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The Dirge of the Sea-Children, and Other Poems

Read by Stefan Von Blon

Kenneth Rand

The first of three volumes of poetry published by Yale English literature graduate Kenneth Rand before his untimely death in 1918 by the Gre…

The Parasite

Read by Carl Vonnoh, III

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Being a physiologist, Austin Gilroy is unconvinced that the occult is real. His friend Professor Wilson, however, is not only convinced that…

The Essays of Francis Bacon

Read by Carl Vonnoh, III

Francis Bacon and Sir Francis Bacon

Voltaire was an atheist. Diderot was Enlightened. But trite titles seldom encompass completely the beliefs of any individual. And this one f…

Cobb's Anatomy

Read by Carl Vonnoh, III

Irvin S. Cobb

Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb was born on June 23, 1876. At seventeen years of age, he began writing for the Paducah Daily News, his hometown paper…

Chapter XXI - The Island of Tiboulen

In The Count of Monte Cristo (version 2)

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Alexandre Dumas

The story takes place in France, Italy, islands in the Mediterranean and the Levant during the historical events of 1815–1838 (from just bef…

Bk 02 Ch 02: In Which the Reader Will Peruse Two Verses...

In Les Misérables, Volume 2

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Victor Hugo, transl. Hapgood and Victor Hugo

This is book 2 of 5. An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the w…

14 - Exposition of the Moral Law, pt 1

In Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 2

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John Calvin

Institutes of the Christian Religion is John Calvin's seminal work on Protestant systematic theology. Highly influential in the Western worl…

Ch 6, pt. 3

In Foxe's Book of Martyrs Vol 1, A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphan…

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John Foxe, William B. Forbush, ed. and John Foxe

The Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe, is an English Protestant account of the persecutions of Protestants, many of whom had died for their beli…

05 - Psalms 38-45

In Bible (KJV) 19: Psalms

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King James Version

The Book of Psalms, commonly referred to simply as Psalms, is a book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Bible. Taken together, its 150 po…

The Coldness of Chloe

In What's Wrong With the World

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GK Chesterton and G. K. Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) has been called the “prince of paradox.” Time magazine observed of his writing style: “Whenever possibl…