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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 083

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Various


“Oh, mother, I would like to know everything.” “You can never know everything, my child, but you can learn many things from books.” Accordin…

Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective

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Ellis Parker Butler


Philo Gubb, not being content with his job as wallpaper-hanger, has higher aspirations: to become a detective, just like Sherlock Holmes. To…

Our Knowledge Box

Read by Bill Boerst


George Blackie


This practical guide to solving all sorts of problems includes secrets and discoveries covering the Liquor Trade, Druggists' Aids, Manufactu…

Centre for the Study of the Book


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Garies and their Friends

Read by Jim Locke


Frank Webb


The book which now appears before the public may be of interest in relation to a question which the late agitation of the subject of slavery…

Writing Wrongly

Read by Thomas Corfield


Thomas Corfield


When the worst writer in history self-publishes his books, the world of literature is decimated overnight. Illiteracy becomes something to a…

Follies in Fiction

Read by Winnifred Assmann


Stephen Leacock


A pamphlet from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto, containing selections from Further Foolishness and Frenzie…

Jimbo

Read by Adrian Praetzellis


Algernon Blackwood


Fantasy novel about the mystical adventures of a lonely English boy, Jimbo. It’s really quite beautiful and can be enjoyed by both older kid…

אריה בעל גוף (Arye Ba’al Guf)

Read by Omri Lernau


Hayyim Nachman Bialik and חיים נחמן ביאליק Hayyim Nahman Bialik


The Whale

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Ellis Parker Butler


His career spanned more than forty years, and his stories, poems, and articles were published in more than 225 magazines. His work appeared …

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…

Letters of Travel

Read by Tim Bulkeley (1948-2019)


Rudyard Kipling


Three books of travel writing (between them covering the USA, Canada, Japan and Egypt) by the Nobel Prize winning author of the Just So Stor…

G.K. Chesterton in The Bibliophile Magazine

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G. K. Chesterton


Two essays/articles by G.K. Chesterton, published in 'The Bibliophile' magazine in 1908. (Summary by Maria Therese)

Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

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Grenville Kleiser


A Practical Handbook of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, and Oratorical Terms, for the Embelli…

Pilgrims' Project

Read by Roger Melin


Robert F. Young


Robert F. Young works in a machine shop by day, and at night goes home and writes anti-machine stories! Pilgrims' Project is different: not …

The Tale of Grandfather Mole

Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)


Arthur Scott Bailey


Arthur Scott Bailey (1877 – 1949) was the author of more than forty children's books.Bailey's writing has been described thusly by the Newar…

The Ten Commadments


Scott Stephens


Weekly Talk from St Andrew's Springfield .

Unconventional

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J.J. Hebert


YOUNG JAMES FROST just knows, deep in his bones, that he's a writer. He writes far into early mornings, after his wearying hours of scrubbin…

Nigger of the Narcissus

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Joseph Conrad


This is the story of a voyage of a merchant sailing ship from Bombay to England, set in the very late 19th century. “It was a bad winter off…

Fünf Apfelsinenkerne und andere Detektivgeschichten

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Einige kurze Detektivgeschichten mit Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson.Zusammenfassung von Katharina21

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