city stricken with Yellow Fever. He soon comes down with the ill…

Java Head

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Joseph Hergesheimer


Java Head is a novel of the American merchant marine at the beginning of the great clipper ship era. It is laid in Salem, when that city was…

Merton of the Movies

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Harry Leon Wilson


Merton of the Movies is a comedy that centers around Merton Gill, an aspiring dramatic artist from Simsbury, Illinois who makes his way to H…

Atlantis

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Gerhart Hauptmann


Frederick von Kammacher is a young doctor in Germany whose wife has gone insane, whose children are in a boarding school, and whose career h…

Effi Briest (abridged)

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Theodor Fontane


Effi Briest is a classic of Prussian Realism, relatively unknown in the English speaking world, but widely taught in German schools. This tr…

Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An AutoBiography

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Walt Whitman


This story ran as a serial in 1852 in the New York Sunday Dispatch, and for more than 160 years was buried in obscurity, unknown to the worl…

Futility: A Novel on Russian Themes

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William Alexander Gerhardi


From the preface written by Edith Wharton:Then I fell upon Futility. Some one said: “It's another new novel about Russia” –and every one of …

Come Out of the Kitchen!

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Alice Duer Miller


A novel about a man who rents a house for the season and keeps having problems with the servants, especially the attractive cook. - Summary …

The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers Vol. 1

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Robert Henry Newell


These are a collection of humorous "letters" written by a fictional character to a relation in the north during the Civil War. The…

Euthyphro

Read by Andrew Miller


Plato


Awaiting his trial on charges of impiety and heresy, Socrates encounters Euthyphro, a self-proclaimed authority on matters of piety and the …

Letters of Pliny

Read by Andrew Coleman


Pliny The Younger


The largest surviving body of Pliny's work is his Epistulae (Letters), a series of personal missives directed to his friends, associates and…

Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (version 3)

Read by Andrew Kennedy


Booker T. Washington


Up from Slavery is the autobiography of American educator Booker T. Washington, describing his personal path up from the position of a slave…

The Invisible Man (Version 3)

Read by Andrew Gaunce


H. G. Wells


A mysterious, bandaged stranger arrives in the small English village of Iping - and chaos follows close behind. H.G. Wells' classic story of…

Recruit for Andromeda

Read by Andrew Huguelet


Stephen Marlowe


No one comes back from the Nowhere Journey, whatever they say about some “rotation.” When Kit Temple's drafted, he figures he's leaving his …

Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories

Read by Andrew Gaunce


Ralph Adams Cram


A collection of six ghostly tales by Ralph Adams Cram, ranging from the demonic to the deeply sad. Gruesome apparitions, oppressive atmosphe…

White Trash Land

Read by Andrew Beatty


Andrew Beatty


Chuck Mitchell thought he had everything –a high powered job, a beautiful girlfriend, an exclusive condo on the Toronto waterfront, but the …

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