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Riverdale Stories: A Story for Little Folks
Read by Scarlett Martin
Oliver Optic and William Taylor Adams
A compilation of stories of the children of Riverdale who learn life lessons of how to be kind, polite, and helpful as they grow up. Writte…
The Dixie Book of Days
Read by Bill Boerst
Page Andrews
The author used a yearly calendar to focus on pieces written by Southern authors. Many of these writers are little known, having created for…
The Human Machine
Read by Ruth Golding
Arnold Bennett
Bennett asks us to consider our brains as the most wonderful machine, a machine which is the only thing in this world that we can control. A…
Biographies In Sound 56 12 18 A Portrait Of Fred Allen
Jack Haley narrates "A Portrait of Fred Allen", an audio biography of Fred, who had died earlier in that year, with clips from his…
The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself
Read by William A Crenshaw
Cole Younger
Autobiography of Cole Younger, American Civil War veteran and member of the Jesse James gang. Cole Younger was a member of Quantrill's Raide…
A Student's History of American Literature
Read by Bellona Times
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 …
Biographia Literaria
Read by Nicole Lee
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nominally an autobiography, Biographia Literaria ranges widely across the realms of philosophy, poetry and memoir, in Coleridge's trademark …
Prejudices, First Series
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H. L. Mencken
Mencken sharpens his pen and in a collection of short essays delivers acerbic opinions on issues and persons of the time. Among his targets…
The Negro
Read by Jim Locke
W. E. B. Du Bois
Nevertheless, I have not been able to withstand the temptation to essay such short general statement of the main known facts and their fair …
Star Born
Read by Mark F. Smith
Andre Norton
Andre Norton's "Star Born" pictures a human colony in another galaxy, driven away from Earth generations ago by a repressive gover…
In the Net of the Stars
Read by Nemo
F. S. Flint
English author Frank Stuart Flint was a prominent poet in the Imagist movement, along with Ezra Pound and T E. Hulme. Flint abandoned school…
On Being Negro in America
Read by KevinS
J. Saunders Redding
A penetrating, insightful, and thoroughly honest view of one's life in the United States as an African-American. - Summary by KevinS
A Year Amongst the Persians
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Edward Granville Browne
Edward Granville Browne, born in Stouts Hill, Uley, Gloucestershire, England, was a British orientalist who published numerous articles and …
Ebony and Crystal
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Clark Ashton Smith
As stated in L'Alouette: A Magazine of Verse, "Ebony and Crystal is an artist's intrepid repudiation of the world of trolleys and cash-…
Recollections of a Missionary in the Great West
Read by David Wales
Cyrus Townsend Brady
Brady was a journalist, historian, adventure writer, and Episcopal priest. As a priest he spent some time on the American frontier as a miss…
The White Dove
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
Sylvester Lanyon, a doctor, is mourning the early death of his wife. His young daughter Dorothy is living with his father, Matthew, also a w…
A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier: Some of the Adventures, Dangers, and Su…
Read by Barry Eads
Joseph Plumb Martin
Joining the Continental Army as a teenager, Joseph Plumb Martin spent the next eight years fighting in the Revolutionary War as an enlisted …
The Testimony of the Suns, and other Poems
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George Sterling
This is the first published volume of poetry by Californian author and poet George Sterling. These poems are the beginning of Sterling's gre…
Famous American Statesmen
Read by Barry Eads
Sarah Knowles Bolton
A sketch of the lives of some of America's early Statesmen: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Andr…