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The Measure of a Man

In Short Science Fiction Collection 009

Read by Barbara King Gardner

Randall Garrett

Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological an…

Little Sister Snow

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Frances Little

American author Fannie Caldwell, under pen name of Frances Little, tells the story of young Yuki San growing up in Japan circa early 1900s, …

Philosophy - Ethics of the New Biosciences

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James King

University of Oxford Podcasts

The Creating Formula

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Barbara Joye

You have been told that you create your own reality …You have read all about the Law of Attraction …You have heard and seen how some individ…

Discourses: Biological and Geological

Read by Barbara Baker

Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley was an English biologist (comparative anatomist). He was the most effective supporter of Darwin's Theory of Evoluti…

The English Language

Read by Barbara Baker

Logan Pearsall Smith

A description and history of the development of the English Language and reflections on the influences that changed the language. - Summary …

The Novels of Jane Austen

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George Henry Lewes

An 1859 essay by the prominent philosopher and literary critic, G. H. Lewes, who was an enthusiastic promoter of the novels of Jane Austen a…

The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. I (version 2)

Read by Barbara Baker

James Boswell

This is the first of four volumes of a what was a new, intimate, type of biography when it was first published in 1791 and which has been an…

Hieroglyphic Tales

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Horace Walpole

Surreal and satirical, these stories by the eighteenth century man of letters, Whig politician, art historian and antiquarian are '"...…

Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay

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Thomas Babington Macaulay

An review essay of "Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay". The Edinburgh Review, January, 1843. Reprinted in vol. iii of Macaulay'…

Recollections of the Revolution and the Empire

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Henriette Lucie Dillon, marquise de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet

An aristocratic Frenchwoman's personal record of the dazzling extravagance of the Ancien Régime, of the court of Marie Antoinette, of…

Italian Hours

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Henry James

A loving recollection of the writer’s experiences, over many decades, of Italian places, people and art. - Summary by barbara2

The Desirable Alien at Home in Germany

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Ford Madox Ford and Violet Hunt

A travel journal of a year the author spent in Germany. With a preface and two additional chapters by her partner, the novelist Ford Madox F…

Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia and Letter to a Friend

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Thomas Browne

Selections from the varied writings of a 17th century English doctor with a well-stocked mind, an interest in the new science of his age and…

Horace Walpole's Letters: a selection

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Horace Walpole

Horace Walpole, 4th earl of Orford, was a cultivated participant in, and observer of, the social and political life of Georgian England. His…

The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. II (version 2)

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James Boswell

This is the second of four volumes of a what was a new, intimate, type of biography when it was first published in 1791 and which has been a…

The Letters of Madame de Sévigné to Her Daughter and Friends

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Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sévigné and Marie De Rabutin-Chantal

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (5 February 1626 – 17 April 1696) was a French aristocrat famous for the precisi…

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In Short Science Fiction Collection 009

Ford Madox Ford and Violet Hunt

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sévigné and Marie De Rabutin-Chantal

Frances Burney and Annie Raine Ellis