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Letters From America
Read by David Wales
Rupert Brooke
"[Rupert Brooke] started in May 1913 on a journey to the United States, Canada, and the South Seas, from which he returned next year at…
Ludwig Van Beethoven
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Pitts Sanborn
The late Pitts Sanborn wrote this booklet under the title Beethoven and his Nine Symphonies... I have left Mr. Sanborn’s pages on the symph…
Johann Sebastian Bach
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Herbert Francis Peyser
Compared with the unimaginable richness of his inner life as the overpowering volume and splendor of his works reveal it, Bach’s day-to-day …
Tschaikovsky And His Orchestral Music
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Louis Biancolli
Included in this little book are analyses and backgrounds of most of Tschaikowsky’s standard concert music. A short sketch of Tschaikowsky’s…
Joseph Haydn; Servant And Master
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Herbert Francis Peyser
Haydn, barring a few hardships in his youth, lived an extraordinarily fortunate life and had abundant reason for the optimism which marked e…
George Frideric Handel
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Herbert Francis Peyser
Handel’s long career resembles a gigantic tapestry, so bewilderingly crowded with detail, so filled with turmoil and vicissitude, with vast …
Hector Berlioz; A Romantic Tragedy
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Herbert Francis Peyser
How much more futile is it to attempt on the minuscule scale of the following tiny, if rambling, pamphlet to touch upon even a thousandth of…
Mendelssohn And Certain Masterworks
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Herbert Francis Peyser
In the compass of the present pamphlet it is impossible to give more than a cursory survey of Mendelssohn’s happy but extraordinarily crowde…
Richard Strauss
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Herbert Francis Peyser
There was not much truly spectacular about the course of [Strauss's] life, which was most happily free from the material troubles which bede…
Robert Schumann, Tone Poet Prophet And Critic
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Herbert Francis Peyser
[This is] the sketchiest outline of Robert Schumann’s short life but amazingly rich achievement. Together with Haydn and Schubert he was, pe…
An Alabama Student And Other Biographical Essays
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Sir William Osler
Here are thirteen biographical sketches of physicians penned by one of the founders of modern medicine, William Osler, published in 1908. &…
Campaign For Petersburg
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Richard Wayne Lykes
In the American Civil War the Union victory in the ten-month campaign for the city of Petersburg, Virginia (June 1864-March 1865), led direc…
Two Diaries From Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February - May, 1…
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Susan R. Jervey
Two diaries from Middle St. John’s, Berkeley, South Carolina, February – May, 1865. Journals kept by Miss Susan R. Jervey and Miss Charlott…
The Prodigal Village; A Christmas Tale
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Irving Bacheller
Small town life in early twentieth century New York state. This is a piquant parable of human nature. Bacheller's lightly humorous voice is …
Recollections of Oscar Wilde
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Franz Blei
This 1906 collection of memories of Oscar Wilde is by friends. Wilde said that his genius was his life; only his talent was in his works. (S…
Famous Assassinations Of History
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Francis Johnson
It has been the object of the writer to make each of these “famous assassinations” the central scene of a picture in which the political, re…
Theodore Winthrop: A Civil War Narrative Aborted by Death
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Theodore Winthrop
Theodore Winthrop (1828 – 1861) was a charismatic writer, lawyer, and world traveler. In the New York Seventh Regiment, he was one of the fi…
Oscar Wilde: A Study
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André Gide
This is a 1905 memoir of one great litterateur’s latter days written by another great litterateur. This recording omits the numerous footnot…
A Christmas Miscellany
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Various
A selection of eight short works, chapters, or poems about Christmas. - Summary by david wales
Sheriff Larrabee's Prisoner
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Max Brand
The stranger rode up in the pouring rain to the lonely ranch house. Before dawn he was riding quickly away. Who had killed old Mr. Benton?…