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The Speaking Voice

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Katherine Jewell Everts


From the Preface of The Speaking Voice: principles of training simplified and condensed: "This book offers a method of voice training w…

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

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Edwin Abbott Abbott


Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 science fiction novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. As a satire, Flat…

An Iron Will

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Orison Swett Marden


Orison Swett Marden was well-known at the turn of the 20th century for his inspirational and spiritual books of self-help. This one deals wi…

The Magic World

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E. Nesbit


Talking cats, birds, fish and bells, wicked fairies, uglified princesses - adventure, magic, and more magic. A delightful collection of sto…

Women in Love

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D. H. Lawrence


Women in Love is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence published in 1920. It is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow (1915), and fol…

The Wonderful Garden

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E. Nesbit


Do you believe in magic? Caroline, Charles and Charlotte do, and nothing that happens during their summer holiday at their great uncle's hou…

A House to Let

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Charles Dickens


A House to Let is a short story originally published in 1858 in the Christmas edition of Dickens' Household Words magazine. Each of the cont…

The History of London

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Walter Besant


Walter Besant was a novelist and historian, and his topographical and historical writings, ranging from prehistoric times to the nineteenth …

Cleek: The Man of the Forty Faces

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Thomas W. Hanshew


Meet Hamilton Cleek - man of mystery, and master of disguise and derring-do.Cleek's exploits are, to say the least, highly improbable, but t…

Cleek of Scotland Yard

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Thomas W. Hanshew


Hamilton Cleek is back - or is he?Margot, Queen of the Apaches (the notorious French criminal gang) has been released on bail and vanished, …

The Seven Poor Travellers

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Charles Dickens


One of Dickens' Christmas stories, this was first published as part of the Christmas number of Household Words for 1854. The first chapter r…

The Comic English Grammar

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Percival Leigh


This is a basic grammar, treating of the parts of speech, syntax, versification, pronunciation and punctuation. The listener is warned that…

Utopia (Robinson translation)

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Thomas More


Originally entitled A frutefull pleasaunt, and wittie worke of the beste state of publique weale, & of the newe yle, called Utopia: writ…

The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (version 2)

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Charles Dickens


The last of Dickens' Christmas novellas (1848), The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain centres around Professor Redlaw, a teacher of chemis…

The Cricket on the Hearth (Version 2)

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Charles Dickens


The tale of John Peerybingle, the good-hearted carrier, and his young wife Mary ('Dot'), interwoven with the story of poor toymaker Caleb Pl…

The Chimes

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Charles Dickens


The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In is the second of Charles Dickens' Christmas books, publ…

Told after Supper

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Jerome K. Jerome


It is Christmas Eve, and the narrator, his uncle and sundry other local characters are sitting round the fire drinking copious quantities of…

The Art of Money Getting (version 2)

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P. T. Barnum


Although Barnum considered himself primarily a showman and his main goal was to put money in his own pocket, this little book, subtitled Gol…

The Riddle of the Purple Emperor

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Thomas W. Hanshew


Orphan Lady Margaret Cheyne returns home on her eighteenth birthday to live with her embittered maiden aunt and to take up her inheritance o…

After London, or Wild England

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Richard Jefferies


Jefferies' novel can be seen as an early example of "post-apocalyptic fiction." After some sudden and unspecified catastrophe has …

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