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Henry More Smith: The Mysterious Stranger

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Walter Bates


Sometime in the month of July, 1812, nearly a hundred years ago now, a well dressed, smooth spoken man, less than thirty years of age, made …

In the Old Church Tower

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Thomas Bailey Aldrich


LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of In the Old Church Tower by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. This was the Weekly Poetry project for Octo…

Civil War Women, North And South

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Various


This recording comprises two narratives. One is by Cora Mitchel who in 1861 was a girl in her mid-teens. Her Unionist family escaped the C…

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 03

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Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne


Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." - Su…

Six Years at the Russian Court

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Magaretta Eagar


From 1898 to 1904, Irish born Margaretta Eagar was the nanny to Olga (Ольга), Tatiana (Татьяна), Maria (Мария) and Anastasia (Анастасия) Nik…

Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography

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Laurence Oliphant


Laurence Oliphant, author, international traveller, diplomatist and mystic, who spent a decade in later life under the influence of the spir…

The Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific-Expedition and the Telegraph Line Commission

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Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon and Candido Mariano Da Silva Rondon


The Roosevelt–Rondon Scientific Expedition was the famous survey that took place in 1913-14 to follow the path of the Rio da Dúvida (…

The Adventures of a Woman Hobo

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Ethel Grace Lynn


Ethel and Dan Lynn wed in San Francisco in the immediate aftermath of the 1906 earthquake. The young couple soon moved to Chicago where she …

Home Sweet Home

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John Howard Payne


Originally from the Opera 'Clari, Maid of Milan,' 'Home! Sweet Home!' is John Howard Payne's most famous work. Written in 1823 it has been w…

Zone Policeman 88; A Close Range Study of the Panama Canal and Its Workers

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Harry A. Franck


Harry A. Franck was an American travel writer. After publishing Vagabond Journey Around the World, he spent 3 months in the Canal Zone of Pa…

Tom Petrie's reminiscences of early Queensland (dating from 1837). Recorded by …

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Constance Campbell Petrie and Thomas Petrie


Tom Petrie (1831-1910), explorer and grazier, arrived in the then convict settlement of Moreton Bay in 1837. His reminiscences of what was t…

The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

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Samuel Butler and Henry Festing Jones


Early in his life Samuel Butler began to carry a note-book and to write down in it anything he wanted to remember; it might be something he …

Journal of Francis Asbury, Volume I

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Francis Asbury


As one of the first two bishops of the Methodist church in America and one of the most well-known circuit riders during the spread of Method…

The Life of John Ruskin

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William Gershom Collingwood


W. G. Collingwood became a student of John Ruskin in 1872 when he started his study in University College, Oxford. For many years he dedicat…

A Wheel Within A Wheel

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Frances E. Willard


Frances Willard was an influential campaigner and educator for social reforms, temperance and women's education, suffrage and empowerment, a…

All in the Day's Work

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Ida M. Tarbell


In this autobiography, written when the author was 82 years old, Ida Tarbell looks back at her life and remarkable career as an investigativ…

The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1665

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Samuel Pepys


Pepys' diary continues with his trademark engaging frankness, as he jockeys for favour, criticises his colleagues on the Navy Board for thei…

Days with Walt Whitman

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Edward Carpenter


"Days with Walt Whitman" is a contemplative summary of the life of Walt Whitman and the making of the poet, by one of his follower…

Zorra Boys at Home and Abroad, or, How to Succeed

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William Alexander MacKay


By Zorra, in the following sketches, is meant a little district in Oxford county, Ontario, some ten miles square, composed of part of East a…

Over Prairie Trails

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Frederick Philip Grove


When Frederick Philip Grove settled in a remote area of Manitoba in the early years of the 20th century, he found work teaching in a school …

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