Lee Smalley

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Permanent Husband

THE PERMANENT HUSBAND, also published as The Eternal Husband, is a psychological novella by the acclaimed Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The plot revolves around the intense and complex relationship between...

Lee Smalley 5 hours 20 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Howard R. Garis - Uncle Wiggily's Fortune

Uncle Wiggily Longears is the main character of a series of children's stories by American author Howard R. Garis. He began writing the stories for the Newark News in 1910. Garis penned an Uncle Wiggily story every...

Lee Smalley 4 hours 26 minutes Uncle Wiggily Stories

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Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins - Smoke Eaters

This book vividly brings to life the unimaginable risks of fire-fighting and the bravery and personal interactions of Captain Meaghan and the crew of Hook & Ladder Company No. 0 in New York City. A 1905 review in...

Lee Smalley 4 hours 38 minutes

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General Fiction

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B. L. Farjeon - Devlin the Barber

The stabbing death of a beautiful young woman in a London park at night and the disappearance of her sister; a shocked and heartbroken young suitor; a terrified landlady and her simple husband; a recently unemployed...

Lee Smalley 6 hours 28 minutes

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War & Military

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Frank Gelett Burgess - War the Creator

Gelett Burgess, an American writer, penned this gripping account of the profound change that war caused in a young Frenchman he knew. “Because he was my friend, because he was so lovable, because he suffered much, I...

Lee Smalley 1 hour 32 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Ivan Turgenev - Lear of the Steppes, etc.

This book contains three novellas by one of the major writers of Russian literature. The first, A LEAR OF THE STEPPES, is a brilliant re-imagining of Shakespeare’s play King Lear, wherein a larger-than-life father...

Lee Smalley 7 hours 16 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

Ivan Turgenev - Smoke

Smoke is an 1867 novel by the highly acclaimed Russian writer Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883) that tells the gripping story of a secret love affair between a young betrothed Russian man and a young married Russian woman,...

Lee Smalley 7 hours 40 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Herbert George Jenkins - Night Club

This work of fiction by Herbert Jenkins (1876-1923) features one of his best-loved comic characters, the affable Cockney, Joseph Bindle. It was Bindle who conceived the idea of forming ”The Night Club”, where people...

Lee Smalley 7 hours 26 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Coningsby Dawson - It Might Have Happened to You

This is a frank eyewitness description of the suffering, starvation in particular, that was widely experienced in Central and Eastern Europe in the aftermath of «The Great War». “It is not stating matters too strongly...

Lee Smalley 3 hours 29 minutes

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Felix Adler - Essentials of Spirituality

This recording contains four addresses of Felix Adler (1851-1933) concerning spirituality from the perspective of Ethical Culture, an educational and religious movement founded and first led by Adler, based on the...

Lee Smalley 1 hour 51 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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E. W. Hornung - Thousandth Woman

E. W. Hornung was an English author and poet best known for writing the A. J. Raffles series of stories about a gentleman thief in late 19th-century London. Some of Hornung's novels, including The Thousandth Woman,...

Lee Smalley 3 hours 19 minutes

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Jacob A. Riis - Out of Mulberry Street

These riveting accounts by Jacob A. Riis are from the late 19th century, when lower Manhattan was teeming with struggling, near-starving immigrants crammed into wretched fire-prone tenements. Riis writes...

Lee Smalley 5 hours 30 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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