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The Job

Read by Michelle Harris


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…

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

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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…

Underground Man

Read by Ruth Golding


Gabriel Tarde



This post-apocalyptic novella tells the story of the downfall of civilisation and mankind following a solar cataclysm in the late 20th centu…

The Wife of His Youth

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…

Main Street

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

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…

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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 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…

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

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…

Old Christmas

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 Mill on the Floss

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George Eliot



The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot’s second novel, and was published in 1860, only a year after her first, Adam Bede. It centres on the l…

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…

American Big-Game Hunting

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Theodore Roosevelt



The first book published by The Boone and Crockett Club founded by Theodore Roosevelt and George Grinnell, who declared in their Editors Not…

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects

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Giorgio Vasari



The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti…

British Goblins

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Wirt Sikes



The British Isles, in particular Wales, are renowned for legend and folklore. The author, an American journalist working in Europe, was appo…

Nina Balatka

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Anthony Trollope



A romance set in Prague between a Catholic and a Jew. In this short novel, Trollope moves away from his usual milieu to explore a theme whic…

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