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The Rainbow (Version 2)

Read by Tony Foster


D. H. Lawrence


Briefly appearing in 1915, then banned and taken out of circulation for its adult treatment of sexuality, Lawrence's visionary novel The Rai…

Democracy In America - Single Episodes


Old Time Radio Researchers Group


DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA Democracy in America is a well-produced dramatization of Alexis de Tocqueville’s book of the same name. These fourteen…

Pirates of Panama

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Alexandre Exquemelin


This volume was originally written in Dutch by John Esquemeling, and first published in Amsterdam in 1678 under the title of De Americaenech…

The Green Hornet



Classified as a juvenile crime drama but written and acted with more adult style than most of the breed, "The Green Hornet"---whos…

Lillian Hellman The Children's Hour



THE 30s Sunday Play: The Children's Hour Sun 20th Mar 1994, 19:30 on BBC Radio 3 By Lillian Hellman Martha and Karen run…

A Tale of Two Cities (version 3)

Read by Bob Neufeld


Charles Dickens


A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 mill…

Oliver Twist (version 6)

Read by Mil Nicholson


Charles Dickens


"Please sir, I want some more," the famous line spoken by Oliver Twist at age nine, becomes the tipping point of a huge change in …

The Autobiography of St. Ignatius

Read by Phil Chenevert


St. Ignatius Loyola


This account of the life of St. Ignatius, dictated by himself to Father Gonzalez, is a most valuable record of the great Founder of the Soc…

Tartuffe

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Molière


Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greates…

Bible Defence of Slavery

Read by JoeD


Josiah Priest


The full title of this book is Bible Defense of Slavery; and Origin, Fortunes, and History of the Negro Race, by Rev. Josiah Priest, A. M. 5…

Persian Self-Taught (in Roman Characters) with English Phonetic Pronunciation

Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater


Shaykh Hasan


“This volume is primarily intended to supply a working and practical knowledge of the Persian language, for the benefit of those who have no…

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. …

The Dark Frigate

Read by Kathrine Engan


Charles Boardman Hawes


The frigate Rose of Devon rescues from a wreck in mid-ocean twelve men who show their gratitude by seizing the Rose, killing her captain and…

His Masterpiece

Read by Lisa Reichert


Émile Zola


“His Masterpiece" (“L’Oeuvre”) is a fictionalized account of the Parisian art world in the mid 19th century, and the emerging Realism, …

Eyes Like the Sea

Read by MaryAnn


Mór Jókai


He was a painter, a poet, a novelist. He lived during the Hungarian revolution and his love of freedom meant his life was often in peril. Sh…

Adam Bede (version 2)

Read by Tom Denholm


George Eliot


George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans – an ironic ‘deception’ given that Adam Bede, her first novel, is written unashamedly from a…

Paulownia: Seven Stories from Contemporary Japanese Writers

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Ōgai Mori


Paulownia is a collection of seven stories by three Japanese authors from the late 19th and early 20th century. Mori Ōgai was an army surgeo…

A Negro Explorer at the North Pole

Read by Lee Smalley


Matthew A. Henson


In this fascinating memoir, Matthew Henson describes the incredibly dangerous, exhausting, and bone-chilling trip to what was until then the…

Buddenbrooks

Read by Bruce Pirie


Thomas Mann


When Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (1929), the citation made special mention of his first novel, “Buddenbrooks,” pub…

The Boy Scout And Other Stories For Boys

Read by David Wales


Richard Harding Davis


RICHARD HARDING DAVIS, as a friend and fellow author has written of him, was “youth incarnate,” and there is probably nothing that he wrote …

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