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Four Max Carrados Detective Stories by Ernest Bramah

4 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
Ernest Bramah is mainly known for his ‘Kai Lung’ books – Dorothy L Sayers often used quotes from them for her chapter headings. In his lifetime however he was equally well known for his detective s...

An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

4 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
This story opens at a fashionable dinner party in Sir Robert Chiltern's home in the heart of London's stylish Grosvenor Square. One of Lady Chiltern's old school-friends, Mrs. Cheveley, a woman wit...

Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 7 ratings
“Nature” is a short essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson published anonymously in 1836. It is in this essay that the foundation of transcendentalism is put forth, a belief system that espouses a non-tradit...

Three Ghost Stories by Charles Dickens

4 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
As a gifted writer with a strong interest in supernatural phenomena, Charles Dickens produced a string of ghost stories with enduring charm. Three of them are presented here, of which The Signal Ma...

When Mother Lets Us Cook by Constance Johnson

4 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
A book of simple receipts for little folk with important cooking rules in rhyme together with handy lists of the materials and utensils needed for the preparation of each dish.

Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville

4 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a novella by the American novelist Herman Melville (1819–1891). It first appeared anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 editi...

Bill of Rights & Amendments to the US Constitution by Founding Fathers of the United States

5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
The Constitution has a total of 27 amendments. The first ten, collectively known as the Bill of Rights, were ratified simultaneously. The following seventeen were ratified separately.

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 10 ratings
William Shakespeare’s most well-known play is more than most people realize. While it is the story of star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, it is also the story of two families in the middle of a...

Extracts from Adam's Diary by Mark Twain

5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
Get the true story of Adam and Eve, straight from the source. This humorous text is a day-to-day account of Adam’s life from happiness in the “GARDEN-OF-EDEN” to their fall from grace and the event...

Common Sense by Thomas Paine

5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
First published anonymously due to its seditious content in 1776, the pamphlet argues for the need of American colonists to pursue complete independence from Great Britain, and not be driven simply...

Egyptian Tales, translated from the Papyri, Series One by W. M. Flinders Petrie

5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Brief, and in some cases incomplete, stories of magic from ancient Egypt.

Sex – Avoided Subjects Discussed in Plain English by Henry Stanton

5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
Henry Stanton’s 1922 book Sex – Avoided Subjects Discussed in Plain English is intended as a frank (although consevative and moralistic) guide to human sexual behaviour and relationships. It is par...

The Tragedy of Hamlet by William Shakespeare

5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 11 ratings
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet exacts on his uncle Claudius for murdering...

Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories by Ambrose Bierce

5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Ambrose Bierce (1842 – 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often sprinkled with subtle cynical comments on human behaviour...

Initiative Psychic Energy by Warren Hilton

5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
Learn how to accomplish your goals through increasing your mental power, avoiding energy drains, and becoming more mentally efficient.

King Richard II by William Shakespeare

5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 1 rating
The Tragedy of King Richard II, by William Shakespeare, is the first of the history series that continues with Parts 1 and 2 of King Henry IV and with The Life of King Henry V. At the beginning of ...

First Love by Ivan S. Turgenev

5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
The title of the novella is almost an adequate summary in itself. The “boy-meets-girl-then-loses-her” story is universal but not, I think, banal – despite a surprise ending which notoriously turns ...

Red Shadows by Robert Ervin Howard

5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
Red Shadows is the first of a series of stories featuring Howard’s puritan avenger, Solomon Kane. Kane tracks his prey over land and sea, enters the jungles of Africa, and even faces dark Gods and ...

Principles of Economics by Alfred Marshall

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★ - 1 rating
“The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings.” An uncannily prophetic quote from an 1890 book, Principles of Economics by Alfred Marshall presents an idea that has been accept...

Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
One of the earliest polished examples of existential literature, Notes from the Underground follows the life of a recluse and depicts his antagonistic attitude toward society. Written in two parts ...

The Theory of Social Revolutions by Brooks Adams

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
Brooks Adams (1848- 1927), was an American historian and a critic of capitalism. He believed that commercial civilizations rise and fall in predictable cycles. First, masses of people draw together...

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...

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 8 ratings
Though it's titled The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, the man himself appears only in five scenes in the entire play! However, such is his impact on the events that surrounded him that he still remains ...

Chronicles of Canada -- Dawn of Canadian History: Aboriginal Canada by Stephen Leacock

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★ - 9 ratings
Most readers of Stephen Leacock's works are familiar with his witty and humorous writings, but few may be aware that he was also a gifted teacher, political ideologue, economist and fiction writer....

Lady Susan by Jane Austen

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
An epistolary novel, Lady Susan is an early work by Austen that was posthumously published in 1871. The short novel focuses on the self-serving eponymous anti-heroine, as she cunningly maneuvers he...

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...

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...

Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy by George Santayana

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
Before the beginning of World War II, during the time of the Modernist movement in philosophy, George Santayana wrote these five descriptive essays. He examined John Locke’s sensationalism, British...

China and the Chinese by Herbert Allen Giles

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935) spent several years as a diplomat in China and in 1897 was appointed Cambridge University’s second professor of Chinese. His published works cover Chinese language a...

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...