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Part 2, Chapter 2

In White Fang

Read by Hugh McGuire


Jack London


White Fang (1906) was written as a companion to Jack London's successful Call of the Wild (1903). It is the tale of a wild dog born in the …

Mr Pitkin’s Refutation

In Essays in Radical Empiricism

Read by Hugh McGuire


William James


William James (1842 – 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. He wrote influential books on the young science of psych…

Chapter 15

In The Yellow Sheet (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2007)

Read by Hugh McGuire


LibriVox NaNoWriMo 2007 and Librivox Volunteers


An atomic bomb explodes in the mountains of Montana. But was there really a bomb? And was it really in Montana, or in Tokyo? Are Liz and Eli…

Bk 1, Inferno: Canto XXI - Canto XXV

In The Divine Comedy

Read by Hugh McGuire


Dante Alighieri, transl. Longfellow and Dante Alighieri


The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened "Divina" by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 an…

Book 07

In The Odyssey

Read by Hugh McGuire


Homer, transl. Samuel Butler and Homer


The Odyssey is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems (the other being the Iliad), attributed to the poet Homer. The poem is commonly…

Version 9

In Fire and Ice

Read by Hugh McGuire


Robert Frost


LibriVox volunteers bring you twenty-three different recordings of Fire and Ice, by Robert Frost. This was the weekly poetry project for the…

Golden Guineas

In Five Children and It

Read by Hugh McGuire


nesbit_e and E. Nesbit


This delightful novel begins when a family of five children moves from London to the English countryside. While playing in a gravel pit soon…

20 - Chapter 23

In Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus

Read by Hugh McGuire


Mary Shelley


Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of animating lifeless matter and, by assembling body parts, creates the monster who has no name in …

The Tale of Two Bad Mice

In The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter

Read by Hugh McGuire


Beatrix Potter


Born in Victorian London on July 28th, 1866, Beatrix Potter created some of the best-loved children’s stories of all time. Starting with Pet…

Ch. 17-18

In The Prince

Read by Hugh McGuire


Niccolò Machiavelli


ll Principe (The Prince) is a political treatise by the Florentine writer Niccolò Machiavelli, originally called “De Principatibus” (…

Essay I: The Roots of Honour

In Unto this Last: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy

Read by Hugh McGuire


John Ruskin


John Ruskin (1819 – 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet and artist as …

Aphorisms 1 - 21

In The Golden Sayings of Epictetus

Read by Hugh McGuire


Epictetus


Aphorisms from the Stoic Greek.

029 - Vingt-neuvième nuit

In Les Mille et une nuits, tome 1

Read by Hugh McGuire


Antoine Galland and Anonymoustranslated Byantoine Galland


Afin de ne plus être déçu par les femmes, le sultan Schahriar décide d'épouser une jeune fille chaque jour…

Nisus and Scylla--Echo and Narcissus--Clytie--Hero and Leander

In Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fable

Read by Hugh McGuire


Thomas Bulfinch


Bulfinch’s Mythology, first published in 1855, is one of the most popular collections of mythology of all time. It consists of three volumes…

Transcendental Analytic

In The Critique of Pure Reason

Read by Hugh McGuire


Immanuel Kant


The Critique of Pure Reason, first published in 1781 with a second edition in 1787, has been called the most influential and important philo…

Struggle for Existence

In The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

Read by Hugh McGuire


Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. and Charles Darwin


Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species (publ. 1859) is a pivotal work in scientific literature and arguably the pivotal work in evolutionary…

Magna Charta Introduced: Slight Difficulties Encountered in Overcoming an Unpop…

In Comic History of England

Read by Hugh McGuire


Bill Nye


Edgar Wilson “Bill” Nye (1850 – 1896) was a distinguished American journalist, who later became widely known as a humorist. Jim “jimmowatt” …

Chapter 6

In Typhoon

Read by Hugh McGuire


Joseph Conrad


Typhoon is a short novel by Joseph Conrad, begun in 1899 and published in Pall Mall Magazine in 1902. It is a classic sea yarn that describe…

Bk 1: Song VII: The Perturbations of Passion

In The Consolation of Philosophy

Read by Hugh McGuire


Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (transl. James) and Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius


Consolation of Philosophy (Latin: Consolatio Philosophiae) is a philosophical work by Boethius written in about the year 524 AD. It has been…

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