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Section 2 Dean Swift Part 2

In Irish Wit and Humor

Read by James E. Carson


Various


Excerpted anecdotes from the biographies of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell, relating humorous snippets of politics in 18th and 19th ce…

0 Introduction

In Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon

Read by James E. Carson


Henry Fiedling and Henry Fielding


Sailing voyage from England to Portugal in the mid Eighteenth Century, by one of the premier humorists, satirists, novelists and playwrights…

Section 1

In The Wreck of the Golden Mary

Read by James E. Carson


Charles Dickens


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…

chapters 4 to 6

In His Family

Read by James E. Carson


Ernest Poole


The 1910s is historically considered the decade of greatest social change in history. It saw the advent and proliferation of the automobile,…

Section 01

In Father Sergius

Read by James E. Carson


Leo Tolstoy


Prince Stepan Kasatsky experiences a disappointment with his fiancé and decides to become a monk! There is a story line, but beneath …

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