Lee Smalley

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Biography & Autobiography

415

Jacob A. Riis - Making of an American

Jacob Riis was an esteemed reporter and documentary photographer in New York City. In his autobiography he movingly recounts his early life and unrelenting attempts at courtship in Denmark followed by his later...

Lee Smalley and 1 more 9 hours 59 minutes

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War & Military

452

George Eggleston - Rebel's Recollections

George Cary Eggleston's Civil War memoir begins with a separate essay on the living conditions and political opinions of Virginia’s citizenry before secession. The body of the work contains vivid descriptions and...

Lee Smalley 5 hours 32 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

471

Louis Tracy - de Bercy Affair

A beautiful French actress with concealed origins and a clandestine involvement with a group of anarchists is brutally murdered in London. Circumstances lead Scotland Yard to several suspects, including her wealthy...

Lee Smalley 7 hours 52 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

434

Arthur Stringer - Shadow

A manhunt for a bank robber takes a determined and fixated New York City detective on a gripping, globe-spanning adventure, with many plot twists along the way. Arthur Stringer was a novelist, screenwriter and...

Lee Smalley 5 hours 7 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

448

Ivan Turgenev - Rudin

Rudin is the first and perhaps least known novel by Ivan Turgenev, a famous Russian writer best known for his short stories and the novel Fathers and Sons. The story focuses on a romantic involvement between Rudin...

Lee Smalley 4 hours 51 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

412

Henry Salt - Logic of Vegetarianism

With clear logic and entertaining dialogues, the author presents many reasons for a vegetarian rather than a “flesh-eating” diet, and his arguments for not eating meat are as compelling today as when they were...

Lee Smalley 4 hours 3 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

473

Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev - Dark

The Dark is a novella about a desperate young man, a “terrorist and nihilist”, trying to avoid arrest by taking refuge in a brothel. The story focuses on his unfolding relationship with a prostitute in the brothel...

Lee Smalley 1 hour 56 minutes

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Little Masterpieces of Autobiography: Actors

Biography & Autobiography

440

George Iles - Little Masterpieces of Autobiography: Actors

The playwright gives a play its plot, characters, dialog and form, but its sense of living reality is conveyed by the art of the actor. This fascinating collection of perspectives on acting is taken from biographies...

Lee Smalley 4 hours 34 minutes

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Love in a Mask, or Imprudence and Happiness

Published 1900 onward

457

Honoré de Balzac - Love in a Mask, or Imprudence and Happiness

Love in a Mask, or Imprudence and Happiness , is an entertaining short novel by Honoré de Balzac, unpublished in his lifetime. Beginning with a flirtatious conversation at a masked ball, Balzac introduces his two...

Lee Smalley 1 hour 46 minutes

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Psychology

445

Wallace E. Baker - Diary of a Suicide

“Mr. B. Russell Herts, c/o International Magazine, New York City. Under separate cover I am sending you a record of a young man who is about to commit suicide. My only object is that it may help…to ease the way for...

Lee Smalley 2 hours 16 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

491

Duncan Campbell Scott - In the Village of Viger

These ten superb short stories of Duncan Campbell Scott, published in 1896, portray humorous, farcical, and tragic aspects of life in the fictional Quebec village of Viger. Scott’s tales of the lives and vicissitudes...

Lee Smalley 2 hours 47 minutes

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General Fiction

494

Stefan Zweig - Burning Secret

A lonely, convalescing 12 year-old boy and his attractive mother, who is in a loveless marriage, meet a gentleman while vacationing at a European resort. Seeking an enjoyable way to pass the time, the man schemes to...

Lee Smalley 2 hours 33 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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