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Literary Taste: How to Form It

Read by Timothy Ferguson


Arnold Bennett


Arnold Bennett describes a method for enjoying literature, and suggests the contents of a comprehensive library. Chapters 1-10 and 14 descri…

Reid's Critique of Hume

Read by Dan Robinson


Dan Robinson


University of Oxford Podcasts

Educide

Read by S. Lawrence Parrish


S. Lawrence Parrish


Meet Avery Carmichael, student-teacher. This year he's teamed up with Mr. Samuel Petersen, veteran teacher. Avery is about to get an educati…

Reading: An Essay

Read by David Wales


Hugh Walpole


A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 083

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Various


“Oh, mother, I would like to know everything.” “You can never know everything, my child, but you can learn many things from books.” Accordin…

A Man from the North

Read by Simon Evers


Arnold Bennett


Richard Larch, a young man from the north of England, arrives in London to seek his fortune. By day he works as a clerk in an office but has…

New World Orders

Read by Edward G. Talbot


Edward G. Talbot


In the nineteen-sixties, a group of wealthy men concludes that it's already too late to stop global warming from destroying the planet. But …

A Modest Proposal

Read by John Gonzalez


Jonathan Swift


Jonathan Swift almost defines satire in this biting and brutal pamphlet in which he suggests that poor (Catholic) Irish families should fatt…

Astounding Stories 03, March 1930

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Ray Cummings


This is the third issue of the classic science fiction Astounding Magazine. It contains the opening chapters of a 4 part serialized novel by…

The Human Machine

Read by Ruth Golding


Arnold Bennett


Bennett asks us to consider our brains as the most wonderful machine, a machine which is the only thing in this world that we can control. A…

The Chicago Connection

Read by John R. Swift


John R. Swift


A teenager in Prohibition Chicago, haunted by disasters, breaks all his childhood vows of clean living and becomes a minor hoodlum. When he …

A Brief History of English and American Literature

Read by Kalynda


Henry A. Beers


Henry Augustin Beers, native of Buffalo, NY and professor of English at Yale, with the help of John Fletcher Hurst (1834-1903), Methodist bi…

Your United States: Impressions Of A First Visit

Read by David Wales


Arnold Bennett


Enoch Arnold Bennett (1867 – 1931) was an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as journal…

Intercast Season One

Read by Edward G. Talbot


Edward G. Talbot


In this collection of short stories, Edward G. Talbot provides thrills, chills, laughs, and drama in abbreviated form. If you like bite-siz…

Aaron's Rod

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D. H. Lawrence


Flutist Aaron Sisson is caught up in the aftermath of WWI. A lost soul, he attempts to find himself in the comfort of bar-room talk and alco…

The Ontario Readers: Third Book

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Various


The Ontario Readers is a school book first published in 1919, by the Ontario Ministry of Education, containing short excerpts of literary wo…

The Card

Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)


Arnold Bennett


The ‘Card’ in question is Edward Henry Machin - His mother called him ‘Denry’. This light-hearted story is of his rise from humble beginning…

Sense Memory

Read by Brion J. Humphrey


Brion J. Humphrey


If our memory is the thing that shapes and defines us, that informs who we are at our very core, then God help us all...for memory, is a wic…

8810

Read by Nicholas Taylor


Nicholas Taylor


Join Bill Morison on his journey through corporate America, as he learns about auditing insurance and just how irritating people can be. Thi…

Story Hour Readers: Third Year

Read by Sibella Denton


Ida Coe and Ida Coeandalice Christie Dillon


Short and sweet stories for children from the 19th century. The stories were compiled by two New York City teachers and were thought appropr…

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