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In Felix Holt, The Radical

Read by Alan Weyman

George Eliot

"Harold Transome is a landowner who goes against his family's political tradition (much to his mother's distress), while Felix Holt is …

Selected excerpts

In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 04

Read by Alan Weyman

Charles Dudely Warner, ed. and Pierre Beaumarchais

The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

Act 4

In Earth Spirit

Read by Alan Mapstone

Frank Wedekind

Earth Spirit (1895) (Erdgeist) is a play by the German dramatist Frank Wedekind. It forms the first part of his pairing of 'Lulu' plays (the…

20 - Book First, Chapters 5 to 10. Of the kingdom of Mausul. Of the great city …

In The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, concerning the kingdoms and marvels o…

Read by Alan Mapstone

Rustichello da Pisa and Rustichello Da Pisa

"Books of the Marvels of the World" or "Description of the World" (Divisament dou monde), also nicknamed "Il Milion…

01 - Part 1

In History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 1

Read by Alan Winterrowd

Friedrich von Schiller and Friedrich Schiller

The History of the Thirty Years War is a five volume work, which followed his very successful History of the Revolt of the Netherlands. Writ…

How Siegfried Journeyed Homeward With His Wife.

In Nibelungenlied

Read by Alan Mapstone

translated by Daniel B. Shumway

The Nibelungenlied, translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem in Middle High German. The story tells of dragon-slayer Siegfri…

34 - Section 34

In The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. III

Read by Alan Brown

James Boswell

This is the third volume of the Biography of Samuel Johnson. Samuel Johnson's Life has been documented in great detail by his friends, this …

Chapter VI

In The Pharaoh and the Priest

Read by Alan Williams

Bolesław Prus

The Pharaoh and the Priest (Polish: Faraon) is the fourth and last major novel by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus. It was the sole historica…

Short Preface by Dr. Martin Luther

In The Large Catechism

Read by Alan Cob

Martin Luther

Luther's Large Catechism consisted of works written by Martin Luther and compiled Christian canonical texts, published in April of 1529. Thi…

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