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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...
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.
King Henry IV by William Shakespeare
5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 4 ratingsKing Henry IV, Part 1 is the second of Shakespeare’s eight Wars of the Roses history plays, with events following those of King Richard II. As the play opens, King Henry IV (formerly Henry Bolingb...
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 ...
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.
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...
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...
Othello by William Shakespeare
6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn seventeenth century Venice, a wealthy and debauched man discovers that the woman he is infatuated with is secretly married to a Moorish general in the Venetian army. He shares his grief and rage...
The Theory of Social Revolutions by Brooks Adams
6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years agoBrooks 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...
Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare
6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsShakespeare’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...
Little Wizard Stories of Oz by L. Frank Baum
6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe “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...
China and the Chinese by Herbert Allen Giles
6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHerbert 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...
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...
Adventures of a Brownie as Told to My Child by Miss Mulock
6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years agoAdventures of a Brownie follows the life of a brownie who lives in a family’s coal cellar and the adventures he gets into with the members of the household. (Written by Ancilla)
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsOne 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 ...
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...
Typhoon by Joseph Conrad
6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFirst 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...
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 8 ratingsThough 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 ...
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...
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...
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)...
Chronicles of Canada -- Dawn of Canadian History: Aboriginal Canada by Stephen Leacock
6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★ - 9 ratingsMost 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....
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...
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...
The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare
6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 12 ratingsRight from its famous opening scene which begins, “Thunder and lightning. Enter Three Witches” The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare holds the reader fast in a stirring, monumental experien...
Spurgeon's Sermons May 1858 by Charles Spurgeon
6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsCharles Spurgeon was a popular Baptist minister in London in mid-Victorian times; his ministry was highly influential and had a significant effect on many families in London and further afield. It ...
The Tao Teh King, or the Tao and its Characteristics by Laozi
9 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 3 ratingsWritten in classical Chinese some time during the sixth century BC, The Tao Teh King or The Tao and its Characteristics is a classical Chinese text that is one of the important keystones in unders...
Boyhood by Leo Tolstoy
7 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 1 ratingBoyhood is the second in Tolstoy's trilogy of three autobiographical novels, including Childhood and Youth, published in a literary journal during the 1850s. (Introduction by Bill Boerst)
Three Short Works by Gustave Flaubert
7 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years agoHere is a collection of strikingly different pieces by Flaubert: a prose poem in the voices of Death, Satan and Nero; the trials and apotheosis of a medieval saint; and the life of a selfless maid ...
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