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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…
An Englishwoman in the Philippines
Read by Ted Lienhart
Enid Dauncey
Enid Gambier Dauncey was a travel writer who, with her businessman husband, lived in a provincial city in the Philippines for nine months fr…
The Lost Art of Reading
Read by Joseph Tabler
Gerald Stanley Lee
Gerald Stanley Lee speaks here-in of books and self in the time of factories, tall buildings and industry and big city making, the effects o…
Rough and Ready OR Life Among the New York Newsboys
Read by Tori Faulder
Horatio Alger, Jr.
Join Rough and Ready for his adventure on the streets of New York City. Working as a newsboy, Rough and Ready tries to support himself and h…
Gladiator
Read by Mike Pelton
Philip Wylie
Gladiator by Philip Wylie is the story of a man who although normal in all other ways, through the genius of his Father a biologist attains …
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Read by Nicholas Taylor
Nicholas Taylor
Join Bill Morison on his journey through corporate America, as he learns about auditing insurance and just how irritating people can be. Thi…
The Evacuation of England: The Twist in the Gulf Stream
Read by Judi Mason
Louis Pope Gratacap
This book is ostensibly about a theoretical catastrophic geologic event. It turns into a meditation on what it means to be an English person…
Anting-Anting Stories And Other Strange Tales of the Filipinos
Read by mlcui
Sargent Kayme
"No less wonderful and varied are the inhabitants and the phenomena of the Philippines, and a new author, showing rare knowledge of the…
Aaron Trow
Read by Bill Boerst
Anthony Trollope
What is it like to be a fox hunted by hounds? We find out through the senses of an escaped convict as he struggles to free himself from woul…
Sentiment, Inc.
Read by Phil Chenevert
Poul William Anderson
The way we feel about another person, or about objects, is often bound up in associations that have no direct connection with the person or …
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 051
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
Seventeen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include philosophy--Bertrand Russell, Spi…
The Go-Getter
Read by Scott Dahlem
Peter B. Kyne
A disabled veteran succeeds as a civilian with persistence and military focus. (Summary by Scott Dahlem)
Common Sense, How to Exercise It
Read by Thomas Rose
Yoritomo Tashi
One of three seminal philosophical works by the twelfth century Japanese Shogun, Yoritomo-Tashi. (From the Preface) He knows how to clothe…
The Splendid Wayfaring
Read by Phil Schempf
John Neihardt
Quote:"In the following pages I have told the story of that body of adventurers who, from 1822 to 1829, opened the way for the expansio…
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 …