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How Gloves Came to Grenoble

In Gloves Past and Present

Read by Chad Gates


Willard M. Smith


From the preface: "For thirty years I have devoted myself to the practical problems of the glove industry, and my connection with one o…

The Palace of Wonders

In Dot and Tot of Merryland

Read by Chad


L. Frank Baum


Dot and Tot of Merryland is a 1901 novel by L. Frank Baum. After Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, he wrote this story about the advent…

Shakespeare and Voice

In Interviews on Great Writers

Read by Linda Gates


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Shakespeare and Voice

In Great Writers Inspire

Read by Linda Gates


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Snob Royal

In The Book of Snobs

Read by Gates Maru


W M Thackeray and William Makepeace Thackeray


The necessity of a work on Snobs, demonstrated from History, and proved by felicitous illustrations:—I am the individual destined to write t…

Murchison and Babbage

In Science in Short Chapters

Read by Chad Jackson


W. Mattieu Williams


This is a collection of articles written by W. Mattieu Williams on different subjects, that in his opinion "are likely to be interestin…

Preface

In The Forgotten Man and Other Essays

Read by Chad Jackson


William Graham Sumner


Sumner's popular essays were to give him a wider audience to distribute his anti-imperialism, his advocacy of free markets and the gold stan…

The Art of Living, Part 1

In Thrift

Read by Chad Jackson


Samuel Smiles


"This book is intended as a sequel to Self-Help and Character. It might, indeed, have appeared as an introduction to these volumes; for…

Battle of Bannockburn, AD 1314 by Andrew Lang

In The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07

Read by Chad Jackson


Charles F. Horne


A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…

A Medieval Ghost Hunter

In Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters

Read by Chad Jackson


Henry Addington Bruce


The author describes popular ghost occurrences from a skeptical point of view, providing explanations based on recent scientific research (e…

Inaugural Address by the 16th President of the United States

In LibriVox 16th Anniversary Collection

Read by Chad Jackson


Abraham Lincoln


"LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to bring books in the public domain to li…

He Worked to Secure a Foot-Hold William Dean Howells

In How They Succeeded

Read by Chad Jackson


Orison Swett Marden


Success! Alluring, fascinating, informative. Why are some people successful while others languish on the scrap heap of life? Hard work? Luc…

Silence A Fable

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 053

Read by Chad Sawyer


Edgar Allan Poe


A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…

Sharp Eyes Gets Home

In Sharp Eyes, the Silver Fox

Read by Chad Jackson


Richard Barnum


Sharp Eyes, the Silver Fox is another tale of adventure that follows a young silver fox from his birth in the woods of England, through trai…

The Masque of The Red Death

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 051

Read by Chad Sawyer


Edgar Allan Poe


A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…

Pope and the Art of Satire

In Twelve Types

Read by Chad Jackson


G. K. Chesterton


Short biographical essays of twelve persons central to European culture. - Summary by KevinS

Preface to Complete Edition

In Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure, and Other Essays

Read by Chad Jackson


Edward Carpenter


This publication, by English utopian socialist Edward Carpenter, describes civilisation as a sort of disease with which humanity is afflicte…