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Self Help; with Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance
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Samuel Smiles
Self-Help is the book that gave its name to the whole genre of literature known by that name. It is full of profiles of individuals who, thr…
The Golden Goose Book
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
L. Leslie Brooke
A charming little book full of the most gorgeous illustrations which can be viewed along with the Gutenberg text at http://www.gutenberg.org…
The Tale of Peter Mink
Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)
Arthur Scott Bailey
Arthur Scott Bailey (1877 – 1949) was author of more than forty children's books. Bailey's writing has been described thusly by the Newark E…
The Problems of Philosophy (version 2)
Read by Landon D. C. Elkind
Bertrand Russell
This 1912 book remains among the most widely-used and well-written introductions to philosophy in English. It was aimed to be an accessible …
The Variable Man
Read by Gregg Margarite (1957-2012)
Philip K. Dick
Predictability has come a long way. The computers of the future can tell you if you’re going to win a war before you fire a shot. Unfortunat…
Pep: Poise, Efficiency, Peace
Read by J A Carter
William C. Hunter
Colonel William Crosbie Hunter was a businessman and self-help writer who was moderately popular in the early 20th century. His books set fo…
Invisible Helpers
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C. W. Leadbeater
Even in this incredulous age, and amidst the full whirl of our nineteenth-century civilization, in spite of the dogmatism of our science and…
The Old Curiosity Shop
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Charles Dickens
The Old Curiosity Shop tells the story of Little Nell, a beautiful and virtuous young girl who lives with her grandfather in his shop of cur…
Groote Verwachtingen
Read by Marcel Coenders
Charles Dickens
De arme wees Pip komt in goede doen, wordt een vreselijke snob, maar na financiële tegenslagen komt hij toch weer op het rechte pad. Sa…
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (abridged, version 3)
Read by Phil Chenevert
Lewis Carroll
A delightful version of Alice's Adventures following that scurrying Rabbit with the watch that is shortened for the enjoyment of younger chi…
Patience (Bunthorne's Bride)
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W. S. Gilbert
A comic operetta which is a satire on the themes of fashion and pretension and hero-worship. Bunthorne is a poet who pretends to be highly &…
Lord Montagu's Page
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George Payne Rainsford James
A young man is crossing the English Channel bound for France. It is obviously not his first such trip, but who is he and what is his errand?…
The Coming People
Read by Max Cusimano
Charles F. Dole
Dole briefly sketches the history of life, and shows how it has a definite direction - toward the survival of the kind and gentle people. It…
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia and Letter to a Friend
Read by Barbara Baker
Thomas Browne
Selections from the varied writings of a 17th century English doctor with a well-stocked mind, an interest in the new science of his age and…
Reading: An Essay
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales
The Journal of a Disappointed Man
Read by Adam Whybray
W. N. P. Barbellion
The journal of British naturalist Bruce Frederick Cummings, spanning from his early childhood through to his early death from complications …
Anticipations
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H. G. Wells
Wells considered this book one of his most important, a natural follow-up to such works as his Man of the Year Million and The Time Machine.…
Fresh Every Hour
Read by Lee Smalley
John Peter Toohey
This book is best described by its subtitle: “DETAILING the Adventures, Comic and Pathetic of one Jimmy Martin, Purveyor of Publicity, a You…
Watchbird
Read by Phil Chenevert
Robert Sheckley
3 Robert Sheckley short stories that demonstrate the breadth of his fantastic imagination. In Watchbird, the question "can machines so…