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The "Defenestration" at Prague, the Thirty Years War, AD 1618, by Samuel R. Gar…

In The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11

Read by Leah MacKenzie


Charles F. Horne


A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…

Walden

Read by Gord Mackenzie


Henry David Thoreau


Walden by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau’s lif…

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Read by Gord Mackenzie


Henry David Thoreau


Civil Disobedience is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. Published in 1849 under the title Resistance to Civil Government, it expressed Thorea…

Scaramouche

Read by Gord Mackenzie


Rafael Sabatini


Scaramouche is a romantic adventure and tells the story of a young aristocrat during the French Revolution. His successive endeavors as a la…

Hiring a wetnurse in seventeenth-century England

In Anthropology

Read by Leah Astbury


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

FMR 47 The vulnerability of Palestinian refugees from Syria

In Forced Migration Review

Read by Leah Morrison


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Longlegs The Blue Heron Receives Callers

In The Adventures of Grandfather Frog

Read by Leah Sosewitz


Thornton W. Burgess


Longlegs the Blue Heron felt decidedly out of sorts. It was a beautiful morning, too beautiful for any one to be feeling that way. Indeed, i…

The Women in the Case By Mary Sams Cooke

In Short Stories From Life

Read by Leah Emery


Various


Life Magazine held a short story contest. Stories must be no more than 1500 words. Authors were paid for the number of words under that maxi…

Deciding upon a New Move

In The Ice Queen

Read by Leah Emery


Ernest Ingersoll


When four young people decide to undertake a skating trek across the Arctic ice, there are sure to be adventures. Aleck becomes “Captain,” …

The Fearful Devilfish and Other Rays

In Zoology: The Science of Animal Life

Read by Leah Emery


Ernest Ingersoll


Scientist and prolific author, Ernest Ingersoll, in this book gives as an overview of animal life. Included here are descriptions of sea li…

Mistress Jekyll-Hyde

In Humorous Poems

Read by Leah Autry


Ignatius Brennan


This is a collection of fun poems by West Virginia poet M. Ignatius Brennan. In his poems, the poet makes fun of the people in his surroundi…

Twilight

In Poems

Read by Leah Autry


Frances Louisa Bushnell


This is a collection of poems by Connecticut poet Frances Louisa Bushnell. Ms Bushnell was an eminent person in her local social circles, an…