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The Elements of Style

Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater


William Strunk, Jr.


“The Elements of Style (1918) by William Strunk, Jr. is an American English writing style guide. It is one of the best-known and most influe…

Phaedrus

Read by Martin Geeson


Plato


“For there is no light of justice or temperance, or any of the higher ideas which are precious to souls, in the earthly copies of them: they…

Eusebius History of the Christian Church

Read by David Leeson


Eusebius Of Caesarea


Eusebius presents the history of the Church from the apostles to his own time, with special regard to the following points:1. the succession…

The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of …

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David Hume


David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and re…

The Escaping Club

Read by Tom Weiss


A. J. Evans


Described by some as one of the greatest escape books published. The Escaping Club recounts Evans' escape to Switzerland from a supposedly &…

Fighting the Flying Circus

Read by Brett W. Downey


Eddie Rickenbacker


This is the WWI memoirs of Medal of Honor winner, Capt Eddie Rickenbacker. He fought in and eventually became commander of the 94th "Ha…

Saint Francis of Assisi: A Biography

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Johannes Jorgensen


Born to a prosperous cloth merchant of Assisi, Francis (1182-1226) lived the typically high-spirited life of a wealthy young man of his day,…

Über die Weiber

Read by Gesine


Arthur Schopenhauer


In diesem vielzitierten Essay aus dem Jahre 1851 ist Schopenhauers generell herablassende Einstellung zu Frauen zusammengefaßt. Frauen…

Utilitarianism

Read by D.E. Wittkower


John Stuart Mill


John Stuart Mill's book Utilitarianism is one of the most influential and widely-read philosophical defenses of utilitarianism in ethics. Th…

Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane

Read by Availle


Alfred Wegener


Dies ist das erste Buch, in dem Alfred Wegener seine Theorie der Kontinentalverschiebung darlegt. Zeit seines Lebens wurde diese Theorie gr&…

The Meaning of the Glorious Koran

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Mohammed Marmaduke Pickthall


The Koran (Qur'an) is regarded by Muslims as the word of God (Allah) as revealed to the prophet Muhammad. It is divided into 114 chapters (…

Mathematical Problems

Read by Prachi Pendse


David Hilbert


Lecture delivered before the International Congress of Mathematicians at Paris in 1900 and subsequently published in the Bulletin of the Ame…

The Pirates of Penzance

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W. S. Gilbert


The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. Th…

Famous Men of Rome

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John Henry Haaren


Biographical sketches of the men of Rome, written for children. (Summary by Laura Caldwell)

The Rosicrucian Mysteries

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Max Heindel


A primer for those interested in the basic philosophy, beliefs & secrets of the Rosicrucians. (Summary by Kirk Ziegler)

The Montessori Method

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Maria Montessori


In the early 1900's Dr. Maria Montessori began to reform educational methods with her work the 'Case dei Bambini' in Rome, Italy. Montessori…

The River War - An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan

Read by Mark F. Smith


Winston S. Churchill


When the self-proclaimed Mahdi (“Guided One”) gathered Islamic forces and kicked the Anglo-Egyptians out of the Sudan, he unleashed a backla…

Living on Half a Dime a Day

Read by Sue Anderson


Sarah Elizabeth Harper Monmouth


How to live on 5 cents a day! How to survive financial ruin without losing your house! How to keep to a bare bones budget and still have mon…

Bowser the Hound

Read by Laurie Anne Walden


Thornton W. Burgess


Old Man Coyote craftily leads Bowser the hound away from home, and Bowser gets lost. Will Bowser find his way back to Farmer Brown's? Will R…

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

Read by John Greenman


Mark Twain


Following the Equator (American English title) or More Tramps Abroad (English title) is a non-fiction travelogue published by American autho…

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