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A history of the pirating activities along and around the "Barbary coast" between the 15th and 19th centuries, from the time of th…

Miscellaneous Essays of Thomas de Quincey

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Thomas De Quincey

The Hunter Thompson of the 19th Century, de Quincey is best known for his Confessions of an English Opium Eater (an activity shared with his…

The Nether World

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George Gissing

This sad social novel revolves around the problematic issue of money. Michael returns from Australia to London a rich man. However, he hides…

The Story of the Atlantic Cable

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Sir Charles Bright

The electric telegraph, together with the railway-train and the steamship, constituted the three most conspicuous features of late 19th cent…

''Tell It All'': The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism

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Fanny Stenhouse

Fanny relates the experiences of a 19th century missionary as she and her young husband proselytize throughout Europe in search of converts …

The Extermination of the American Bison

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William T. Hornaday

The American bison (Bison bison), also commonly known as the American buffalo, is a North American species of bison that once roamed the gra…

Prisoner for Blasphemy

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George William Foote

George William Foote, a British secularist, was convicted and imprisoned on the charge of blasphemy after founding "The Freethinker&quo…

Science in Short Chapters

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W. Mattieu Williams

This is a collection of articles written by W. Mattieu Williams on different subjects, that in his opinion "are likely to be interestin…

Rock Crystal

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Adalbert Stifter

On Christmas Eve, two children, a brother and sister, leave their grandmother's house in an Alpine village and get lost in the mountain snow…

Little Masterpieces of Autobiography: Actors

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George Iles

The playwright gives a play its plot, characters, dialog and form, but its sense of living reality is conveyed by the art of the actor. This…

Sheila Hodgson The Lodestone

The Lodestone Wed 19th Apr 1989, 15:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM By Sheila Hodgson M.R. James, the distinguished Cambridg…

The Training of Wild Animals

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Frank Charles Bostock

Today, performing animals are frowned on by many but in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, traveling menageries afforded entertainment …

Velvet Blackout By Vincent O' Connell

Velvet Blackout By Vincent O'Connell In 1942 a young woman with amnesia is pulled from a bombed building. A doctor and a policeman th…

American Scenery, Vol. 2

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Nathaniel Parker Willis

Although the focus of this book is the engravings depicting scenic sites of 19th century America, each is accompanied by a short description…

Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters

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Elbert Hubbard

Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings ma…

Among the Great Masters of the Drama

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Walter Rowlands

In "Among the great masters of the drama; scenes in the lives of famous actors; thirty-two reproductions of famous pictures with text&q…

The Lost Lagoon

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E. Pauline Johnson

LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of The Lost Lagoon by Emily Pauline Johnson.This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 8, 2022. …

Nick Stafford The Fire Inside

Afternoon Play: Elemental Tales Tue 19th Jan 1999, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM The Fire Inside. A supernatural tale by Nick …

Bible (KJV) 23: Isaiah

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King James Version

The Book of Isaiah is one of the Major Prophets in the Old Testament. Jews and Christians consider the Book of Isaiah a part of their Biblic…

Peter LLoyd Phone Me In The Evening

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Saturday-Night Theatre: Phone Me in the Evening Sat 19th Mar 1994, 19:50 on BBC Radio 4 FM By Peter Lloyd. When a desper…

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