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Heretics
Read by G.K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton
"Heretics," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. First published in 1905.
Chesterton had a sense of humor, had a sense …
The Mystery of the Pinckney Draught
Read by Roger Melin
Charles C. Nott
Charles Pinckney, member of the South Carolina legislature, Confederation Congress, U.S. Congress, and notably the Constitutional Convention…
First From the Front
Read by Steve C
Harold Ashton
In this brief book I have lifted a very small corner of the curtain of war, to tell of my adventures — a week in the North Sea, and a breath…
Lin McLean
Read by David Wales
Owen Wister
Lin McLean is an unaffected, attractive young cowboy in the Wyoming territory before statehood. This book is various stories in his life. (S…
The Watchers
Read by Jacquerie
A. E. W. Mason
A dark tale of adventure, piracy, murder, and revenge set on a rugged Cornish island in the mid-1700s. Told with the literary excellence to …
Der Spiegel des Cyprianus
Read by Hokuspokus
Theodor Storm
Eine traurige Geschichte über böse und gute Stiefmütter und einen magischen Spiegel. (Summary by Hokuspokus)
An Essay on Man
Read by Martin Geeson
Alexander Pope
Pope’s Essay on Man, a masterpiece of concise summary in itself, can fairly be summed up as an optimistic enquiry into mankind’s place in th…
The Power of Concentration
Read by Audio Andrea
William Walker Atkinson
A series of twenty lessons designed to help develop and improve the power of concentration. (Summary by Andrea Fiore)Written under the pseud…
J. Poindexter, Colored
Read by Grant Hurlock
Irvin S. Cobb
This comic novel relates the first-person adventures in New York City of Jefferson Poindexter, personal assistant to Cobb's famous Judge Pri…
The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy
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John Galsworthy
This is a collection of essays by John Galsworthy. A multitude of subjects is covered, but the essays are connected by an artistic spirit, a…
Robert Browning (Version 2)
Read by Owlivia
G. K. Chesterton
This mystery of the unconscious man, far deeper than any mystery of the conscious one, existing as it does in all men, existed peculiarly in…
Pipefuls
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Christopher Morley
A delightful collection of 48 essays on various topics of the human condition that caught his fancy. Witty, insightful and funny of course a…
How to Write a Novel
Read by Brett W. Downey
William James Mcglothlin
I address myself to the man or woman of talent—those people who have writing ability, but who need instruction in the manipulation of charac…
Some Passages of the Life and Death of the Right Honourable John, Earl of Roche…
Read by InTheDesert
Gilbert Burnet
I believe that the good Bishop of Salisbury's account of the last days of poor young Rochester would, if carefully read, make more impressio…
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…
Discoveries: Essays in Literary Criticism
Read by Jim Locke
John Middleton Murry
Introductory Note: I have called these essays and lectures by a title that some people may think presumptuous: first, because it is the titl…
Psmith, Journalist
Read by Psuke Bariah
P. G. Wodehouse
Psmith takes over editing a paper while the usual editor is away on vacation. He takes on a local slum lord, and divers alarums ensue. (desc…
Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy
Read by Gary Gilberd
George Santayana
Before the beginning of World War II, during the time of the Modernist movement in philosophy, George Santayana wrote these five descriptive…
Rudder Grange
Read by Sibella Denton
Frank R. Stockton
This book presents a number of short, comedic sketches of a country life in middle America in the late 1800s. The hilarious twists and turns…
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels - St. John Vol. 1
Read by MaryAnn
J. C. Ryle
I send forth the volume now in the reader's hands, with much diffidence, and a very deep sense of responsibility. It is a peculiarly seriou…