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The Coast of Bohemia

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William Dean Howells


William Dean Howells is at his iconoclastic best in this exploration of bourgeois values, particularly in the clash between respectable soci…

Anchorite

Read by Phil Chenevert


Randall Garrett


Randall Garrett sticks a sharp needle into our government and society in this wonderful story. He projects the current trends towards patern…

The Forgery

Read by Lynne T


George Payne Rainsford James


Humphrey Scriven is a fine, genial, mercantile man, left widowed to raise three daughters and a son. Two of the daughters marry well althoug…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 083

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Various


“Oh, mother, I would like to know everything.” “You can never know everything, my child, but you can learn many things from books.” Accordin…

A Broken Bond (Version 2)

Read by Geoff Blanchard


Nicholas Carter


Two partners in a mining interest in South America sell up for a cool million dollars. But why is one trying to kill the other after being …

Get Next!

Read by Laurie Banza


Hugh Mchugh


John Henry has a comedic commentary and opinion on everything that goes on in his life. This time, he tackles the subjects of race tipsters,…

Modern Essays

Read by David Wales


Christopher Morley


Thirty three essays by more or less well-known authors of Britain, the United States, and Canada, each fronted by an introductory paragraph.…

In Pawn

Read by DaleBarkley


Ellis Parker Butler


Inspired by "Lives of the Saints", fat, lazy, good-for-nothing Harvey Redding decides to give up the junk-collecting business, and…

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (version 2)

Read by Linda Olsen Fitak


Edwin Abbott Abbott


This is a satirical novel written by Edwin A. Abbott, first published in 1884. Abbott uses a two-dimensional world, with himself as the prot…

The Gem Collector

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P. G. Wodehouse


A common burglar, Jimmy, returns to England from New York City due to his uncle's death. He becomes involved with a former cop's daughter. …

The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl (Version 2)

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Adelbert von Chamisso


In Peter Schlemihl, the luckless hero enters into a deal with a mysterious stranger, only to learn, that he dealt with the proverbial. He so…

The Cross-Cut

Read by Jim Locke


Courtney Ryley Cooper


A Colorado mining story dealing with an attempt by Squint Rodain and his son to wrest the Blue Poppy Silver Mine from Robert Fairchild. An e…

Insomnia Collection Vol. 005

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Various


Soporific dullness is in the ear of the listener, and what's tedium incarnate to one person will be another person's passion and delight. Ho…

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding Book I

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John Locke


John Locke's essays on human understanding answers the question “What gives rise to ideas in our minds?”. In the first book Locke refutes th…

A Cabinet of Gems

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George MacDonald and Sir Philip Sidney


A Cabinet of Gems, cut and polished by Sir Philip Sidney; now, for the more radiance, presented without their setting by George MacDonald.&q…

The Cabinet Minister

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Arthur Wing Pinero


Mr. Pinero holds that farce should treat of probable people placed in possible circumstances, but regarded from a point of view which exagge…

Ingersoll on ABRAHAM LINCOLN, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 3, …

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Robert G. Ingersoll


Col. Ingersoll begins his popular lecture series on famous persons as follows: "It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and …

The Primitive

Read by Jim Locke


Chester Himes


A nerve-twisting novel of passion and destruction (Summary by a literary critic)

A Book of Scoundrels

Read by Greg Lewin


Charles Whibley


An ironic history of British criminals, mostly pre-Victorian pickpockets, highwaymen and thieves. Here we meet Moll Cutpurse the Queen of th…

Society as I Have Found It

Read by John Greenman


Ward Mcallister


Mark Twain illustrator Dan Beard recalled discussing McAllister’s book with Twain. “It was before Webster & Company failed that Ward McA…

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