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Euthyphro by Plato

1 episode - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Awaiting his trial on charges of impiety and heresy, Socrates encounters Euthyphro, a self-proclaimed authority on matters of piety and the will of the gods. Socrates, desiring instruction in these...

Ion by Plato

2 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
In Plato’s Ion, Socrates questions Ion on whether he should really claim laud and glory for his ‘rhapsodic’ recitals of Homer’s poetry.

What Men Live By and Other Tales by Leo Tolstoy

4 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Although Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a wealthy landowner, in his later life he had what was considered a “religious awakening.” This experience went on to inform his writing and his lifestyle in pr...

How to Speak and Write Correctly by Joseph Devlin

16 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 3 ratings
A book on improving eloquence, proficiency and grammar in everyday communication. ‘How to Speak and Write Correctly’ is not a manual of the styles to use in speaking and writing, nor is it a manua...

Childhood (English trans.) by Leo Tolstoy

18 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Childhood, published in 1852, is the first novel in Leo Tolstoy’s autobiographical trilogy, which also includes Boyhood, and Youth. Published when Tolstoy was twenty-three, the book gained immediat...

Aesop's Fables by Aesop

26 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 54 ratings
As children, our first experience of the magic of talking animals, the conflict between good and evil, the battle of wits between the cunning and the innocent most probably came from Aesop's Fables...

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

40 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★ - 24 ratings
A mysterious crime is being plotted in a tiny garret above a dilapidated apartment building in St Petersburg in Russia. The plotter, Rodion Raskolinikov, is a poor student who has delusions of ridd...

Plato's Republic by Plato

41 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Plato's Republic is a Socratic dialogue which deals mainly with the definition of justice, the characteristics of a just city state and the just man. Although it was written more than two thousand ...

Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy

59 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Book 1. Resurrection is the last of Tolstoy's major fiction works published in his lifetime. Tolstoy intended the novel as an exposition of injustice of man-made laws and the hypocrisy of institut...

Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases by Grenville Kleiser

165 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases is a practical handbook written by Grenville Kleiser. Grenville is known for his writings on humor, positive thinking and inspirational thought. This serves as a h...