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Alfred Burton, a smooth-talking salesman, is having a perfectly ordinary day on the job when he stumbles across a strange plant in an old ho…

Ravensdene Court

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)

J. S. Fletcher

Leonard Middlebrook, a young attorney with, among other things, a bibliographical interest, accepts an invitation to lonely Ravensdene Court…

Days With Sir Roger de Coverley

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Joseph Addison

The author Sir Richard Steele, who was one of the writers for The Spectator, gets the opportunity to spend a month in Sir Roger de Coverley'…

Rob Gittins Investigating Mr. Thomas

Afternoon Play: Investigating Mr Thomas First broadcast: Wed 12th Mar 2008, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM When Time magaz…

That Affair at Elizabeth

Read by Cate Barratt

Burton Egbert Stevenson

A detective novel set in turn-of-the-century New York City, in which a young lawyer plays the sleuth. Packed with plot twists (and the ubiqu…

Indian Child Life

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Charles Alexander Eastman

The author was raised as an American Indian and describes what it was like to be an Indian boy (the first 7 chapters) and an Indian Girl (th…

A Pair of Blue Eyes

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Thomas Hardy

The book describes the love triangle between a young woman, Elfride Swancourt, and her two suitors from very different backgrounds. Stephen …

Sense Memory

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Brion J. Humphrey

If our memory is the thing that shapes and defines us, that informs who we are at our very core, then God help us all...for memory, is a wic…

Thomas Hobbes

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Alfred Edward Taylor

This work is a look at the life and ideas of Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher of the seventeenth century. The most important ideas are fo…

George Eliot

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Catherine Brown

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American Men of Action

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Burton Egbert Stevenson

In this book, Burton Egbert Stevenson writes a brief biography of some of the most noteworthy men in American history. He begins at the very…

Bill Nye's Cordwood

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Bill Nye

From Galileo to Grover Cleveland, from wasps to cattle, from dinosaurs to the railroad, Bill Nye's wide ranging wit pokes gentle fun at ever…

Lin McLean

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Owen Wister

Lin McLean is an unaffected, attractive young cowboy in the Wyoming territory before statehood. This book is various stories in his life. (S…

Lancashire Characters and Places

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Thomas Newbigging

An eclectic collection of essays on late 19th-century Lancashire culture and life, including essays on the poets John Critchley Prince and E…

Memoir of Washington Irving

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Charles Adams

Arguably one of America's greatest writers, Washington Irving is the author of such classics as "Legend of Sleepy Hollow," "B…

Mary Anerley

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Richard Doddridge Blackmore

It is 1801, in the wild and rugged country that is northern England. A local Squire has died but his manor, Scargate Hall, is left to two si…

Warren Hastings

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)

Thomas Babington Macaulay

"Warren Hastings" is Chapter IV of Thomas Macaulay's Critical and Historical Essays, vol. III. It first appeared in the Edinburgh …

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…

Educide

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S. Lawrence Parrish

Meet Avery Carmichael, student-teacher. This year he's teamed up with Mr. Samuel Petersen, veteran teacher. Avery is about to get an educati…

An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense

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Thomas Reid

"That excellent book by Thomas Reid, the Inquiry into the Human Mind (first edition, 1764; 6th edition, 1810), as a negative proof of t…

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