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The Arte or Crafte of Rhethoryke

Read by Amelia Chesley


Leonard Cox


This text is a reprint of the first English-language book on rhetoric, including an introduction and notes from Frederic Ives Carpenter of t…

On the Sublime

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Unknowntranslated Byherbert Lord Havell and Translated Byherbert Lord Havell


This is a classical text on aesthetics and proper style in writing and rhetoric, including commentary on various ancient Greek works such as…

The City of Din

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Dan McKenzie and Dan Mckenzie


A treatise on the increasing loudness of modern life, including philosophical and scientific discussion of what noise is, how effects us phy…

Letters to Catherine E. Beecher in Reply to an Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism

Read by Amelia Chesley


Angelina Emily Grimké


This is a collection of thirteen letters from Angelina Grimké on the subjects of abolitionism and human rights in the United States.

The Two Fundamentals, by Mary Salome Cutler

In Why do we need a public library?

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Various


Internet Archive, which hosts our audio books, is in the midst of their annual fund-raising. They have also begun a drive to provide a mirr…

Electricity - Chapter 11 - Wireless Telegraphy, Part 1

In The Science - History of the Universe Vol. 3: Physics & Electricity

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Francis Rolt-Wheeler


Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The third volume is on physics written by George Matthew and on electricity wri…

Section 49: Veto Messages

In A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Ulysses S. Grant

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James D. Richardson and Ulysses S. Grant


The Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents is an eleven-volume series of tomes comprising of proclamations, special messag…

Chapter VI: Savoury Dishes - Mushrooms

In Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery

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Arthur Gay Payne


This is a little cookbook of vegetarian recipes, which were only slowly gaining popularity in England at the time of its publication in 1891…

The Manner of the Nights

In The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 10

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Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton


This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mytho…

Woodman, Spare that Tree! - Read by AC

In Woodman, Spare that Tree!

Read by Amelia Chesley


George Pope Morris


George Pope Morris was an American editor, poet, and songwriter.In addition to his publishing and editorial work, Morris was popular as a po…

Tibet (Introductory)

In Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3

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Charles Eliot


Started in 1907, An Historical Sketch was a work in 3 volumes. The author was a British diplomat posted to Asia and his great work was inter…

How Phoebe’s Conspiracy Triumphed

In Phoebe Daring

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L. Frank Baum


A headstrong female detective strives to clear a good man's name in this children's mystery by Oz author L. Frank Baum. Summary by Miriam E…

Chapter IV: Individual Liberty and Public Control

In Political Ideals

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Bertrand Russell


This is a book by the famous 20th century British philosopher Bertrand Russell on Political Ideals. It was written during the course of Worl…

The Piper and the Puca - Daniel O'Rourke

In Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

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William Butler Yeats


This is a collection of Fairy and Folk tales. The poet William Butler Yeats collected them from around the Western part of Ireland and trans…

Preface

In Woodstock, or, The Cavalier

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Sir Walter Scott


This novel is set during the English Civil War and the Commonwealth. It is comprised of real events, along with fictional ones. If you are l…