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1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors by Mark Twain artwork

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 rating
An 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 artwork

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...
U.S. Historical Documents by Various artwork

U.S. Historical Documents by Various

4 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
The 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 artwork

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...
When Mother Lets Us Cook by Constance Johnson artwork

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.
Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson artwork

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 artwork

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...
An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde artwork

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...
Four Max Carrados Detective Stories by Ernest Bramah artwork

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...
Common Sense by Thomas Paine artwork

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...
Extracts from Adam's Diary by Mark Twain artwork

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

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.
Sex – Avoided Subjects Discussed in Plain English by Henry Stanton artwork

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

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.
Initiative Psychic Energy by Warren Hilton artwork

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.
Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories by Ambrose Bierce artwork

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...
King Richard II by William Shakespeare artwork

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 ...
The Tragedy of Hamlet by William Shakespeare artwork

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...
First Love by Ivan S. Turgenev artwork

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 ...
Long Poems Collection by Various artwork

Long Poems Collection by Various

5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
Long Poems Collection 1: a collection of 5 public-domain poems longer than 5 minutes in length.
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare artwork

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...
Red Shadows by Robert Ervin Howard artwork

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 ...
Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy by George Santayana artwork

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...
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad artwork

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...
An International Episode by Henry James artwork

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...
Eirik the Red's Saga by Anonymous artwork

Eirik the Red's Saga by Anonymous

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
In 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 artwork

As You Like It by William Shakespeare

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In 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 artwork

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Published 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 artwork

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...
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare artwork

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Written 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...