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Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Shakespeare’s Sonnets, or simply The Sonnets, comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality. T...

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...

The Tempest by William Shakespeare

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★ - 5 ratings
Banished from his own lands by a usurping brother, Prospero and his daughter Miranda have been living on a deserted island for years, until fate brings the brother within the range of Prospero's po...

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...

Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences by René Descartes

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
The Discourse on Method is best known as the source of the famous quotation “cogito ergo sum”, “I think, therefore I am.” …. It is a method which gives a solid platform from which all modern natura...

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 ...

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
First published in Blackwood’s magazine as a three part serial in 1899 and published in 1902, Heart of Darkness centers on the experiences of protagonist Charles Marlow as he is assigned the duty t...

Typhoon by Joseph Conrad

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
First published in 1902 as a serial in Pall Mall Magazine, the adventure novel follows the disrupting events onboard a steamboat after it takes a perilous course at sea, which triggers a state of m...

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)

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...

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 ...

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...

Five Sci-Fi Short Stories by H. Beam Piper by H. Beam Piper

8 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 20 ratings
Henry Beam Piper’s book “Five Sci-Fi Short Stories“ is a collection of: The Answer, Temple Trouble, Flight From Tomorrow, Police Operation and Graveyard of Dreams. “The Answer” is about two nucle...

Selected Poems by Robert Frost

8 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
“Good fences make good neighbors...” If, as a reader, this is one line you do remember, then the poet Robert Frost would have fulfilled his purpose. The highest goal of a poet, he claimed, was to “...

Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus by Francis Pharcellus Church

8 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
“Is There A Santa Claus?” was the headline that appeared over an editorial in the September 21, 1897 edition of the New York Sun. The editorial, which included the response of “Yes, Virginia, There...

As a Man Thinketh by James Allen

8 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 46 ratings
“A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts,” is one of the quotes from James Allen's classic self help books, As a Man Thinketh. Published in 1902,...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster

9 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Jerusha Abbott, an eighteen year old orphan, faces an uncertain future in the charity home where she has lived all her life. On reaching adulthood, the orphanage can no longer offer shelter to its ...

Is Mars Habitable? by Alfred Russel Wallace

9 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
In 1907 Wallace wrote the short book Is Mars Habitable? to criticize the claims made by Percival Lowell that there were Martian canals built by intelligent beings. Wallace did months of research, c...

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...

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.

American Indian Fairy Tales by H. R. Schoolcraft

9 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 16 ratings
This book features a series of short stories collected by renowned ethnologist Henry R. Schoolcraft. The stories are adapted from old Native American legends with the aim to protect their authenti...

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...

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...

Ancient Greek Philosopher-Scientists by Varous

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
The Pre-Socratic Greek philosophers, that is, the philosopher-scientists who lived before or contemporaneously to Socrates, were the first men in the Western world to establish a line of inquiry re...

Bear Creek Collection by Robert E. Howard

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Breckinridge Elkins is the roughest, toughest, fastest-shootin’, hardest-fightin’ feller in the Bear Creek settlement, and probably in the entire Humbolt Mountains. As he travels further from home,...