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60 episodes - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsAn ancient and cruel religion, The Purpose, deifies children for their deformities—a beautiful girl with three arms, a brave boy with one eye... the exceptional list goes on. Painted and costumed, ...
Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
17 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years agoIn the heat of the failed 1905 revolution in Russia, Lenin here contrasts the precision of the Bolshevik political program and tactics with various inconsistent and servile factions within the Russ...
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
24 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years agoIt was published in 1893–1894 by Century Magazine in seven installments, and is a detective story with some racial themes. The plot of this novel is a detective story, in which a series of identiti...
Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
20 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years agoThe Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) is considered Jewett’s finest work, described by Henry James as her “beautiful little quantum of achievement.” Despite James’s diminutives, the novel remains ...
Euthyphro by Plato
1 episode - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 6 ratingsAwaiting 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...
Eve's Diary by Mark Twain
1 episode - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingEve's Diary is a comic short story by Mark Twain. It was first published in the 1905 Christmas issue of the magazine Harper's Bazaar, and in book format in June 1906 by Harper and Brothers publishi...
Caedmon's Hymn by Caedmon
1 episode - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCædmon was an Anglo-Saxon herdsman attached to the double monastery of Streonæshalch (657–681). Originally ignorant of the art of song, Cædmon learned to compose one night in the course of a dream....
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death by Patrick Henry
1 episode - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis speech was given March 23, 1775, at St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia, and is credited with having singlehandedly convinced the Virginia House of Burgesses to pass a resolution deliverin...
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
2 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsCivil Disobedience (Resistance to Civil Government) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not...
Aphorisms by Oscar Wilde
2 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn 1894, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) published two short collections of aphorisms: “A Few Maxims For The Instruction Of The Over-Educated”, in the Saturday Review newspaper, and “Phrases and Philosoph...
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
2 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 6 ratingsOedipus the King (often known by the Latin title Oedipus Rex) is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed c. 429 BC. It was the second of Sophocles's three Theban plays to be produ...
Afterward by Edith Wharton
2 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsA short story classified under the American Gothic genre, the piece depicts an eerie set of events following the distressing occurrences within the Boyne household, as their dream relocation takes ...
Ion by Plato
2 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years agoIn Plato’s Ion, Socrates questions Ion on whether he should really claim laud and glory for his ‘rhapsodic’ recitals of Homer’s poetry.
Short Poetry Collection by Various
2 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingShort Poetry Collection 001: a collection of 29 public-domain poems.
Antigone by Sophocles
2 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis is the final installment in Sophocles's Theban Plays, following Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus. Oedipus's daughter Antigone deliberately breaks the laws of Thebes when she buries her brot...
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Unknown
3 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsSir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th Century Middle English alliterative romance outlining an adventure of Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur’s Round Table. In the tale, Sir Gawain accep...
Missing: Page Thirteen by Anna Katharine Green
3 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years agoViolet Strange, a clever petite detective, is called upon to solve the mystery of a page gone missing from an important document. The futures of several people, including an eccentric misanthrope, ...
Peace On Earth, Good-Will To Dogs by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
3 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago“If you don’t like Christmas stories, don’t read this one!And if you don’t like dogs I don’t know just what to advise you to do!For I warn you perfectly frankly that I am distinctly pro-dog and dis...
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...
Spirits in Bondage: a cycle of lyrics by C. S. Lewis
3 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFirst published in 1919 under his pseudonym Clive Hamilton, Spirits in Bondage, is also the first published book by the notorious novelist C.S. Lewis. This early piece of work represents Lewis’ you...
Adrift on an Ice-Pan by Sir Wilfred Grenfell
3 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis autobiographical work describes the author’s harrowing experience caught on a small drifting piece of ice, while crossing a frozen bay by dog team on the Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 15 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...
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...
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