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The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865
Read by Sue Anderson
Leander Stillwell
Leander Stillwell was an 18-year-old Illinois farm boy, living with his family in a log cabin, when the U.S. Civil War broke out. Stillwell …
Lewis and Clark: Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
Read by Roger Melin
William R. Lighton
In the years 1804, 1805, and 1806, two men commanded an expedition which explored the wilderness that stretched from the mouth of the Missou…
Wage-Labour and Capital
Read by Carl Manchester
Karl Marx
Originally written as a series of newspaper articles in 1847, Wage-Labour and Capital was intended to give an overview of Marx’s central the…
The Wind in the Willows (version 2)
Read by Mark F. Smith
Kenneth Grahame
This much-loved story follows a group of animal friends in the English countryside as they pursue adventure ... and as adventure pursues the…
Reflections on War and Death
Read by D.E. Wittkower
Sigmund Freud
Anyone, as Freud tells us in Reflections on War and Death, forced to react against his own impulses may be described as a hypocrite, whether…
Democracy in America Vol. I
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Alexis De Tocqueville
When Tocqueville visited America in the 1830s he found a thriving democracy of a kind he had not seen anywhere else. Many of his insightful …
Of the Shortness of Life
Read by Jonathan Hockey
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Seneca the Younger wrote the moral essay "De Brevitate Vitae" — "On the Shortness of Life" — to his friend Paulinus. The…
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
Read by Bob Neufeld
Friedrich Engels
The main idea of "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific" (1880) was distinguishing scientific socialism and utopian socialism. Engels …
My First Summer in the Sierra
Read by Adrian Praetzellis
John Muir
The journal of nature-lover John Muir who spent the summer of 1869 walking California’s Sierra Nevada range. From French Bar to Mono Lake an…
Bible (Reina Valera) NT 04: Evangelio según San Juan
Read by arturo
Reina-Valera
El Evangelio según Juan es un libro de la Biblia en el Nuevo Testamento que contiene la historia de la vida de Jesucristo. El ap&oacu…
Meditations on First Philosophy
Read by D.E. Wittkower
René Descartes
After several years working on a treatise putting forth his mechanistic philosophy and physics, Descartes shelved the project when his conte…
The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
Read by Peter Yearsley
M. M. Pattison Muir
A light journey through the history of chemistry, from its start in the obscure mysteries of alchemy to what was, for the author, the cuttin…
Eight Pillars of Prosperity
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James Allen
It is popularly supposed that a greater prosperity for individuals or nations can only come through a political and social reconstruction. T…
The Story of Electricity
Read by Ruth Golding
John Munro
In the book's preface, the author writes: "Let anyone stop to consider how he individually would be affected if all electrical service …
The Joyful Wisdom (or: The Gay Science)
Read by TimSC
Friedrich Nietzsche
"The Joyful Wisdom," written in 1882, just before "Zarathustra," is rightly judged to be one of Nietzsche's best books. …
The Wealth of Nations, Book 5
Read by Stephen Escalera
Adam Smith
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist Adam Smith, published on March 9…
Ulysses S. Grant
Read by David Wales
Owen Wister
Ulysses S. Grant was the great hero (for the North) in the Civil War and the 18th President of the United States. This short biography is on…
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
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Jerome K. Jerome
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Th…
A Modern Utopia
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H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells's proposal for social reform was the formation of a world state, a concept that would increasingly preoccupy him throughout the …
The Enchiridion of Epictetus
Read by D.E. Wittkower
Epictetus
Epictetus (Greek: Επίκτητος; c.55–c.135) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. The name given by his parents, if one was given, is not known - the …