Jim Locke

The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories

by Alice Dunbar Nelson Read by Jim Locke 3.5
These stories focus on the Creole society of New Orleans and in the process reveals issues facing black Americans at the end of the nineteen…

Sree Krishna, The Lord of Love

by Baba Premanand Bharati Read by Jim Locke 3.3
I beg to present this my humble work to the English reader. It is the history of the Universe from its birth to its dissolution. I have expl…

The Chronicles of America Volume 13 - The Fathers of the Constitution

by Max Farrand Read by Jim Locke 3.8
In this next installment of the Chronicles of America, Farrand takes American history from peace treaty, to trade, to confederation, to furt…

Special Report on Negro Domestic Service in the Seventh Ward Philadelphia

by Isabel Eaton Read by Jim Locke
This paper is an attempt to give the most accurate facts obtainable bearing upon the question of colored domestic service in Philadelphia. (…

Walker's Appeal

by David Walker Read by Jim Locke
The Appeal grabbed readers’ attention in as dramatic a manner as Walker could have possibly imagined. In her book, Maria W. Stewart and the …

The Chronicles of America Volume 04 - Crusaders of New France

by William Bennett Munro Read by Jim Locke 0.5
The previous volumes in the Chronicles of America series placed Spain and England at the fore in the discovery and development of the New Wo…

Minnie's Sacrifice

by Frances E. W. Harper Read by Jim Locke 3.8
Minnie, who lives in the South, does not know she is a mulatto. She is sent to the North after her mother's death, and there she marries Lou…

The Life of Washington, Volume 5

by John James Marshall Read by Jim Locke 4.3
Volume five of John Marshall's biography follows Washington through his second term ending in the election of John Adams and Washington's re…

The Chronicles of America Volume 11 - Eve of the Revolution

by Carl L. Becker Read by Jim Locke
Here is a look at the evolution of thought and events that led Benjamin Franklin to make this statement: "British subjects, by removing…

Cane

by Jean Toomer Read by Jim Locke 2.3
Reading this book, I had a vision of a land, heretofore sunk in the mists of muteness, suddenly rising up into the eminence of song. Innume…

Jess

by H. Rider Haggard Read by Jim Locke 3.7
The setting for this novel is the Boer War in South Africa in 1880. This novel is interesting and exciting on several levels: there are com…

The House of Mystery

by Richard Marsh Read by Jim Locke 3.8
The House of Mystery is based upon the complicated plot involving two women who look exactly alike, one rich and one poor, and so mistaken i…

The Theory of Psychoanalysis

by Carl Gustav Jung Read by Jim Locke 3.7
Jung says the following in his introduction: "in these lectures I have attempted to reconcile my practical experiences in psychoanalysi…

Black No More

by George Schuyler Read by Jim Locke
Being an account of the strange and wonderful workings of science in the land of the free, A.D. 1933-1940. (Summary by author)

Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative

by Emory Holloway Read by Jim Locke
"You want to know in a word the sum total of my life philosophy as I have tried to live it and as I have tried to put it in my book. I …

The Gift of Black Folk: The Negroes in the Making of America

by W. E. B. Du Bois Read by Jim Locke 3.4
This essay is an attempt to set forth more clearly than has hitherto been done the effect which the Negro has had upon American life. Its th…

Ireland Under the Tudors, Volume 2

by Richard Bagwell Read by Jim Locke 5
Volume 2 continues the social, political, and religious dynamics of Tudor England, particularly during the tumultuous reign of the Protestan…

The Garies and their Friends

by Frank Webb Read by Jim Locke
The book which now appears before the public may be of interest in relation to a question which the late agitation of the subject of slavery…

St. Elmo

by Augusta Jane Evans Read by Jim Locke 3.5
Written in prose and full of references to religion and mythology, this book tells the love story between St. Elmo and Edna. He is cynical a…

The Man of Feeling

by Henry Mackenzie Read by Jim Locke 1
A man of refined taste, who caught the tone of the French sentiment of his time, has, of course, pleased French critics, and has been transl…

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