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The House by the Churchyard
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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Murder, mystery, mayhem, romance and relationships. Our classic who-done-it takes place in olde Dublin, Ireland in the village of Chapelizod…
The Vocation of the Scholar
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte (German: [ˈjoːhan ˈɡɔtliːp ˈfɪçtə]; May 19, 1762 – January 27, 1814) was a German philosopher. He was one of t…
The Life Of Abraham Lincoln
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Ward Hill Lamon
Ward Hill Lamon's work is a study of the life of the 16th President of the United States of America from his childhood to the day of his fir…
The Doctor's Christmas Eve
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James Lane Allen
A gentle reminiscence of a fictional country doctor as the year is drawing to a close. Unlike city doctors, the personal and professional li…
Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation, Harvesting, Curing and Uses
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Maurice Grenville Kains
This book describes use and care, and growing of herbs for cooking, healing and other interesting miscellaneous information related to herbs…
Callista
Read by Carol Pelster
John Henry Newman
Callista, A Tale of the Third Century, was written by John Henry Newman, who was a scholarly and personable Anglican theologian who became a…
Felix Holt, The Radical
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George Eliot
"Harold Transome is a landowner who goes against his family's political tradition (much to his mother's distress), while Felix Holt is …
Myths And Legends Of The Great Plains (version 2)
Read by David Wales
Katharine Berry Judson
Here, amidst the vast sweep of the plains which stretch away to the horizon on every side, boundless, limitless, endless, lived the plains I…
Stories From Wagner
Read by David Wales
J. Walker McSpadden
Eleven stories of eleven operas by Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold. Die Walküre. Siegfried. Götterdämmerung. Parsifal. Lohengrin. Ta…
Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion
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George Santayana
Even before the Great War turned the world upside down, Western civilization was being revolutionized at all levels: intellectually, philos…
War Letters From A Young Queenslander
Read by Beth Thomas (1974-2020)
Robert Marshall Allen
Letters from a Brisbane doctor posted to the Western Front from 1914 to December 1915. He tells anecdotes of World War I including stories o…
The Christmas Hirelings
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
It is the Christmas season once again and things are, well, boring for the adults at Penlyon Castle. "...if somehow or other I had a pa…
The Reverberator
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
Another Jamesian look at Americans in Paris. What happens when a reporter for an American scandal sheet (The Reverberator) is looking for a …
Zanzibar Tales
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George W. Bateman
If you have read any accounts of adventure in Africa, you will know that travelers never mention animals of any kind that are gifted with th…
Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great
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Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard visits the homes of authors, politicians, poets, philosophers and other prestigious people. If they are still living he speak…
Human Nature and Conduct - Part 3, The Place of Intelligence In Conduct
Read by William Allan Jones
John Dewey
John Dewey, an early 20th Century American philosopher, psychologist, educational theorist, saw Social Psychology as much a physical science…
The "Old" Arcadia
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Sir Philip Sidney
Sir Philip Sidney wrote two romances which he called Arcadia. The revised version he never finished because of his untimely death on the bat…
Rumbling Wings
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Arthur C. Parker
From these tales much may be learned concerning the mighty League of the Iroquois-the Men of Men-and of the custom and beliefs of the Nunda …
Shakespeare's Ovid, Being Arthur Golding's Translation of the Metamorphoses
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
William Shakespeare
Ovid represents his work as a celebration of mutability in the form of a history of the world's notable transformations. It is a compendium …
Frailty and Hypocrisy (Figaro Trilogy #3)
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Pierre Beaumarchais
This is James Wild's English translation of the French play, "The Guilty Mother," the third installment of Pierre Augustin Caron d…