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The Hero's Reward

In The Inimitable Jeeves

Read by Jacob Paul Starr


P. G. Wodehouse


When either Bertie Wooster or his friends found themselves in the soup or in dangerous proximity to the tureen, the instinct of one and all …

CHAPTER X - FURNITURE, TRAPPINGS, AND INVENTIONS IN MOTION

In The Art of the Moving Picture

Read by Jacob Paul Starr


Vachel Lindsay


"This 1922 book by poet and sometime cultural critic Vachel Lindsay might have been the first to treat the then-new medium of moving pi…

RUNE XI. Lemminkainen's Lament

In The Kalevala: the Epic Poem of Finland (Crawford Translation)

Read by Jacob Paul Starr


Elias Lonnrot and Elias Lönnrot


This is the epic of Finland. It is the combined folk tales of the Finnish nation starting with the birth of the world from the egg of a seab…

29 - At the Gates of Gomez

In Insurgent Mexico

Read by Jacob Paul Starr


John Reed


In the autumn of 1913 John Reed was sent to Mexico by the Metropolitan Magazine to report the Mexican Revolution. He shared the perils of Pa…

The Hungry Death, Chapter 1

In The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly and Other Stories

Read by Jacob Paul Starr


Rosa Mulholland


This is a collection of 10 original ghost stories by Rosa Mulholland, published in 1880. Some only one section long; others spread out over …

Are You a Bromide?

In Insomnia Collection Vol. 002

Read by Jacob Paul Starr


Gelett Burgess and Frank Gelett Burgess


Soporific dullness is in the ear of the listener, and what's tedium incarnate to one person will be another person's passion and delight. Ho…

To Sir Walter Scott, Bart.

In Letters to Dead Authors

Read by Jacob Paul Starr


Andrew Lang


With twenty two letters, addressed to various already deceased authors, Andrew Lang discusses literary subjects with his usual humour and ac…

05 - Some Strange Phenomena

In The Underground City or the Child of the Cavern

Read by Jacob Alden Miller


Jules Verne


Covering a time span of over ten years, this novel follows the fortunes of the mining community of Aberfoyle near Stirling, Scotland. Receiv…

1 Nephi 17-19

In The Book of Mormon

Read by Jacob Paul Starr


Joseph Smith, Jr.


The Book of Mormon is a volume of holy scripture comparable to the Bible, used by Latter Day Saints. It is a record of God’s dealings with t…

Chapter I

In The Zeit-Geist

Read by Jacob Paul Starr


Lily Dougall


"When travelling in Canada, in the region north of Lake Ontario, I came upon traces of the somewhat remarkable life which is the subjec…

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