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Journal of Francis Asbury, Volume I


Francis Asbury


As one of the first two bishops of the Methodist church in America and one of the most well-known circuit riders during the spread of Method…

Wheels - The Second Cycle


Aldous Huxley, Arnold James, Helen Rootham, Osbert Sitwell, Sacheverell Sitwell, Edith Sitwell, Edward Wyndham Tennant, Iris Tree, Sherard Vines and Henry James


A series of six volumes of Wheels anthologies was produced by members of the Sitwell family between 1916 and 1922. The second volume, publis…

Last Egyptian


L. Frank Baum


Published anonymously during Baum's lifetime as he did not want his adult adventure stories to detract from his children's fantasy stories, …

Dash for Khartoum


G. A. Henty


When a nursemaid mixes up her baby boy and the baby of the family she works for, the family decides to keep both. Years later, the nursemaid…

Pantropheon


Alexis Soyer


Soyer was a 'celebrity chef', devising innovations such as water-cooled refrigerators and adjustable temperature ovens. He developed many po…

Father


S.E. Kiser


A tribute to fatherhood by a little known author, - Summary by David Lawrence

Carpenter's Geographical Reader: Africa


Frank G. Carpenter


Fascinating book for all ages telling of travels through Africa over 100 years ago. Covering the continent by steamer and train and other mo…

Uncle Wiggily's Fortune


Howard R. Garis


Uncle Wiggily Longears is the main character of a series of children's stories by American author Howard R. Garis. He began writing the stor…

Survivors of the Chancellor


Jules Verne


The Survivors of the Chancellor is a poignant and tragic tale of terror and intrigue on the high seas. Through raging storms, emaciating hun…

House of Whispers


William Le Queux


This is a story about a young lady and her blind father who live in a House of Whispers. "There is a legend that those who hear the whi…

Bad Day For Vermin by Keith Laumer


Keith Laumer


For your listening pleasure, here are three stories by the ingenious Keith Laumer from the glorious days of Science Fiction in the early 19…

Flying Stingaree


Harold L. Goodwin


First published in 1963, this is another adventure in the Rick Brant Science series, set on Chesapeake Bay and involving mysterious, sting r…

Inimitable Jeeves


P. G. Wodehouse


When either Bertie Wooster or his friends found themselves in the soup or in dangerous proximity to the tureen, the instinct of one and all …

Pierre, or The Ambiguities

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Herman Melville


The life of a young heir, Pierre is altered when he meets a mysterious woman who claims to be his sister.

Celestina


Charlotte Turner Smith


Celestina was adopted by Mrs. Willoughby from a convent in France. No one knows who her parents are. Her secret birth causes problems for he…

Little Miss Grasshopper


Johanna Spyri


The Feland family go on a holiday in Switzerland. While there, their impulsive younger daughter gets into a scrape that teaches the whole fa…

Conquest of Bread (version 2)


Peter Kropotkin


In this work, Kropotkin points out what he considers to be the defects of the economic systems of feudalism and capitalism, and how he belie…

Half Hours With the Lower Animals


Charles Holder


This book is devoted to the study of invertebrate animals. While most people associate the word "animal" with fish, amphibians, re…

Abe and Mawruss: Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter


Montague Glass


Montague Glass was a lawyer who eventually abandoned the practice of law to write full time. He wrote a series of stories in the New York Po…

Love and a Bottle


George Farquhar


This play was produced in 1698 at Drury Lane Theatre. From the bustle of its plot, the variety of its incidents, and the sustained humour of…

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