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Silas Strong

Read by Roger Melin


Irving Bacheller


Per the author: "The book has one high ambition. It has tried to tell the sad story of the wilderness itself—to show, from the woodsman…

Juggernaut: A Veiled Record

Read by Roger Melin


George Eggleston


Edgar Braine was consistently successful at all he set out to accomplish. He went through life with goals and worked diligently and with eth…

Concerning Genealogies

Read by Roger Melin


Frank Allaben


Written over a century ago, this comprehensive book offers insight into the methods used (still to this day, in spite of modern computers) t…

Life of Jesse Harding Pomeroy

Read by Roger Melin


E. Luscomb Haskell


"The Life of Jesse Harding Pomeroy: The Most Remarkable Case in the History of Crime or Criminal Law" by E. Luscomb Haskell was pu…

The Trevor Case

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Natalie Sumner Lincoln


The nation's capital was astir at the untimely and curious death of the young wife of the Attorney General, Edmund Trevor. She had obviously…

Rustlers, Beware!

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Arthur Chapman


Cattle rustling had gotten out of control in northern Wyoming, so Asa Swingley is tasked with assembling a host of men to tend to the matter…

October Vagabonds

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Richard Le Gallienne


Richard and his friend Colin must sadly return from their distant hermitage to New York City at summer's end. However, rather than take the …

The Isle of Dead Ships

Read by Roger Melin


Crittenden Marriott


There is a floating island in the sea where no explorer has set foot, or, setting foot, has returned to tell of what he saw. Lying at our ve…

Pilgrims' Project

Read by Roger Melin


Robert F. Young


Robert F. Young works in a machine shop by day, and at night goes home and writes anti-machine stories! Pilgrims' Project is different: not …

House of the Trees and Other Poems

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Ethelwyn Wetherald


Agnes Ethelwyn Wetherald was a Canadian poet and journalist, published across Canada and the United States. She also worked as an editor fo…

St Peter's College

Read by Roger Wright


Roger Wright


University of Oxford Podcasts

Thirty Years A Slave

Read by James K. White


Louis Hughes


Louis Hughes was born a slave near Charlottesville, Virginia to a white father and a black slave woman. Throughout his life he worked mostly…

The Monk: A Romance

Read by James K. White


Matthew Lewis


Matthew Gregory Lewis's The Monk: A Romance is a story of frustrated and unrequited desire between mentor and pupil mixed with elements of t…

The Atrocities of the Pirates

Read by James K. White


Aaron Smith


In 1822, Aaron Smith, a young English seaman, was taken captive by Cuban pirates when his ship was boarded en route from Jamaica to England.…

White Jacket, or The World in a Man-of-War

Read by James K. White


Herman Melville


This is a tale based on Melville's experiences aboard the USS United States from 1843 to 1844. It comments on the harsh and brutal realities…

Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave

Read by James K. White


Henry Bibb


Henry Walton Bibb was born a slave. His father was white although his identity was not positively known. Bibb was separated from his mother …

Toussaint L’Ouverture: A Biography and Autobiography

Read by James K. White


John Relly Beard


François-Dominique Toussaint L’Ouverture (1743-1803) rose to fame in 1791 during the Haitian struggle for independence. In this revol…

Redburn: His First Voyage

Read by James K. White


Herman Melville


Melville wrote of some of his earliest experiences at sea in the story of Wellingborough Redburn, a wet-behind-the-ears youngster whose head…

The Negro Problem

Read by James K. White


Various


This is a collection of essays, edited by Booker T. Washington, representative of what historians have characterized as "racial uplift …

The Conjure Woman

Read by James K. White


Charles Waddell Chesnutt


Published in 1899 by Houghton Mifflin, Chesnutt's first book, The Conjure Woman, was a collection of seven short stories, all set in "P…

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