Dinner Table Talk

LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Dinner Table Talk by Horatio Alger, Jr. and Thomas Chandler Haliburton. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 15, 2026. ------ Horatio Alger Jr. was an American author who wrote young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to middle-class security and comfort through good works. Thomas Chandler Haliburton was a Nova Scotian politician, judge, and author who was the first international best-selling fi