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A Text-book of Assaying
Read by Peter Yearsley
Cornelius Beringer
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Cornelius Beringerandjohn Jacob Beringer
This is a formal but relaxed text covering assaying techniques for most of the substances which are mined. As the authors say: "At firs…
The Rookeries of London
Read by Peter Yearsley
Thomas Beames
Rev. Thomas Beames (1815 – 1864) was a preacher at St. James, Westminster in London. He compiled his own eye-witness accounts of the most no…
The King in Yellow (part 1)
Read by Peter Yearsley
Robert W. Chambers
Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933) studied art in Paris in the late 80's and early 90's, where his work was displayed at the Salon. However, sho…
Dissertation on Oriental Gardening
Read by Peter Yearsley
William Chambers
A little essay on the Chinese style of gardening, as opposed to the continental style, which the author finds too formal with too many strai…
Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
Read by Peter Yearsley
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often …
Crime: Its Cause and Treatment
Read by Peter Yearsley
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow was an American lawyer. He remains notable for his wit and agnosticism, which marked him as one of the most famous American …
The Fourth Dimension
Read by Peter Yearsley
Charles Howard Hinton
"Mr Hinton tries to explain the theory of the fourth dimension so that the ordinary reasoning mind can get a grasp of what metaphysical…
The Ghosts of Piccadilly
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G. S. Street
Nothing spooky or supernatural, but a very personal gathering of gossip, letters, and fragments of biography of famous people who have lived…
Making a Rock Garden
Read by Peter Yearsley
Henry Sherman Adams
A short look at building a rock garden, right from the rocks themselves and how to arrange them, to choosing and placing the plants, touchin…
The Natural History of Selborne
Read by Peter Yearsley
Gilbert White
The Reverend Gilbert White was the curate of the village of Selborne, a village in Hampshire, from 1784 to his death in 1793, living most of…
Highways and Byways in Sussex
Read by Peter Yearsley
E. V. Lucas
A very personal and opinionated wander through the Sussex of around 1900, illustrated with anecdotes, literary and poetic quotations, graves…
Ketchup
Read by Peter Yearsley
A. W. Bitting
The Bittings have written a number of books on canning and home preparation of food. This short volume includes a brief description of the p…
London Labour and the London Poor Volume I
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Henry Mayhew
Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.&…
The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories
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H. G. Wells
A collection of Wells' short stories, with a short introductory essay by the author- "Essentially it is a miscellany of inventions, man…
Neighbourhood – A Year’s Life in and About an English Village (version 2)
Read by Peter Yearsley
Tickner Edwardes
Tickner Edwardes (properly Edward Tickner Edwardes) served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during WWI and later became the vicar of the West…
Underground London
Read by Peter Yearsley
John Hollingshead
From the Preface: "This book contains an account, more or less readable, of most things belonging to "Underground London", pa…
Sredni Vashtar
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Short Ghost and Horror Collection 018
Read by Peter Yearsley
Saki
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …
Chapter 23 - Great Britain: History to the Time of the Commonwealth, Part 1
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The History of Prostitution
Read by Peter Yearsley
William Sanger
Common sense asks for a full investigation of all the evils attending prostitution. In the every-day affairs of life, any man who feels the …
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