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Moby Dick, or the Whale

Read by Stewart Wills

Herman Melville

Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique — but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel …

Lord Jim

Read by Stewart Wills

Joseph Conrad

A classic of early literary modernism, Lord Jim tells the story of a young "simple and sensitive character" who loses his honor in…

The Mysteries of London Vol. I part 2

Read by Dave Wills

George W. M. Reynolds

The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian England. The first series was published in weekly instalments from 1844-46…

The Lord's Prayer paraphrased in the Words of the Assembly

In A Collection of Family Prayers

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Samuel Palmer

That Family-prayer is an indispensible duty, and an important means of religion, are points which are here taken for granted. Among the many…

Book 1, Chapters 4-5

In Hard Times

Read by Stewart Wills

Charles Dickens

Hard Times, the shortest of Dickens's full-length novels, is set in the fictitious Victorian-England city of Coketown, where facts are the r…

Letter Writing

In How to Speak and Write Correctly

Read by Rosalind Wills

Joseph Devlin

This is a 1910 guide for those who wish to learn how to correctly (though maybe not "properly") create sentences, use figures of s…

Bk 3, Paradise: Canto XII - Canto XVI

In The Divine Comedy

Read by Rosalind Wills

Dante Alighieri, transl. Longfellow and Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened "Divina" by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 an…

An Accident and its Consequences

In The Iron Horse

Read by Dave Wills

R. M. Ballantyne

“Is that your bundle, sir?” repeated Mr Blunt a little louder. “Eh? yes, yes—all right,” replied Edwin, annoyed at the interruption, and thi…

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In The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing

Read by Rosalind Wills

Joseph Trienens and Joseph Triemens

Written in 1910, this "cyclopedia" is full of information that was quite useful at the time. A hundred years later, its text is mo…

Hands

In Winesburg, Ohio

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Sherwood Anderson

Published in 1919, and listed on the Modern Library roster of the 20th century's 100 greatest novels in English, Winesburg, Ohio presents a …