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Spurgeon's Sermons May 1858 by Charles Spurgeon

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
Charles Spurgeon was a popular Baptist minister in London in mid-Victorian times; his ministry was highly influential and had a significant effect on many families in London and further afield. It ...

Othello by William Shakespeare

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 5 ratings
In seventeenth century Venice, a wealthy and debauched man discovers that the woman he is infatuated with is secretly married to a Moorish general in the Venetian army. He shares his grief and rage...

Adventures of a Brownie as Told to My Child by Miss Mulock

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
Adventures of a Brownie follows the life of a brownie who lives in a family’s coal cellar and the adventures he gets into with the members of the household. (Written by Ancilla)

Little Wizard Stories of Oz by L. Frank Baum

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
The “Little Wizard Stories of Oz” are six short stories written by L. Frank Baum in 1913. By all accounts, Baum intended to finish the Oz series with “The Emerald City of Oz,” published in 1910. Fo...

Daisy Miller: A Study in Two Parts by Henry James

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
Daisy Miller is an 1878 novella by Henry James. It portrays the confused courtship of the eponymous American girl by Winterbourne, a compatriot of hers with much more sophistication. His pursuit of...

The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 12 ratings
Right from its famous opening scene which begins, “Thunder and lightning. Enter Three Witches” The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare holds the reader fast in a stirring, monumental experien...

An International Episode by Henry James

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
Two men visting the US from London meet a pair of charming women who return the visit the following year in London. Romantic intrigues, miscommunication and cultural faux pas abound in this short b...

Three Short Works by Gustave Flaubert

7 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
Here is a collection of strikingly different pieces by Flaubert: a prose poem in the voices of Death, Satan and Nero; the trials and apotheosis of a medieval saint; and the life of a selfless maid ...

Don Juan: Canto I by George Gordon Byron, Lord

7 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 2 ratings
The legend of Don Juan is one that's been told and retold over the centuries by poets and novelists. His life has been the subject of operas, musicals and film. The earliest reference was in a four...

Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

7 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
John Stuart Mill’s book Utilitarianism is one of the most influential and widely-read philosophical defenses of utilitarianism in ethics. The essay first appeared as a series of three articles publ...

Voodoo Planet by Plague Ship

8 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
The sequel to Plague Ship, Voodoo Planet finds the Solar Queen banned from trade and starting her supposed quiet two-year stint as an interstellar mail carrier. But instead her crew accepts a visit...

My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse

8 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 15 ratings
First published in 1919, My Man Jeeves is a collection of short stories featuring the well known fictional characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster. The compilation consists of eight stories, of which ...

Beowulf by Unknown

8 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 7 ratings
Beowulf is a long narrative poem composed in Old English some time in between the 8th and 11th century AD. The only surviving manuscript that contains the poem is preserved in the British Library a...

Ten Days in a Madhouse by Nellie Bly

8 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Long before Christiane Amanpour, Frances Fitzgerald and Martha Gellhorn blazed a trail in courageous investigative journalism, a pioneering and intrepid writer and journalist whose pen name was Nel...

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott

9 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
If you've never heard the term “Mathematical Fiction” before, Edwin Abbott Abbott's 1884 novella, Flatland can certainly enlighten you! Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions was published in 188...

Mental Efficiency and Other Hints to Men and Women by Arnold Bennett

9 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Mental Efficiency and Other Hints to Men and Women is one of the many self help books that Bennett wrote, the most famous of these being How to Live 24 Hours a Day. It is highly readable, amusing a...

Brain Twister by Mark Phillips (Randall Garrett and Laurence M. Janifer)

9 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
“Mark Phillips” is, or are, two writers: Randall Garrett and Laurence M. Janifer. Their joint pen-name, derived from their middle names (Philip and Mark), was coined soon after their original meeti...

Absolute Surrender and Other Addresses by Andrew Murray

9 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
This is a series of short messages written by the South African minister, Andrew Murray. They deal with the necessity and joy of surrendering our lives completely to God.

Love Letter Collection by Various

9 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
By conservative estimates, more than 6.8 million out of earth's population of 7 billion have access to cell phones. This has happened in just over 20 years. It's safe to assume that almost all thes...

Nine Unlikely Tales for Children by Edith Nesbit

9 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 5 ratings
Nine original and, yes, unlikely fairy-tales, which include stories of the arithmetic fairy, the king who became a charming villa-residence and the dreadful automatic nagging machine. All are class...

Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes

9 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
The foundations of modern skepticism and objective thinking are thought to be rooted in the philosophy of Rene Descartes, the French mathematician, philosopher and writer. This great sixteenth cent...

Selected Short Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 42 ratings
A shy and dowdy country girl, Berenice feels socially inept beside her vivacious and sophisticated cousin, Marjorie. But Marjorie decides to groom her and when Berenice turns out better than she ex...

Wage-Labour and Capital by Karl Marx

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Orignally written as a series of newspaper articles in 1847, Wage-Labour and Capital was intended to give a short overview, for popular consumption, of Marx’s central threories regarding the econom...

The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
The typical action hero with a stiff upper lip whose actions speak louder than his words, a mysterious American who lives in dread of being killed, an anarchist plot to destabilize Greece, a deadly...

African-American Collection, July 2007 by Unknown

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
This collection recognizes Black History Month, February 2007. Two excellent resources for public domain African American writing are African American Writers (Bookshelf) and The Book of American N...

Short Science Fiction Collection by Various

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 33 ratings
Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological and technical speculations based on current or future scien...

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Ethan Frome is a novel published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts, New England, where an unnamed na...

Space Viking by H. Beam Piper

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★ - 2 ratings
A galactic war has left the Terran Federation in ruins. Formerly civilized planets have decivilized into barbarism. Space Vikings roam the wreckage, plundering and killing for gain. Lord Lucas Tra...

Fighting the Whales by Robert Michael Ballantyne

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
A fatherless boy joins the crew of a whaling ship in order to earn a living for himself and his mother. Beyond being a fascinating depiction of a now-alien time, occupation, and culture, it’s also ...

French Self-Taught by Franz J. L. Thimm

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Part of an initiative to develop a free language-learning resource. This book is old, but the basics haven’t changed too much. All the French content is spoken by native French speakers. The book ...