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Moby Dick, or the Whale

Read by Stewart Wills


Herman Melville


Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique — but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel …

Lord Jim

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Joseph Conrad


A classic of early literary modernism, Lord Jim tells the story of a young "simple and sensitive character" who loses his honor in…

The Mysteries of London Vol. I part 2

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George W. M. Reynolds


The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian England. The first series was published in weekly instalments from 1844-46…

Wednesday Morning

In A Collection of Family Prayers

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Samuel Palmer


That Family-prayer is an indispensible duty, and an important means of religion, are points which are here taken for granted. Among the many…

Letter Writing

In How to Speak and Write Correctly

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Joseph Devlin


This is a 1910 guide for those who wish to learn how to correctly (though maybe not "properly") create sentences, use figures of s…

Chapter VIII, Part 1

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 2, Chapter 08)

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Thomas Babington Macaulay


In this chapter of Thomas Babington Macaulay’s History of England we see conflict between James II and his subjects. James is Catholic but r…

Book 1, Chapters 4-5

In Hard Times

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Charles Dickens


Hard Times, the shortest of Dickens's full-length novels, is set in the fictitious Victorian-England city of Coketown, where facts are the r…

Book of the Grotesque, The

In Winesburg, Ohio

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Sherwood Anderson


Published in 1919, and listed on the Modern Library roster of the 20th century's 100 greatest novels in English, Winesburg, Ohio presents a …

Introduction

In The Critique of Pure Reason

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Immanuel Kant


The Critique of Pure Reason, first published in 1781 with a second edition in 1787, has been called the most influential and important philo…

Bk 3, Paradise: Canto XII - Canto XVI

In The Divine Comedy

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Dante Alighieri, transl. Longfellow and Dante Alighieri


The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened "Divina" by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 an…

Richard and Isabella part 2

In The Mysteries of London Vol. I part 1

Read by Dave Wills


George W. M. Reynolds


The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian England. The first series was published in weekly instalments from 1844-4…