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The Story of Red Feather

Read by Mira Williams


Edward S. Ellis


The fierce chieftain Red Feather is leading a raiding party of Sioux across the Montana frontier, and the Clarendon homestead is directly in…

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Read by Gary Gilberd


Benjamin Franklin


Franklin wrote his autobiography in the form of an extended letter to his son. While recording the events of his life, he adds instructions …

Common Sense

Read by Gary Gilberd


Thomas Paine


Common Sense, Paine's pro-independence monograph published anonymously on 10 January 1776, spread quickly among literate colonists. Within t…

Beric the Briton: a Story of the Roman Invasion

Read by Gary Olman


G. A. Henty


My series of stories dealing with the wars of England would be altogether incomplete did it not include the period when the Romans were the …

With Frederick The Great: A Story of the Seven Years' War

Read by Gary Olman


G. A. Henty


Among the great wars of history there are few, if any, instances of so long and successfully sustained a struggle, against enormous odds, as…

The Philosophy of Style

Read by Gary Gilberd


Herbert Spencer


“The Philosophy of Style,” explored a growing trend of formalist approaches to writing. Highly focused on the proper placement and ordering …

Through Russian Snows

Read by Gary Olman


G. A. Henty


There are few campaigns that, either in point of the immense scale upon which it was undertaken, the completeness of its failure, or the eno…

With Clive in India

Read by Gary Olman


G. A. Henty


With Clive in India gives a vivid picture of the wonderful events of the ten years, which at their commencement saw Madras in the hands of t…

Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy

Read by Gary Gilberd


John Stuart Mill


This is Mill’s first work on economics. It foreshadows his Political Economy which was the standard Anglo-American Economics textbook of the…

Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy

Read by Gary Gilberd


George Santayana


Before the beginning of World War II, during the time of the Modernist movement in philosophy, George Santayana wrote these five descriptive…

The Monadology

Read by Gary Geck


Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz


The Monadology (La Monadologie, 1714) is one of Gottfried Leibniz’s best known works representing his later philosophy. It is a short text w…

Young Folks' History of the American Revolution

Read by Gary Bohannon


Everett T. Tomlinson


This work has grown out of the desire frequently expressed to the writer when he has been lecturing on the American Revolution, that in some…

The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth

Read by Gary Olman


T. D. Bonner


Buried amid the sublime passes of the Sierra Nevada are old men, who, when children, strayed away from our crowded settlements, and, gradual…

Card Trick

Read by Gary Dana


John Berryman


The Psi Lodge had their ways and means of applying pressure, when pressure was needed. But the peculiar talent this fellow showed was one th…

Origins of Nature

Read by Richard Dawkins, Rowan Williams and Anthony Kenny


Richard Dawkins, Rowan Williams and Anthony Kenny


University of Oxford Podcasts

Teddy Talks

Read by Lionel Barber and David Waring


Lionel Barber and David Waring


University of Oxford Podcasts

Works and Days, The Theogony, and The Shield of Heracles

Read by Arthur Krolman


Hesiod and Hesiodtranslated Byhugh Gerard Evelyn-White


Works and Days provides advice on agrarian matters and personal conduct. The Theogony explains the ancestry of the gods. The Shield of Herac…

Homeric Hymns, Epigrams, and The Battle of Frogs and Mice

Read by Arthur Krolman


Homer


Homeric Hymns are thirty-three poems each paying homage to a certain Greek god. Only a few of the poems are more than 250 lines while the re…

The Adventures of Roderick Random

Read by Arthur Krolman


Tobias Smollett


I am Roderick Random. This is the contemporary story of my struggle against the adversity of orphan-hood, poverty, press gangs, bloody duels…

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom

Read by Arthur Krolman


Tobias Smollett


You can call me Dr. Fathom. Or Count Fathom. But I'm not who I say I am. And can you blame me? My mother was a soldiers' harlot who pocketed…

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