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Fable

In The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 07

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the seventh volume, 43 short stories and poems have been gathered from 35 autho…

Foreword & Biographical Sketch

In Noted Speeches of Abraham Lincoln

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Abraham Lincoln

A few of Lincoln's most famous speeches and the Lincoln-Douglas debate make for historic reading. (summary by David O)

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In The Devil's Dictionary

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often …

English Language

In How to Speak and Write Correctly

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Joseph Devlin

This is a 1910 guide for those who wish to learn how to correctly (though maybe not "properly") create sentences, use figures of s…

THE CATCHING OF UNSHELLED FISH

In How to Cook Fish

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Olive Green and Myrtle Reed

Olive Green is the pseudonym for the prolific late 19th Century/early 20th Century author, Myrtle Reed. She wrote over thirty-three books an…

Version 4

In Sonnet 116

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

William Shakespeare

LibriVox volunteers bring you seventeen recordings of Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of …

The Bold Buccaneers

In Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Frank Richard Stockton and Frank R. Stockton

Buccaneers is non-fiction, a highly readable history of how piracy began and spread throughout the region in response to the plundering of S…

Babyhood

In Current Superstitions

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Fanny Dickerson Bergen

No matter how enlightened, chances are you've been raised around superstitious lore of one kind or another. Fanny Dickerson Bergen was one o…

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