Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

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Literary Collections

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Lillian Marie Briggs - Noted Speeches of Abraham Lincoln

A few of Lincoln's most famous speeches and the Lincoln-Douglas debate make for historic reading. (summary by David O)

Denny Sayers and 5 more 2 hours 52 minutes

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Early Modern

467

Daniel Defoe - Storm

The Storm (1704) holds a special place in the writings of Daniel Defoe. Widely considered a founding document of modern journalism, The Storm narrates the calamitous events of November 1703 that are framed by the...

Denny Sayers 9 hours 8 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

471

Hamilton Wright Mabie - Myths That Every Child Should Know

A selection of famous and timeless myths, adapted for a junior audience. (Summary by Lynne Thompson)

Lynne T and 16 more 11 hours 23 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

497

Wit and Humor of America, Vol 01

The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the first volume, 53 short stories and poems have been gathered from 44 authors. This volume is sure to delight listeners. (Summary by Linette Geisel)

Barry Eads and 20 more 6 hours 54 minutes Wit and Humor of America

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Biography & Autobiography

493

Jacob Stroyer - My Life in the South

My Life in the South is the vivid and touching autobiography of African-American former slave, Jacob Stroyer. It recounts experiences from his early childhood on the planation up to his involvement in Confederacy's...

Jeffrey Carr and 5 more 2 hours 45 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Gaius Petronius Arbiter - Satyricon

Satyricon (or Satyrica) is a Latin work of fiction in a mixture of prose and poetry. It is believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius, though the manuscript tradition identifies the author as a certain Titus...

Ann Boulais and 5 more 7 hours 56 minutes

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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York

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Jacob A. Riis - How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York

How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890) was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting the squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. It...

Guero and 9 more 8 hours 50 minutes

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Religion

496

H. P. Nichols - Curtezan Unmasked

«The Curtezan unmasked or, the Whoredomes of Jezebel Painted to the Life: With Antidotes against them, or Heavenly Julips to cool Men in the Fever of Lust» is a fire-and-brimstone polemic by «A Spiritual Physician» to...

Denny Sayers 57 minutes

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Political Science

561

Jane Addams - Twenty Years at Hull House

Jane Addams was the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In a long, complex career, she was a pioneer settlement worker and founder of Hull-House in Chicago, public philosopher (the first...

Elizabeth Klett and 7 more 10 hours 30 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

472

Henry Fielding - Journey from This World to the Next

The narrator dies in the first sentence. Through relating his travels in the afterlife, Henry Fielding, author of Tom Jones and Joseph Andrews, gently satirizes life here on earth. (Summary by Denny Sayers) This...

Denny Sayers and 1 more 5 hours 56 minutes

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Literary Collections

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Charles William Eliot - Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books

Charles W. Eliot, 21st President of Harvard University, edited this volume of prefaces… authored by a Who's Who of World Literature: Bacon, Calvin, Caxton, Condell, Copernicus, Dryden, Fielding, Goethe, Heminge, Hugo,...

Martin Geeson and 10 more 21 hours 29 minutes

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Children's Fiction

533

E. Nesbit - Children's Shakespeare

This children's book retells twelve of Shakespeare's most popular plays as stories for children. Each of the plays are rewritten as short stories or fairy tales suitable to keep the attention of child readers or...

Tim Ferreira and 7 more 2 hours 34 minutes

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New

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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