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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Version 3)

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Henry David Thoreau


"That government is best which governs least" is the famous opening line of this essay. The slavery crisis inflamed New England i…

The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians (Spartans)

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Xenophon


The Polity of the Lacedaemonians talks about the laws and institutions created by Lycurgus, which train and develop Spartan citizens from bi…

A Martian Odyssey & A Valley of Dreams

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Stanley G. Weinbaum


The first of these stories was originally published in the July 1934 issue of Wonder Stories. It was followed four months later by a sequel,…

The Children's Life of the Bee

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Maurice Maeterlinck


Buzz, buzz, buzz. A fascinating and beautifully written explanation of the life of the honey bee. Maeterlinck, who won the Noble Prize for L…

The Sensitive Man

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Poul William Anderson


Poul Anderson delves into the realm of human potential in this exciting story and asks some penetrating questions for us to think about. Wh…

Nice Girl With 5 Husbands

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Fritz Leiber


Four quirky short stories by the talented Fritz Leiber: Nice Girl with 5 Husbands, A Pail of Air, The Last Letter and A Bad Day for Sales. …

3 Science Fiction Stories

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William Tenn


These are three imaginative SF stories by an author I admire a lot, William Tenn. Venus is a Man's World, (Galaxy Science Fiction, July 19…

The Beast With Five Fingers

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W. F. Harvey


A well off English bachelor receives a legacy from his uncle. This includes the uncle's very large library and a box containing something t…

Little Wizard Stories of Oz (version 2)

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L. Frank Baum


Six stores of OZ and it's wonderful inhabitants, told by the official Historian of Oz, L. Frank Baum. Lots of adventure here!! Dorothy and …

Lord Tedric (version 2)

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E. E. “Doc” Smith


The best of science fantasy meets the best of science fiction as Tedric battles his way through two universes of adventure: In one universe.…

The Men in the Walls

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William Tenn


There are giant, technologically superior aliens who have conquered Earth. People live like vermin in holes in the insulation material of th…

A Bad Day For Vermin by Keith Laumer

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Keith Laumer


For your listening pleasure, here are three stories by the ingenious Keith Laumer from the glorious days of Science Fiction in the early 19…

Heidi (version 3)

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Johanna Spyri


Johanna Spyri’s classic story of a 5 year old little Swiss orphan who is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their h…

It Could Be Anything

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Keith Laumer


A science fiction story by the great Keith Laumer - what more needs to be said? - But I will say more nevertheless. A young man sets out …

The Knights of Arthur (Version 2)

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Frederik Pohl


Pohl takes us into the future in this quirky and funny story, where the population of the United States is less than 10,000 people ... tota…

The Haunted Woman

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David Lindsay


Isabel Loment is engaged to the affectionate, but unemotional, Marshall Stokes. House-hunting for her aunt, she comes to Runhill Court, an a…

Half-Past Bedtime

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H. H. Bashford


Ah, the wonderful adventures of Marian after she meets the strange Mr. Jugg. "And who are you, Mr Jugg?" she inquired. "I'm t…

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Version 5)

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Robert Louis Stevenson


This story deals with the obvious fact that we humans are split, dual. We have urges to do the 'right' thing, to be honorable and wise, but…

The Thing in the Attic (version 2)

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James B. Blish


"Honath and his fellow arch-doubters did not believe in the Giants, and for this they were cast into Hell. And when survival depended u…

The Spirit of Bambatse

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H. Rider Haggard


A romance, a shipwreck and a hunt for buried Portuguese treasure in the Transvaal. All the ingredients of an imperial adventure that made Ha…

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