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Elizabeth Fry, Part 1

In Little Journeys to the Homes of Famous Women

Read by Michele Eaton


Elbert Hubbard


Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings m…

Voices Of The Night - And Other Poems

Read by Michele Fry


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Longfellow's first collection of early poems, published in 1895, with a short biography by the editor, a chronological list of his works, pl…

A Rival of the Yosemite – The Cañon of the south fork of King’s River, Californ…

Read by Michele Fry


John Muir


This article, a walking tour of the Cañon including many charcoal illustrations, was published in the Century Illlustrated Monthly Ma…

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea (Version 3)

Read by Michele Fry


Jules Verne


Originally published 1870, this recording is from the English translation by Frederick P. Walter, published 1991, containing the unabridged …

Poor Richard's Almanack

Read by Michele Fry


Benjamin Franklin


A brief biographical sketch of Franklin's life, followed by a collection (published in 1899) of 670 aphorisms, apothegms, or proverbs - shor…

Demian, The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth

Read by Michele Fry


Hermann Hesse


Somewhat autobiographical, this "coming of age" novel unfolds an introspective boy's formative years in pre-World War 1 Germany, f…

Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days

Read by Michele Fry


Annie L. Burton


This is a short and simple, yet poignant autobiography of Annie Burton, who recounts her early carefree childhood as a slave on a southern p…

Capital and Interest

Read by Michele Fry


Frédéric Bastiat


Frédéric Bastiat was an early 19th century French economist/statesman whose common sense essays tried to battle the rise of so…

The King of Elfland's Daughter

Read by Michele Fry


Lord Dunsany


This is a 1924 fantasy novel by Anglo-Irish writer Lord Dunsany, which became public domain in January 2020. It is widely recognized as one …

The Clansman, An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan

Read by Michele Fry


Thomas Dixon, Jr.


The second book in a trilogy of the Reconstruction era - The Leopard's Spots (1902), The Clansman (1905), and The Traitor (1907), this novel…

The Prophet (version 2)

Read by Michele Fry


Kahlil Gibran


The Prophet is an inspirational book of 28 lyrical prose essays on life, love, children, religion, work, and more, - written in English by t…

The Leopard's Spots

Read by Michele Fry


Thomas Dixon, Jr.


The first in a trilogy of the Reconstruction era - The Leopard's Spots (1902), The Clansman (1905), and The Traitor (1907), parts of this no…

The Many-Sided Franklin

Read by Michele Fry


Paul Leicester Ford


A fast-paced, somewhat racey look into the life, accomplishments and idiosyncrasies of Benjamin Franklin. Acclaimed biographer Paul L. Ford …

The Gospel of Wealth

Read by Michele Fry


Andrew Carnegie


What is the proper mode of administering great wealth? It is to address this question that steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie's famous essay "…

Sam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories

Read by Michele Fry


Harriet Beecher Stowe


A sequel to Oldtown Folks, featuring some of the same characters, these are 15 charming short stories told by ole' Sam Lawson to entertain H…

Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Compiled from her Letters and Journals

Read by Michele Fry


Charles Edward Stowe


Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896), of Cincinnati, was the most famous female American author of her age, and is said to h…

Lady Byron Vindicated

Read by Michele Fry


Harriet Beecher Stowe


In 1869, the Atlantic published Stowe's article, The True Story Of Lady Byron's Life, a brief exposé of the famous poet Lord Byron's …

The Traitor

Read by Michele Fry


Thomas Dixon, Jr.


Dixon lived through Reconstruction, and believed it ranked with the French Revolution in brutality and criminal acts. The Traitor (1907), th…

Marietta: A Maid of Venice

Read by Michele Fry


Francis Marion Crawford


This swash-buckling, romantic story of Zorzi Ballarin and Angelo Beroviero, master glass-blowers of Murano, Italy in the 1500's, is not enti…