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The Highwayman

Read by James E. Carson


H. C. Bailey


A romance and adventure novel, set in England during the reign of Queen Anne. The book is much unlike the author's later detective short sto…

Talks by Abdul Baha Given in Paris

Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater


Abdu’L-Bahá ‘Abbás


“Much has already been written of the visit of Abdul Baha, Abbas Effendi, to Europe,” writes Lady Blomfield in her Preface to Paris Talks, “…

The Black Prophet: A Tale of Irish Famine

Read by James E. Carson


William Carleton


A story about the Irish, just before the onset of the famine of 1847, with all the color and dialogue of a man who lived it. (Summary by JCa…

The Colonel's Dream

Read by James K. White


Charles Waddell Chesnutt


In this novel, Chesnutt described the hopelessness of Reconstruction in a post-Civil War South that was bent on reestablishing the former st…

Meditations from the Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart

Read by James K. White


Maria W. Stewart


Maria W. Stewart was America's first black woman political writer. Between 1831 and 1833, she gave four speeches on the topics of slavery a…

The Persian Hidden Words

Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater


Bahá'U'Lláh


Kalimát-i-Maknúnih (کلمات مکنونه) or The Hidden Words is a book written in Baghdad around 1857 by Bahá'u'lláh, t…

Oxford Book of American Essays

Read by James E. Carson


Various


Collection of 32 essays by American authors ranging from Benjamin Franklin to Emerson to Whitman to Henry James to Theodore Roosevelt. On su…

The Story of the Barbary Corsairs

Read by James K. White


Stanley Lane-Poole


A history of the pirating activities along and around the "Barbary coast" between the 15th and 19th centuries, from the time of th…

A Traveller’s Narrative Written to Illustrate the Episode of the Báb

Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater


Abdu’L-Bahá ‘Abbás


“This book is the history of a proscribed and persecuted sect written by one of themselves,” writes Professor Edward Granville Browne, the C…

La Aventuroj de Alicio en Mirlando

Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater


Lewis Carroll


La aventuroj de Alicio en Mirlando (angle Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) estas verko de porinfana literaturo de la brita matematikisto ka…

Dr. Esperanto’s International Language, Introduction and Complete Grammar

Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater


L. L. Zamenhof


In July 1887, Esperanto made its debut as a 40-page pamphlet from Warsaw, published in Russian, Polish, French and German: all written by a …

South American Jungle Tales

Read by James K. White


Horacio Quiroga


The stories in South American Jungle Tales center on the relationships between people and the different creatures Quiroga came into contact …

The Revelation of Baha-ullah in a Sequence of Four Lessons

Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater


Isabella Matilda Davis Brittingham


Isabella Matilda Davis Brittingham was a significant early American Bahá'í and was posthumously designated by Shoghi Effendi a…

Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon

Read by James E. Carson


Henry Fielding


Sailing voyage from England to Portugal in the mid Eighteenth Century, by one of the premier humorists, satirists, novelists and playwrights…

Six Months In Mexico

Read by James K. White


Nellie Bly


This is an account of Nellie Bly's travels through Mexico in 1885. The book was originally a series of individual articles that she submitte…

Arabic Language Learning Collection, Vol. 001

Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater


Various


This is a collection of chapters and sections from materials designed to teach the Arabic language, as well as reference materials related t…

His Family

Read by James E. Carson


Ernest Poole


The 1910s is historically considered the decade of greatest social change in history. It saw the advent and proliferation of the automobile,…

The Universal Religion: Bahaism - Its Rise and Social Import

Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater


Hippolyte Dreyfus-Barney


“Bahaism is not a new religion,” writes Hippolyte Dreyfus-Barney, “It is religion renewed… it does not pretend to represent the whole Truth;…

Letter from China

Read by Peter James Froning


Peter James Froning


This is a poignant and irreverent diary of the author's yearlong (2001-2) experience of teaching English to college students in Beijing, Peo…

Echoes of the War

Read by James E. Carson


J. M. Barrie


Short stories with dramatic parts about civilian life in London during the First World War. Some humorous moments. By the author of "Pe…

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