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In Cordelia the Magnificent

Read by Kevin Manley


Leroy Scott


Cordelia Marlowe carries a high society name but no fortune. She has to make ends meet, but what kind of work can a young lady do whose main…

A Little Poetry, a Little of Mathematics, with the Prospects of a Great Deal ab…

In That Football Game, and What Came of It

Read by Kevin Manley


Francis J. Finn, S.J.


The boy world is in an ecstasy of delight, for Father Finn has not only given us a new story, but, positively, the best book he has ever wri…

Vagrant

In H.M.I.: Some Passages in the Life of One of H.M. Inspectors of Schools

Read by Kevin Manley


Edmund Mackenzie Sneyd-Kinnersley


Sneyd-Kinnersley was an Inspector of Schools in a period when regulations were rapidly changing and access to free public education was expa…

The Oxen Story

In The Sandman: His Farm Stories

Read by Kevin Manley


William John Hopkins


Delightful short bedtime stories for small children. Not only are the stories entertaining, but they are educational and practical for the d…

The Sacredness of Personality

In Home Education Series Vol. VI: Towards A Philosophy of Education

Read by Kevin Manley


Charlotte Mason


The sixth volume in the Home Education Series detailing Charlotte Mason's method of education. This volume is subtitled A Liberal Education …

Life of Hume 2. Literary Labours till the Publication of the History

In David Hume and his Influence on Philosophy and Theology

Read by Kevin Manley


James Orr


David Hume justly takes rank as the most distinguished member of that brilliant circle of literary men whose names gave such a lustre to the…

A Wodehouse Miscellany

Read by Kevin McAsh


P. G. Wodehouse


Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was an English comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. Best known toda…

Empire

Read by Kevin Green


Clifford D. Simak


In a future time, the solar system is powered by one energy source, controlled by one huge organisation, which has plans to use this control…

Gorgias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


This dialogue brings Socrates face to face with the famous sophist Gorgias and his followers. It is a work likely completed around the time …

Critias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


This is an incomplete dialogue from the late period of Plato's life. Plato most likely created it after Republic and it contains the famous …

The Talleyrand Maxim

Read by Kevin Green


J. S. Fletcher


John Mallathorpe, a wealthy Yorkshire industrialist and land owner dies in an accident, apparently without making a will. His estate goes t…

The Emperor's Candlesticks

Read by Kevin Green


Baroness Emma Orczy


When a group of Russian anarchists kidnap a Russian prince in Vienna there are repercussions. On learning that the Cardinal d'Orsay has agre…

Stories of Old Greece and Rome

Read by Kevin Green


Emilie Kip Baker


The Stories of Old Greece and Rome is an easy to read summary of all of the famous and not so famous Greek and Roman mythological stories. A…

The Shrieking Pit

Read by Kevin Green


Arthur J. Rees


The Shrieking Pit is one of Arthur Rees's earlier works, and is a good old fashioned murder mystery story. Grant Colwyn, a private detective…

The Worst Journey in the World, Vol 1

Read by Kevin Green


Apsley Cherry-Garrard


The Worst Journey in the World is a memoir of the 1910–1913 British Antarctic Expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott. It was written and publ…

Protagoras

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


Jowett, in his always informative introduction, sees this dialogue as transitional between the early and middle dialogues. Socrates meets wi…

The Leavenworth Case (Version 2)

Read by Kevin Green


Anna Katharine Green


The Leavenworth Case is a gripping detective novel set in New York, and is one of the first detective fiction novels to be written by a fema…

Troilus and Criseyde

Read by Kevin Johnson


Geoffrey Chaucer


Troilus and Criseyde is a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set …