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The Journal of a Disappointed Man
Read by Adam Whybray
W. N. P. Barbellion
The journal of British naturalist Bruce Frederick Cummings, spanning from his early childhood through to his early death from complications …
An Essay on Man
Read by Martin Geeson
Alexander Pope
Pope’s Essay on Man, a masterpiece of concise summary in itself, can fairly be summed up as an optimistic enquiry into mankind’s place in th…
The Enormous Room
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E. E. Cummings
"For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost; and is found."He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps.He was …
Whispering Tongues
Read by Donald Cummings
Homer Greene
Parmenter and Lee are good friends who attend Concord College. But a hazing incident tears the friendship apart, and affects the lives of bo…
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…
Forty-One Letters on Religious Subjects
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John Newton
Among the excellences which appear in all the published letters of Newton, we may mention:In the first place, the grand design — the high an…
The Free Press
Read by Sean McClain
Hilaire Belloc
I propose to discuss in what follows the evil of the great modern Capitalist Press, its function in vitiating and misinforming opinion and i…
Pipefuls
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Christopher Morley
A delightful collection of 48 essays on various topics of the human condition that caught his fancy. Witty, insightful and funny of course a…
XLI Poems
Read by Scotty Smith
E. E. Cummings
A book of 41 poems by E. E. Cummings classified as Songs I-XII [poems 1-12], Chansons Innocentes I-II [poems 13-14], Portraits I-IX [poems…
Senator North
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Gertrude Atherton
"When, Mr. President, a man, however eminent in other pursuits and whatever claims he may have to public confidence, becomes a member o…
A Lad of Mettle
Read by Ryan Jakob
Nat Gould
When Edgar Foster came to Redbank School he was sixteen, small for his age, but muscular and active. Alumni of the school included accomplis…
The White Dove
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
Sylvester Lanyon, a doctor, is mourning the early death of his wife. His young daughter Dorothy is living with his father, Matthew, also a w…
A Last Diary
Read by Adam Whybray
W. N. P. Barbellion
The final journal of British naturalist Bruce Frederick Cummings, spanning from March 1918 to June 1919. The diary follows on the heels of t…
Bel Ami, or The History of a Scoundrel
Read by Martin Geeson
Guy de Maupassant
“He had faith in his good fortune, in that power of attraction which he felt within him - a power so irresistible that all women yielded to …
A Homily of Saint Gregory the Great On the Pastoral Office
Read by Patrick Randall
Pope Gregory I
A homily by Saint Gregory the Great on the virtues, responsibilities, and shortfalls of the clergy; recommended to the attention of all cler…
Great Expectations (version 2)
Read by Peter John Keeble
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations is written in the first person and is virtually a fictional autobiography of “Pip” from his childhood, through often pain…
Eternity
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Casey S Townsend
The world you know has changed. Science has been replaced by dark, supernatural forces and those that know how have harnessed them to contro…
Eminent Victorians
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Giles Lytton Strachey
On Modern Library's list of 100 Best Non-Fiction books, "Eminent Victorians" marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also help…
Ingersoll on THOMAS PAINE, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 1, Lec…
Read by William Allan Jones
Robert G. Ingersoll
Col. Ingersoll begins his lectures on famous people as follows: [i]"It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of ge…