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An Amiable Charlatan
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E. Phillips Oppenheim
An Englishman is enjoying his dinner at Stephano's, at which he is a regular diner. A man enters quickly, sits at his table, starts eating h…
A London Life
Read by Deborah Percy
Henry James
A devoted sister attempts to check her sibling's scandalous behavior in the world of British high society. A delightful comedy of Anglo-Ame…
Pragmatism
Read by Fredrik Karlsson
William James
'Pragmatism' contains a series of public lectures held by William James in Boston 1906–7. James provides a popularizing outline of his view …
The Ivory Tower
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Henry James
An unfinished manuscript written in ponderous, convoluted language making possible subterfuge and frankness in wealthy American society of J…
James - Facing Trials
Dr Rick Barnes
Sermon #2 of series on the book of James James 1:2-4 - Facing Trials
Writing Wrongly
Read by Thomas Corfield
Thomas Corfield
When the worst writer in history self-publishes his books, the world of literature is decimated overnight. Illiteracy becomes something to a…
The Chaperon
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
What on earth is a girl to do when London society has convicted her mother of a dreadful sin and has ostracized her? If blood is thicker tha…
The Great Impersonation
Read by Tom Weiss
E. Phillips Oppenheim
E. Phillips Oppenheim, an English novelist created well in excess of 100 novels and 30 plus collections of short stories. Most of his tales …
Bible (KJV) 00: Introduction
Read by Sam Stinson
King James Version
The introduction to the KJV Bible revealed the thanks of the translators to "TO THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTY PRINCE JAMES, BY THE GRACE OF …
Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson
Read by Martin Geeson
Robert Louis Stevenson
“Extreme busyness…is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal …
The Birthplace
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
Neither the name of Shakespeare nor that of Stratford appears directly in this short piece by James, and yet both are absolutely central to …
Birdseye Views of Far Lands
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James T. Nichols
Birdseye Views of Far Lands is an interesting, wholesome presentation of something that a keen-eyed, alert traveler with the faculty of maki…
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 3, Chapter 12)
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
Much of this chapter is taken up with the affairs of Ireland during the reign of James II. The Protestants and Catholics are having their us…
Untimely Papers
Read by Ben Adams
Randolph Silliman Bourne
This is a posthumous collection of essays by Randolph Bourne. Many originally appeared in the journal "The Seven Arts," before the…