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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 088
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"With opinions, possession is more than nine points of the law. It is next to impossible to dislodge them." Woodrow Wilson's Study…
Part III
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William Gilbert
In The Last Lords of Gardonal
Two brothers, born into money and power, are as cruel as the feudal age in which they live. But when the oppressed villagers seek help from …
Chapter III: A Mysterious Call
Read by Ben Tucker
Margery Williams
In The Thing in the Woods
Dr. Haverill is asked to fill in as local physician for the skittish Dr. Lennox in a small Pennsylvania town. The locals seem to be a supers…
On Publick Opinion
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James Fenimore Cooper
In The American Democrat; Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America
This little work has been written, in consequence of its author's having had many occasions to observe the manner in which principles that a…
Chapter 2: Concerning Freedoms, Sections 1-3
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H. G. Wells
In A Modern Utopia
H. G. Wells's proposal for social reform was the formation of a world state, a concept that would increasingly preoccupy him throughout the …
Status Quo
Read by Peter Eastman
Dallas Mccord Reynolds and Mack Reynolds
Larry Woolford is a government agent, tasked with investigating subversive activity. He does everything an ambitious young man should do if…
Pure Horror
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Stanley G. Weinbaum
In The Dark Other
The Dark Other is a horror novel by Stanley G. Weinbaum. The novel concerns Patricia Lane who is in love with Nicholas Devine, a quiet and g…
The Progressives and the Reactionaries
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Oscar Micheaux
In The Conquest
"This is the true story of a negro who was discontented and the circumstances that were the outcome of that discontent." While co…
Preface
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Karl Friedrich Nowak
In Versailles
World War 1 ended with the Paris Peace Conference (January 1919 to January 1920), which in turn resulted in the signing of five peace treati…
Chapter VI. Red Kerry
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Sax Rohmer
In Dope
A minor lord is killed and a rich socialite is missing, and they are both tied to the enigmatic Kazmah the Dream Reader, who has also disapp…
POLITICAL COURTS
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Brooks Adams
In The Theory of Social Revolutions
Brooks Adams (1848-1927), was an American historian and a critic of capitalism. He believed that commercial civilizations rise and fall in p…
Chapter 10 - The Eighth Unanimous Election of Diaz, part 2
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John Kenneth Turner
In Barbarous Mexico
Through personal experience and extensive travel in Mexico in the late 1900s, the author of “Barbarous Mexico” depicts the circumstances tha…
Chapter 2
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Ray Cummings
In Wandl the Invader
There were nine major planets in the Solar System and it was within their boundaries that man first set up interplanetary commerce and began…
Danger of Abstract Views — Appeal to Impartiality — Historical Estimate of Louis Xvi — Negative Religion a Nullity — Antechamber of Regicide
Read by Ted Lienhart
Edmund Burke
In Selections from the Speeches and Writings of 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 …
Suspense
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Frank H. Spearman
In The Daughter of a Magnate
This is an American Western without any bad guys. The main characters are trains, and the elements---snow, terrain, weather and water. Fra…
Preface
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John Clay Coleman
In The Jim Crow Car; Or, Denouncement of Injustice Meted Out to the Black Race
"My opposition to injustice, imposition, discrimination and prejudice, which have for many years existed against the colored people of …
Section 11 Maxim Litvinov, Assistant Commissar, Leonid Krassin and Subordinates
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Louise Stevens Bryant
In Mirrors of Moscow
"Mirrors of Moscow" by Louise Bryant is a collection of journalistic sketches and profiles that examines the political and social …
Chapter 13: The Pursuit of the President
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G. K. Chesterton
In The Man Who Was Thursday, A Nightmare (Version 3, Dramatic Reading)
This is undoubtedly the best of Chesterton's novels, a thriller which follows Gabriel Syme as he tries to find a way to bring the Supreme An…
IV. Space
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John Buchan
In The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies
Celebrated Scottish author John Buchan, creator of the Richard Hannay series of thrillers (including The Thirty-Nine Steps and Greenmantle) …
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