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Putting the Most Into Life

Read by Andrew Kennedy


Booker T. Washington


The chapters in this little book were originally part of a series of Sunday Evening Talks given by the Principal to the students of the Tusk…

Best Way to Read a Book

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Edgar A. Guest


LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Best Way to Read a Book by Edgar A. Guest. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Septem…

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…

Robert Falconer

Read by Kenneth R. Morefield


George MacDonald


A Victorian novel devoted to beloved character first introduced to readers in MacDonald's David Elginbrod. (Summary by Kenneth R. Morefield)

Simplemente Darío

Read by arturo


Rubén Darío


Esta es una colleccion de poemas de Ruben Darío. (Summary by Arturo)

Recompence

Read by Simon Evers


Robert Keable


The book is a sequel to ‘Simon called Peter’ by the same author. It picks up the separate stories of Peter and Julie, at first in South Afri…

Reid's Critique of Hume

Read by Dan Robinson


Dan Robinson


University of Oxford Podcasts

Eyes and No Eyes and Other Stories

Read by Christine Rottger


John Aikin, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Jane Marcet and Jane Taylor


Whatever will stimulate the observing tendencies of the young cannot but be of value to them. "Eyes and No Eyes" does this in a de…

My First Book

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Various


This is not a children's book, as may be supposed from the title, but a collection of essays first published in The Idler magazine, in which…

The Agony Column

Read by peac


Earl Derr Biggers


English romantic adventure starring a young American in London and inspired by the personal ads (agony columns) in the London papers. In thi…

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.…

Companionable Books

Read by MaryAnn


Henry van Dyke


Many books are dry and dusty, there is no juice in them; and many are soon exhausted, you would no more go back to them than to a squeezed o…

The Power of Concentration

Read by Audio Andrea


William Walker Atkinson


A series of twenty lessons designed to help develop and improve the power of concentration. (Summary by Andrea Fiore)Written under the pseud…

Discoveries: Essays in Literary Criticism

Read by Jim Locke


John Middleton Murry


Introductory Note: I have called these essays and lectures by a title that some people may think presumptuous: first, because it is the titl…

How to Write a Novel

Read by Brett W. Downey


William James Mcglothlin


I address myself to the man or woman of talent—those people who have writing ability, but who need instruction in the manipulation of charac…

History of a Literary Radical, and Other Essays

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Randolph Silliman Bourne


A posthumous collection of Bourne's writing from publications such as The Atlantic Monthly and early issues of The New Republic, with a long…

Randall Garrett: 3 Science Fiction stories

Read by Phil Chenevert


Randall Garrett


The irrepressible Science Fiction author Randall Garrett wrote a wide array of short stories for the SF magazines of his day poking fun at m…

Capitol Coven

Read by Peter E. Abresch


Peter E. Abresch


Ninety percent of the federal laws, resolutions, and appropriations pass or fail in the U. S. Congress by a handful of votes. When Alexand…

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…

The Pupil

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


Pemberton, a young American with an Oxford education and out of money, takes a job tutoring Morgan Moreen, the 12-year old son of an America…

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