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Editor’s Note
Read by John Greenman
Henry William Fischer
In Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field - Tales They Told to a Fellow Correspondent
This work brings new understanding of the life and work of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) while living and traveling abroad. Twain and fellow h…
Frau Fischer
Read by Peter Dann
Katherine Mansfield
In In a German Pension, Version 2
Katherine Mansfield was only 22 years old when these stories were first published in book form. Mansfield was later reluctant to see them re…
Frau Fischer
Read by VfkaBT
Katherine Mansfield
In Short Story Collection Vol. 064
This collection comprises 20 short stories of various genres, chosen by the readers. Contributions include works from Guy de Maupassant, Rud…
A Question
Read by Andrew Kennedy
Paul Laurence Dunbar
In Oak and Ivy
"Oak and Ivy" is Paul Laurence Dunbar's first collection of poetry. He was by far the most successful Black American to write poet…
The Fisher
Read by Alan Mapstone
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In Ballads and Legends
A short collection of Ballads by the German poet and polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe based on German and other European and Asian legend…
Chapter VIII
Read by Robert Fischer
Austin H. W. Haywood
In Through Timbuctu and Across the Great Sahara
Through Timbuctu and across the great Sahara: an account of an adventurous journey of exploration from Sierra Leone to the source of the Nig…
06 - Chapter 3A
Read by Bill Boerst
Francis Fisher Browne
In The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln
This detailed biography covers the places in Lincoln's life: Indiana, Illinois, Washington. It also traces his various roles as storekeeper,…
The Library
Read by Phil Schempf
James Hebblethwaite
In The Poems of James Hebblethwaite
James Hebblethwaite (22 September 1857 – 13 September 1921) was an English-born Australian poet, teacher and clergyman. Hebblethwaite was a …
Duffy'sTavern-510427 Balancing the Books (Guest Phil Baker)
Ed Gardner, Abe Burrows
In Duffy's Tavern
"Hullo, Duffy's Tavern, where the elite meet to eat, Archie the manager speaking, Duffy ain't here---oh, hullo, Duffy . . . " It m…
Concluding Professional Hints
Read by James R. Hedrick
Jerry Cree Fischer
In Piano Tuning: A Simple and Accurate Method for Amateurs
This is a primer for anyone wishing to learn how to tune and maintain their own piano or to become a piano tuner. Written in 1907, it was ta…
The Fisher by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Read by Leanne Yau
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 6: Fancy and Sentiment (Part 1)
The sixth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, inclu…
Mr. Julius Rosenwald Interviewed
Read by KevinS
Carl Sandburg
In The Chicago Race Riots, July 1919
Carl Sandburg's succinct reporting on and reflections upon the race riots that broke out In Chicago in July 1919. - Summary by KevinS
An Answer
Read by Alan Mapstone
Alfred Castner King
In Mountain Idylls, and Other Poems
"The author of this unpretentious volume has long questioned the advisability of adding a book to our already inflated and overloaded l…
10 - The Contest
Read by KarlHenning
Abbie Phillips Walker
In The Sandman's Hour
Reading bedtime stories to children can be a wonderful way to relax and at the same time act out the exciting things happening in the story …
To L—
Read by Andrew Gaunce
Lord Alfred Douglas
In The Collected Poems of Lord Alfred Douglas
This is a chronologically arranged collection of poems compiled by the author in his late 40s, after he had discarded the Uranian themes of …
Our Scout Officer
Read by Robert Fischer
Ralph W. Bell
In Canada in War-Paint
There is no attempt made in the little sketches which this book contains to deal historically with events of the war. It is but a small Souv…
Chapter XXIX
Read by Rob Marland
Lord Alfred Douglas
In The Autobiography of Lord Alfred Douglas
Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas wrote his autobiography in his late fifties, some 29 years after the death of Oscar Wilde. Since the publication…
Epilogue
Read by Rob Marland
Lord Alfred Douglas
In In Excelsis
In 1924, Lord Alfred Douglas was sued by Winston Churchill after he alleged that the politician had been part of a Jewish-backed conspiracy …
From The Editor Recommends, The Bookman
Read by Phil Benson
Various
In 'To the Lighthouse' by Virginia Woolf: Contemporary Reviews (1927)
Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse was published in May 1927 in both Britain and the United States. The publication of Mrs. Dalloway a year …