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Jamestown and Her Neighbors on Virginia's Historic Peninsula

Read by James R. Hedrick


Jane E. Davis


A brief history of the early years of the historic Virginia Peninsula lying between the James and the York Rivers and extending from Richmon…

Robinson Crusoe

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Daniel Defoe


Daniel Defoe’s The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner (1719) is considered by many the first English…

Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy

Read by Landon D. C. Elkind


Bertrand Russell


Bertrand Russell wrote 'Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy' while imprisoned for protesting Britain's involvement in World War I. Russe…

A Journal of the Plague Year

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Daniel Defoe


The novel is a fictionalized account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London. The boo…

The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers and United States Army Corps Of Engineers


This is the official report, published nearly 11 months after the first and only atomic bombings in history (to date), of a group of militar…

The Life, Adventures & Piracies of Captain Singleton

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Daniel Defoe


The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton is a "bipartite adventure story whose first half covers a traversal…

Our Knowledge of the External World: As a Field for Scientific Method in Philos…

Read by Landon D. C. Elkind


Bertrand Russell


Bertrand Russell gave the Lowell Lectures in March and April of 1914; these lectures produced 'Our Knowledge of the External World'. Russell…

Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays

Read by Landon D. C. Elkind


Bertrand Russell


This anthology collects a number of fascinating strands of Bertrand Russell's thought. "Mathematics and the Metaphysicians" detail…

The Story of the Three Little Pigs

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


L. Leslie Brooke


This version of the classic tale of the three pigs, their houses and a wolf, published in 1904, has a new twist in its second half. This rec…

The Philosophy of Logical Atomism

Read by Landon D. C. Elkind


Bertrand Russell


'The Philosophy of Logical Atomism' is a series of lectures by Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) that touches on numerous topics, including the n…

Joseph Andrews

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Henry Fielding


"Joseph Andrews ... was the first published full-length novel of the English author and magistrate Henry Fielding, and indeed among the…

The Problems of Philosophy (version 2)

Read by Landon D. C. Elkind


Bertrand Russell


This 1912 book remains among the most widely-used and well-written introductions to philosophy in English. It was aimed to be an accessible …

Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Daniel Defoe


Adaptation of the story of Robinson Crusoe for grammar school children. Tells how the shipwrecked sailor makes a new life for himself on the…

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Version 2)

Read by Landon D. C. Elkind


Ludwig Wittgenstein


The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is the only book published by Ludwig Wittgenstein. Any summary would frankly do the work an injustice - t…

The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism

Read by Landon D. C. Elkind


Bertrand Russell


This book records Bertrand Russell's impressions of the new regime after a 1920 visit to Russia following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, inc…

On Propositions: What They Are and How They Mean

Read by Landon D. C. Elkind


Bertrand Russell


In this piece, Bertrand Russell offers an account of propositions. This essay has been widely regarded as a turning point in Russell's thoug…

Philosophical Essays

Read by Landon D. C. Elkind


Bertrand Russell


Six out of seven essays appearing here were reprinted from other publications; indeed, this 1910 collection went out of print, so that two o…

The Storm

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Daniel Defoe


The Storm (1704) holds a special place in the writings of Daniel Defoe. Widely considered a founding document of modern journalism, The Sto…

Plan and Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Samuel Johnson


The published dictionary was a huge book: with pages nearly 1½ feet tall and 20 inches wide, it contained 42,773 words; it also sold …

My Mark Twain

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


William Dean Howells


William Dean Howells (1837-1920) became fast friends with Mark Twain from the moment in 1869 when Twain strode into the office of The Atlant…

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