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Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens

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Essays & Short Works, Literary Criticism
Chapter: 32 | Listen: 6

“These papers were originally published as prefaces to the separate books of Dickens in one of the most extensive of those cheap libraries of the classics which are one of the real improvements of recent times. Thus they were harmless, being diluted by, or rather drowned in Dickens. My scrap of theory was a mere dry biscuit to be taken with the grand tawny port of great English comedy; and by most people it was not taken at all–like the biscuit. Nevertheless the essays were not in intention so aimless as they appear in fact. I had a general notion of what needed saying about Dickens to the new generation, though probably I did not say it. I will make another attempt to do so in this prologue, and, possibly fail again.” (Summary by G. K. Chesterton) [chương_files]

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 010

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Essays & Short Works
Chapter: 15 | Listen: 11

A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass history, politics, philosophy, nature and religion. [chương_files]

Rick and Ruddy

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Action & Adventure
Chapter: 23 | Listen: 5

This delightful story is full of ups and downs involving a young boy and his dog, “a gift from the sea”. The adventures range from playful antics to times of peril, and through it all, our protagonists (both human and canine alike) come through for each other as only a dog and his boy can! This adventurous and fun tale will bring you back to your own childhood memories…you and that special tail-wagger from the “good ol’ days”. [chương_files]

Wonderful Wizard of Oz (version 2)

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Action & Adventure
Chapter: 24 | Listen: 7

The story chronicles the adventures of a girl named Dorothy Gale in the Land of Oz. As Baum says in the introduction “It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out.” And it succeeds wonderfully. It is one of the best-known stories in American popular culture and has been widely translated. This is the first of thirteen more Oz books. (Summary by Wikipedia and Phil Chenevert) [chương_files]

Miscellany of Men

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Essays & Short Works
Chapter: 13 | Listen: 2

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was among the world’s most prolific writers who incorporated relentless logic, wonderful humor, and a clear view of truth into an amazing tool for exposing the foolishness of the policies of the world around him through the device of paradox. It is always great fun, and certainly always a learning experience to read Chesterton. A Miscellany of Men may be his hardest work to define, as it deals with a huge array of issues, using “personal types” as illustration. It would only be bewildering, if there was not these common threads: First that these types still exist, and the same faulty reasoning applies to issues of our day, and second, that underlying all of this is a firm and reasoned defense of democracy in a sense very close to that of the American Founding Fathers. (Summary by Ray Clare) [chương_files]

Defendant

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Essays & Short Works, Humor
Chapter: 18 | Listen: 5

A collection of reprinted articles on a wide-range of subjects, all in the unique style of G. K. Chesterton. Using wit, paradox, and good humor he “defends” a series of seeming harmless things that need no defense, and in so doing he exposes many of the broken assumptions and dogmatic notions of secular humanism and other trends of his age and of ours. (Summary by Ray Clare) [chương_files]

Peter and Wendy

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Action & Adventure, Family
Chapter: 17 | Listen: 2

Peter and Wendy tells the classic story of Peter Pan, a mischievous little boy who can fly, and his adventures on the island of Neverland with Wendy and her brothers, the fairy Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, the Indian princess Tiger Lily, and the pirate Captain Hook. (Introduction modified from Wikipedia) [chương_files]

King Arthur’s Knights: The Tales Retold for Boys & Girls

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Action & Adventure, Children's Fiction
Chapter: 14 | Listen: 5

This book is an attempt to tell some of the stories of King Arthur and his Knights in a way which will be interesting to every boy and girl who loves adventures. (Introduction by Henry Gilbert) [chương_files]

Bob the Castaway

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Action & Adventure
Chapter: 25 | Listen: 6

Frank V Webster was a pseudonym controlled by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, the first book packager of books aimed at children. This pseudonym was used on books for boys from the early 1900s through the 1930s. Bob the Castaway follows the antics of young prankster Bob Henderson, his parents futile attempts to get him to mend his ways, and his subsequent nautical adventures. (Introduction by Nigel Boydell) [chương_files]

Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies

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Action & Adventure
Chapter: 24 | Listen: 4

The Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies is the first book in the 12 part series by Frank Gee Patchin. (Summary by ashleighjane) Next book in the series: The Pony Rider Boys Texas [chương_files]