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Tower, The by William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939)

The Tower is a short collections of poems by William Butler Yeats published in 1928 not long after he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. The title refers to Ballylee Castle, an old Norman tower in the west of Ireland … Continue reading

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Blind Man’s Eyes, The by William MacHarg (1872 – 1951) and Edwin Balmer (1883 – 1959)

Five years before the story begins, a man convicted of murdering a powerful, corrupt financier escaped and disappeared. Now, five years later, another financier, an honest one, is murdered in Seattle. The famous lawyer who is his executor is attacked … Continue reading

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Lives of Greek Statesmen by George William Cox (1827 – 1902)

In the darkest days of the Persian War when the armies of Xerxes were overrunning northern Greece, Athens faced destruction. The desperate Athenians consulted the oracle at Delphi, who answered, “For thus saith Zeus, that when all else within the … Continue reading

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Battle of Allatoona, October 5th, 1864, The by William Ludlow (1843 – 1901)

This is an account of the Union army’s strategies and activities in protecting a Union garrison at Allatoona in Bartow Country, Georgia during the Civil War. – Summary by Jeffery Smith

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Robert Louis Stevenson by G. K. Chesterton (1874 – 1936) and William Robertson Nicoll (1851 – 1923)

This short early twentieth century biography of Robert Louis Stevenson by polymath Chesterton and journalist Nicoll is also sometimes entitled ‘The Characteristics of Robert Louis Stevenson.’ Each author wrote a section of the whole. This recording is of the third … Continue reading

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Study in Shadows, A by William John Locke (1863 – 1930)

Among the mixture of people spending the summer in a pension (boarding house) in Geneva are Felicia, a 20-year-old, and Katherine (30) who become good friends. Another person in the pension is Mr. Chetwynd, an elderly gentleman, whose handsome son … Continue reading

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Perfect Frame, The by William Ard (1922 – 1960)

T.N.T. packed in satin! Lorena Dahl had her fingers on the straps of the halter and Dane knew she was going to rip them away. “Cut it out,” he warned her. “It’s strictly business between you and me!” “I know … Continue reading

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King’s Son, Or, a Memoir of Billy Bray, The by Frederick William Bourne (1830 – 1905)

Billy Bray, was an unconventional Cornish preacher. He was born in 1794 in the village of Twelveheads, Cornwall, England. After leaving school Billy Bray worked as a miner in Cornwall and Devon; during this time he was a drunkard and … Continue reading

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Letters from New Zealand 1857–1911 by Henry William Harper (1833 – 1922)

“Being some Account of Life and Work in the Province of Canterbury, South Island.” A set fo 26 letters covering the Author’s period of service in New Zealand as an Anglican priest. They cover his parochial work in Christchurch, on … Continue reading

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William Harrison Ainsworth – The Old-London Merchant

AT that festive season, when the days are at the shortest, and the nights at the longest, and when, consequently, it is the invariable practice of all sensible people to turn night into day; when the state of the odds … Continue reading

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William Harrison Ainsworth

William Harrison AINSWORTH (1805-1882) NOVELS Auriol, or The Elixir of Life–Text—HTML Boscobel, or the Royal Oak–Text—HTML Guy Fawkes, or The Gunpowder Treason–HTML Jack Sheppard – A Romance–Text— HTML The Lancashire Witches -A Romance of Pendle Forest–Text—HTML The Leaguer of Lathom–HTML … Continue reading

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