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Hattie Rogers
Read by Jim Locke
Various
In Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XI, North Carolina Narratives, Part 2
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
The Last Fiddling of Mordaunt's Jim
Read by Jim Locke
Paul Laurence Dunbar
In In Old Plantation Days
With this collection of short stories, Dunbar sought to draw on the success of his dialect poems by recreating and portraying the southern p…
The Primitive
Read by Jim Locke
Chester Himes
A nerve-twisting novel of passion and destruction (Summary by a literary critic)
A Fragment
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Marie E. J. Pitt
In The Horses of the Hills and other Verses
Marie Elizabeth Josephine Pitt (1869–1948) was an Australian poet and socialist activist. Pitt wrote very highly coloured nature poetry, onc…
Lady Jim of Curzon Street
Read by Jim Locke
Fergus Hume
Faced with bankruptcy and trapped in an unhappy marriage, Lady Jim Kaims has to solve her problems alone. After every decent way fails her, …
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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John Locke
This is the fourth book of John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding. His book deals with knowledge and probability. He asks how far…
Forward and Introduction
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Alice Dunbar Nelson
In The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer
Ms. Pinckney says in her "Forward" to this book the following: "It is against this background of the world need that Mrs. Ali…
Fact Stranger than Fiction
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John Patterson Green
I desire, to place before the colored youth, of my class, another concrete proof of the fact that, even in the United States, where the hand…
"A Mystery"
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James Ephraim Mcgirt
In For Your Sweet Sake
This work is a collection of lyric poems - Summary by Jim Locke
To Elizabeth
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Seba Smith
In The Rover Vol. 01 No. 05
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith…
The Legend on the Locket
Read by Maria Therese
Francis J. Finn and Francis J. Finn, S.J.
In Mostly Boys: Short Stories
A collection of tales about real life boys in every walk of life. They are redolent of the breezy spirit of healthy, jovial boyhood, and per…
The Uncalled
Read by Jim Locke
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Orphaned Freddie Brent ends up adopted by an old local Christian lady who knows nothing about raising a child. And matters are worsened by h…
Finding a Way Out
Read by Jim Locke
Robert R. Moton
He says about this work: "I have tried to record the events that have given character and colour to my own life, and at the same time t…
Miss Dalrymple's Locket
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Frank Gelett Burgess
In The Master of Mysteries
Subtitled, "Being an account of the problems solved by Astro, seer of secrets, and his love affair with Valeska Wynne, his assistant.&q…
Ch 33 Old Tales Ch 34 Mr. Weston Reads A Chapter
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T. F. Powys
In Mr. Weston's Good Wine
This 1927 novel describes an evening in 1923 when Mr. Weston, who is apparently a wine merchant, but is evidently God, visits the fictional …
26 - President's Answer - Washington
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Caleb Bingham
In The Columbian Orator
The Columbian Orator, a collection of political essays, poems, and dialogues first published in 1797, was widely used in American schoolroom…
Jacqueline
Read by Jim Locke
Seba Smith
In The Rover Vol. 01 No. 11
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith…
Miss Dalrymple's Locket
Read by Grant Hurlock
Gelett Burgess and Frank Gelett Burgess
In Short Story Collection Vol. 056
Discover a rich tapestry of storytelling in this diverse collection of short fiction, featuring works from renowned authors such as Leo Tols…
Licensers of the Press
Read by Jim Locke
Isaac D'Israeli
In Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2
This is the second volume of the collected Curiosities of Literature by Isaac D'Israeli. As in volume one, D'Isreali again takes us on a tou…