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In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World by Elizabeth Bisland

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Elizabeth Bisland - In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World by Elizabeth Bisland

In November 1889, the New York World announced that it was sending its reporter Nellie Bly around the world, in a bid to beat Phileas Fogg's fictitious 80-day journey in Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty...

Holly Jenson 4 hours 9 minutes

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Francis Johnson - Famous Assassinations Of History

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, religious, or national features of the epoch in which the assassination...

David Wales 11 hours 9 minutes

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Children's Non-fiction

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Margaret Duncan Kelly - Story of Sir Walter Raleigh (Version 2)

The story of Sir Walter Raleigh from his boyhood days to his exploits in Ireland and his unexpected entry into the court of Queen Elizabeth. We travel with him as he pursues the ships of the Spanish Armada and makes...

Aaron M. Lebowitz and 1 more 2 hours 16 minutes

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Franz Blei - Recollections of Oscar Wilde

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. (Summary by david wales)

David Wales 1 hour 17 minutes

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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Alpine Path: The Story of My Career

L.M. Montgomery's autobiography highlighting her childhood and early literary career. Published in 1917 after she had written several novels. — Summary by Carolyn Agee

Carolyn Agee and 3 more 2 hours 41 minutes

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Story of Garfield: Farm Boy, Soldier and President

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William Gunion Rutherford - Story of Garfield: Farm Boy, Soldier and President

A short biography of President James A. Garfield — Summary by Eddie Frierson

Eddie Frierson 2 hours 37 minutes

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War & Military

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Lloyd Charles Sanders - Life of Viscount Palmerston

This is a short life of Henry John Temple (1784-1865), Third Viscount Palmerston, Great Britain's affable, able, and always available Foreign Secretary, Home Secretary, and Prime Minister. Sanders writes that by 1841...

Pamela Nagami 8 hours 38 minutes

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Robert Southey - Life of Nelson

In 1813, the year that he was appointed Poet Laureate, Robert Southey published «The Life of Nelson». Horatio, Lord Viscount Nelson was Britain's greatest Naval hero who had been killed during the Battle of Trafalgar...

NoelBadrian 11 hours 7 minutes

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Alberto Santos-Dumont - My Airships: The Story of My Life

The delightful tale of «le petit Santos» as he dances through the sky above the City of Light at the dawn of the aerial age. A note to the listener: Throughout this story the author makes several references to...

Scott Danneker 6 hours 8 minutes

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Two Diaries From Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February - May, 1865

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Mary Rhodes Waring Henagan - Two Diaries From Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February - May, 1865

Two diaries from Middle St. John’s, Berkeley, South Carolina, February – May, 1865. Journals kept by Miss Susan R. Jervey and Miss Charlotte St. Julien Ravenel, at Northampton and Poooshee Plantations, and...

David Wales 2 hours 4 minutes

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Emily Clemens Pearson - Gutenberg and the Art of Printing

This book is readable account of one of the greatest inventions of modern time: moveable type. Gutenberg's work lays the foundation for the printing press, without which the world would look very different… It reads...

Availle and 12 more 6 hours 41 minutes

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Elizabeth Ross Haynes - Unsung Heroes

This book consists of 17 biographies of remarkable men and women who, in 1921, were «unsung.» Some of them are now pretty well known while others are still, sadly, rather unrecognized. Written by Elizabeth Ross Haynes...

Jim Locke and 7 more 5 hours 19 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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