Jim Locke

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book III

by François Rabelais Read by Jim Locke 2.3
The five-volume work chronicling the adventures of father Gargantua and son Pantagruel is a vehicle for Rabelais' satire of sixteenth-centur…

Historical Romance of the American Negro

by Charles H. Fowler Read by Jim Locke
It was not long before the fame of the colored soldiers of America was wafted over the whole world and everywhere received by all lovers of …

Doctor Luttrell's First Patient

by Rosa Nouchette Carey Read by Jim Locke 3.4
Doctor Markus Luttrell and his new wife Olivia, a former governess, are trying to start building their nest. Problems arise when doctor Lutt…

Practice of Christian and Religious Perfection, Volume 2

by Alphonsus Rodriguez Read by Jim Locke 5
This is Volume 2 of the extensive 3-volume set written by the renowned Jesuit, Alphonsus Rodriguez. This set will help you to grow in holine…

Special Report on Negro Domestic Service in the Seventh Ward Philadelphia

by Isabel Eaton Read by Jim Locke
This paper is an attempt to give the most accurate facts obtainable bearing upon the question of colored domestic service in Philadelphia. (…

The Gift of Black Folk: The Negroes in the Making of America

by W. E. B. Du Bois Read by Jim Locke 3.4
This essay is an attempt to set forth more clearly than has hitherto been done the effect which the Negro has had upon American life. Its th…

Discoveries: Essays in Literary Criticism

by John Middleton Murry Read by Jim Locke 4.8
Introductory Note: I have called these essays and lectures by a title that some people may think presumptuous: first, because it is the titl…

In Old Plantation Days

by Paul Laurence Dunbar Read by Jim Locke 3.1
With this collection of short stories, Dunbar sought to draw on the success of his dialect poems by recreating and portraying the southern p…

The House of Evil

by William Le Queux Read by Jim Locke 3.6
Intrigue and murder stemming from excessive greed in upper-class society of England in the early twentieth century.

The Heart of Happy Hollow

by Paul Laurence Dunbar Read by Jim Locke
Happy Hollow; are you wondering where it is? Wherever Negroes colonise in the cities or villages, north or south, wherever the hod carrier, …

Cane

by Jean Toomer Read by Jim Locke 2.3
Reading this book, I had a vision of a land, heretofore sunk in the mists of muteness, suddenly rising up into the eminence of song. Innume…

Paul Clifford

by Edward Bulwer-Lytton Read by Jim Locke 1.2
Most men who with some earnestness of mind examine into the mysteries of our social state will perhaps pass through that stage of self-educa…

Benjamin Franklin: Self-Revealed, Volume 2

by William Cabell Bruce Read by Jim Locke
His life was like a full five-act play—prophetic prologue and stately epilogue, and swelling scene imposed upon swelling scene, until the ta…

Benjamin Franklin: Self-Revealed, Volume 1

by William Cabell Bruce Read by Jim Locke 1.8
His life was like a full five-act play—prophetic prologue and stately epilogue, and swelling scene imposed upon swelling scene, until the ta…

Ireland Under the Tudors, Volume 2

by Richard Bagwell Read by Jim Locke 5
Volume 2 continues the social, political, and religious dynamics of Tudor England, particularly during the tumultuous reign of the Protestan…

The Chronicles of America Volume 04 - Crusaders of New France

by William Bennett Munro Read by Jim Locke 0.5
The previous volumes in the Chronicles of America series placed Spain and England at the fore in the discovery and development of the New Wo…

Antic Hay

by Aldous Huxley Read by Jim Locke 2.5
The epigram to this work from Christoher Marlowe applies to the plot of this story: "My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns / Shall wi…

St. Elmo

by Augusta Jane Evans Read by Jim Locke 3.5
Written in prose and full of references to religion and mythology, this book tells the love story between St. Elmo and Edna. He is cynical a…

The Life of Washington, Volume 4

by John James Marshall Read by Jim Locke 4
This fourth volume covers the final battles and the peace conditions of the war, Washington at home, Washington as first President, and the …

Charles Sumner, The Scholar in Politics

by Archibald Grimké Read by Jim Locke 4
In the two volumes assigned to him in the American Reformer Series, viz., the "Life of William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist," …

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