War & Military
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John Watson Foster - War Stories for My Grandchildren
After years of telling these stories to his grandchildren, Foster was prevailed on to write them down for future generations. Rather than rely on his memory, he conducted research for accuracy. He served as a colonel...
5 hours 4 minutes
Humorous Fiction
900
Leopold Wagner - Humorous Readings and Recitations
Before radio, television, and electronic mass media, lectures, recitations, public readings, and other public performances were important ways of sharing new works with the public or attracting public attention to...
7 hours 42 minutes
Fantasy Fiction
1.3K
E. Phillips Oppenheim - Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton
Alfred Burton, a smooth-talking salesman, is having a perfectly ordinary day on the job when he stumbles across a strange plant in an old house. What he doesn't realize is that the fruit of the plant, when eaten,...
6 hours 43 minutes
True Crime
836
George Alfred Townsend - Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth
A series of articles by the New York World newspaper's special correspondent covering the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, its background and subsequent events. It should be noted that some statements in this...
4 hours 34 minutes
Anthologies
1.1K
World's Best Poetry, Volume 6: Fancy and Sentiment (Part 1)
The sixth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes a range of notable poems that deal with both the realm of the fantastic...
8 hours 59 minutes
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