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A Student Of Weather By Elizabeth Hay



From some accidents of love and weather we never quite recover. At the worst of the Prairie dust bowl of the 1930s, a young man appears out …

The Ideas of Lister Sinclair



The Ideas Of Lister Sinclair   The noted broadcaster, playwright, performer,mathematician,   producer and host talks with producer…

Middlemarch (version 2)

Read by Margaret Espaillat


George Eliot


Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. It is her seventh n…

Edison, His Life and Inventions

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Frank Lewis Dyer


A detailed biography of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of such things as the telephone, the microphone, the electric motor, the storage batter…

Northanger Abbey (version 4)

Read by Tony Addison


Jane Austen


If it is a truth universally acknowledged that a good-looking girl cannot fail of attracting a clever young man does it follow that the reve…

Growth of the Soil

Read by Greg W.


Knut Hamsun


Growth of the Soil (Markens Grøde) is the novel by Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun which won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. …

Barnaby Rudge

Read by Debra Lynn


Charles Dickens


A wayside tavern where the local men drink and gossip; an unsolved, twenty year old murder at a nearby mansion; a very talkative black raven…

The Backwoods of Canada

Read by Esther


Catharine Parr Traill


The writer is as earnest in recommending ladies who belong to the higher class of settlers to cultivate all the mental resources of a superi…

The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise

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Pierre Abélard


Heloise was a strong-willed and gifted woman who was fluent in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and came from a lower social standing than Abelard. …

Sin and Its Consequences

Read by dave7


Henry Edward Manning


Henry Edward Manning (1808-1892) was an Anglican priest who, in 1851, converted to Roman Catholicism. In 1865, he was appointed archbishop o…

The Lucky Piece: A Story of the North Woods

Read by Roger Melin


Albert Bigelow Paine


While riding a stage back to the city late in the summer, a youngster had no money to spend, and so gives his lucky piece as payment to a yo…

Shakespeare Identified

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J. Thomas Looney


That one who is not a recognized authority or an expert in literature should attempt the solution of a problem which has so far baffled spec…

Pond And Stream

Read by David Wales


Arthur Ransome


This book is part of the author’s "Nature Books For Children" series (three books), which is probably the best indication of its t…

Life of Saint Gerard Majella

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Rev. O. R. Vassall-Phillips


Saint Gerard Majella was an Italian lay brother of the Redemptorists. His only ambition was to be like Jesus Christ in his sufferings and hu…

The Mirror of the Sea (Version 2)

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


"Here speaks the man of masts and sails, to whom the sea is not a navigable element, but an intimate companion. The length of passages,…

Notes of An East Coast Naturalist

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Arthur Henry Patterson


Arthur Henry Patterson was a self-taught naturalist with an immeasurable knowledge and perspicacity of the Broadland region’s flora and faun…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 079

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Various


"It was about the month of May...that I received information ...that two photographs of fairies had been taken in the North of England …

Scientists Do Science in Space (Ed Reads Short Sci-fi, vol. VII)

Read by Edmund Bloxam


Various


'The Cyberene' by Rog PhillipsSomewhere in the far future a diabolical brain plotted the enslavement of mankind. But to do that a history ha…

The Comet and Other Verses

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Irving Sydney Dix


A few years ago, while recovering from an illness, I conceived the idea of writing some reminiscent lines on country life in the Wayne Highl…

Tom Clark and His Wife, the Rosicrucian's Story

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P. B. Randolph


One day, during the progress of a long and interesting conversation on the nature of that mysterious thing called the human soul, and in whi…

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