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The Call of the Wild
Read by Mark F. Smith
Jack London
Buck is living a happy life in California until he is sold to pay a gambling debt. Taken to the Klondike to become a sled dog, Buck must tou…
Edison, His Life and Inventions
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Frank Lewis Dyer
A detailed biography of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of such things as the telephone, the microphone, the electric motor, the storage batter…
Phaedo
Read by Bob Neufeld
Plato
Plato's Phaedo is one of the great dialogues of his middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium. The Phaedo, which depicts the …
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Edward Gibbon
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was writ…
The Awful German Language
Read by Rainer
Mark Twain
If you’ve ever studied German (and maybe even if you haven’t), you’re likely to find this short essay to be hilarious. Published as Appendix…
Totem and Taboo
Read by Mary Schneider
Sigmund Freud
Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics is a book by Sigmund Freud published in German in 1913 under…
The Social Contract
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Social Contract outlines Rousseau's views on political justice, explaining how a just and legitimate state is to be founded, organized a…
Sidelights on Relativity
Read by Paul Adams
Albert Einstein
Sidelights on Relativity contains ETHER AND THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY, an address delivered on May 5th, 1920, in the University of Leyden; an…
Our Island Story
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
Our Island Story was first published in 1905 and became an instant classic. Beginning with the Romans and following the triumphs and foibles…
History of the United States
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Charles Austin Beard
Charles Austin Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks a…
The 9/11 Commission Report
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9/11 Commission
9/11 Commission Report, formally titled Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, is the official…
The Kybalion
Read by Algy Pug
The Three Initiates
The Kybalion: Hermetic Philosophy is a 1908 book claiming to be the essence of the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus, published anonymously b…
A Christmas Carol
Read by Glen Hallstrom
Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol (full title: A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas) is A Christmas Carol is a Victorian morality ta…
Selected Poems of Robert Frost
Read by Becky Miller
Robert Frost
Robert Frost, who lived from March 26, 1874 to January 29, 1963, was a winner of 4 Pulitzer prizes and one of America’s best loved poets. Th…
English Synonyms and Antonyms
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James Champlin Fernald
English Synonyms and Antonyms is basically a vocabulary builder that students might use as they prepare for entrance or exit exams. Each ent…
The Twilight of the Idols
Read by D.E. Wittkower
Friedrich Nietzsche
Of The Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche says in Ecce Homo: “If anyone should desire to obtain a rapid sketch of how everything before my tim…
The Interpretation of Dreams
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Sigmund Freud
A neat book on dream analysis by the founding father of psychoanalysis. This book is about the inner theater and the workings of the mind in…
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
Read by William Tomcho
Andrew Carnegie
This autobiography of Andrew Carnegie is a very well written and interesting history of one of the most wealthy men in the United states. He…
The Story of a Soul
Read by Ann Boulais
Saint Therese Of Lisieux
Marie Francoise Therese Martin, affectionately known as 'The Little Flower', was born on January 2, 1873, in Alencon, France to Louis Martin…
Bill of Rights
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United States Government and Unit
The Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, and were ratified on December 15, 1791.