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Elsie And The Child; A Tale Of Riceyman Steps And Other Stories
Read by David Wales
Arnold Bennett
Thirteen short stories (1924) by a master story teller of the early twentieth century. His writings, fiction and nonfiction, were popular wi…
Ronald And I; Or Studies From Life
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Alfred Pretor
This is a collection of essays (1899) on English village life in the late nineteenth century. The essay “My Rector” was the focus of some co…
Henry James At Work
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Theodora Bosanquet
Bosanquet (1880-1961) was secretary or amanuensis to James from 1907 to his death in 1916. She wrote this essay (1924) eight years after hi…
Andreas Vesalius, The Reformer of Anatomy
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James Moores Ball
Vesalius (born in Brussels, 1514-1564) is one of the foundation stones of modern medicine. Forsaking the study of anatomy by reading the anc…
The Prelude To Adventure
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Hugh Walpole
Olva Dune is a Cambridge undergraduate who commits a murder and at that moment feels the presence of God. In a tour de force Walpole noveliz…
The Wooden Horse
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Hugh Walpole
Walpole’s first novel (1909), The Wooden Horse is the story of the Trojans, a family which accepted tranquilly the belief that they were the…
In The Footprints Of The Padres
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Charles Warren Stoddard
The American Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) wrote travel books quite popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This…
Life At The Zoo: Notes And Traditions Of The Regent's Park Gardens
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Charles John Cornish
London Zoo is the world's oldest scientific zoo. Opening in 1828, it was originally intended to be used as a collection for the scientific…
Idylls Of The Sea And Other Marine Sketches
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Frank Thomas Bullen
In these little sketches [1899] of a few out of the innumerable multitude of ways in which the sea has spoken to me during my long acquainta…
Understanding English Cathedrals: Terminology, Architecture, Organization, And …
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Esther Singleton
This recording comprises chapters from two different works: How To Visit The English Cathedrals (1912) by Esther Singleton, and The Cathedr…
The Log Of A Sea-Waif: Being Recollections Of The First Four Years Of My Sea Li…
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Frank Thomas Bullen
The brilliant author of "The Cruise of the Cachalot" and "Idylls of the Sea" presents in this new work (1899) the contin…
Christmas Tales Of Flanders
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Andre De Ridder
“The Christmas Tales Of Flanders presented in this volume are popular fables and legends current in Flanders and Brabant, which have for cen…
An Apache Campaign In The Sierra Madre
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John Gregory Bourke
An account of the expedition [of the U.S. Army] in pursuit of the hostile Chiricahua Apaches in the spring of 1883. (Book subtitle) Bourke w…
The Medicine-Men Of The Apache
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John Gregory Bourke
“Herewith I have the honor to submit a paper upon the paraphernalia of the medicine-men of the Apache and other tribes. Analogues have been …
The Pinafore Picture Book: The Story Of H.M.S. Pinafore (Version 2)
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W. S. Gilbert
Pinafore’s sublimely silly story is made even sillier by this (ostensibly for children) 1908 story version of the 1878 Gilbert and Sullivan …
Anglo-American Memories
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George Washburn Smalley
“These Memories [1911] were written in the first instance for Americans and have appeared week by week each Sunday in the New York Tribune….…
Silly Verses: Selections From Shores, Carroll, Lear, and Gilbert
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Lewis Carroll, W. S. Gilbert, Edward Lear and Robert J. Shores
Silly and fun verses beginning with the lesser known Robert J. Shores and going on to the more known Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, and W.S. Gi…
The Causes Of The American Civil War
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John Lothrop Motley
John Lothrop Motley (1814 – 1877) was an American author and popular diplomat, who helped to prevent European intervention on the side of th…
Portrait Of A Man With Red Hair; A Romantic Macabre
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Hugh Walpole
Is the father insane or merely sadistic, a man entombed in a spirit of malevolence? This 1925 novel by a perceptive observer explores the te…
Titan Of Chasms: The Grand Canyon Of Arizona
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Charles F. Lummis
This is a 1906 collection of three essays by men famously associated with The Grand Canyon: Charles A. Higgins, John Wesley Powell, and Cha…