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Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman
14 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsChicago, May 4, 1886. In the Haymarket region of the city, a peaceful Labor Day demonstration suddenly turns into a riot. The police intervene to maintain peace, but they soon use violence to quell...
Railway Children by Edith Nesbit
14 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsA thrilling spy story, a children's adventure, a charming portrait of early twentieth century life in London and the countryside and a heart warming family tale are all combined in this classic of ...
Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
14 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThese pages record some of the adventures of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the United States during the late civil war. It was, indeed, ...
The Twilight of the Idols or How to Philosophise with the Hammer by Friedrich Nietzsche
14 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsOf The Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche says in Ecce Homo: “If anyone should desire to obtain a rapid sketch of how everything before my time was standing on its head, he should begin reading me in...
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
15 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 60 ratingsMarcus Aurelius was a Roman Emperor and philosopher who wrote Meditations; insights which were considered to give the meaning of life. The book was not written with the intent to be published. It...
Curiosities of the Sky by Garrett P. Serviss
15 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years agoIs there intelligent life on Mars? Why are there starless gaps in the Milky Way? What creates the Aurora Borealis or the Northern Lights? These and more are the interesting questions that are aske...
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. Jerome
15 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years agoIdle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, published in 1886, is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. It was the author’s second published book and helped establish him as a leading English h...
How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types by Elsie Lincoln Benedict
16 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★ - 5 ratingsIn this popular American book from the 1920s, accomplished public speaker and self-help charlatan Elsie Lincoln Benedict outlines her pseudo-scientific system of "Human Analysis". She proposes that...
Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism by A. Alpheus
16 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsWritten in 1903, just sixty years after the word ‘hypnotism’ was coined, this book explores the contemporary understanding of the nature, uses and dangers of the technique. Hypnotism has been pract...
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
18 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years agoConsidered to mark the emergence of a new literary form, the unvarnished autobiography, Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau was first published in 1782, four years after his death. The philosopher...
Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll by Robert Green Ingersoll
18 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsColonel Robert Green Ingersoll (1833–1899) was a Civil War veteran, American political leader and orator during the Golden Age of Freethought, noted for his defense of atheism. This book is the fir...
Bushido: The Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe
18 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 4 ratingsBushido: The Soul of Japan written by Inazo Nitobe was one of the first books on samurai ethics that was originally written in English for a Western audience, and has been subsequently translated i...
Local Color Collection by Various
18 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years agoIn this celebration of diversity, learn about the myriad histories and cultures behind our volunteers.
An Englishwoman's Love-Letters by Anonymous
19 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years agoIt need hardly be said that the woman by whom these letter were written had no thought that they would be read by anyone but the person to whom they were addressed. But a request, conveyed under ci...
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
19 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★ - 1 ratingThe Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a shortened and simplified version of Hume’s masterpiece A Treatise of Human Nature. It sought to reach a wider audience, and to dispel some of the vi...
An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott
19 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 14 ratingsPolly Milton, a 14-year-old country girl, visits her friend Fanny Shaw and her wealthy family in the city for the first time. Poor Polly is overwhelmed by the splendor at the Shaws’ and their urban...
1912: Short Works Collection by Unknown
20 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis is a collection of public domain works either published in 1912, or written in 1912 and published before 1923. The accent is on non-fiction but a few short stories are included.
Language Learning Collection by Various
20 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis collection is part of an initiative to create a language learning resource. The Language Learning Collections contain readings from various language learning books, grammars, primers, phrasebo...
Current Superstitions by Fanny Dickerson Bergen
21 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years agoNo matter how enlightened, chances are you’ve been raised around superstitious lore of one kind or another. Fanny Dickerson Bergen was one of the original researchers of North American oral traditi...
Jack and Jill by Louisa May Alcott
24 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsLouisa May Alcott, more famously known for her Little Women series, takes a familiar nursery rhyme and creates a whole novel out of it in one of her last books Jack and Jill: A Village Story. Thoug...
Chapters from my Autobiography by Mark Twain
25 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 15 ratings“...if I should talk to a stenographer two hours a day for a hundred years, I should still never be able to set down a tenth part of the things which have interested me in my lifetime.” The words...
Concerning Virgins by Saint Ambrose
25 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years agoConcerning Virgins (De Virginibus) is a series of letters, compiled into three “books,” St. Ambrose wrote to his sister, Manellia, These, perhaps Ambrose’s earliest writings, were written in 377 CE...
Buddhist Writings by Various
31 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 9 ratingsAn anthology of Buddhist scriptures, appropriate as an introduction to its vast literature, or as a sampler for those who want to better understand Buddhism. The selections in this anthology are pr...
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
35 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 14 ratingsThe strands woven together in Gustave Flaubert's famous, path breaking 1856 novel Madame Bovary include a provincial town in Normandy, France, a shy young doctor with an indifferent career and a lo...
Meteorology; or Weather Explained by J.G. M'Pherson
35 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 6 ratingsWeather Explained: Fog, clouds, rain, haze, thunder, cyclones, dew point and how to count dust motes are just a few of the 35 topics covered in short, easy to read and understand chapters in this b...
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet Jacobs
43 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsBorn in slavery, but being fortunate enough to be owned by a benevolent mistress, her life takes a tragic turn when her parents and her benefactor die. The new heir to the property (and slaves) is ...
Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
53 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsOne of the most prolific and multi-talented geniuses the world has ever seen, Thomas Alva Edison's life is indeed an inspiration for each new generation. Today we live in a world that would not hav...
English Synonyms and Antonyms by James Champlin Fernald
68 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★ - 1 ratingEnglish Synonyms and Antonyms is basically a vocabulary builder that students might use as they prepare for entrance or exit exams. Each entry gives a list of synonyms, followed by a paragraph that...
Roughing It by Mark Twain
82 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsThe semiautobiographical travel memoir records Twain’s, more or less, personal journey across the Wild West in search of adventure while exploring variable locations. Accompanying his brother on wh...
Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich
86 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsJulian of Norwich (c. November 8, 1342 – c. 1416) is considered to be one of the greatest English mystics. Little is known of her life aside from her writings. Even her name is uncertain, the name ...
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