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Anglo-American Memories

Read by David Wales


George Washburn Smalley


“These Memories [1911] were written in the first instance for Americans and have appeared week by week each Sunday in the New York Tribune….…

What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile

Read by Ted Lienhart


John Hanning Speke


This volume by British explorer Captain John Hanning Speke contains accounts of his first two expeditions into East Africa in the 1850s. Vol…

J. M. Synge and the Ireland of His Time

Read by Kyle James Maclean


William Butler Yeats


William Butler Yeats recounts his experiences with friend and colleague, John Millington Synge. - Summary by Kyle James Maclean

A Last Diary

Read by Adam Whybray


W. N. P. Barbellion


The final journal of British naturalist Bruce Frederick Cummings, spanning from March 1918 to June 1919. The diary follows on the heels of t…

Life of Frances Power Cobbe as Told by Herself

Read by Ciufi Galeazzi


Frances Power Cobbe


Frances Power Cobbe was an important Irish-Anglo writer, suffragist, anti-vivisectionist, philosopher, and reformer of the mid to late 1800s…

Κύρου παιδεία

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Xenophon


The Cyropaedia (or Cyropedia) is a partly fictional biography of Cyrus the Great, written in the early 4th century BC by the Athenian gentle…

Religio Journalistici

Read by David Wales


Christopher Morley


The great Canadian journalist and humorist ruminates and reflects upon his life and calling in this 1924 little gem. - Summary by david wale…

De Gedenkschriften van Jozef Grimaldi de Clown

Read by Marcel Coenders


Charles Dickens


De door Charles Dickens bewerkte autobiografie van Joseph Grimaldi (1778-1837). De eerste clown die zijn gezicht wit schminkte.

How We Elected Lincoln; Personal Recollections of Lincoln and Men of His Time

Read by David Wales


Abram J. Dittenhoefer


Dittenhoefer as a young man campaigned for Lincoln in 1860 and was an elector for Lincoln in the presidential election of 1864. Born in Cha…

From Baca to Beulah

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Jennie Smith


Sequel to The Valley of Baca. This continues the personal account of Jennie Smith, who spent more than 20 years in pain, unable to walk, and…

Behind the Screen

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Samuel Goldwyn


Learn about the early days of Hollywood from the eyes of Samuel Goldwyn, co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production company. - Summary by…

31 - The Legend of the Maha Naghkon

In The English Governess at the Siamese Court


Anna Harriette Leonowens


1862 Anna Leonowens accepted an offer made by the Siamese consul in Singapore, Tan Kim Ching, to teach the wives and children of Mongkut, k…

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