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Plan and Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Samuel Johnson


The published dictionary was a huge book: with pages nearly 1½ feet tall and 20 inches wide, it contained 42,773 words; it also sold …

My Mark Twain

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


William Dean Howells


William Dean Howells (1837-1920) became fast friends with Mark Twain from the moment in 1869 when Twain strode into the office of The Atlant…

The House that Jack Built

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Unknown


"The House that Jack Built" is a standard of juvenile literature that delights children and adults alike with the increasingly len…

Robinson Crusoe in Words of One Syllable

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Daniel Defoe


Mary Godolphin was the pseudonym of Lucy Aikin who undertook translating great literature into single-syllable words so that young readers c…

The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Henry Fielding


This novel is sometimes thought of as [Fielding's] first because he almost certainly began composing it before he wrote Shamela and Joseph A…

Denslow's Three Bears

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


W. W. Denslow


This version of the classic tale of the three bears has a heroine named Golden Hair. The jolly bears, instead of chasing her away from their…

The Curtezan Unmasked

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Anonymous


"The Curtezan unmasked or, the Whoredomes of Jezebel Painted to the Life: With Antidotes against them, or Heavenly Julips to cool Men i…

Baby's Own Aesop

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Walter Crane


"Baby's Own Aesop" presents the fables as one-stanza limericks, each "pictorially pointed" by Walter Crane, the noted pa…

Rock A Bye Library: A Book of Fables

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Unknown


A book of short fables with morals. (Summary by DSayers)

The History of Robinson Crusoe

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Anonymous


A 6-page digest of Defoe's famous work for young readers (Summary by Dennis Sayers)

The Rocket Book

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Peter Newell


The Rocket Book can be listened to while viewing a beautiful facsimile edition at the International Children's Digital Libarary (ICDL): http…

The Slant Book

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Peter Newell


This recording of Peter Newell’s The Slant Book (1910) kicks off voiced renderings by LibriVox of public domain books in the International C…

Your Bridge To Money

Read by Michael Sean Finley


Michael Sean Finley


Your Bridge To Money is a life guide for your personal finances. The Author is an average guy who simply has a passion for personal finance…

A User's Manual for the Human Experience

Read by Michael W. Dean


Michael W. Dean


Learn to block and delete idiots from your life. Remove addiction to bad people, drugs, alcohol, government and more (WITHOUT MEETINGS!) The…

The Spiral Tattoo

Read by Michael J. Parry


Michael J. Parry


When you're six inches tall and can fly, life can be tough in a big persons world. What better then than to be partnered with a seven foot t…

The Willows

Read by Michael Thomas Robinson


Algernon Blackwood


A tale of horror in which a pleasant sojourn down the Danube tumbles terrifyingly awry as the veil between this world and an unfathomably we…

The Oaks Grove

Read by Michael J. Parry


Michael J. Parry


It was going to be a quiet weekend in the country. Elanore was going to spend it chatting with courtly gents about matters of higher importa…

The Crown Conspiracy

Read by Michael J. Sullivan


Michael J. Sullivan


They killed the king. They pinned it on two men. They chose poorly. There's no ancient evil to defeat, no orphan destined for greatness, jus…

Ball-of-Fat

Read by Michael Thomas Robinson


Guy de Maupassant


The first significant published short story of French author Guy de Maupassant, and generally acknowledged as his greatest work, "Ball-…

Canadian Wonder Tales

Read by Sean Michael Hogan


Cyrus Macmillan


This is a collection of folk tales originating in Canada, some from aboriginal oral tradition and others due to early French, Scottish, Iris…

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