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Charles Waddell Chesnutt - Frederick Douglass A Biography

Born into slavery, Frederick Douglass became one of America's great icons. He escaped slavery to become one of our great abolitionists, statesman, writer, orator, all around social reformer and intellectual of our...

KirksVoice 2 hours 33 minutes

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Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery

Biography & Autobiography

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Charles Raymond Beazley - Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery

Prince Henry was a significant explorer and adventurer in a period of enlightenment and expansion of European trade and knowledge of the world beyond its borders. He is considered a prime instigator of what has become...

Kathleen Nelson and 5 more 10 hours 9 minutes

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Wakeling Dry - Giacomo Puccini

This biography of Puccini was written while the composer was at the height of his career. Besides the usual biographical information, the author summarizes and discusses Puccini's works to this point, including Le...

Ciufi Galeazzi 3 hours 11 minutes

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War & Military

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Julian Corbett - Sir Francis Drake

In this short book, the British Naval historian, Julian Stafford Corbett, chronicles the adventurous career of Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596), the farmer's son who became Queen Elizabeth's most feared privateer and her...

Pamela Nagami 6 hours 21 minutes

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Story of John Wesley Told to Boys and Girls

Religion

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Marianne Kirlew - Story of John Wesley Told to Boys and Girls

Marianne Kirlew tells the story of John Wesley, English revivalist and founder of Methodism, in short chapters in simple language and an engaging style for children. With scraps of dialog, poetry and scripture, John...

Larry Wilson and 8 more 3 hours 55 minutes

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Roman History: The Early Empire, from the Assassination of Julius Caesar to that of Domitian

War & Military

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William Wolfe Capes - Roman History: The Early Empire, from the Assassination of Julius Caesar to that of Domitian

William Wolfe Capes (1834-1914) was an Anglican cleric, a classicist, and a historian. This is his short chronicle of the early Roman Empire, from the aftermath of the murder of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C.E. to the...

Pamela Nagami 7 hours 39 minutes

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Biography of an American Bondman, By His Daughter

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Josephine Brown - Biography of an American Bondman, By His Daughter

Josephine Brown's Biography of an American Bondsman faithfully follows the trajectory of her father's life as previously explored in his own narratives. She distills and summarizes the major revelatory moments of his...

Jim Locke 2 hours 32 minutes

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War & Military

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William Richard Ward Stephens - Hildebrand and his Times

W.R.W. Stephens, the Anglican Dean of Winchester, writes a short, lively biography of the great church reformer, Hildebrand of Sovana (1015-1085), afterwards Pope Gregory VII, setting his life within the larger...

Pamela Nagami 5 hours 54 minutes

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War & Military

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Walter Besant - Captain Cook

James Cook (1728-1779), British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy was the son of a farm laborer. Apprenticed to a grocer, he ran away to sea. He saw hard service in the Baltic as a...

Pamela Nagami 6 hours 14 minutes

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Clifford Whittingham Beers - Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography

At twenty-four, Clifford Beers, Yale graduate and son of an old New England family, was confined to a mental institution, where he experienced and saw terrible mistreatment of patients. Eight years later, after his...

Skip Corris 7 hours 21 minutes

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Religion

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John Hall - Life of Rev. Henry Martyn

Henry Martyn (1781-1812), a brilliant and ambitious young student in Cambridge, England, was led by God to be a missionary to India and Persia. While pastoring, starting schools, and teaching the locals as well as...

Hannah Mary 5 hours 58 minutes

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Frederick Trevor Hill - Lincoln, The Lawyer

This biography of Abraham Lincoln focuses on his practice as a lawyer. (Summary by MaryAnn)

Larry Wilson and 5 more 5 hours 22 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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