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The Gospel of Wealth

Read by Michele Fry


Andrew Carnegie


What is the proper mode of administering great wealth? It is to address this question that steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie's famous essay "…

Sam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories

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Harriet Beecher Stowe


A sequel to Oldtown Folks, featuring some of the same characters, these are 15 charming short stories told by ole' Sam Lawson to entertain H…

Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Compiled from her Letters and Journals

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Charles Edward Stowe


Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896), of Cincinnati, was the most famous female American author of her age, and is said to h…

Lady Byron Vindicated

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Harriet Beecher Stowe


In 1869, the Atlantic published Stowe's article, The True Story Of Lady Byron's Life, a brief exposé of the famous poet Lord Byron's …

The Traitor

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Thomas Dixon, Jr.


Dixon lived through Reconstruction, and believed it ranked with the French Revolution in brutality and criminal acts. The Traitor (1907), th…

Marietta: A Maid of Venice

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Francis Marion Crawford


This swash-buckling, romantic story of Zorzi Ballarin and Angelo Beroviero, master glass-blowers of Murano, Italy in the 1500's, is not enti…

The Charwoman's Daughter

Read by Michele Fry


James Stephens


A humorous tale about a poor Irish charwoman living in the slums of Dublin, and her innocent teenage daughter, Mary Makebelieve, whose first…

From Alien To Citizen

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Edward A. Steiner


Edward Steiner spent his life figuring out how America manages to take in aliens from all over the world, who bring with them a huge diversi…

An Intimate View of Robert G. Ingersoll

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I. Newton Baker


Written as a tribute to Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll after his death, by Isaac Newton Baker, his secretary of 14 years, and presented to the …

The Charwoman's Shadow

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Lord Dunsany


Delightfully imaginative, somewhat similar to Dunsany's blockbuster fantasy novel, The King Of Elfland's Daughter (and published just two ye…

Voices Of The Night - And Other Poems

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Longfellow's first collection of early poems, published in 1895, with a short biography by the editor, a chronological list of his works, pl…

The Crock of Gold

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James Stephens


This is a comic novel written by Irish author James Stephens, a quick-witted storyteller whose pantheistic philosophy is revealed in his adu…

Mongan's Frenzy

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James Stephens


James Stephens is famous for his retellings of Irish myths and fairy tales. This tale is about 1.5 hours in length, full of magical lore and…

Optimism, An Essay

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Helen Keller


Though blind, deaf, and left-handed too, it seemed nothing could hold Helen Keller back. For her graduation from Radcliffe College in 1903, …

The Mother (Version 2)

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Pearl S. Buck


As with Pearl Buck's most famous 1st novel, The Good Earth, this 2nd book also describes peasant life in rural China about 150 years ago--fr…

Deirdre

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James Stephens


Beautiful, playful young Deirdre, caught in the crosshairs of Ireland's wily, chauvinistic King Conachur, who desires to marry her after his…

A Rival of the Yosemite – The Cañon of the south fork of King’s River, Californ…

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John Muir


This article, a walking tour of the Cañon including many charcoal illustrations, was published in the Century Illlustrated Monthly Ma…

Bones Burnt Black

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Stephen Euin Cobb


A serial killer—brilliant, methodical and suicidal—sabotages a large commercial spacecraft's engines to set it on an eight-day trajectory to…

The Sweetest One

Read by Stephen L. Moss


Stephen L. Moss


“Where Were You the Night Billy Reno Died?” Bass guitarist Paul Kingston didn’t kill his old friend Billy, but the cops say he did, and he’s…

Autumn Leaves

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Stephen L. Moss


Who Killed Clive Peterson? Bass guitarist Paul Kingston is happy to take a last-minute job playing with Milwaukee’s greatest jazz band. But …

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