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War & Military

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Horace Porter - Campaigning With Grant

In the last year of the American Civil War, Horace Porter served as aide-de-camp to General Ulysses S. Grant, then commander of all the armies of the North. This lively 1897 memoir was written from the extensive notes...

David Wales 15 hours 54 minutes

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Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An AutoBiography

Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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Walt Whitman - Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An AutoBiography

This story ran as a serial in 1852 in the New York Sunday Dispatch, and for more than 160 years was buried in obscurity, unknown to the world as novel written by Walt Whitman. Zachary Turpin, a graduate student...

Margaret Espaillat 4 hours 7 minutes

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Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 7: Part 2: Countess de Saint-Geran

True Crime

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Alexandre Dumas - Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 7: Part 2: Countess de Saint-Geran

This story details the crimes and trial surrounding the unexpected pregnancy and subsequent childbirth of the Countess de Saint-Geran in 1640s France. Familial jealousies harbored by her sister-in-law, the Marchioness...

John Van Stan 1 hour 47 minutes

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Music

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Louis Fitzgerald Benson - Best Church Hymns

This 1898 book is the result of a survey of 107 hymn-books. The thirty-two hymns are ranked in order of popularity. The texts in this recording are said only, not sung, along with a few explanatory notes for each hymn...

David Wales 1 hour 37 minutes

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Short Stories

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Coffee Break Collection 013 - Weather

This is the thirteenth collection of our «coffee break» series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like...

Patrick Wallace and 11 more 1 hour 55 minutes Coffee Break Collections

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Short Stories

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Anton Chekhov - Chorus Girl and Other Stories

Volume 8 of a collection of short stories by Anton Chekhov. The selection includes The Chorus Girl, A Gentleman Friend and A father, among others. — Summary by Lynne Thompson

Ben Lafferty and 6 more 8 hours 42 minutes

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Christianity - Other

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Gregory of Nyssa - On Virginity

His admirable book «On Virginity», written about 370, was composed to strengthen in all who read it the desire for a life of perfect virtue. — Summary by Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913).

Geremia 2 hours 33 minutes

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To The Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window

Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Adelaide Crapsey - To The Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window

Her death was tragic. Full of the desire of life she yet was forced to go, leaving her work all unfinished. Her last year was spent in exile at Saranac Lake. From her window she looked down on the graveyard —...

Bruce Kachuk and 13 more 48 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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L. Frank Baum - Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz has built two beautiful «Ozoplanes» to explore Oz. But the official launch party goes wrong when the Soldier with the Green Whiskers accidentally launches the Oztober into the cloud country of...

Beth Thomas and 6 more 4 hours 3 minutes Oz books

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Poetry

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Charles Maurice Stebbins - Christmas Eve, and other Poems

This is a collection of poems by C. Maurice Stebbins. The titular poem is a Christmas poem, but it is dark and somber in tone. The following shorter pieces are very varied, making for a beautiful little collection. —...

Larry Wilson and 5 more 46 minutes

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Short Stories

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Richard Middleton - Day before Yesterday

This is a volume of short stories and essays by Richard Middleton. The British poet and author wrote a large number of short pieces during his life, which are today still as entertaining as they were then. Published...

DrPGould and 14 more 4 hours 37 minutes

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Wind in the Rose-Bush, and Other Stories of the Supernatural

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - Wind in the Rose-Bush, and Other Stories of the Supernatural

This is a collection of short stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. The stories all have different topics, there are mysterious deaths, haunted houses, ghosts, moving shadows, and all other ingredients which make for a...

Tony Addison and 4 more 4 hours 21 minutes

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