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In Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Ellis Parker Butler


Philo Gubb, not being content with his job as wallpaper-hanger, has higher aspirations: to become a detective, just like Sherlock Holmes. To…

06 - Chapter 6 - Politics in Virginia, Roszel, Roy Wilson, John Moncure Daniel,…

In Autobiography Memories and Experiences, Volume 1

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Moncure D. Conway and Moncure Daniel Conway


Moncure Daniel Conway was an American abolitionist, Unitarian, clergyman and author. This first volume of his autobiography covers roughly t…

Bk4,C6-Fate of Cortes' emissaries

In History of the Conquest of Mexico

Read by Margaret Espaillat


William H. Prescott


Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;Round many western islands have I beenWhich bards in fe…

Preface and Chapter 1

In Mistakes of Moses

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Robert G. Ingersoll


Robert G. Ingersoll was an extremely popular humanist orator in the late nineteenth century, and he wrote Mistakes of Moses after many bootl…

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