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The Human Machine
Read by Ruth Golding
Arnold Bennett
Bennett asks us to consider our brains as the most wonderful machine, a machine which is the only thing in this world that we can control. A…
The World's Lumber Room
Read by Ruth Golding
Selina Gaye
If this book were written today, it would be called "The Story of the World's Rubbish".That may not sound a promising subject for …
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (version 2)
Read by Ruth Golding
Charles Dickens
The last of Dickens' Christmas novellas (1848), The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain centres around Professor Redlaw, a teacher of chemis…
The Westminster Alice
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Saki
Published five years before John Kendrick Bangs had the same idea with Alice in Blunderland, Saki, in his 1902 series of satirical articles,…
Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World
Read by Ruth Golding
Castello Newton Holford
Aristopia (published 1895) is truly an alternative history. It is an imagination of how the continent of North America might have developed…
Utopia (Robinson translation)
Read by Ruth Golding
Thomas More
Originally entitled A frutefull pleasaunt, and wittie worke of the beste state of publique weale, & of the newe yle, called Utopia: writ…
Underground Man
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Gabriel Tarde
This post-apocalyptic novella tells the story of the downfall of civilisation and mankind following a solar cataclysm in the late 20th centu…
The Comic English Grammar
Read by Ruth Golding
Percival Leigh
This is a basic grammar, treating of the parts of speech, syntax, versification, pronunciation and punctuation. The listener is warned that…
Blottentots and How to Make Them
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John Prosper Carmel
This is very short, but it is a book with lots of pictures, and it will be even better if you can look at the pictures in the book at http:/…
The Art of Money Getting (version 2)
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P. T. Barnum
Although Barnum considered himself primarily a showman and his main goal was to put money in his own pocket, this little book, subtitled Gol…
An Iron Will
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Orison Swett Marden
Orison Swett Marden was well-known at the turn of the 20th century for his inspirational and spiritual books of self-help. This one deals wi…
Ruby Wedding Collection
Read by Ruth Golding
Various
This collection comprises short stories, poems, a little bit of history and a little bit of ornithology, all with ruby connections. The read…
The World of Sound
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Sir William Henry Bragg
The World of Sound consists of six lectures delivered before a juvenile audience at the Royal Institution, Christmas 1919. The Royal Institu…
A Selection of 19th Century Scientific Verse
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Various
In the 18th and early 19th centuries, it was common for discoveries in branches of science such as botany, astronomy and medicine to be desc…
The Prophet (version 5)
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Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet is the best known work of Khalil Gibran, also known as Kahlil Gibran, a Lebanese American poet and artist.The poetic prose of Th…
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes Part 1
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
And so, reader, farewell to Sherlock Holmes! These are positively the last stories. There is some disagreement as to their quality, and some…