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3dAudioBooksThe Tale of Betsy Butterfly (Version 2)Arthur Scott Bailey (1877 - 1949)
Betsy Butterfly has an exciting time in the meadow. Some dangers of course but lots of fun and productive work. Join her as she flutters from adventure to adventure.
Genre(s): Animals & Nature
Language: English
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3dAudioBooksThe Black Cat Vol. 02 No. 08 May 1897The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Many writers were largely unknown, but some famous authors also wrote original material for this magazine.
This is the eighth issue of volume 2 with the following five short stories:
"The Passing of the Polly Ann", by Collins Shackelford: the survivor of a drifting ship testifies to a startling revelation
"The Obsequies of Ole Miss Jug", by Jean Ross Irvine: these children know how to bury a faithful dog in style
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3dAudioBooksHarmer John; An Unworldly StoryHugh Walpole (1884 - 1941)
Hjalmar Johanson (novel, 1926) is a boyish unworldly Swedish body builder come to Walpole’s fictional cathedral town of Polchester. His name is “simplified” by the townsfolk to Harmer John. He is attracted to Polchester by the cathedral. He has a vision of transforming the town and its populace to a healthier and more beautiful state. He establishes a business, essentially a gymnasium, to help people become healthier. He envisions tearing down the slums along the river and rebuilding the area with more attractive and publicly healthier buildings. But not everyone shares his vision, especially the sl...2022-02-012h 20
3dAudioBooksThe Diatessaron: A Harmony of the Four GospelsTatian (c120 - c180)
Translated by Hope W. Hogg (1863 - 1912)
The Diatessaron is such an impersonal work that we do not need to know very much about its compiler. It will suffice here to say that he tells us himself that he was born "in the land of the Assyrians," and brought up a heathen. After travelling in search of knowledge, he settled at Rome, where he became a pupil of Justin Martyr, professed Christianity, and wrote in Greek his Address to the Greeks, translated in vol. iii. of the Ante-Nicene Christian Library. He was too...2022-02-016h 31
3dAudioBooksRecurrenceDorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
Dorothy Parker was an American poet, writer, critic, and satirist based in New York. She was best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles. This poem is taken from her book "Enough Rope" (1926), freshly out of US copyright.
Genre(s): Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
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3dAudioBooksDramatic Selections from Henry Lawson's Short StoriesHenry Lawson (1867 - 1922)
01. That Pretty Girl in the Army
The Salvation Army is having a hard time of things in the rough Outback town of Bourke. That is, until Sister Hannah arrives...
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3dAudioBooksThe Wounded Soldier in the ConventFrançois Coppée (1842 - 1908)
Translated by George Curzon (1859 - 1925)
The poem was written in Paris during the Siege, November 1870 and celebrates caring nurses (specifically, nuns) who work with difficult patients.
François Coppée was a French poet and novelist. He was famed as le poète des humbles (the poet of the humble). His verse and prose focus on plain expressions of emotion, patriotism, the joy of young love, and the pitifulness of the poor.
Genre(s): Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
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3dAudioBooksThe Night-BornJack London (1876 - 1916)
Ten short stories on various themes and subjects, all more or less bizarre.
The Night-Born is about a woman who draws inspiration to change her life from an article she chanced to read.
In The Benefit of the Doubt, a crooked judge gets a lesson in justice.
When The World Was Young is the story of Primitive Man and Civilized Man sharing the same body.
And so on. Each story is unique and thought-provoking.
Genre(s): Single Author Collections
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3dAudioBooksShort Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 089"From vocalists you may learn much, but do not believe all that they say." Robert Schumann's Advice to Young Musicians is replete with good counsel. How, what, and from whom we learn is thematic to many of these 20 nonfiction selections, chosen by their readers. We learn from the lives of valorous persons (Simón Bolívar; José de San Martín; Booker T. Washington; Ishi, the last Yana Indian); from literature (Political Naturalism in England; Editorial Prejudice Against the Occult; Barbara Frietchie); from journalists, activists, and the opinionated (America and the English Tradition; Interned by the Bolshevists; The Cholera; Chim...2022-01-316h 06
3dAudioBooksThe Incredulity of Father BrownG. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
Originality and humor characterize the plots of these clever detective stories. The mysteries are solved by the detective priest, Father Brown. His application of shrewd, common sense to the unraveling of a succession of strange crimes and happenings rob them of the supernatural element attributed to them by the credulous. This is the third collection of similar stories.
Genre(s): Detective Fiction
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3dAudioBooksWinnie-the-Pooh (Version 2)A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956)
A charming collection of 10 relaxing tales, come along into the Forest as Winnie-the-Pooh tries to get some honey, the search is on for Eeyore's tail, some new visitors arrive in the form of Kanga and Baby Roo and an 'Expotition' is held to discover the North Pole! A classic for over 95 years and one that everyone young and old will surely adore.
Genre(s): Animals & Nature, Family
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3dAudioBooksThe Three Friends; A Story of Rugby in the FortiesArthur Gray Butler (1831 - 1909)
This is a novel that describes the life of three friends while they are attending Rugby School. The work illustrates for the reader many of the boys' pranks, challenges, sorrows, and victories and, as well, gives a good sense of school life in the middle of the 19th Century. Anyone who looks back with fondness on his or her younger days of schooling will enjoy this work.
Genre(s): Published 1900 onward
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3dAudioBooksOntology, or the Theory of BeingPeter Coffey (1876 - 1943)
The book is an introduction to metaphysics and Thomistic Ontology.
Genre(s): Modern
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3dAudioBooksThe NewcomesWilliam Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863)
The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family was written in serial form in 1854- 1855 by the author of such works as Vanity Fair, The Book Of Snobs. It tells the story of a few generations of the Newcome family: their rise to respectability, marriages, love, and the culture in which they lived. The novel teaches the reader what it was like to live in Victorian England
Genre(s): Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Language: English
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3dAudioBooks"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes": the illuminating diary of a professional ladyAnita Loos (1888 - 1981)
In this comic novel written by American author Anita Loos, we follow the adventures of the fictional character Lorelei Lee who is a young blonde flapper. This story takes place in the hedonistic Jazz Age and is written in the form of a diary from Lorelei's viewpoint as she shares stories of the men she entertains in New York City and Europe. “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” was an instant bestseller and has been declared as “the great American novel” by Edith Wharton.
Genre(s): Humorous Fiction, Published 1900 onward
Language: English
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3dAudioBooksIrisArthur Wing Pinero (1855 - 1934)
Left a widow 5 years ago at age 21, Iris Bellamy is shackled by terms of her husband's will that would leave her penniless if she remarries. Of course, "if she married a rich man, her interest in her late husband's estate would be no longer indispensible to her." But "rich men generally have some odious quality to counterbalance their wealth. The men one would marry are as poor as mice." So what do you think is likely to happen?
Genre(s): Drama
Language: English
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3dAudioBooksThe Art of Story-Telling, with nearly half a hundred storiesJulia Darrow Cowles (1862 - 1919)
In preparing this book the author has sought to awaken a keener perception and a higher appreciation of the artistic and ethical value of story-telling; to simplify some of its problems; to emphasize the true delight which the story-teller may share with her hearers; and to present fresh material which answers to the test of being good in substance as well as in literary form.
Genre(s): Anthologies, Performing Arts
Language: English
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3dAudioBooksThe Calumet Book of Oven Triumphs!General Foods Corporation
Published by the General Foods Corporation, featuring Calumet Baking baking powder, these recipes cover a variety of baked goods from biscuits, cakes, cookies, pies, rolls & bread, frostings & sauces, muffins, waffles & griddle cakes.
Genre(s): Cooking
Language: English
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3dAudioBooksMother Stories from the Old TestamentMother Stories from the Old Testament is a book of the best stories from the Old Testament that mothers can tell their children.
Genre(s): Religion
Language: English
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3dAudioBooksBarrack-Room BalladsRudyard Kipling (1868 - 1936)
Barrack-Room Ballads is a collection of poems by Rudyard Kipling which describe life in the British Army, particularly in India, in his time. The poems are written in the voice and language of soldiers of that time. The collection includes some of his best known poems.
Genre(s): Single author
Language: English
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3dAudioBooksFor Love and Life Vol. 1“The device on his shield was a young oak tree pulled up by the roots, with the Spanish word Desdichado, signifying Disinherited.” The novel opens with Mrs. Murray walking with two of her grandchildren along the banks of Loch Arroch in the Scottish border country. They appear to be well-to-do and distinguished, but all is not well within the family and sacrifices are necessary.
Genre(s): Published 1800 -1900
Margaret O. Oliphant (1828 - 1897)
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3dAudioBooksIs War Diminishing?Frederick Adams Woods (1873 - 1939) and Alexander Baltzly
A study In the prevalence of war in Europe from 1400 to the present day. This small book summarises historical periods of peace compared to periods of war, as concluded by consultation with other historians, and seeks to answer the question as to if the incidence and duration of periods of national conflict were becoming more intense or not, and how the periods of war may correlate to other social trends.
Genre(s): War & Military, History
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3dAudioBooksMeadowlark BasinB. M. Bower (1871 - 1940)
This is an action-packed tale of the old west with richly drawn characters including the notorious Butch Cassidy, most of them upstanding but some decidedly not. A cashier is murdered during a bank robbery. The loot and the thieves are sought with dark concerns about who may be guilty. Family ties, ranch life, humor, and romance are interwoven throughout. B. M. Bower was one of the first women to write novels and short stories about the American Old West, of which more than 10 were adapted as films.
Genre(s): Action & Adventure F...2022-01-266h 28
3dAudioBooksTheftJack London (1876 - 1916)
This is a political play which is set in Washington DC. Howard Knox is a congressman and believes that there are corrupt practices going on at the firm of a very wealthy industrialist. Knox is being helped by the industrialists daughter who is helping him to locate documents that will support his claims.
Genre(s): Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers, Drama
Language: English
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3dAudioBooksLucian's Dialogues Volume 3: The Dialogues of the DeadLucian of Samosata (c. 125 - c. 180)
Dialogues of the Dead are 30 miniature dialogues mocking the Homeric conception of the Greek gods, originally written in Attic Greek by Syrian author Lucian of Samosata. Almost 1900 years old, these dialogues still retain a lot of their original humor and wit.
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3dAudioBooksFaithFrances Anne "Fanny" Kemble (1809 - 1893)
These are 28 recordings of Faith by Fanny Kemble.
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Fanny Kemble was a British actress who also found time to be a popular author of poetry, plays, travelogues, eleven volumes of memoirs, and more. She was an abolitionist after having been married for 14 years to a wealthy American plantation owner. This poem expresses the desire for trust over cynicism.
Genre(s): Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
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3dAudioBooksReligio JournalisticiChristopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
The great Canadian journalist and humorist ruminates and reflects upon his life and calling in this 1924 little gem.
Genre(s): Essays & Short Works, Memoirs
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3dAudioBooksThe Ghost KingsH. Rider Haggard (1856 - 1925)
Rachel Dove is a British missionary's daughter in the wilds of Africa. Her life is turned around when fellow teenager Richard Darrien rescues her from a flash flood; their common initials alone may clue the reader in that these two are another pair of Haggard's predestined lovers. Some years later, after not having seen Richard in the meantime, Rachel runs afoul of one of the author's patented lustful villains, Ishmael, a renegade Englishman who plots with the Zulu king to have Rachel for his own. The rest of the story you'll have to...2022-01-252h 07
3dAudioBooksTravels in France During the Years 1787, 1788, 1789Arthur Young (1741 - 1820)
Arthur Young, an English agriculturist, set out to write a travelogue on the state of agriculture in France and found himself in the midst of the French Revolution. His report on life in the capital and in the countryside in the years 1787, 1788, and 1789, replete with droll traveler's mishaps, becomes an eyewitness account of a society on the brink of catastrophe. From the court scene at Versailles to backroads villages comes this astonishing record of unfolding events, conspiracy theories about the queen, jubilation, and mass hysteria.
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3dAudioBooksT. TembaromFrances Hodgson Burnett (1849 - 1924)
T. Tembarom is a young man who grew up in New York City, scraping his way by blacking shoes and selling newspapers. On day, he gets notified that he has become heir to a large estate in England with a healthy income. Though this would the the ultimate blessing to most, it sets him too high in class in English society for the simple Little Anne, the love of his life. His main goal is to prove to her that he would give High Society a good chance, then she would agree to...2022-01-255h 24
3dAudioBooksMongan's FrenzyJames Stephens (1882 - 1950)
James Stephens is famous for his retellings of Irish myths and fairy tales. This tale is about 1.5 hours in length, full of magical lore and you will spend some considerable time in Faery. It is funny, quirky, fast paced, full of surprises, and sometimes sarcastic, as only James Stephens can be. Stephens also wrote several original novels (The Charwoman's Daughter, The Crock of Gold, Etched in Moonlight, Deirdra, Demi-Gods) also loosely based on Irish fairy tales. Enjoy!
Genre(s): Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales
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3dAudioBooksThe Ranch Girls at Rainbow LodgeMargaret Vandercook (1877 - 1958)
The story of the four Ranch Girls is plainly just beginning. Girls so entirely unlike in temperament and ideals, as Jack, Jean, Olive and Frieda, cannot fail to lead lives that will develop in interest.
Genre(s): Action & Adventure
Language: English
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3dAudioBooksThe Silver Shadow, and Other Day DreamsFrank W. Boreham (1871 - 1959)
Frank Boreham was a well known preacher who served in England, Australia, and New Zealand. He published dozens of books and thousands of editorials during his lifetime, with no sign of slowing down, even up until his death at age 88. He wrote with a distinctive style, seeming to be able to draw a spiritual lesson out of any conceivable topic.
Boreham admits that this volume is but a collection of his reflections on things. But he hopes that by viewing the reflections, we will be more apt to take notice of...2022-01-257h 06
3dAudioBooksBible (YLT) NT 12: Epistle to the Colossians (Version 2)In 1887 Dr. Young issued a Revised Edition, of which two impressions are exhausted. The work has been subjected to a new revision, making no alteration on the principles on which the Translation proceeds but endeavoring to make it as nearly perfect in point of accuracy on its present lines as possible.
Genre(s): Young's Literal Translation
Language: English
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3dAudioBooksBilly Whiskers' Adventures
Frances Trego Montgomery (1858 - 1925)
Billy Whiskers, Stubby and Button return from France to New York where new adventures await our favorite goat and his friends. Trouble is sure to turn up in all sorts of places – at school, an unexpected shower, up in a dirigible and in Chicago. Who are the old crow and the elephant?
Genre(s): Action & Adventure, Animals & Nature
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3dAudioBooksTrees, Shown to the ChildrenC. E. Smith
A charming and informative volume about the trees one might find in one's backyard and farther environs. A touch of science and a love of beauty are displayed here.
Genre(s): Science
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3dAudioBooksA Bold Stroke for a HusbandHannah Cowley (1743 - 1809)
"Plays, where the scene is placed in a foreign country, particularly when that country is Spain, have a license to present certain improbabilities to the audience, without incurring the danger of having them called such; and the authoress, by the skill with which she has used this dramatic permittance, ... has formed a most interesting plot, and embellished it with lively, humorous, and affecting incident.... Here is contained no oblique insinuation, detrimental to the cause of morality—but entertainment and instruction unite, to make a pleasant exhibition at a theatre, or give an hour's amusement in...2022-01-222h 48
3dAudioBooksNellie Brown, or, The Jealous Wife, With Other SketchesThomas P. Detter (1826 - )
READERS The design of this work is to show the unhappy results of jealousy and misplaced confidence, arid the wicked designs of corrupt parties. Man and woman were created for a noble purpose by their Creator; but how often do we see families that have lived long happily together rent in twain by such malignant characters as Mrs. H., Aunt Polly and Martha Lovejoy more fully explained in the following work. Such characters are to be found in all communities, like hungry wolves hunting down their prey; they often paralyze the hopes of...2022-01-224h 38
3dAudioBooksAnno Domini 2071Pieter Harting (1812 - 1885)
Curious to see how the world was imagined to be 50 years from now? Harting, under the pseudonym Dr. Dioscorides, originally published his steampunk utopian novelette in 1865 under the title Anno 2065, but soon had to publish new editions because of all the changes happening at the time. We have in the catalogue the 1870 edition "Anno 2070" recorded in Dutch. This is the English translation of that edition, published in 1871, and naturally titled "Anno Domini 2071". It isn't free from racial defamation, but it does contain some radical ideas for its time, like the Suffragette movement, the...2022-01-222h 11
3dAudioBooksLake Lyrics and Other PoemsWilliam Wilfred Campbell (1860 - 1918)
A Collection of poems by the Canadian poet William Wilfred Campbell most of which describe the natural beauty of the Great Lakes region of Ontario. These poems reflect Campbell's deep love of Nature as God's Creation.
Genre(s): Poetry, Single author
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3dAudioBooksShort Ghost and Horror Collection 058A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the sound of a monstrous howl, and the occasional touch of wonder.
"The Elixir of Life" was written in collaboration by Marc R. Schorer and August W. Derleth.
Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction
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3dAudioBooksWinnie-the-Pooh
A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956)
Winnie the Pooh, the loveable little bear with a great big heart (and only a slightly less large appetite for honey), has fun and adventures in this book. All of the other residents of the 100 acre wood join in to help this happen. Rabbit, Piglet, Owl, Kanga and Roo and of course the every depressed Eeyore who manages to lose his tail somehow. But what more needs to be said except that it Christopher Robin and Pooh are here? Listen and enjoy.
Genre(s): Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales
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3dAudioBooksWe Were There at the Normandy InvasionClayton Knight (1891 - 1969)
D-Day: 6 June 1944. The date of the invasion of the Normandy Coast of France by the Allies. This novel gives a different look at that invasion than most of us have ever seen. It tells of a young French boy, André Gagnon, and his exciting adventures as he helps the Maquis (the French Underground fighting the Germans), a shot down British airman, and the American soldiers in their successful attempt to liberate France from German occupation. An entertaining and informative family friendly tale.
Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction, Historical Fiction
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3dAudioBooksThe Chinese DragonLuther Newton Hayes (1883 - 1978)
The subject of this little book [1923] is of general interest to people who are acquainted with things Chinese. The dragon has played a large part in Chinese thought through four thousand and more years…. The author is peculiarly fitted to undertake this piece of work. He was born in China and speaks the Chinese language as a native. Thus, he has had the first-hand knowledge and the language to help him in his study. He has been studying on the subject of the dragon for fourteen years. In this time, he has traveled ov...2022-01-221h 16
3dAudioBooksUnder the Tiger's Claws; or, A Struggle for the Right (Version 2)Nicholas Carter
A prominent banker calls Nick Carter in to investigate $90,000 in missing funds—and a trusted clerk who has disappeared.
Genre(s): Detective Fiction
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3dAudioBooksBilly Whiskers in FranceFrances Trego Montgomery (1858 - 1925)
Billy Whiskers is in France, but he is homesick. Of course, he makes new friends and entangles himself in many adventures. He has encounters with nurses, farmers, and a terrible wharf rat. Why is he at a dog cemetery? Why is there a submarine explosion? Join our favorite goat on his adventures in France.
Genre(s): Action & Adventure, Animals & Nature
Language: English
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3dAudioBooksThe Case of the Lamp That Went OutAuguste Groner (1850 - 1929)
"The Case of the Lamp That Went Out" is one of the earlier Joseph Muller stories by Austrian author, Auguste Groner, originally published in German in 1899. The English translation was published in 1910 in a collection of five detective stories in "Joseph Muller: Detective - Being the Account of Some Adventures in the Professional Experience of a Member of the Imperial Austrian Police." The body of a well-dressed man is found in a vacant lot early one morning. With very few clues and no witnesses, it is up to Muller to sort out the...2022-01-223h 47
3dAudioBooksGold of the Gods
Arthur B. Reeve (1880 - 1936)
Mansiche, the ruler of ancient Northern Peru was believed to have buried a huge treasure. But he cast a curse on, whoever, divulged the whereabouts of the treasure and those who might discover it. A Peruvian dagger is stolen from the Museum from under the nose of Prof. Allen Norton and a treasure hunter Don Luis de Mendoza is killed by it. Is it the curse of Mansiche? Will the curse next befall on his beautiful daughter Inez Mendoza, who is being wooed by Mr. Lockwood and Alfonso de Moche. Detective Kennedy...2022-01-227h 09
3dAudioBooksThe Younger Sister
Catherine Anne Hubback (1818 - 1877)
Emma Watson, the youngest child of six from a poor family, was sent away as a child to be raised by her wealthy aunt and uncle. When her uncle dies and her aunt remarries, Emma (now a pretty, well-educated, and opinionated young woman) returns home to help care for her ailing father and reconnect with her estranged siblings. She quickly must learn how to behave among the less affluent and navigate her way through the affections of many young men vying for her attention.
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3dAudioBooksThe Cat's Paw
Natalie Sumner Lincoln (1881 - 1935)
Susan Baird is found dead at her tea-table and all the evidence points to murder. She is supposed to have been penniless but when her will is found her niece Kitty inherits a fortune. Grave suspicion shifts from one person to another and the two suitors for Kitty's hand whom Washington society had watched with interest seem closely connected with the many clues which again and again prove worthless. Until the closing chapters unravel the mystery you suspect the most innocent people and the real murderer and his fiendish devices come as...2022-01-226h 47
3dAudioBooksThe Border Riflemen
Albert W. Aiken (1846 - 1894)
In this dime novel set on the American frontier, we meet a beautiful young girl, Sadie, who is fending off advances from the rough woodsman, known as Black Will. Luckily, Cooney Joe comes to her rescue while her father is out hunting. Life is hard on the frontier, and there is constant danger from Black Hawk and his warriors, but Sadie and her father try to live in peace with everyone.
Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction, Westerns
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3dAudioBooksMyths and Legends Around the World (in English) Collection 13This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends, heroes, myths, and ancient lore from many different cultures.
Genre(s): Culture & Heritage Fiction, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales
Language: English
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3dAudioBooksWives on StrikeLillian Sutton Pelée (1872 - 1948)
The "Wives' Welfare Club" is meeting together so they may air grievances about their husbands and the inequality that women experience. During this meeting the wives decide to "go on Strike" and nominate Jane Spink to be the test case. Betty, who is a newlywed of only 30 days, boasts of her husband's perfect qualities and is amused at the other wives' complaints. However, as she returns home she realizes she just might end up on strike as well!
Genre(s): Comedy
Language: English
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3dAudioBooksThe Romance of a Shop
Amy Levy (1861 - 1889)
Praised by Oscar Wilde amongst other contemporaries, Amy Levy's first novel tells the story of the four Lorimer sisters, who decide to open their own photography business after the death of their father which has left them in poverty. The novel examines the opportunities and difficulties of urban life for the "New Woman" in the late nineteenth century. Not only was Levy unusual as a female novelist in this period, but she was also from an Anglo Jewish family.
Genre(s): Family Life
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3dAudioBooksLibrary of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 13The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering "American households a mass of good reading", the editors drew from literature of all times and all kinds what they considered the best pieces of human writing, and compiled an ambitious collection of 45 volumes (with a 46th being an index-guide). Besides the selection and translation of a huge number of poems, letters, short stories and sections of books, the collection offers, before each chapter, a short essay about the author or subject in question. In...2022-01-205h 13
3dAudioBooksPimpernel and Rosemary
Baroness Emma Orczy (1865 - 1947)
A novel in the Scarlet Pimpernel series that features Peter Blakeney, a descendant of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Peter's adventures take him to Hungary and much intrigue involving his good friend, Rosemary, Nazis, and spies ensue.
Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction, Historical Fiction
Language: English
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3dAudioBooksThe Master's Violin
Myrtle Reed (1874 - 1911)
Originally published in 1904, “The Master’s Violin” is the seventh novel by Myrtle Reed. It is set in a German town of Pennsylvania, East Lancaster, giving two characters fairly difficult accents to perform. The story entails a widow, Margaret Irving, and her son, Lynn. Returning to East Lancaster after 20 years they are hoping to further Lynn’s musical career under the tutelage of Herr Kaufmann, the master violinist.
We find the young lady, Iris, brought up by her adopted Aunt Peace, interacting with her new neighbours, as she slowly learns to live on...2022-01-205h 46
3dAudioBooksCaptain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2, No. 23, August, 1921
W. H. Fawcett (1885 - 1940)
"Captain Billy's Whiz Bang" was an iconic magazine of American wit and humor launched by W.H. Fawcett in 1919. Each 64-page issue is packed with jokes, quips, and humorous bits of writing. Each year it grew in popularity, and Fawcett’s success lead to the formation of the well-known Fawcett Publications, which issued "Whiz Comics" and introduced Captain Marvel. The magazine was immortalized in a line in the song “Trouble” from Meredith Wilson’s “The Music Man.”
Genre(s): Humorous Fiction
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3dAudioBooksSally on the Rocks | Winifred Boggs | General FictionSally Lunton has led a bohemian lifestyle in Paris, but now at 31 she returns to Little Crampton disillusioned, no job, no money and no hopes for the future except a safe, if loveless, marriage.. Little Crampton has its complement of “typical” villagers – the pompous bank manager, the local gossip, the ageing parson – but this is spring 1915, and the young men are away fighting and dying in the Great War. Farms and businesses are struggling to exist, families are grieving and there are not many marriage prospects for a spirited, worldly young woman.
Sally's story is told with a mixtur...2022-01-1810h 37
3dAudioBooksFour Masters of Etching | Frederick WedmoreFrederick Wedmore presents short vignettes of influential artiest of the 19th century who were noted for their mastery of etching: Seymour Haden, Jules Jacquemart, J. A. M. Whistler, and Alphonse Legros
Genre(s): Art, Design & Architecture, Biography & Autobiography
Language: English
Frederick Wedmore (1844 - 1921)
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3dAudioBooksThe Cenci | Percy Bysshe Shelley | TragedyWritten in 1819, but not first staged for over hundred years after it was written due to controversial themes of incest and parricide, it was not considered stageable. This tragedy is a true story, set in Rome, 1599, centred around the murder of the tyrant, Count Francesco Cenci, by his tormented daughter, Beatrice.
Genre(s): Tragedy
Language: English
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
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3dAudioBooksThe Sentimental Song Book | Julia A. Moore | PoetryJulia A. Moore, the "Sweet Singer of Michigan," is today considered one of the true luminaries of bad poetry. Her verse, with its questionable grammar, clumsily contrived rhymes and its unique mixture of rigorous moralism and sentimentality, attracted wide-spread mockery from the press and the public, but also the attention of literary celebrities like Mark Twain. Ogden Nash, the comic poet, claimed that Moore was a major source of inspiration. Today the Flint Public Library in Michigan holds the Julia A. Moore Poetry Festival to celebrate bad poetry.
Genre(s): Poetry, Single author
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3dAudioBooksThe Follies of a Day; OR, The Marriage of Figaro (English) | Pierre BeaumarchaisThis is Thomas Holcroft's English translation, obtained by attending Pierre Beaumarchais' French play nine times in Paris during its original official staging in 1784. Beaumarchais' play was the basis for Mozart's 1796 opera, and is a satire about lovers' misdoings and French society. Because of its rebellious themes, presented during the troubling times leading up to the French Revolution, Beaumarchais had a very difficult time getting his play past the censors. Once staged, the play was enormously popular with audiences, including the aristocracy despite their understanding of the underlying themes. It was shocking that an commoner could contend directly with a...2022-01-183h 07
3dAudioBooksIsles of Eden | Laura Lee DavidsonA charming and thoughtful view of life in Canada experienced while vacationing on a small island in summer. The author is a women who is independent, observant, and compassionate in her view of her 'simple' neighbors. Ms. Davidson's description of the natural world, also, in this idyllic setting and time is well worth the time of one's listening and contemplation.
Genre(s): Nature
Laura Lee Davidson (1870 - 1949)
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3dAudioBooksThe Song of the Waters | PoetryThese are 17 recordings of The Song of the Waters by William Murray Graydon.
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William Murray Graydon, February 4, 1864 – April 5, 1946, was an extremely prolific American writer who also wrote under the pen-names Alfred Armitage, William Murray, and Tom Olliver. He published a wide variety of historical fiction, wilderness and adventure stories and poems, science-fiction, and Sexton Blake boy detective stories. This lovely poem describes what the poet seems to hear the Susquehanna river whispering as it flows by his campsite on a star-lit night. Note: The Susquehanna River flows from upstate New York state to the Chesapeake Ba...2022-01-1851 min
3dAudioBooksThe Last Wish | PoetryThese are 27 recordings of The Last Wish by Robert Bulwer-Lytton.
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Robert Edward Bulwer-Lytton was the son of the novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and was an English statesman, Conservative politician, and poet under the pseudonym Owen Meredith.
Genre(s): Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Robert Bulwer-Lytton (1831 - 1891)
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3dAudioBooksPrincess Sukey: The Story of a Pigeon and Her Human Friends | Marshall SaundersDear little Princess Sukey sitting by the fire—pretty little pigeon—of what is she thinking as she dreamily eyes the blazing wood? If a pigeon could review its past life, what she has of bird mind would be running back over the series of adventures that she had ere she established herself in this well ordered household.
Has she any mentality of her own, or are all pigeons stupid as has been said? Listen to her story, and judge for yourself. (Excerpt from Chapter I)
Genre(s): Animals & Nature
Marshall Saunders (1861 - 1947)
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3dAudioBooksA Personal Record | Joseph ConradConrad began dictating the series of loose autobiographical sketches that would become 'A Personal Record' in 1911, when he was half way through writing 'Under Western Eyes'. His avowed aim was to give his readers a sense of 'the man behind the work', and he certainly succeeded in creating a vivid impression of the kind of Joseph Conrad he would have liked to have been seen as: a man capable of wry humour and self-deprecation, but a sober, serious man too, prepared to face life as he found it. While some of the moments Conrad recalls seem slight enough in...2022-01-184h 37
3dAudioBooksLater Treatises of Saint Athanasius, Archbishop of Alexandria | ChristianityThe times, for which God raised up Saint Athanasius, have, in many respects, a counterpart in our own. There is, now too, earnest, ever-enlarging, adherence to the faith, in those who hold it. But there is also a wide-spread dislike of definite doctrine, such as found a vent in the different shades of Arianism. They framed eleven Creeds, to satisfy themselves or others, over-against the one faith, put forth at Nicaea and accepted by the whole Church. They swung to and fro, at times approximating nearer to the truth; but their secret maxim, unknown to themselves, was, "anything but...2022-01-186h 00
3dAudioBooksHorror & Supernatural Fiction | The Thing in the Woods | Margery WilliamsDr. Haverill is asked to fill in as local physician for the skittish Dr. Lennox in a small Pennsylvania town. The locals seem to be a superstitious bunch, prone to fearing traveling in the woods at night and with good reason. It seems a series of vicious attacks have occurred by what appears to be some kind of large animal. As the bodies begin to pile up, Dr. Haverill starts to question whether the responsible party could be something beyond humanity.
Writer Margery Williams Bianco (writing here under the pseudonym Harper Williams) is perhaps better known for...2022-01-185h 34
3dAudioBooksThe Spirits' BookAllan Kardec (1804 - 1869)
The Spirits' Book, published in French in 1857, is considered the most important book in the Spiritist philosophy. It contains the bases for that philosophy and all important points in its doctrine: the belief in God, reincarnation and the survival of the soul after death, the fact that it is through reincarnation that the soul learns and moves closer to perfection. The work is the first of a five book canon, and it is organized in the form of questions and answers, with commentary by the codifier, Allan Kardec, a pseudonym of Hippolyte Léo...2022-01-154h 25
3dAudioBooksThe Aliens | Science Fiction | Murray LeinsterThe human race was expanding through the galaxy ... and so, they knew, were the Aliens. Who were these beings? Traces of them could be found scattered on planets everywhere, some very recent, but the aliens themselves were never encountered. They were obviously just as advanced technologically as humans and obviously looking for planets to expand to, just like humans. But what would happen when the two races, human and alien met? From history it was obvious that a war should be planned for, two expanding empires cannot tolerate rivals and they would clash and it could happen at any...2022-01-151h 37
3dAudioBooksLater Poems
Alice Meynell (1847 - 1922)
Alice Meynell was a British poet and suffragist. This collection was published in 1902 and explores the author’s Catholic faith as well as the natural world.
Genre(s): Single author, Lyric
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3dAudioBooksCrime & Mystery Fiction | The Dream Doctor
Arthur B. Reeve (1880 - 1936)
The Dream Doctor is a compilation of detective stories featuring Professor Craig Kennedy, a Sherlock-like character who uses his scientific acumen to solve mysteries. A newspaper reporter, Walter Jameson, works with him to get to the bottom of things. The Craig Kennedy stories appeared in Cosmopolitan magazine in the early 1900s.
Genre(s): Crime & Mystery Fiction, Detective Fiction, Published 1900 onward
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3dAudioBooksBible (YLT) NT 08: 2nd Epistle to the CorinthiansThe Old and New Covenants, translated according to the letter and idioms of the original languages. - From the title page
Genre(s): Young's Literal Translation
Language: English
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3dAudioBooksVerse and Worse
Harry Graham (1874 - 1936)
A collection of dark and humorous verse from "Col D. Streamer". This collection includes poems from The Baby's Baedeker, Perverted Proverbs, and Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes.
Genre(s): Single author
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3dAudioBooksThe Professor's House
Willa Sibert Cather (1873 - 1947)
A portrait of Americas many social groups with the chief interest centered on a university professor and his family
Genre(s): General Fiction
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3dAudioBooksThe Tale of a Tank And Other Yarns
Harold Ashton (1875 - 1919)
Harold Ashton was the War Correspondent of The Daily News during the First World War and reported extensively on the British army’s involvement in the conflict. Whether working alongside the British troops that were fighting on the frontline or in the trenches or accompanying the massive logistics operation behind the lines – be it the transporting of munitions and supplies or seeing at first hand the work of the Royal Army Medical Corps – he reported on the successes and failures, the tragedies and victories over the course of the war.
But this b...2022-01-1210h 50
3dAudioBooksJames Grant | The Royal Regiment, and Other Novelettes | War & Military FictionJames Grant was a prolific Scottish writer of novels and "novelettes", particularly centered around military life. Included with this regimental tale, are four such novelettes or short stories.
Genre(s): War & Military Fiction
James Grant (1822 - 1887)
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3dAudioBooksRomance | A Weaver of Dreams | Myrtle ReedDelightful and charmingly predictable, this sweet romance will make you reflect one minute and laugh out loud the next. It's the kind of cozy read that will make the ideal companion on a dreary afternoon or snowy winter's evening. Enjoy!!
Genre(s): Romance
Myrtle Reed (1874 - 1911)
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3dAudioBooksThe Forest Reverie | Poetry | Edgar Allan PoeWhilst Edgar Poe was editor of the Broadway Journal, some poems were published over the signature of "A. M. Ide". In order, doubtless, to give a show of variety, Poe was then publishing some of his known works in his journal over noms de plume, and as no other writings whatever can be traced to any person bearing the name of "A. M. Ide," it is not impossible that the poems now republished in this collection may be by the author of "The Raven." Having been published without his usual elaborate revision, Poe may have wished to hide his...2022-01-1145 min
3dAudioBooksThe Romance of Modern Geology | Earth Sciences | Edwin Sharpe GrewFrom the series, The Library of Romance, this book introduces the reader to the modern geology of the 1909, with topics that include the building and shaping of the earth, the action of weather, rivers, seas and ice on the earth, earthquakes and volcanoes, and, of course, dinosaurs and other extinct animals.
Genre(s): Earth Sciences
Edwin Sharpe Grew (1867 - 1950)
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3dAudioBooksFirst Love and Other Fascinating Stories about Spanish Life | Short StoriesThis is a collection of humorous short stories bound to entertain and make readers chuckle!
Genre(s): Short Stories
Pedro Antonio de Alarcón y Ariza (1833 - 1891), Serafín Estébanez Calderón (1799 - 1867) et al.
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3dAudioBooksHaiti: Its Dawn of Progress after Years in a Night of Revolution | John Dryden KuserThis book is part history and part travelogue, an account of a brief visit by a wealthy, white U.S. politician during a lamentable time in Haiti’s history of its invasion and occupation by the U.S. military. Dryden offers his views of elements of Haitian culture such as education, religion and commerce, with some optimism but with the shallow understanding of a casual observer who has not been immersed in the culture enough to provide truly insightful understanding. One chapter is an account of his duck hunting expedition. This is, nonetheless, valuable in helping us understand how ma...2022-01-091h 30
3dAudioBooksTen Kittens | G. A. PuckettThe stories of the ten kittens told in this book are true to life. They have been gathered from here and there over the country. All the kittens have lived and played their little parts in the life history as told in each chapter. The purpose of this collection of stories is to create more interest and love for kittens on the part of our boys and girls. If these stories help someone to be kinder to little kittens, then the author’s purpose will not have been in vain.
Genre(s): Animals & Nature
G. A...2022-01-0854 min
3dAudioBooksPhysics & Mechanics | The Atom and the Ocean | E. W. Seabrook HullThis is one of the publications in the “Understanding the Atom” Series from the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission. Topics covered include an overview of the ocean, the role of nuclear energy, research project, oceanic instruments, nuclear powered vessels, desalination, and radiation preservation of seafood.
Genre(s): Astronomy, Physics & Mechanics
E. W. Seabrook Hull (1923 - 2007)
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3dAudioBooksA Girl Among the AnarchistsHelen and Olivia Rossetti were rather precocious girls in Victorian London. While still extremely young, they published a renowned anarchist journal in their home which drew prominent figures to their salon. From their expriences, they co-authored this 1903 novel, in which the narrator, Isabel Meredith, reveals a first-hand inside account of the countercultural community of late-19th century British anarchism. This was certainly far outside the normal purview of the women of Victorian society.
Genre(s): General Fiction
Olivia Rossetti Agresti (1875 - 1960) and Helen Rossetti Angeli (1865 - 1964)
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3dAudioBooksAgainst Celsus Book 5 | Origen of AlexandriaAgainst Celsus, preserved entirely in Greek, is a major apologetics work by the Church Father Origen of Alexandria, written in around 248 AD, countering the writings of Celsus, a pagan philosopher and controversialist who had written a scathing attack on Christianity in his treatise "The True Word". Among a variety of other charges, Celsus had denounced many Christian doctrines as irrational and criticized Christians themselves as uneducated, deluded, unpatriotic, close-minded towards reason, and too accepting of sinners. He had accused Jesus of performing his miracles using black magic rather than actual divine powers and of plagiarizing his teachings from Plato...2022-01-082h 48
3dAudioBooksBread | Charles G. NorrisBread by Charles G. Norris reads like a working class Great Gatsby with a tragic female main character. The author is said to have influenced F. Scott Fitzgerald. There is a kind of cadence to the writing, and arc to the story where this can be felt in both similarity and contrast. It follows the life of a woman from young adulthood to middle age between the years of 1905 to 1922 in New York City. She is a stenographer, has chosen the then taboo path of a “wage earner” as opposed to that of mother/wife/homemaker. The descriptions of the...2022-01-061h 24
3dAudioBooksThe Blue Review, Number 3 | Short StoriesThe Blue Review was a short lived monthly journal published in London between May and July 1913. The successor to Rhythm, The Blue Review was edited by John Middleton Murry and Katherine Mansfield, but survived only three issues. In addition to poetry and short literary pieces, the review included reviews of theatre, music and the arts and of books recently published in English and French. The third and final issue of the journal included Poetry by Rupert Brooke, short stories by Katherine Mansfield and Gilbert Cannan and a review of Thomas Mann's 'Death in Venice' by D. H. Lawrence.
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3dAudioBooksLiterary Criticism | A Dish of Orts: Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare | George MacDonaldReaders of George MacDonald are used to his engaging story-telling, winsome characters, and simple theology of trust in God as Father. But this book shows a different side of MacDonald. A Dish of Orts is a varied collection of essays, mostly in the nature of literary criticism. These essays are, in MacDonald's words, "but fragmentary presentments of larger meditation."
Genre(s): Essays & Short Works, Literary Criticism
George MacDonald (1824 - 1905)
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3dAudioBooksDetective Fiction | Under the Tiger's Claws | Nicholas CarterNick Carter is a fictional detective who first appeared in 1886 in dime store novels. Over the years, different authors, all taking the nom de plume Nicholas Carter, have penned stories featuring "America's greatest detective". In this story, Nick is called to visit his banker friend, Mr. Gilsley, who is concerned about some missing money. Also present at the meeting is Belle Braddon, the banker's stenographer. Although the young woman is striking, there is something about her that Nick doesn't trust.
Genre(s): Detective Fiction
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3dAudioBooksPoetry | The Empty Room | Katharine Lee BatesBest known as the author of "America the Beautiful", American professor and poet Katharine Lee Bates also wrote many books and articles on social reform.
Genre(s): Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Katharine Lee Bates (1859 - 1929)
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3dAudioBooks3dAudioBooks | An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book IV | Part - 2 | John LOCKE | Education, Writing & Linguistics, ModernAuthor: John LOCKE (1632 - 1704)
Description: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is a work by John Locke concerning the foundation of human knowledge and understanding. It first appeared in 1689 (although dated 1690) with the printed title An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. He describes the mind at birth as a blank slate (tabula rasa, although he did not use those actual words) filled later through experience. The essay was one of the principal sources of empiricism in modern philosophy, and influenced many enlightenment philosophers, such as David Hume and George Berkeley.
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3dAudioBooks3dAudioBooks | An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book IV | Part - 1 | John LOCKE | Education, Writing & Linguistics, ModernAuthor: John LOCKE (1632 - 1704)
Description: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is a work by John Locke concerning the foundation of human knowledge and understanding. It first appeared in 1689 (although dated 1690) with the printed title An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. He describes the mind at birth as a blank slate (tabula rasa, although he did not use those actual words) filled later through experience. The essay was one of the principal sources of empiricism in modern philosophy, and influenced many enlightenment philosophers, such as David Hume and George Berkeley.
This book focuses on knowledge in general...2020-03-258h 28
3dAudioBooks3dAudioBooks | The End Of The Day | Duncan Campbell SCOTT | Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)Duncan Campbell Scott CMG FRSC was a Canadian bureaucrat, poet and prose writer. With Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, and Archibald Lampman, he is classed as one of Canada's Confederation Poets.
The End Of The Day
Author: Duncan Campbell SCOTT (1862 - 1947)
Genre(s): Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Language: English
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In illuminating these principles, Allen hoped to contribute to "the prosperity of the mass of mankind." If worldly success continues t...2020-03-184h 05
3dAudioBooks3dAudioBooks | Dream Collection 1 - Stories and PoemsDream Collection 1 - Stories and Poems
Author: Various
This is a collection of 20 stories and/or poems, contributed by Librivox volunteers, pertaining to dreams.
Genre(s): Poetry, Short Stories
Language: English
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3dAudioBooks3dAudioBooks | Christmas and Christmas Lore by Thomas G. Crippen | Social Science (Culture & Anthropology), Christianity - OtherDescription: For above forty years I have been a diligent collector of history, tradition, legend, custom, or folklore, whether from familiar or unfamiliar sources, relating to the festival of the Holy Nativity. Moreover, I have gathered copiously from scarce pamphlets of the 17th and 18th centuries, from old chapbooks, newspaper paragraphs, and magazine articles old and new, and from contact with rustics in several counties. The fruits of my gathering are briefly summarized in the following pages, in the hope that they may conduce to that "joy and pious mirth" wherewith we ought, all of us, to commemorate the...2020-03-166h 083dAudioBooksComedy Book - Ann by Lechmere WorrallAnn | Lechmere Worrall | Comedy | 3dAudioBooks.com
Author: Lechmere Worrall (1874 - 1957)
Description: Edward Hargraves, a young author, is encouraged by his mother and friend, Billy, to marry a woman in order to understand the fairer sex better and thereby characterize them better in his next book. While he attempts to follow their advice and marry Evangeline, a pleasant but rather uninteresting woman, a daring American reporter has set her eyes on him. She will stop at nothing to interview him and attract his attention.
Genre(s): Comedy
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