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Warren Hastings

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Thomas Babington Macaulay


"Warren Hastings" is Chapter IV of Thomas Macaulay's Critical and Historical Essays, vol. III. It first appeared in the Edinburgh …

Biographical Memoir of John Wesley Powell, 1834-1902

Read by Melanie Schleeter McCalmont


William Morris Davis


This is Volume VIII of the National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs series. It is read as 33 sections using the memoir headings. Jo…

Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (version 2)

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John Cleland


This book has been notorious since it first appeared and had been banned several times and in several countries. It is a fictional work that…

The Private and Public Life of Abraham Lincoln

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Orville J. Victor


Few men have lived in modern times whose life history is so suggestive as that of Abraham Lincoln. Not that he should have stepped from a lo…

In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories

Read by David Wales


Robert Barr


Thirteen short stories by one of the most famous writers in his day. Robert Barr was a British Canadian short story writer and novelist, bor…

Ambassador Morgenthau's Story

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Henry Morgenthau


Ambassador Morgenthau’s memoirs of his years in the service of the United States in Constantinople, (today Istanbul), are an important prima…

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In Enough Rope

Read by Tricia Wheeler


Dorothy Parker


A collection of poems by Dorothy Parker that previously appeared in Life, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and The New York World. Included here…

The Nobel Prize in 1908

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The Nobel Prizes are international awards bestowed once a year by Scandinavian committees for cultural and scientific advances. They were es…

Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions

Read by Martin Geeson


Frank Harris


Consumers of biography are familiar with the division between memoirs of the living or recently dead written by those who "knew" t…

Armageddon- 2419 A.D.

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Philip Francis Nowlan


Elsewhere I have set down, for whatever interest they have in this, the 25th Century, my personal recollections of the 20th Century. Now it …

Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Vol 1

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Benvenuto Cellini


Cellini's autobiographical memoirs, which he began writing in Florence in 1558, give a detailed account of his singular career, as well as h…

Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Vol 2

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Benvenuto Cellini


Cellini's autobiographical memoirs, which he began writing in Florence in 1558, give a detailed account of his singular career, as well as h…

Sir Titus Salt, Baronet, His Life and Its Lessons

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Robert Balgarnie


Titus Salt was a British manufacturer, politician and philanthropist, renounde for having built Salt's Mill, a large, innovative textile mil…

Is Shakespeare Dead?

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Mark Twain


A short, semi-autobiographical work by American humorist Mark Twain. It explores the controversy over the authorship of the Shakespearean li…

Mudfog and Other Sketches

Read by Bob Neufeld


Charles Dickens


The Mudfog Papers was written by Victorian era novelist Charles Dickens and published from 1837–38 in the monthly literary serial Bentley's …

Otto Lowly Wildcats - Nightfall CBC 81 02 27



Wildcats Nightfall Air Date: 2/27/81 Writer: Otto Lowy (based on the German short story by Christian Noak) FromToronto Producer: Bill Howell…

The Princess Passes

Read by Grant Hurlock


Charles Norris Williamson


An American heiress nicknamed the Manitou Princess (after her daddy's richest silver mine) is devastated to find that her fiancé only…

Society as I Have Found It

Read by John Greenman


Ward Mcallister


Mark Twain illustrator Dan Beard recalled discussing McAllister’s book with Twain. “It was before Webster & Company failed that Ward McA…

The Morals (Moralia), Book 1

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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus


The Moralia (or The morals or Matters relating to customs and mores) is a work by the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea. It is…

Indian Converts of Martha's Vineyard, in New-England

Read by Eric Schievenin


Experience Mayhew


This work is actually two "essays" which circulated together, one addended to the other. The first, Indian converts: or, Some acco…

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