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The Gospel of Wealth
Read by Michele Fry
Andrew Carnegie
What is the proper mode of administering great wealth? It is to address this question that steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie's famous essay "…
Mongan's Frenzy
Read by Michele Fry
James Stephens
James Stephens is famous for his retellings of Irish myths and fairy tales. This tale is about 1.5 hours in length, full of magical lore and…
Optimism, An Essay
Read by Michele Fry
Helen Keller
Though blind, deaf, and left-handed too, it seemed nothing could hold Helen Keller back. For her graduation from Radcliffe College in 1903, …
The Charwoman's Shadow
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Lord Dunsany
Delightfully imaginative, somewhat similar to Dunsany's blockbuster fantasy novel, The King Of Elfland's Daughter (and published just two ye…
Deirdre
Read by Michele Fry
James Stephens
Beautiful, playful young Deirdre, caught in the crosshairs of Ireland's wily, chauvinistic King Conachur, who desires to marry her after his…
The Mother (Version 2)
Read by Michele Fry
Pearl S. Buck
As with Pearl Buck's most famous 1st novel, The Good Earth, this 2nd book also describes peasant life in rural China about 150 years ago--fr…
A Rival of the Yosemite – The Cañon of the south fork of King’s River, Californ…
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John Muir
This article, a walking tour of the Cañon including many charcoal illustrations, was published in the Century Illlustrated Monthly Ma…
I Worked for Lucky Luciano
Read by Michele Fry
Anonymous
A few years after the fall of Chicago’s Al Capone in 1931, Italian born gangster Charles “Lucky” Luciano took the throne as the American Maf…