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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…

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…

Part 2. Chapter 2

In Urania

Read by Chad Sawyer


Camille Flammarion


Urania is a work of science fiction from the fine mind of French astronomer Camille Flammarion. Named for Urania, the muse of astronomy, thi…

The Danger of the Ballot

In Is the Bible Worth Reading and Other Essays

Read by Chad Sawyer


Lemuel Kelley Washburn


These are more than 100 short essays on all things atheism and freethought penned by Lemuel K. Washburn, an American freethought writer and …

The Original Hudson Tunnel

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 075

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Gilbert Haskell Gilbert


Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. Is the sound of a dripping faucet music? According to Aldous Huxley, "The music of…

The Palace of Wonders

In Dot and Tot of Merryland

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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…

The Fox-Colored Sparrow

In Birds, Vol. III, No 1, January 1898

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Various


Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems…

Pt 1 Ch 5: Camouflage

In The Uttermost Star, and Other Gleams of Fancy

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Frank W. Boreham


Frank Boreham was a well known preacher who served in England, Australia, and New Zealand. He published dozens of books and thousands of edi…

The bombardment of Fort Sumter (1861), by Orville J. Victor

In The World’s Story Volume XIII: The United States

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Eva March Tappan


This is the thirteenth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva Mar…

Putting Wires into Comb Foundation by J. G. Whitten

In The American Bee Journal. Vol. XVII, No. 12, Mar. 23, 1881

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Various


The American Bee Journal is the “oldest bee paper in America established in 1861 devoted to scientific bee-culture and the production and s…

The Spirit of freedom is Born of the Mountains

In Mountain Idylls, and Other Poems

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Alfred Castner King


"The author of this unpretentious volume has long questioned the advisability of adding a book to our already inflated and overloaded l…

LXXXVI, LXXXVII

In A Minor War History

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Martin Alonzo Haynes


A personal history of the American Civil War taken from the author's own letters to 'the girl he left behind', who later became his wife. Th…

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

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Charles F. Horne


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