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Night Watches

Read by Bill Boerst


W. W. Jacobs


A most popular Jacobs character, a night watchman along the English coast, remembers troubles his friends got into during shore leave. At le…

Bill the Conqueror

Read by Carol Pelster


P. G. Wodehouse


Hailed as one of the funniest writers of the 20th century, P. G. Wodehouse cheerfully radiates humor that is both sophisticated and popular.…

Hume's Central Principles

Read by Peter Millican


Peter Millican


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Pipefuls

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Christopher Morley


A delightful collection of 48 essays on various topics of the human condition that caught his fancy. Witty, insightful and funny of course a…

The Lincoln Story Book

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Henry L. Williams


Subtitle: A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Fo…

Orientations

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W. Somerset Maugham


This is a collection showing W. Somerset Maugham's early attempt in the short story genre, which he comes to master as one of 20th century's…

Bill Nye's Funniest Thoughts

Read by Phil Chenevert


Bill Nye


Bill Nye was a famous American humor columnist in the middle 1800's. He said "We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willi…

Reading: An Essay

Read by David Wales


Hugh Walpole


A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales

Groote Verwachtingen

Read by Marcel Coenders


Charles Dickens


De arme wees Pip komt in goede doen, wordt een vreselijke snob, maar na financiële tegenslagen komt hij toch weer op het rechte pad. Sa…

Write it Right

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Ambrose Bierce


Witty, opinionated alphabetical examples of what Bierce considered poor (American) English and advice on alternatives - entertaining, though…

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

Read by Jim Clevenger


Ulysses S. Grant


In preparing these volumes for the public, I have entered upon the task with the sincere desire to avoid doing injustice to any one, whether…

Uganda to the Cape

Read by BettyB


Frank G. Carpenter


Another volume in the author's series of travelling the world and telling of its peoples, agriculture, industry, and social habits . This ti…

A Cabinet Secret

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Guy Boothby


Witty spy adventure set during the Boer Wars of the late 19th Century. - Summary by BellonaTimes

De Krekel achter de Haardplaat

Read by Marcel Coenders


Charles Dickens


Het kerstverhaal van 1845 vertaling van 'The Cricket on the Hearth'.De mooie jonge Dot en de oude vrachtrijder John lijken gelukkig getrouwd…

Skiddoo!

Read by Laurie Banza


Hugh Mchugh


John Henry is quite a character! King of the "Beloved of the Short Arm Jab". John Henry has his own unique perspective on the even…

Stories by English Authors: London

Read by Kirsten Wever


F. Anstey, J. M. Barrie, Marie Corelli, Beatrice Harraden, Arthur Morrison, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch and Israel Zangwill


This book collects seven short stories by some of England's best turn-of-the-(last)-century's writers. The collection begins with the humor …

Wongo And The Wise Old Crow

Read by David Wales


Grace Moon


Stories of an Indian boy and his friends told by a children’s author of yesteryear, published 1923. - Summary by david wales

Kipps

Read by Anthony Ogus


H. G. Wells


Arthur Kipps, an orphaned draper’s assistant of humble means, unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money and that is when all his troubles b…

The Jim Crow Car; Or, Denouncement of Injustice Meted Out to the Black Race

Read by Theoden Humphrey


John Clay Coleman


"My opposition to injustice, imposition, discrimination and prejudice, which have for many years existed against the colored people of …

Jess

Read by Jim Locke


H. Rider Haggard


The setting for this novel is the Boer War in South Africa in 1880. This novel is interesting and exciting on several levels: there are com…

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