Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

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# 00 – Preface/Introduction

# 01 – A Slave Among Slaves

# 02 – Boyhood Days

# 03 – The Struggle For An Education

# 04 – Helping Others

# 05 – The Reconstruction Period

# 06 – Black Race And Red Race

# 07 – Early Days At Tuskegee

# 08 – Teaching School In A Stable And A Hen-House

# 09 – Anxious Days And Sleepless Nights

# 10 – A Harder Task Than Making Bricks Without Straw

# 11 – Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie On Them

# 12 – Raising Money

# 13 – Two Thousand Miles For A Five-Minute Speech

# 14 – The Atlanta Exposition Address

# 15 – The Secret Of Success In Public Speaking

# 16 – Europe

# 17 – Last Words

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

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Total running time:  15 hours

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Chapter 1 part 1

Chapter 1 part 2

Chapter 1 part 3

Chapter 1 part 4

Chapter 1 part 5

Chapter 2 part 1

Chapter 2 part 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Henry David Thoreau, author of Walden, in June 1856, aged 39, public domain image

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, chapter by chapter

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01  Preface  00:20:21

02 Letter 00:07:01

03 Chapter 1 00:11:50

04  Chapter 2  00:11:55

05  Chapter 3  00:08:36

06  Chapter 4 00:09:19

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07  Chapter 5  00:09:23

08  Chapter 6  00:07:41

09  Chapter 7  00:14:17

10  Chapter 8  00:11:55

11 Chapter 9  00:12:45

12  Chapter 10  01:13:54

13 Chapter 11  00:30:53

14  Appendix  00:12:55

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

Battle of Antietam

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Chapter 01

Chapter 02

Chapter 03

Chapter 04

Chapter 05

Chapter 06

A slave auction house on Whitehall Street, Sherman Atlanta in fall 1864, before it was burned by Sherman's army

Chapter 07

Chapter 08

Chapter 09
Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Battle of Chicamauga

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Battle of Wilson's Creek

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

The Storming of Fort Wagner, lithograph by Kurz and Allison, 1890

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Call of the Wild by Jack London

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Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Tom Sawyer

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Chapter 03-04

Chapter 05-06

Chapter 07-08


Chapter 09-10

Chapter 11-12

Chapter 13-15

Chapter 16-17

Chapter 18-20

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Chapter 21-23

Chapter 24-25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27-28
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Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31-32

Chapter 33-35

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

Frederick Douglass

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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Summary: The story begins in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, then a Puritan settlement. A young woman, Hester Prynne, is led from the town prison with her infant daughter, Pearl, in her arms and the scarlet letter “A” on her breast. The scarlet letter “A” represents the act of adultery that she has committed; it is to be a symbol of her sin for all to see. She will not reveal her lover’s identity, however, and the scarlet letter, along with her public shaming, is her punishment for her sin and her secrecy. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia for Librivox)

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# 00a – The Custom-House, Pt 1 – 00:51:22

# 00b – The Custom-House, Pt 2 – 00:46:47

# 01 – The Prison Door – 00:03:13

# 02 – The Market Place – 00:20:30

# 03 – The Recognition – 00:21:26

# 04 – The Interview – 00:16:55

# 05 – Hester at Her Needle – 00:21:16

# 06 – Pearl – 00:22:31

# 07 – The Governor’s Hall – 00:16:13

# 08 – The Elf-Child and the Minister – 00:18:33

# 09 – The Leech – 00:22:08

# 10 – The Leech and his Patient – 00:23:08

# 11 – The Interior of a Heart – 00:17:33

# 12 – The Minister’s Vigil – 00:25:53

# 13 – Another view of Hester – 00:20:13

# 14 – Hester and the Physician – 00:15:08

# 15 – Hester and Pearl – 00:15:30

# 16 – A Forest Walk – 00:14:18

# 17 – The Pastor and his Parishioner – 00:26:41

# 18 – A Flood of Sunshine – 00:14:03

# 19 – The Child at the Brook-Side – 00:16:29

# 20 – The Minister in a Maze – 00:21:08

# 21 – The New England Holiday – 00:19:01

# 22 – The Procession – 00:29:14

# 23 – The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter – 00:16:42

# 24 – Conclusion – 00:14:44