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The Duty of the Intellectuals

In The Tocsin of Revolt, and other Essays

Read by Gary Grenholm


Brander Matthews


This is a volume of essays by American author Brander Matthews. Matthews is today mostly remembered for his short pieces of speculative fict…

St. John's Eve by Nikolai Vasilievitch Gogol Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood

In Stories by Foreign Authors - Russian

Read by Gary Grenholm


Various


A collection of short stories written by Russian authors and translated into English. Includes stories by Turgevev, Tolstoi, Poushkin and Go…

An American Critic: Professor Irving Babbitt

In The Art of Letters

Read by Gary Grenholm


Robert Lynd


From the pen of the Irish poet and essayist, Robert Lynd, comes a collection of humorous and satirical essay on the literary scene of his da…

The Ballad of the Oysterman - Read by GGG

In The Ballad of the Oysterman

Read by Gary Grenholm


Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


from THE POETICAL WORKS OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES:TO MY READERSNAY, blame me not; I might have sparedYour patience many a trivial verse,Yet t…

The Greek Genius By John Jay Chapman (1862-1933)

In Atlantic Classics

Read by Gary Grenholm


John Jay Chapman


The Atlantic was a popular periodical with a wide range of essays and stories. In an effort to remain current, many strong and valid submiss…

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

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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…