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Question 100 - OF THE CONDITION OF THE OFFSPRING AS REGARDS RIGHTEOUSNESS (In T…

In Summa Theologica - 04 Pars Prima, On Man

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Saint Thomas Aquinas


The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–127…

A Wodehouse Miscellany

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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…

Gorgias

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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 …

Empire

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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…

The Talleyrand Maxim

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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…

Critias

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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 …

Stories of Old Greece and Rome

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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 Emperor's Candlesticks

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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…

The Shrieking Pit

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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

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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

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Plato


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

Troilus and Criseyde

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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 …

The Leavenworth Case (Version 2)

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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…

Alcibiades I

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Plato


As Jowett relates in his brilliant introduction, 95% of Plato's writing is certain and his reputation rests soundly on this foundation. The …

The Chronicles of Crime Vol 1

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Camden Pelham


This catalogue of human weakness and at times downright atrocity has been brought together by Camden Pelham, a barrister-at-law of the Inner…

My Path to Atheism

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Annie Besant


My Path to Atheism is a remarkable document in many ways, not least that it was written by a woman in Victorian England, not the most open f…

Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders

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Victor Appleton


Tom Swift is the young protagonist in a series of juvenile adventure novels which began in the early twentieth century and continue to the p…

Lesser Hippias

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Plato


This work may not be by Plato, or his entirely, but Jowett has offered his sublime translation, and seems to lean towards including it in th…

The Worst Journey in the World, Vol 2

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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…

One Hundred Verses from Old Japan

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Teika No Fujiwara


In 12th-13th century Japan there lived a man named Fujiwara no Teika (sometimes called Sadaie), a well-regarded poet in a society that prize…

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