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Slabs of the Sunburnt West

Early Poetry of Carl Sandburg

by Carl Sandburg ...

Narrated by Robert Bethune ...

Series series Early Poetry of Carl Sandburg
Unabridged

1 hour 20 min

This is Carl Sandburg's fourth collection of poetry.His signature style, a rough-and-ready free verse that often transforms into poetic prose, is in full view.Like Whitman before him and like Masters and Frost in his own time, he puts his focus directly on life as he sees it around him, life in the rough-and-tumble Chicago of the early 20th century and life in the American West, at a time when ... Read more

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This is Carl Sandburg's fourth collection of poetry.His signature style, a rough-and-ready free verse that often transforms into poetic prose, is in full view.Like Whitman before him and like Masters and Frost in his own time, he puts his focus directly on life as he sees it around him, life in the rough-and-tumble Chicago of the early 20th century and life in the American West, at a time when
... Read more
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Mrs. Molesworth's Ghost Stories: Four Uncanny Tales

by Mary Louisa Molesworth ...

Narrated by Robert Bethune, Susie Berneis ...

Unabridged

3 hours 28 min

Unlike most ghost story writers, Mary Louisa Molesworth does not want to make you wake up screaming in the middle of the night. You may wake up with a shiver, but you'll also wake wake up feeling thoughtful, musing on how the mysteries of love, compassion, and memory can extend themselves into the realm of the supernatural.In "Lady Farquhar's Old Lady", she explores how women fallen on hard times ... Read more

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Unlike most ghost story writers, Mary Louisa Molesworth does not want to make you wake up screaming in the middle of the night. You may wake up with a shiver, but you'll also wake wake up feeling thoughtful, musing on how the mysteries of love, compassion, and memory can extend themselves into the realm of the supernatural.In "Lady Farquhar's Old Lady", she explores how women fallen on hard times
... Read more
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Mrs. Molesworth's Ghost Stories: Four More Uncanny Tales

by Mary Louisa Molesworth ...

Narrated by Robert Bethune, Susie Berneis ...

Unabridged

2 hours 44 min

In this set of "Uncanny Tales," Mary Louisa Molesworth deftly makes us feel the shiver of ghostly mystery without actually giving us a ghost! Or, to put it another way, she's interested in a different kind of ghostly presence.In "The Man with the Cough", it is the ghostly presence of a secret agent, and the ghostly experience of events that seem like a dream, but have real-world consequences. In ... Read more

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In this set of "Uncanny Tales," Mary Louisa Molesworth deftly makes us feel the shiver of ghostly mystery without actually giving us a ghost! Or, to put it another way, she's interested in a different kind of ghostly presence.In "The Man with the Cough", it is the ghostly presence of a secret agent, and the ghostly experience of events that seem like a dream, but have real-world consequences. In
... Read more
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Cornhuskers

The Early Poetry of Carl Sandburg

by Carl Sandburg ...

Narrated by Robert Bethune ...

Series series Early Poetry of Carl Sandburg
Unabridged

2 hours 14 min

Carl Sandburg fixed his eyes on the people of his time and place. He ignored or scorned the wealthy, the comfortable, the complacent, the powerful and those who serve them; he had no time for the ruling class. His eyes were open to the immigrant, the laborer, the hobo, the farmer, the man who works with his hands, the woman who runs a family, or the soldier who goes to war for them. Not for him ... Read more

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Carl Sandburg fixed his eyes on the people of his time and place. He ignored or scorned the wealthy, the comfortable, the complacent, the powerful and those who serve them; he had no time for the ruling class. His eyes were open to the immigrant, the laborer, the hobo, the farmer, the man who works with his hands, the woman who runs a family, or the soldier who goes to war for them. Not for him
... Read more
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A Boy's Will

Early Poetry of Robert Frost

by Robert Frost ...

Narrated by Robert Bethune ...

Series series Early Poetry of Robert Frost
Unabridged

41 min

Frost weaves together themes of innocence and experience, love and joy and pain, in a sequence of poems that relate to each other while also standing alone as vivid, fresh expressions of intense feeling that speak as freshly today as they did when they were written.This volume includes some of his best-known and best-loved works, such as Wind and Window Flower, Love and a Question, Storm Fear, and ... Read more

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Frost weaves together themes of innocence and experience, love and joy and pain, in a sequence of poems that relate to each other while also standing alone as vivid, fresh expressions of intense feeling that speak as freshly today as they did when they were written.This volume includes some of his best-known and best-loved works, such as Wind and Window Flower, Love and a Question, Storm Fear, and
... Read more
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North of Boston

Early Poetry of Robert Frost

by Robert Frost ...

Narrated by Robert Bethune ...

Series series Early Poetry of Robert Frost
Unabridged

1 hour 46 min

Frost's third book of poetry, North of Boston, is an extraordinary set of poems that are nearly dramas, conversations drawn from the heat of life, love, and death.From Home Burial and Death of the Hired Man to A Hundred Collars to The Generations of Man.Frost's work in this volume spans the whole range of human experience, expressed always in his characteristic dry, matter-of-fact, yet wonderfully ... Read more

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Frost's third book of poetry, North of Boston, is an extraordinary set of poems that are nearly dramas, conversations drawn from the heat of life, love, and death.From Home Burial and Death of the Hired Man to A Hundred Collars to The Generations of Man.Frost's work in this volume spans the whole range of human experience, expressed always in his characteristic dry, matter-of-fact, yet wonderfully
... Read more
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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics

by George Washington Plunkitt ...

Narrated by Robert Bethune ...

Unabridged

2 hours 57 min

In the days of Tammany Hall, politicians like George Washington Plunkitt spent their careers in service to the city--but first and foremost in the service of the political machine. Plunkitt seems never to have doubted exactly where he stood on the deeply corrupt, yet amazingly effective politics and government in which he spent his life; he was entirely in favor of it, and gave it his devoted ... Read more

$24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

In the days of Tammany Hall, politicians like George Washington Plunkitt spent their careers in service to the city--but first and foremost in the service of the political machine. Plunkitt seems never to have doubted exactly where he stood on the deeply corrupt, yet amazingly effective politics and government in which he spent his life; he was entirely in favor of it, and gave it his devoted
... Read more
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Mountain Interval

Early Poetry of Robert Frost

by Robert Frost ...

Narrated by Robert Bethune ...

Series series Early Poetry of Robert Frost
Unabridged

1 hour 16 min

Sometimes puckishly humorous, sometimes elegiac, sometimes terrifying, these poems show the young artist using his new-found voice to explore a world - a village in New Hampshire - that meant everything to him.This volume includes some of his best-known and best-loved works, such as The Road Not Taken, Out! Out!, Birches, and The Hill-wife. It also includes one of his poem-dramas Snow.Enjoy! ... Read more

$16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Sometimes puckishly humorous, sometimes elegiac, sometimes terrifying, these poems show the young artist using his new-found voice to explore a world - a village in New Hampshire - that meant everything to him.This volume includes some of his best-known and best-loved works, such as The Road Not Taken, Out! Out!, Birches, and The Hill-wife. It also includes one of his poem-dramas Snow.Enjoy!
... Read more
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Voices of the Ghost I: Spirits with Issues

by H. G. Wells, John Kendrick Bangs ...

Narrated by Robert Bethune ...

Series series Voices of the Ghost
Unabridged

1 hour 14 min

Here are three stories that will make you chuckle and shiver at the same time. Spirits can be funny when they turn out to have issues and problems of their own, and the authors of these stories, John Kendrick Bangs and H. G. Wells, have a fine time putting smiles on our faces - and wiping them off again!"The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall"What do you do about a ghost who is both terrifying and ... Read more

$15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Here are three stories that will make you chuckle and shiver at the same time. Spirits can be funny when they turn out to have issues and problems of their own, and the authors of these stories, John Kendrick Bangs and H. G. Wells, have a fine time putting smiles on our faces - and wiping them off again!"The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall"What do you do about a ghost who is both terrifying and
... Read more
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Theory of Pyschoanalysis

by Carl Jung ...

Narrated by Robert Bethune ...

Unabridged

5 hours 14 min

Although the theories presented in this book, a 1915 edition of the lectures Jung presented at Fordham University, are now thoroughly outdated, this book is still a fascinating glimpse of Jung's mind at a crucial time in his life. Just three years previously, he had struck out on his own, publishing his Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido, known in English as Psychology of the Unconscious. That book ... Read more

$25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Although the theories presented in this book, a 1915 edition of the lectures Jung presented at Fordham University, are now thoroughly outdated, this book is still a fascinating glimpse of Jung's mind at a crucial time in his life. Just three years previously, he had struck out on his own, publishing his Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido, known in English as Psychology of the Unconscious. That book
... Read more
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Guillotine, the

French Revolution

by Thomas Carlyle ...

Narrated by Robert Bethune ...

Series series French Revolution
Unabridged

11 hours 53 min

Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution is a landmark of literary history. Conceived not as a dry recounting of facts, but as a personal, vivid, direct, and dramatic encounter with the turbulent times of revolutionary France, it is in fact an extended dramatic monologue in which we meet not only the striking personalities and events of the time, but the equally striking personality and mind of ... Read more

$32.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution is a landmark of literary history. Conceived not as a dry recounting of facts, but as a personal, vivid, direct, and dramatic encounter with the turbulent times of revolutionary France, it is in fact an extended dramatic monologue in which we meet not only the striking personalities and events of the time, but the equally striking personality and mind of
... Read more
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Constitution, the

French Revolution

by Thomas Carlyle ...

Narrated by Robert Bethune ...

Series series French Revolution
Unabridged

11 hours 51 min

Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution is a landmark of literary history. Conceived not as a dry recounting of facts, but as a personal, vivid, direct and dramatic encounter with the turbulent times of revolutionary France, it is in fact an extended dramatic monologue in which we meet not only the striking personalities and events of the time, but the equally striking personality and mind of ... Read more

$29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution is a landmark of literary history. Conceived not as a dry recounting of facts, but as a personal, vivid, direct and dramatic encounter with the turbulent times of revolutionary France, it is in fact an extended dramatic monologue in which we meet not only the striking personalities and events of the time, but the equally striking personality and mind of
... Read more