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Selections from the Principles of Philosophy

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René Descartes


The Principles of Philosophy, originally published in Latin in 1644, and translated to French in 1647, sets forth the principles of nature--…

The Phenomenology of Mind, Volume 2

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel


Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807) is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's most important and widely discussed philosophical work. Hegel's fi…

Leaves of Grass (version 2)

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Walt Whitman


In honour of Walt Whitman's 200th birthday (31 May 2019) we bring you a solo recording of his seminal work Leaves of Grass.Originally publis…

Hermann and Dorothea

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


There are few modern poems of any country so perfect in their kind as the "Hermann and Dorothea" of Goethe. In clearness of charac…

The Boys' and Girls' Pliny Vol. 1

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Pliny the Elder and John S. White


The Natural History of Pliny the Elder is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire. The full work consists of …

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2)

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William Blake


"Innocence" and "Experience" are definitions of consciousness that rethink Milton's existential-mythic states of "P…

Buster the Big Brown Bear

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George Ethelbert Walsh


In the seventh volume of the Twilight Animal series, we meet Buster the Bear, a cub who lives in a cave the woods with his mother. After an …

Bobby Gray Squirrel's Adventures

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George Ethelbert Walsh


In this sixth volume of the Twilight Animal series, we read about the adventures of Bobby the Gray Squirrel, who (together with his friends …

The Boys' and Girls' Pliny Vol. 2

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Pliny the Elder and John S. White


The Natural History of Pliny the Elder is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire. The full work consists of …

The Book of the Cat

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Mabel Humphrey


Stories of kittens and cats who have a variety of adventures. This book is aimed at children, but adults (especially those who love cats!) w…

The Boys' and Girls' Pliny Vol. 3

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Pliny the Elder


The Natural History of Pliny the Elder is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire. The full work consists of …

White Tail the Deer's Adventures

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George Ethelbert Walsh


White Tail is the son of Father Buck, who is the leader of the herd. He and his rival Young Black Buck get into all kinds of adventures, but…

Freaks on the Fells: Three Months' Rustication, Story 3

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R. M. Ballantyne


In this, our last short story, we join a fishing expedition in Norway.

The New Republic; or Culture, Faith and Philosophy in an English Country House

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William Hurrell Mallock


A group of upper class men and women gather together in an English country house to discuss their ideas for a utopia (their "New Republ…

The Cheery Way, a Bit of Verse for Every Day - September

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John Kendrick Bangs


There should be a bit of poetry in every day, and John Kendrick Bangs wrote a fitting poem for each day in the year. In 1920, a book was pub…

The Cheery Way, a Bit of Verse for Every Day - November

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John Kendrick Bangs


There should be a bit of poetry in every day, and John Kendrick Bangs wrote a fitting poem for each day in the year. In 1920, a book was pub…

Last Poems

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A. E. Housman


"I publish these poems, few though they are, because it is not likely that I shall ever be impelled to write much more. I can no longer…

Sonnetten

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Jacob Winkler Prins


Jacob Winkler Prins reisde veel en was een schilder. Hij besteedde veel tijd aan heide-ontginning op de Veluwe, om bloemen en planten te kun…

The Cheery Way, a Bit of Verse for Every Day - October

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John Kendrick Bangs


There should be a bit of poetry in every day, and John Kendrick Bangs wrote a fitting poem for each day in the year. In 1920, a book was pub…

Chapter XI. Roggeveen, the Last of the Great Voyagers

In The Golden Book of the Dutch Navigators

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Hendrik Van Loon


This is a story of magnificent failures. The men who equipped the expeditions of which I shall tell you the story died in the poorhouse. The…

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