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Plan of an English Dictionary – Part 1

In Plan and Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Samuel Johnson

The published dictionary was a huge book: with pages nearly 1½ feet tall and 20 inches wide, it contained 42,773 words; it also sold …

The Case for Monogamy

In The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

William F. Bigelow

A collection of articles from Good Housekeeping magazine, The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book focuses on the subject of marriage. With instr…

Bk 05: Ch 01-03

In The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Henry Fielding

Tom Jones is considered one of the first prose works describable as a novel. The novel is divided into 18 smaller books. Tom Jones is a foun…

Part 1

In The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. I

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

James Boswell

Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is widely considered to be the greatest English-language biography ever written. It was revolutionary in it…

Chapter 1

In Robinson Crusoe in Words of One Syllable

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Mary Godolphin and Daniel Defoe

Mary Godolphin was the pseudonym of Lucy Aikin who undertook translating great literature into single-syllable words so that young readers c…

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