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CHARLES DICKENS’S READINGS. THE FIRST PUBLIC READING. BY ONE WHO HEARD IT.
Read by Bryn Roberts
Charles Dickens
In Speeches: Literary and Social
Speeches: Literary and Social is a collection of speeches given by Charles Dickens in various settings, including banquets, public gathering…
Section 9
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Roberts Vaux
In Memoirs of the Life of Anthony Benezet
The Memoirs of the life of Anthony Benezet is a compilation celebrating the life of one of the first truly influential abolitionists during …
12
Read by Geoff Blanchard
Meredith Nicholson
In The Hope of Happiness
A hot and sultry day in the mid-west finds Bruce Storrs trying to cool off and clear his head. He has received a troubling death-bed letter …
Sermon 10: The Second Spring
Read by Russ Hobbs
John Henry Newman
In Sermons Preached on Various Occasions
What language do the human heart and soul speak? Many would say they speak poetry and song. But what if reason and spirituality join heart…
12 - I Explore a Passage
Read by Eric Leach
Meredith Nicholson
In The House of a Thousand Candles (version 2)
A reputedly wealthy and eccentric old man dies in Vermont. His home, the House of a Thousand Candles, so called for the owner's preference t…
Chapter 12
Read by Tasha Hobbs Peterson
Austen Layard
In Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon
Austen Henry Layard is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace re…
10 - A Bit of News
Read by Greg Giordano
Arthur Scott Bailey
In The Tale of Mrs. LadyBug
Have you ever seen a LadyBug and wondered what the cute little bug with the dots on her back was thinking? And why she seemed in such a rush…
Jolly Robin's News
Read by mleigh
Arthur Scott Bailey
In The Tale of Miss Kitty Cat (Version 2)
MIss Kitty Cat lives on a farm with the human family that she has adopted. Little Johnny Green is her favorite even though sometimes he pla…
26 - OLD NORTH WIND
Read by April Gonzales
Abbie Phillips Walker
In Sandman's Goodnight Stories
Have you every read a bed time story to a child? Or had one read to you? Fun, isn't it? These 28 delightful, short, well written and whimsic…
I - Introductory
Read by Leon Harvey
Frederick Adams Woods
In Mental and Moral Heredity in Royalty. A Statistical Study in History and Psychology
Frederick Adams Woods examined the biographical records and family trees of the great dynasties of Europe, judging and comparing their moral…
CHAPTER XXXVIII DOUGLASS FULFILS HIS MISSION
Read by Alexandra Offiong
Kirk Munroe
In Through Swamp and Glade: A Tale of the Seminole War
The principal incidents in the story of Coacoochee, as related in the following pages, are historically true. The Seminole War, the most pro…
Shonny Schwartz
Read by Nicholette Bryant
Charles Follen Adams
In The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 06
The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the sixth volume, 55 short stories and poems have been gathered from 42 authors…
Prologue
Read by Ben Adams
Sherwood Anderson
In The Triumph of the Egg: A Book of Impressions from American Life In Tales and P…
“The Triumph of the Egg” is a collection of stories and poems by Sherwood Anderson. Abandoning the interconnected quality of his more famous…
00 To My Readers
Read by Phil Chenevert
George W. Bateman
In Zanzibar Tales
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…
Chapter 1
Read by Darryl McElwee
Booker T. Washington
In The Story of Slavery
Booker T. Washington, the author of the following sketch of slavery in America, was himself born a slave, and the story of his life begins w…
The X-Ray Reader
Read by Vineymala
Arthur B. Reeve
In Gold of the Gods
Mansiche, the ruler of ancient Northern Peru was believed to have buried a huge treasure. But he cast a curse on, whoever, divulged the wher…
A Challenge and Its Result
Read by mpinedag
Kirk Munroe
In The White Conquerors: A Tale of Toltec and Aztec
This historical romance is a telling of the fall of the Aztec Empire. The epic begins on the eve of the dedication ceremony of the monumenta…
The American Newspaper
Read by Piper Hayes
Charles Dudley Warner
In Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 017
A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the re…
Calvin
Read by jedopi
Charles Dudley Warner
In Lords of the Housetops: Thirteen Cat Tales
The Lords of the Housetops reveals the cat through the creative lenses of 13 authors. Consequently, this carefully chosen collection of stor…
Louis XV
Read by Andrew Gaunce
Charles A. Ward
In Oracles of Nostradamus
Charles A. Ward was considered one of the most knowledgeable in his studies of the prophecies of Nostradamus. Ward viewed the prophecies of …