Essays & Short Works
American Notes
Read by Tim Bulkeley (1948-2019)
Rudyard Kipling
In American Notes, Rudyard Kipling, the Nobel Prize-winning author of the Jungle Book, visits the USA. As the travel-diary of an Anglo-India…
Adventskalender 2012
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Various
Diese Sammlung ist ein Adventskalender und enthält für jeden Tag vom 1. - 24. Dezember eine Aufnahme. (Zusammenfassung von Elli)&q…
Irish Impressions
Read by Ray Clare
G. K. Chesterton
“For the Irish Question has never been discussed in England. Men have discussed Home Rule; but those who advocated it most warmly, and as I …
The Compleat Angler
Read by Nicole Lee
Izaak Walton
The Compleat Angler is a celebration of the art and spirit of fishing in prose and verse. Walton did not profess to be an expert with the fl…
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 002
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Various
A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independ…
Varied Types
Read by Ray Clare
G. K. Chesterton
Another delightful and sharply pointed excursion into the topics of the day, and of our day as well, with Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Here he …
The World’s Story Volume II: India, Persia, Mesopotamia and Palestine
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Eva March Tappan
This is the second volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March T…
The Gettysburg Address (version 4)
Read by Jim Cadwell
Abraham Lincoln
The Gettysburg Address is the most famous speech of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and one of the most quoted speeches in United States hist…
De Profundis (version 2)
Read by AdamH
Oscar Wilde
This is a letter written from prison in 1897 by Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas, in which he recounts how he came to be in prison and cha…
Essay on the Trial by Jury
Read by BethAnne
Lysander Spooner
FOR more than six hundred years that is, since Magna Carta, in 1215 there has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutiona…
The Gettysburg Address (version 2)
Read by John Greenman
Abraham Lincoln
The Gettysburg Address is the most famous speech of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and one of the most quoted speeches in United States hist…
Mark Twain’s Journal Writings, Volume 3
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
This third volume of Mark Twain's journal writings continues on eclectic and varied path established by the first two volumes. Included in t…
Religio Medici and Hydriotaphia
Read by Nicole Lee
Thomas Browne
Religio Medici (The Religion of a Doctor) sets out Sir Thomas Browne's spiritual testament as well as being an early psychological self-port…
In the Line of Battle
Read by Lee Smalley
Walter Wood
“A COLLECTION OF absolutely authentic accounts by privates and non-commissioned officers.... We see a great simplicity and directness of obs…
The Uncommercial Traveller
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Charles Dickens
The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of literary sketches and reminiscences written by Charles Dickens. In 1859 Dickens founded a new …
Die Phantasie in der Malerei
Read by Dirk Weber
Max Liebermann
Max Liebermann gehört zu den bedeutendsten Vertretern des deutschen Impressionismus und war Kopf der Berliner Secession.1903 erfolgte e…
Magna Carta Commemoration Essays
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Various
On 15th June 1215 the Magna Carta was sealed under oath by King John at Runnymede, on the bank of the River Thames near Windsor, England. 20…
What the White Race May Learn from the Indian
Read by Roger Melin
George Wharton James
People learn from other people, and races have forever learned from other races. Herein we are treated to an in-depth understanding of categ…
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 040
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.Eine Liste weiterer kurzer Aufnahmen (Erzählungen, Gedichte…