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Section 2
Read by James E. Carson
Charles Dickens
In The Wreck of the Golden Mary
A short story of a ship wreck in 1851 trying to round Cape Horn on its way to the California gold fields. Poignant and well written. ( Summa…
Bible (WEB) NT 20: James
Read by Robert Scott
World English Bible
The Book of James : Supposed to have been written by James the Brother of Jesus and First Leader of the Christian movement in Jerusalem afte…
Bible (ASV) NT 20: James
Read by Sam Stinson
American Standard Version
The Epistle of James is a book in the Christian New Testament. The author identifies himself as James (James 1:1), traditionally understood …
Postscript
Read by JoeD
William James
In Varieties of Religious Experience
The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature is a book by the Harvard psychologist and philosopher William James that comp…
Section 02
Read by James E. Carson
Leo Tolstoy
In Father Sergius
Prince Stepan Kasatsky experiences a disappointment with his fiancé and decides to become a monk! There is a story line, but beneath …
Chapters 1-2
Read by Susan Denney
King James Version
In Bible (KJV) NT 03: Luke
The Gospel of Luke is the most literary of the four gospels which recount the life and work of Jesus Christ. Although anonymous, the book is…
Selected excerpts
Read by James E. Carson
Charles Dudely Warner, ed. and Jane Barlow
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 04
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Pt. I Ch. VI James At Large
Read by Justin Brett
John Galsworthy
In The Man of Property (Forsyte Saga Vol. 1)
'The Forsyte Saga' is the story of a wealthy London family stretching from the eighteen-eighties until the nineteen-twenties. The Man of Pro…
Bible (KJV) NT 20: James
Read by Susan Denney
King James Version
The writer of this letter instructs the early Christians on the value of showing patience, controlling an unruly tongue and treating all peo…
21 - Henry James
Read by Bruce Pirie
John Albert Macy
In The Spirit of American Literature
THE SPIRIT OF AMERICAN LITERATURE is a collection of essays reviewing contemporary authors on the literary scene at the turn of the century …
The Life of Kit Carson
Read by Laura Victoria
Edward S. Ellis
Christopher Carson, or as he was familiarly called, Kit Carson, was a man whose real worth was understood only by those with whom he was ass…
Oxford Book of American Essays
Read by James E. Carson
Various
Collection of 32 essays by American authors ranging from Benjamin Franklin to Emerson to Whitman to Henry James to Theodore Roosevelt. On su…
Section 2
Read by Sam Stinson
King James Version
In Bible (KJV) 00: Preface
The preface to the KJV Bible is fitting to read, as it reminds contemporary readers of the transitory nature of all Bible translations. The …
The Pupil
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
Pemberton, a young American with an Oxford education and out of money, takes a job tutoring Morgan Moreen, the 12-year old son of an America…
Eppy and Kennedy
Read by Devorah Allen
George MacDonald
In Donal Grant
After leaving home in search of work, Donal Grant accepts a position as tutor to a young boy who lives in a sprawling castle, which also hou…
The Crawfords
Read by aydrogekistky
George MacDonald
In The Elect Lady
Two farmer's sons and a cotter's daughter, though on different rungs of the social scale, formed a close bond in childhood as they learned t…
2 - Chapters 4-6
Read by Michael Packard
King James Version
In Bible (KJV) 16: Nehemiah
The Book of Nehemiah is a book of the Hebrew Bible. Told largely in the form of a first-person memoir, it concerns the rebuilding of the wal…
Kit Carson
Read by Roger Melin
Jessie Benton Fremont and Jessie Benton Frémont
In The Will and the Way Stories
Simply put, this is a book of 9 short vignettes each of which describes a different scenario which demonstrates the age old adage: 'where th…
CHAPTER 27
Read by James Christopher
Charles Dickens
In The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby
The action takes place in London, with excursions to Devon, Yorkshire, and Portsmouth, as we follow the adventures of the eponymous hero. Ni…
31 - Chapter XXVI: An Eclaircissement
Read by Felicity C
Sir Walter Scott
In Waverley, Volume 1
Waverley is set during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, which sought to restore the Stuart dynasty in the person of Charles Edward Stuart (or…