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01 - A Small Town
Read by Nadine Eckert-Boulet
Stendhal
In The Red and the Black, Volume I
Stendhal - a German pen-name for a French writer who hated the English. Contemporary to some of the great names of French literature like Ba…
Chapter 35
Read by Nadine Eckert-Boulet
Ann Radcliffe
In The Italian
The love story between a nobleman and a beautiful lady whom he meets in church leads both of them to unexpected places, as many people would…
Chapter VII
Read by Nadine Eckert-Boulet
Bolesław Prus
In The Pharaoh and the Priest
The Pharaoh and the Priest (Polish: Faraon) is the fourth and last major novel by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus. It was the sole historica…
14 - Book 7, Chapters 32-44: Precepts the most useful in life; divination; the …
Read by Nadine Eckert-Boulet
Pliny the Elder
In The Natural History Volume 2
Naturalis Historia (Latin for "Natural History") is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the …
Chapter III
Read by Nadine Eckert-Boulet
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and Meriwether Lewis
In The Journal of Lewis and Clarke (1840)
"The expedition of Messrs. Lewis and Clarke, for exploring the river Missouri, and the best communication from that to the Pacific Ocea…
A Story of Divination
Read by Nadine Eckert-Boulet
Lafcadio Hearn
In In Ghostly Japan
This collection of 14 stories collected by Lafcadio Hearn, contains Japanese ghost stories, but also several non-fiction pieces. Hearn tries…
The Story of O-tei
Read by Nadine Eckert-Boulet
Lafcadio Hearn
In Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
Most of the following Kwaidan, or Weird Tales, have been taken from old Japanese books,— such as the Yaso-Kidan, Bukkyo-Hyakkwa-Zensho, Koko…
A Friendly Rat
Read by Nadine Eckert-Boulet
William Henry Hudson
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…
The Boulevart de Luxembourg
Read by KirksVoice
P. B. Randolph
In The Wonderful Story of Ravalette
Is it possible to break through the awful barrier—to glimpse through the Night-Curtain that screens and shrouds us from the Phantom-World?—i…
07 - The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
Read by Mark F. Smith
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 3)
Dr. Watson chronicles here some of the more interesting detective cases that he and his good friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, have encountered d…
The Catacombs of Paris
Read by Nadine Eckert-Boulet
Neil Wynn Williams
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…
Kepler, the Great Calculator
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David Todd
In Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies
The progress of astronomy from age to age has been far from uniform—rather by leaps and bounds: from the earliest epoch when man's planet ea…
Deputation from the As-ne-boines
Read by Gary Olman
T. D. Bonner
In The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth
Buried amid the sublime passes of the Sierra Nevada are old men, who, when children, strayed away from our crowded settlements, and, gradual…
See's Gas Stove - Vignette
Read by James En
Various
In Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883
The Scientific American claims to be the oldest continuously published periodical in the United States, have launched its first publication …
System in the Library, Part 2
Read by gbperez
Arthur Elmore Bostwick
In Library Essays; Papers Related to the Work of Public Libraries
This 1920 collection of essays gathers together 25 years of papers, articles, and presentations given by Arthur E. Bostwick. The ideas in ma…
Bolshevists verus Jacobin
Read by toadvine
G. K. Chesterton
In G.K. Chesterton's Newspaper Columns: The New Witness - 1922
A collection of the newspaper columns/essays written by G.K. Chesterton for "The New Witness", under the heading "At the Sign…
On Achmet Boulee Bey
Read by Kingsnake
Hilaire Belloc
In On
Hilaire Belloc, French by birth, British by naturalization, was a diverse and prolific writer of the early 20th century. His writing runs th…
Chapter XV
Read by Ann Boulais
John Benjamin Firth
In Augustus Caesar and the Organisation of the Empire of Rome
There is, so far as I have been able to ascertain, no biography of Augustus Caesar - a most curious fact when one considers the extraordinar…
Prince Adeb by George Henry Boker
Read by Sonia
Various
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 2)
The seventh of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, co…