Larry Wilson
641 books
*Non-fiction
698
Cotton Mather - Wonders of the Invisible World, and A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New England Witches
Here are first hand accounts, published in 1692, of the infamous «Salem Witch Trials». In addition to Mather's interpretation of the Book of Revelations (which he calls «God's last letter to the people of earth»),...
9 hours 1 minute
Science Fiction
1.1K
Ray Cummings - Astounding Stories 15, March 1931
This issue includes «When the Mountain Came to Miramar» by Charles W. Diffin, «Beyond the Vanishing Point» by Ray Cummings, «Terrors Unseen» by Harl Vincent, the conclusion of «Phalanxes of Atlans» by F. V. W. Mason,...
8 hours 58 minutes
Modern (19th C)
893
H. A. Guerber - Story of the Thirteen Colonies
These short vignettes of American history are written for the young reader. Each one is a little capsule of a person or event. They run from the pre-Columbian era through the end of the American War of Independence....
8 hours 58 minutes
Poetry
3K
Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England
This traditional, and, for the most part, unprinted literature,—cherished in remote villages, resisting everywhere the invasion of modern namby-pamby verse and jaunty melody, and possessing, in an historical point of...
8 hours 50 minutes
Single author
1.4K
Edgar Allan Poe - Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 5
This, the last of 5 volumes containing Poe's works, contains a collection of both prose and poetry. (Summary by TriciaG) Cast List for Section 42: Narrator / Stage Directions: Ellen Preckel Alessandra:...
8 hours 41 minutes
*Non-fiction
1.5K
Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr. - 1000 Things Worth Knowing
Part almanac, part encyclopedia, part dictionary, Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr. gives us his idea of important, but sometimes obscure, facts that he thinks should be in our bank of general knowledge. He includes a large...
8 hours 27 minutes
Single author
2.9K
Madison Cawein - Poems of Madison Cawein Vol 3
This is Volume 3: Nature Poems of the collected works of Madison Julius Cawein, an American poet from Kentucky. It's arranged in four sections: In The Shadow of the Beeches, Tansy and Sweet-Alyssum, Weeds by the Wall,...
8 hours 24 minutes