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1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors by Mark Twain
3 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 1 ratingAn atypical piece of writing by Mark Twain, the short bawdy skit documents a conversion between Queen Elizabeth and several notable writers of the time, including Sir Walter Raleigh, Francis Beaumo...
Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville
4 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsBartleby, 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...
U.S. Historical Documents by Various
4 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThe Articles of Confederation: On November 15th, 1777 The Articles of Confederation became the first constitution of the United States, though not yet ratified by the thirteen original colonies. Ra...
What Men Live By and Other Tales by Leo Tolstoy
4 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAlthough 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...
When Mother Lets Us Cook by Constance Johnson
4 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years agoA 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.
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 ratingsAs 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...
An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
4 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis 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...
Four Max Carrados Detective Stories by Ernest Bramah
4 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years agoErnest 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...
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsFirst 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...
Extracts from Adam's Diary by Mark Twain
5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years agoGet 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...
Bill of Rights & Amendments to the US Constitution by Founding Fathers of the United States
5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThe 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.
Sex – Avoided Subjects Discussed in Plain English by Henry Stanton
5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years agoHenry 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...
Egyptian Tales, translated from the Papyri, Series One by W. M. Flinders Petrie
5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsBrief, and in some cases incomplete, stories of magic from ancient Egypt.
Initiative Psychic Energy by Warren Hilton
5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years agoLearn how to accomplish your goals through increasing your mental power, avoiding energy drains, and becoming more mentally efficient.
Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories by Ambrose Bierce
5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAmbrose 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...
King Richard II by William Shakespeare
5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 1 ratingThe 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 ...
The Tragedy of Hamlet by William Shakespeare
5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe 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...
First Love by Ivan S. Turgenev
5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe 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 ...
Long Poems Collection by Various
5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years agoLong Poems Collection 1: a collection of 5 public-domain poems longer than 5 minutes in length.
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 10 ratingsWilliam 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...
Red Shadows by Robert Ervin Howard
5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years agoRed 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 ...
Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy by George Santayana
6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years agoBefore 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...
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsFirst 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...
An International Episode by Henry James
6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years agoTwo 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...
Eirik the Red's Saga by Anonymous
6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years agoIn this saga, the events that led to Eirik the Red’s banishment to Greenland are chronicled, as well as Leif Eirikson’s discovery of Vinland the Good (a place where wheat and grapes grew naturally)...
As You Like It by William Shakespeare
6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn a tiny French dukedom, a younger brother usurps his elder brother's throne. Duke Senior is banished to the Forest of Arden along with his faithful retainers, leaving his lovely daughter Rosalind...
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsPublished in 1859, On Liberty is a libertarian philosophical work by English philosopher John Stuart Mill that endorses his view on the importance of individuality for the constant progression and ...
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★ - 5 ratingsBanished 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...
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWritten around the middle of his career, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare's great festive comedies. The men are back from the war, and everyone is ready for romance. The dashing young...
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