Culture & Heritage
True Stories from History and Biography
Read by Susan Morin
Nathaniel Hawthorne
In writing this ponderous tome, the author's desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals, in such…
The Marrow of Tradition
Read by James K. White
Charles Waddell Chesnutt
In The Marrow of Tradition, Charles W. Chesnutt--using the 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina massacre as a backdrop--probes and exposes the ra…
Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule
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Mahatma Gandhi
First written in Gandhi's native language Gujarati, this booklet advocates for Indian non-violent self-rule during the struggle for Indian i…
Christmas Every Day and Other Stories Told for Children
Read by David Wales
William Dean Howells
Five short delightful stories for children, told in the voice of "the papa" to "the girl" and "the boy" Willia…
The Job
Read by MichelleHarris
Sinclair Lewis
'The Job' is an early work by American novelist Sinclair Lewis. It is considered an early declaration of the rights of working women. The fo…
Une Vie
Read by Christiane Jehanne
Guy de Maupassant
La vie de Jeanne, en Normandie. Un très beau portrait de femme. Un contexte socio-géographique toujours intéressant ave…
Moving the Mountain
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Moving the Mountain is a feminist utopian novel written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It was published serially in Perkins Gilman's periodica…
Revolution, and other Essays
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Jack London
A collection of 13 essays written between 1900 and 1908, published in 1910. The lead essay, "Revolution", outlines how and why Lon…
The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line
Read by James K. White
Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Published in 1899, The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line is a collection of narratives that addresses the impact of Jim …
King Alfred of England
Read by Ryan Cherrick
Jacob Abbott
The life and accomplishments of England's sole title holder of "The Great." King Alfred defended England from Viking invasions an…
La maison du péché
Read by Christiane Jehanne
Marcelle Tinayre
Histoire d'amour.Voici un très beau roman, riche et profond, très apprécié et commenté, écrit d’un…
Main Street (Version 2)
Read by Mark Nelson
Sinclair Lewis
Carol Milford, a college-educated, progressive, ambitious young woman, is self-sufficient working as a librarian in St. Paul, when she meets…
Havelok the Dane: A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln
Read by Tony Foster
Charles Watts Whistler
Troy, Athens, Rome... each has its founding legend. So too does the Lincolnshire town of Grimsby, once the largest fishing port in the world…
Myths and Legends of the Great Plains
Read by Kyle Van DeGlast
Katharine Berry Judson
Myths and Legends of the Great Plains is a compendium of myths and legends from the Great Plains region of the US. It includes many short st…
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Weston Translation)
Read by Tony Addison
The Gawain Poet, The Gawain Poettranslated Byjessie Laidlay Weston and The Gawain Poettranslated By Jessie Laidlay Weston
King Arthur lies at Camelot upon a Christmas-tide and will not eat until he hears tell of a marvel of knightly feats. In among them rides th…
Myths And Legends Of California And The Old Southwest
Read by David Wales
Katharine Berry Judson
"...The preparation of a volume of the quainter, purer myths, suitable for general reading, authentic, and with illustrations of the co…
Siddhartha (Version 2)
Read by Peter Kuhn
Hermann Hesse
A major preoccupation of Hesse in writing Siddhartha was to cure his "sickness with life" (Lebenskrankheit) by immersing himself i…
Lucinda
Read by Craig Campbell
Friedrich Von Schlegel
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel was born in 1772 at Hannover, Holy Roman Empire, to Johann Adolf Schlegel and Johanna Christiane Erdmuthe H&…
Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving
Read by Greg Giordano
Washington Irving
Washington Irving's Old Christmas tells of an American's travels through England during the Christmas season. Through a chance meeting with…
The Chaucer Storybook
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Geoffrey Chaucer and Eva March Tappan
Geoffrey Chaucer's classic "Canterbury Tales" has here been rendered into clear and contemporary English prose. These classic stor…