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Edward I (1239 – 1307), was King of England from 1272 to 1307. The eldest son of Henry III, Edward was involved from an early age in the p…

The Easter Mystery Of Jesus Christ; A Miscellany Of Readings, Poems, And Hymn T…

Read by David Wales

Various

The story of Jesus Christ is a treasure of Western civilization. Understanding that life and story is necessary for a proper understanding …

The Third Voyage of James Cook, Volume 1

Read by David Cole

James Cook

Only months after his return from his mammoth Second Voyage, the Admiralty ordered Cook back to the Pacific, ostensibly to return Omai, a yo…

Jeremy At Crale; His Friends, His Ambitions And His One Great Enemy

Read by David Wales

Hugh Walpole

This 1927 work is the third and final in Walpole’s Jeremy series. (The others are Jeremy and Jeremy And Hamlet.) Jeremy’s home is in Polches…

Religio Journalistici

Read by David Wales

Christopher Morley

The great Canadian journalist and humorist ruminates and reflects upon his life and calling in this 1924 little gem. - Summary by david wale…

A London Mosaic

Read by David Wales

Walter Lionel George

An idiosyncratic view of various aspects of London, England, published in 1921. Walter Lionel George (1882 – 1926) was an English writer, c…

A Christmas Miscellany 2023

Read by David Wales

Various

Eleven short works or book chapters about Christmas or around that time period. - Summary by David Wales

How We Elected Lincoln; Personal Recollections of Lincoln and Men of His Time

Read by David Wales

Abram J. Dittenhoefer

Dittenhoefer as a young man campaigned for Lincoln in 1860 and was an elector for Lincoln in the presidential election of 1864. Born in Cha…

The Children's Book Of Christmas

Read by David Wales

J. C. Dier

This 1911 collection is of snippets from many different sources and genres: myths, songs. poems, hymns, book sections, etc. The sources are…

On Reading The Bible

Read by David Wales

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

These are three lectures (numbers 8, 9, 10) excerpted from the author’s 1920 book On The Art Of Reading. The lectures were delivered to stu…

The British Soldier: His Courage And Humour

Read by David Wales

Edward John Hardy

The Reverend Edward John Hardy, ordained in the Church Of Ireland, was a chaplain in the British army for thirty one years. His 1915 collec…

E-Learning Podcasts

Read by Karl Harrison and Orla De Burca

Karl Harrison and Orla De Burca

University of Oxford Podcasts

The Fall of the Roman Empire (Bryan Ward-Perkins)

Read by Bryan Ward-Perkins and Oliver Lewis

Bryan Ward-Perkins and Oliver Lewis

University of Oxford Podcasts

GothHaus

Read by Emerian Rich and M. J. Hahn

Emerian Rich and M. J. Hahn

HorrorAddicts.net presents, GothHaus, the comedy reality show with a deadly twist. GothHaus is about a group of Goths, picked to live in a h…

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 2)

Read by Mark F. Smith

Mark Twain

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain creates an entertaining adventure of Middle America in the 1800's - afloat on a raft on th…

Great Expectations

Read by Mark F. Smith

Charles Dickens

This classic tale tells of an orphan, Pip, who through a series of strange circumstances first finds a trade as a blacksmith's apprentice an…

The Mysterious Island

Read by Mark F. Smith

Jules Verne

A story of castaways, similar to Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson, this book details the escape from Civil War-era Richmond, Vi…

The Communist Manifesto (version 2)

Read by Mark F. Smith

Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto was conceived as an outline of the basic beliefs of the Communist movement. The authors believed that the European P…

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