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John Kendrick Bangs - From Pillar to Post

I could not let these random notes of a delightful experience go forth into the world without expressing in some way my deep appreciation of the valued services rendered me in my ten years of platform work by my...

Jeff Moon and 5 more 6 hours 23 minutes

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Christopher Morley - Modern Essays

Thirty three essays by more or less well-known authors of Britain, the United States, and Canada, each fronted by an introductory paragraph. Early twentieth or late nineteenth centuries. “I think I can offer you, in...

David Wales 9 hours 41 minutes

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Isaac D'Israeli - Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1

This is a collection of short essays on literature. Various subjects are discussed, such as libraries, critics, the classics, and all sorts of things which, in the opinion of Mr. Disraeli, a writer or a reader can do...

Jim Locke and 23 more 24 hours 2 minutes

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Logan Pearsall Smith - Trivia (1917) And More Trivia (1921)

Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) was an American-born British essayist who was known for his epigrams and aphorisms, often humorous. This recording is of two of his collections of these bon mots. For example: “These...

David Wales 3 hours 31 minutes

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 044

Nineteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include wives, widows, and women scorned--the «Baby Doe Tabor» scandal, the trials of literary marriages, and colonial...

OCTL7 and 10 more 6 hours 28 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 043

Nineteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the role of «people of color» in New Orleans and Louisiana history, the question of voting rights for Blacks...

TriciaG and 8 more 5 hours 56 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Christopher Morley - Shandygaff

A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life & Letters, interspersed with Short Stories & Skits, the whole most Diverting to the Reader. (Title page) SHANDYGAFF: a very refreshing drink, being a mixture of bitter...

David Wales 7 hours 46 minutes

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 042

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include biographies of astronomer Fiammetta Wilson, naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, mountaineer Jacques Balmat,...

David Wales and 11 more 7 hours 1 minute Short Nonfiction Collections

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Kenneth Grahame - Pagan Papers

We join our thoughtful author on a dreamy stroll at dusk through the English countryside, and listen to his nonchalant, slightly scattered musings on the human condition...everything from loafing about and old book...

Will Cooper and 10 more 2 hours 28 minutes

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 041

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include a woman in Alaska, Cuban folklore, and hunting peccaries on the Nueces; Max Planck's Quantum Theory and...

Availle and 10 more 4 hours 37 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Charles Lamb - Last Essays of Elia

Discursive ramblings of a generous mind, no-one would know from Lamb's conversational button-holing of you and telling you whatever is on his mind that his sister had killed their mother and he had spent his life...

Tony Addison 10 hours 18 minutes

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Arthur Symons - Figures of Several Centuries

Arthur Symons talks through the histories and works of poets, playwrights, scholars and scribes. He provides both personal experience and critical wonder to the worlds of his subjects; Donne, Ibsen, Baudelaire and...

Jim Locke and 12 more 8 hours 59 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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