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Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress
Read by Edmund Bloxam
Daniel Defoe
The full title of the novel is Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress Or, a History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Bele…
Home Life in Colonial Days
Read by Susan Morin
Alice Morse Earle
CHAPTER IHOMES OF THE COLONISTSWhen the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have se…
Myths and Legends of Alaska
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Katharine Berry Judson
Editor Katharine Berry Judson collates and presents a narrative history of Alaskan Myths. Originally gathered and recorded by government eth…
The Problem of China
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Bertrand Russell
In 1920-21 Bertrand Russell lived and taught in Peking (Beijing), publishing this book on his return to England. In 1920 he had visited Bols…
Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
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William Butler Yeats
This is a collection of Fairy and Folk tales. The poet William Butler Yeats collected them from around the Western part of Ireland and trans…
The Descent of Man and Other Stories
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Edith Wharton
This collection of ten stories, first published in 1904, shows Edith Wharton dissecting some of the customs, habits and vagaries of courtshi…
Children of the Ghetto
Read by Adrian Praetzellis
Israel Zangwill
In this 1892 novel of London's Jewish East End, Israel Zangwill sets the apparently irrational and decidedly indecorous religious practices …
Hagar of the Pawn-Shop
Read by Grant Hurlock
Fergus Hume
Hagar Stanley, a beautiful young Gypsy, is driven by sexual harassment to leave her tribe and seek refuge with her uncle Jacob, a miserly Lo…
Kipps
Read by Anthony Ogus
H. G. Wells
Arthur Kipps, an orphaned draper’s assistant of humble means, unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money and that is when all his troubles b…
Les Quatre filles du docteur Marsch
Read by Christiane Jehanne
Louisa May Alcott
Roman célèbre écrit en français par P.-J. STAHL (Pierre-Jules HETZEL), d’après le texte si connu de Louis…
Èmile
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Emile, or On Education or Émile, or Treatise on Education (French: Émile, ou De l’éducation) was published in 1762 in F…
Der Zweikampf
Read by Boris
Heinrich von Kleist
Im späten Mittelalter wird der Adlige Herzog Wilhelm von Breysach heimtückisch durch einen Pfeil ermordet. Die Nachforschungen erg…
Leben und Taten des scharfsinnigen Edlen Don Quixote von la Mancha, Band 1
Read by Boris
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Genauso farbenfroh, lebensklug, amüsant und mitreißend wie zu seiner Enstehungszeit wirken die zeitlosen Abenteuer des selbsterna…
Peasant Tales of Russia
Read by Kevin W. Davidson
Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko
Collection of Russian peasant tales:"The Deserted Mine" - The key to saving the trapped miners is held by a man who hasn't spoken …
Black Heart and White Heart
Read by Vira Denton
H. Rider Haggard
Black Heart and White Heart, is a story of the courtship, trials and final union of a pair of Zulu lovers in the time of King Cetywayo. (Int…
Myths And Legends Of The Pacific Northwest Especially Of Washington And Oregon
Read by David Wales
Katharine Berry Judson
The basis on which these myths were selected necessarily excluded those which showed traces of the white man's religion or of the red man's …
By Right of Conquest; Or, With Cortez in Mexico
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G. A. Henty
In perhaps the most audacious military enterprise in the history of human conquest, Cortez, with only a few hundred men, conquered a civili…
Noted Speeches of Abraham Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln
A few of Lincoln's most famous speeches and the Lincoln-Douglas debate make for historic reading. (summary by David O)
Un crime étrange
Read by Christiane Jehanne
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Rencontre Watson et Holmes, installation, et première enquête à Londres, et aussi détour aux U.S.A. en Utah… &ag…
Presidential Farewell and Last Addresses
Read by John Greenman
Various
This collection will put in one place, all the Farewell (or last) Addresses made by each of the 43 ex-US presidents.The first, George Washin…