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1916: First Chapters Collection
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These are first chapters to books first published in 1916. Readers, following is a tentative list culled from Wikipedia's article on the yea…
Author's preface
Read by Peter Dann
Daniel Defoe
In Moll Flanders - Version 2
This warm and witty novel presents itself as the first person narration of an immensely likeable and resourceful woman who, born in the most…
Preface and Chapter 1
Read by Ryan Lohner
Robert Smith Surtees
In Ask Mamma: or The Richest Commoner In England
Considering that Billy Pringle, or Fine Billy, as his good-natured friends called him, was only an underbred chap, he was as good an imitati…
Chapter 14
Read by Bob R
Sherwood Anderson
In Poor White: a Novel
This is a story of the effect of industrialization on a small town and its people, around the beginning of the 20th Century. The lead charac…
Ch 3. The Beginning of the Nineteenth Century. Pt 1. The New Literature: The Knickerbocker Group
Read by Bellona Times
William Simonds
In A Student's History of American Literature
Engaging history of American Lit from the 1600's up through the late 1890's. The author, who was a professor at Knox College, really put a …
Preface
Read by Michelle Dyer
L. W. De Laurence
In The Illustrated Key to the Tarot
L.W. de Laurence, an occult and spiritual author and publisher, not only provides a history of the Tarot for fortune-telling purposes, but w…
Preface
Read by Ted Lienhart
Frank James Adkins
In Historical Backgrounds of the Great War; The War: Its Origins and Warnings
Author Frank J. Adkins, a lecturer at Cambridge University, arranged a series of European history lectures at the beginning of World War I f…
Preface
Read by Peter Dann
George Borrow
In Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest
This unusual narrative by eccentric self-taught English linguist, traveller and one-time bible salesman George Borrow combines elements of a…
1934-08-03 - 138) To New York on the Twentieth Century Limited
1 OTR
In The Jack Benny Program
The Jack Benny Program, which starred no less than Jack Benny himself, was a comedy series than went on-air for more than 30 years in both r…
A. D. Nineteen Hundred
Read by Stefan Von Blon
Madison Cawein
In The 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 sectio…
Chapter 8
Read by Brize C
George Sand
In Consuelo
This roman à clef follows the musical adventures of Consuelo, a gifted singer under the tutelage of the composer Nicola Porpora. Afte…
Book 2, Chapter 8: Printed Paper
Read by Peter Dann
Thomas Carlyle
In The French Revolution: A History. Volume 1: The Bastille (Version 2)
Subtitled "The Bastille", Volume 1 of Thomas Carlyle's three volume "The French Revolution: A History" was first publish…
Chapter IV. Richelieu by Stanley Leathes (part 2)
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Various
In The Cambridge Modern History. Volume 04, The Thirty Years' War
The Cambridge Modern History is a universal history covering the period from 1450 to 1910. It was published in 14 volumes between 1902 and 1…
CHAPTER V
Read by Keren Smithies
Jerome K. Jerome
In All Roads Lead to Calvary
"All Roads Lead to Calvary is a 1919 novel by the British writer Jerome K. Jerome. It was one of the last works written by Jerome, bett…
Chapter 10
Read by Brize C
George Sand
In The Countess of Rudolstadt
This sequel to Consuelo picks up not long after the striking conclusion of the first novel. Consuelo is enjoying a brilliant singing career…
Prologue
Read by Ben Adams
Sherwood Anderson
In The Triumph of the Egg: A Book of Impressions from American Life In Tales and Poems
“The Triumph of the Egg” is a collection of stories and poems by Sherwood Anderson. Abandoning the interconnected quality of his more famous…
Preface
Read by Silas Jackson
Wallace Notestein
In A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718
A chronological survey of witchcraft in early modern Britain, covering witchcraft under the reigns of various monarchs, the literature of wi…
Chapter X. The New Century
Read by Brize C
M. E. M. Davis
In Under Six Flags: The Story of Texas
A history of the of Texas from La Salle's Texas Settlement in 1685 to the dedication of the State Capitol building at Austin in 1888. - Summ…
The Second Book
Read by Brize C
Geoffrey Chaucer
In The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems
Generally considered to be the first book written in English (rather than Latin, French or Italian), Chaucer's magnum opus is a collection o…
Prefaces, Chapters 1-2
Read by Phil Benson
Hubert de Castella and Hubert De Castella
In John Bull's Vineyard: Australian Sketches
An account of the origins of the wine industry in Victoria, Australia. Born in Neuchatel, Switzerland, Hubert de Castella was one of a numbe…