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Chapter 19

In Poor White: a Novel

Read by Bob R

Sherwood Anderson

This is a story of the effect of industrialization on a small town and its people, around the beginning of the 20th Century. The lead charac…

A Last Chance

In Helen of the Old House

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Harold Bell Wright

Helen is not the main character; it is the mill, in this small town in the first half of the 20th century. This is a story of labor strife, …

John Rennie

In Memoirs of the Distinguished Men of Science of Great Britain Living in the Year…

Read by Bob Lyon

William Walker, Jr.

The early nineteenth century was a period of great discovery and advancements in science. Here we have a snapshot of some of those whose nam…

Judgment and Policy — Popular Discontent — the People and Their Rulers — Govern…

In Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke

Read by Bob Goodwin

Edmund Burke

There can be no hesitation in according to him a station among the most extraordinary men that ever appeared; and we think there is now but …

Hints to pilgrims

In Hints to Pilgrims

Read by Bob Dunlop

Charles S. Brooks

In this collection of 17 short essays, Charles S. Brooks (1878-1934), with the usual panache and wit, which he also displays in his comedies…

Marley's Ghost

In A Christmas Carol (version 04)

Read by Bob Neufeld

Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Chapman & Hall on 17 December 1843. The story tells …

Chapter 1

In The U.P. Trail

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Zane Grey

Grey's story of the struggles to build the Union Pacific Railroad in the late 1860's. Typical western characters, but placed in a factual se…

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