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BOOK 2, CHAPTER IV. A DISCOURSE OF SOCRATES CONCERNING FRIENDSHIP

In The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates

Read by Dave Stevens


Xenophon


Xenophon's best memorial of his old guide, philosopher, and friend is this work, in which Xenophon brought together in simple and direct for…

When Stars Are in the Quiet Skies - Read by DS

In When Stars Are in the Quiet Skies

Read by Debi Stevens


Edward Bulwer-Lytton


LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 different recordings of When Stars Are in the Quiet Sky by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. This was the weekly poetry…

Of Love and Marriage

In The Myths and Fables of To-day

Read by John Stevens


Samuel Adams Drake


Samuel Adams was born in 1833, began journalism in 1858, served in the Army for 10 years & returned home to continue with his journalism…

THE FAIRY PRINCESS OF ERGETZ

In Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends

Read by Joshua Stevens


Gertrude Landa


"My desire is to give boys and girls something Jewish which they may be able to regard as companion delights to the treasury of general…

Part 2, chapter 1

In A Raw Youth

Read by Joshua Stevens


Fyodor Dostoyevsky


Arkady Dolgoruky, is a 19-year-old intellectual. He is the illegitimate son of a landowner and dreams to become rich. In his quest to fulfi…

CHAPTER XIII December

In Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amate…

Read by Bev J Stevens


Gertrude Jekyll


Wood and Garden reads like a walk through the garden with renowned garden designer Gertrude Jekyll as she discusses her plant choices and pl…

The Life of Samuel Johnson

In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 05

Read by Bev J Stevens


James Boswell


The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

Quatrains 102 - 200

In The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám (Persian original and Whinfield translation)

Read by Bev J Stevens


Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward Whinfield and Omar Khayyám


Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) was a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. In the Western world he is most famous for his many rub&aa…

chapter 3 - THE LIMITS OF INFERENCE

In The Ethics of Belief

Read by Bev J Stevens


William Kingdon Clifford


This is an essay on decision biases and a critique on prejudices, neatly written and thought provoking. (Summary by sidhu177)

Letter XII

In Letters from Hell

Read by Mark R. Stevens


Valdemar Adolph Thisted


"Letters from Hell" is a didactic Christian fantasy novel, with a faint resemblance to C.S. Lewis' "The Screwtape Letters.&qu…

PART I. CHAPTER IX. THE TABLES OF AGES.

In Strength and How to Obtain It

Read by Bev J Stevens


Eugen Sandow


In writing this book I have taken it as a commonplace that everyone—man, woman, and child—wants to be strong. Without strength—and by streng…

Chapter XX. Some Curiosities

In Nature's Miracles Volume 3: Electricity and Magnetism

Read by Bev J Stevens


Elisha Gray


Elisha Gray (August 2, 1835 – January 21, 1901) was an American electrical engineer who co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Compan…

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