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The Wild Swans at Coole

Read by Nicole Lee


William Butler Yeats


The Wild Swans at Coole is a collection of poems by William Butler Yeats, first published in 1917. It is also the name of a poem in that col…

Colonel Chabert

Read by Nicole Lee


Honoré de Balzac


Colonel Chabert is a soldier, who goes missing during the Napoleonic wars, and then returns from the dead, most inconveniently for his wife,…

The Counterpane Fairy

Read by Lee Elliott


Katharine Pyle


A little boy, recuperating from a lengthy illness, is entertained by visits from the Counterpane Fairy, who treats him to stories associated…

A Lear of the Steppes, etc.

Read by Lee Smalley


Ivan Turgenev


This book contains three novellas by one of the major writers of Russian literature. The first, A LEAR OF THE STEPPES, is a brilliant re-ima…

Tolstoy

Read by Lee Smalley


L. Winstanley


Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is universally regarded as one of the greatest authors in history. This brief biography discusses, among other thing…

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

Read by Nicole Lee


Sir Philip Sidney


Arcadia is a prose work by Sir Philip Sidney, a classic of the Renaissance pastoral and a work of high romance, a fleeting vision of a lost …

Meadowlark Basin

Read by Lee Smalley


B. M. Bower


This is an action-packed tale of the old west with richly drawn characters including the notorious Butch Cassidy, most of them upstanding bu…

The Autobiography of a Clown

Read by Lee Smalley


Isaac Marcosson


This "as told to" autobiography of Jules Turnour is based on a popular article that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in 1909.…

The Smoke Eaters

Read by Lee Smalley


Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins


This book vividly brings to life the unimaginable risks of fire-fighting and the bravery and personal interactions of Captain Meaghan and th…

Biographia Literaria

Read by Nicole Lee


Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Nominally an autobiography, Biographia Literaria ranges widely across the realms of philosophy, poetry and memoir, in Coleridge's trademark …

The Essentials of Spirituality

Read by Lee Smalley


Felix Adler


This recording contains four addresses of Felix Adler (1851-1933) concerning spirituality from the perspective of Ethical Culture, an educat…

Nothing of Importance

Read by Lee Smalley


John Bernard Pye Adams


Fighting in France during the Great War, Bernard Adams, an officer with a Welsh battalion, was moved to chronicle what he saw and experience…

Rural Rides

Read by Nicole Lee


William Cobbett


William Cobbett: 1763-1835 English farmer, journalist and politician. His book Rural Rides collects together the articles published in his P…

The Flying U's Last Stand

Read by Lee Smalley


B. M. Bower


Settlers are lured to Montana by a land boom syndicate in a scheme that encroaches on the Flying U Ranch. Members of the Flying U attempt to…

Brief Lives Volume I

Read by Nicole Lee


John Aubrey


A collection of sparkling gossipy biographical pieces of Aubrey's contemporaries, including Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare, Brief Lives' glim…

Memoirs of Chateaubriand 1768 to 1800

Read by Nicole Lee


François-René de Chateaubriand


This is the first volume of Chateaubriand's Memoires d'Outre Tombe, in a Victorian translation. It covers the period from his birth, includi…

A Slav Soul and Other Stories

Read by Lee Smalley


Aleksandr Kuprin


Novelist and short story writer Alexandr Ivanovich Kuprin (1870-1938) was one of the most widely read authors of his time. Nabokov called hi…

In the Village of Viger

Read by Lee Smalley


Duncan Campbell Scott


These ten superb short stories of Duncan Campbell Scott, published in 1896, portray humorous, farcical, and tragic aspects of life in the fi…

Black Pawl

Read by Lee Smalley


Ben Ames Williams


This riveting novel takes place on a whaling ship, where its captain, Black Pawl, has a troubled relationship with the first mate, his son. …

Out of Mulberry Street

Read by Lee Smalley


Jacob A. Riis


These riveting accounts by Jacob A. Riis are from the late 19th century, when lower Manhattan was teeming with struggling, near-starving imm…

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