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The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States
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Benjamin Griffith Brawley
Noted African-American author and educator, Benjamin Brawley, presents short biographies of other African-Americans in the fields of literat…
The Mirror Of Kong Ho
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Ernest Bramah
This 1905 tongue-in-cheek book is ostensibly the letters of a dutiful son to his Chinese father describing his encounter with and experience…
Riceyman Steps
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Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennet's masterly novel is a gritty tale about a bookseller whose life and love of a woman are afflicted by miserliness. It is set in…
The Courtship of Miles Standish
Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
During the late nineteenth century and until the middle of the twentieth, many elementary classrooms in America featured (along with a Gilbe…
Historical Tales, Vol I: American I
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Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews
Volume I of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This first volume comprises…
Stephen Mitchell's Journey
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Pansy
Stephen Mitchell is a young man without a place in the world. He hates farming, although he works endless hours on the poor family farm. He …
Harlem Shadows
Read by Denise Ray
Claude Mckay
An award winning Jamaican poet who writes passionately about his birth home and his adopted home, USA. Claude McKay vividly describes family…
Being a Boy
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Charles Dudley Warner
Warner's thoughtful and often humorous memoir of his life as a young farm-boy in Charlemont, Massachusetts. (Introduction by Mark Penfold)
A Social History of the American Negro
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Benjamin Griffith Brawley
A comprehensive history of what experiences and influences created the Negro American citizen as we find him at the beginning of the twentie…
Peace Lord of the Red Planet
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Steven H. Wilson
Shepherd Autrey is a Quaker, a physician, and a man deeply disturbed by the madness around him as the War Between the tates bears down on hi…
The Journal of a Disappointed Man
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W. N. P. Barbellion
The journal of British naturalist Bruce Frederick Cummings, spanning from his early childhood through to his early death from complications …
The Gentle Persuasion
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Alan Gray
Twelve stories from the author's life in Scotland, by Robert Cuthbert Johnstone, writing as Alan Gray. For more information on the author se…
NBC University Theater 49 08 27 Nineteen Eighty Four
David Niven stars in this first radio production of George Orwells' novel; Nineteen Eighty-Four. The story of Winston Smith and his struggle…
A London Mosaic
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Walter Lionel George
An idiosyncratic view of various aspects of London, England, published in 1921. Walter Lionel George (1882 – 1926) was an English writer, c…
Verses Popular and Humorous
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Henry Lawson
This is a volume of humorous poems by Australian poet Henry Lawson. - Summary by Carolin
The Old Year and The New
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William Henry Rhodes
William Henry Rhodes will long be remembered by his contemporaries at the Bar of California as a man of rare genius, exemplary habits, high …
Sydney Past and Present
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John Arthur Barry
An account of the early history of Sydney, Australia's first colonial city. Best known for his collection of light-hearted yarns, Steve Brow…
Stories by English Authors: London
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F. Anstey, J. M. Barrie, Marie Corelli, Beatrice Harraden, Arthur Morrison, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch and Israel Zangwill
This book collects seven short stories by some of England's best turn-of-the-(last)-century's writers. The collection begins with the humor …
The Boy Travellers in Australasia
Read by Adrian Wilson
Thomas Wallace Knox
ADVENTURES OF TWO YOUTHS IN A JOURNEY TO THE SANDWICH, MARQUESAS, SOCIETY, SAMOAN, AND FEEJEE ISLANDS, AND THROUGH THE COLONIES OF NEW ZEALA…
Born Again
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Alfred Lawson
"I doubt that anyone who reads [Born Again] will ever forget it: it is quite singularly bad, with long indigestible rants against the e…