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Recollections of the Revolution and the Empire

Read by Barbara Baker


Henriette Lucie Dillon, marquise de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet


An aristocratic Frenchwoman's personal record of the dazzling extravagance of the Ancien Régime, of the court of Marie Antoinette, of…

Italian Hours

Read by Barbara Baker


Henry James


A loving recollection of the writer’s experiences, over many decades, of Italian places, people and art. - Summary by barbara2

The Desirable Alien at Home in Germany

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Ford Madox Ford and Violet Hunt


A travel journal of a year the author spent in Germany. With a preface and two additional chapters by her partner, the novelist Ford Madox F…

Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia and Letter to a Friend

Read by Barbara Baker


Thomas Browne


Selections from the varied writings of a 17th century English doctor with a well-stocked mind, an interest in the new science of his age and…

Horace Walpole's Letters: a selection

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Horace Walpole


Horace Walpole, 4th earl of Orford, was a cultivated participant in, and observer of, the social and political life of Georgian England. His…

The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. II (version 2)

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James Boswell


This is the second of four volumes of a what was a new, intimate, type of biography when it was first published in 1791 and which has been a…

The Letters of Madame de Sévigné to Her Daughter and Friends

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Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sévigné and Marie De Rabutin-Chantal


Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (5 February 1626 – 17 April 1696) was a French aristocrat famous for the precisi…

Mrs. Piozzi's Thraliana

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Charles Hughes


"It is many years since Dr. Samuel Johnson advised me to get a little book, and write in it all the Anecdotes which might come to my kn…

Glimpses of Italian society in the eighteenth century

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Hester Lynch Piozzi


Selections from the "Observations and reflections made in the course of a journey through France, Italy, and Germany" by Hester Ly…

The Early Diary of Frances Burney, Vol. 1

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Frances Burney and Annie Raine Ellis


Vol. 1 of Diaries and letters of the young Fanny Burney. The diaries give a lively and accurate account of her experiences in the literary a…

Reminiscences and Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers - Banker, Poet and Patron of the …

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Samuel Rogers


Samuel Rogers was a renowned conversationalist who associated with the most distinguished persons of his time. This volume contains fascinat…

The Gearheart

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Alex White


Jonathan Andrews, Initiate in the Seekers of the Arcane Unknown, joined the society two years ago with the hopes of protecting the secrets o…

The Gearheart: Maiden Flight of the Avenger

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Alex White


Agent Augustus Elsworth is a Seeker of the Arcane Unknown, mechanic, pilot and thief... or so he believes. When he is caught trying to steal…

The Red Hand

Read by Wanda White


Arthur Machen


Two London gentlemen ponder the evolution of humankind as they investigate a modern-day murder committed with an ancient tool. - Summary by…

The Spirit Of Education

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Jeff White


What is education? It's a term we use every day to describe the process of putting 25 or 30 young souls into a cinder block room and fillin…

The Trolls of Lake Maebiewahnapoopie

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Jeff White


You may think you know about small towns. You may think you know about high school principals. You may think you know about high society poo…

The Raven

Read by Chris Goringe


Edgar Allan Poe


Perhaps Edgar Allen Poe's most famous poem, the "Raven" is a macabre exploration of a man, his memories of Lenore, and the black b…

Walking

Read by Chris Masterson


Henry David Thoreau


This was originally a lecture given by Thoreau in 1851 at the Concord lyceum titled "The Wild" . He revised it before his death an…

The Book of Lieh-Tzu

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Liezi


Although Lieh Tzu's work has evidently passed through the hands of many editors and gathered numerous accretions, there remains a considerab…

Shakespeare's Sonnets (version 2)

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William Shakespeare


Shakespeare's Sonnets, or simply The Sonnets, comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal wit…

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