Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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House & Home

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William Sandys - Christmastide

Christmastide: Its History, Festivities and Carols, With Their Music is a collection of essays detailing the early traditions of Christmas in England. This recording includes the prose portions of the book only (The...

Greg Giordano and 1 more 7 hours 9 minutes

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Enquiry Into The Causes Of The Late Increase Of Robbers

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Henry Fielding - Enquiry Into The Causes Of The Late Increase Of Robbers

Early eighteenth century England saw the criminal element bargaining with magistrates and lawyers to be released or receive lenient sentences. Neither party could be trusted and the situation grew worse. Enter famed...

Lynne T and 5 more 4 hours 10 minutes

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Children's Non-fiction

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Anonymous - Young Girl's Diary

The diary of an upper middle class Austrian girl, this book describes her life between the ages of eleven and fourteen. It's a coming of age story full of angst, boys, and questions. (Summary by KHand)

KHand 7 hours 13 minutes

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Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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Mary Antin - They Who Knock at Our Gates

In 1914, over one million immigrants arrived in the United States, following in the footsteps of approximately ten million others who had arrived in the preceding decade. Faced with so many newcomers, many of them...

Maria Kasper 2 hours 24 minutes

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Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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Thomas Paine - Rights Of Man

A book in 2 Parts, published in 1791 and 1792. Part First denounces Edmund Burke’s defense of monarchy and his attacks against the French Revolution, and in plain layman’s language traces the birth and fallacy of...

Michele Fry and 1 more 9 hours 36 minutes

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Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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Mason Long - Save the Girls

Save the Girls is an 1880 American anti-white-slavery book by reformed gambler Mason Long. In it, the author crusades against the social evil of prostitution by presenting a series of pathetic portraits of young...

Grant Hurlock 4 hours 43 minutes

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On an Irish Jaunting-Car through Donegal and Connemara

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Samuel Gamble Bayne - On an Irish Jaunting-Car through Donegal and Connemara

This book gives a brief glimpse into the social history of Ireland in the early part of the 20th Century. During his 1902 tour through the north, west and south of Ireland the author provides entertaining insights...

Frank Lennon 3 hours 12 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Hamilton Wright Mabie - Essays on Work and Culture

The author investigates the world of work against a backdrop of culture. Each of the 25 essays focuses on one aspect of the topic. For example, the first essay, «Tool or Man?» looks at two views of man. One is that of...

Greg Giordano and 3 more 3 hours 55 minutes

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Nature

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Henry David Thoreau - Walden, Version 2

Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal...

Nick Bulka 11 hours 58 minutes

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Art, Design & Architecture

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Frank Berkeley Smith - Real Latin Quarter

«Cocher, drive to the rue Falguière»--this in my best restaurant French. The man with the varnished hat shrugged his shoulders, and raised his eyebrows in doubt. He evidently had never heard of the rue Falguière....

Bill Boerst 2 hours 37 minutes

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Family & Relationships

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Nellie McClung - In Times Like These

" Believing that the woman's claim to a common humanity is not an unreasonable one, and that the successful issue of such claim rests primarily upon the sense of fair play which people have or have not according...

DPranitis 5 hours 20 minutes

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Lyric

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Dante Alighieri - Convivio

Convivio (The Banquet) is a work written by Dante Alighieri roughly between 1304 and 1307. This unfinished work of Dante consists of four trattati, or «books»: a prefatory one, plus three books that each include a...

Martin Geeson and 6 more 9 hours 15 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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