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The Coral Realm

In Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Read by Kurt Wong


Jules Verne


Captain Nemo, The Nautilus, and the mysterious depths of the ocean. Unforgettable. Come join an adventure that will roam among coral and pea…

Instinct - Part 2

In The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

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Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. and Charles Darwin


Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species (publ. 1859) is a pivotal work in scientific literature and arguably the pivotal work in evolutionary…

Book Ten, Part 1

In Paradise Lost

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John Milton


Paradise Lost is the first epic of English literature written in the classical style. John Milton saw himself as the intellectual heir of Ho…

Book 15

In The Odyssey

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Homer, transl. Samuel Butler and Homer


The Odyssey is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems (the other being the Iliad), attributed to the poet Homer. The poem is commonly…

The Nibelungenlied (English Verse)

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Anonymoustranslated Bygeorge Henry Needler and Unknowntranslated Bygeorge Henry Needler


The only translation into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original of the epic German poem The Nibelungenlied. There was a 2013 Li…

阿Q正傳 (The True Story of Ah Q)

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Xun Lu


The True Story of Ah Q (simplified Chinese: 阿Q正传; traditional Chinese: 阿Q正傳) is an episodic novella written by Lu Xun, first published as a …

狄公案 (Di Gong An - Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee)

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Anonymous


Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee is an 18th-century Chinese gong'an detective novel by an anonymous author, "Buti zhuanren" (Chinese:…

VI. All Saints

In Encounters: Stories

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Elizabeth Bowen


Included in this first collection of stories by noted Irish-British author Elizabeth Bowen are tales of psychological unease, of pent-up emo…

Sachem

In Lillian Morris, and Other Stories

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Henryk Sienkiewicz


The nights were real Californian: calm, warm, starry; the fire burned cheerily, and in its gleam I saw the gigantic, but shapely and noble f…

Notice on Father Dablon, Pt 1 Voyages and Discoveries of Father James Marquette

In Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi Valley

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John Gilmary Shea


"It has long been a desideratum to have in English the early narratives, of the discovery and exploration of the Mississippi. Marquette…

The Arrow of Heaven

In The Incredulity of Father Brown

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G. K. Chesterton


Originality and humor characterize the plots of these clever detective stories. The mysteries are solved by the detective priest, Father Bro…

Chapter 10 C (III) Peculiarities of the Basic Psychological Functions in the In…

In Psychological Types: Or, the Psychology of Individuation

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Carl Gustav Jung


Ever wondered if there is any "theoretical basis" for the well-known Myers–Briggs Type Indicator Personality Test? In this groundb…