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Strangers at Lisconnel

Read by James E. Carson


Jane Barlow


Strangers at Lisconnel is a sequel to Jane Barlow’s Irish Idylls. The locations and most of the characters are common to both. There is grea…

Chapter VI - The Battle of Chalons, AD 451 - Part 1

In The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World

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Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy


This work is Edward Creasy's best known fundamental work of history. It describes in detail 15 battles of world history, beginning with the …

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In Oxford Book of American Essays

Read by James E. Carson


Various


Collection of 32 essays by American authors ranging from Benjamin Franklin to Emerson to Whitman to Henry James to Theodore Roosevelt. On su…

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In Gobseck

Read by James E. Carson


Honoré de Balzac


Part of the La Comedie Humane and something of a sequence to Balzac's Father Goriot, the short book's title is the name of the pawn broker/m…

Section 1

In The Wreck of the Golden Mary

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Charles Dickens


A short story of a ship wreck in 1851 trying to round Cape Horn on its way to the California gold fields. Poignant and well written. ( Summa…

Section 1

In The Black Prophet: A Tale of Irish Famine

Read by James E. Carson


William Carleton


A story about the Irish, just before the onset of the famine of 1847, with all the color and dialogue of a man who lived it. (Summary by JCa…

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