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Sadhana, The Realisation of Life, version 2

Read by Peter Yearsley


Rabindranath Tagore



A collection of essays on the Hindu/Buddhist view of humankind's place in the universe. As the author says in his introduction: "in the…

Chancellorsville and Gettysburg

Read by Mark F. Smith


Abner Doubleday



Abner Doubleday began the Civil War as a Union officer and aimed the first cannon shot in response to the bombardment opened on Ft. Sumter i…

Madam How and Lady Why

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Charles Kingsley



Did you ever wish you knew how to explain natural phenomena such as earthquakes and volcanoes to your children? Search no more, this book ha…

The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Part 1

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Charles Darwin



A book on evolutionary theory by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871. It was Darwin's second great book on evolutiona…

Unspoken Sermons

Read by David Baldwin


George MacDonald



George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. In his day he was considered one of the great Victorian authors on par…

Philosophy and Fun of Algebra

Read by Patricia Oakley


Mary Everest Boole



Mary Everest Boole (1832-1916) was born Mary Everest in England and spent her early years in France. She married mathematician George Boole.…

The French Revolution

Read by Ray Clare


Hilaire Belloc



“It is, for that matter, self-evident that if one community decides in one fashion, another, also sovereign, in the opposite fashion, both c…

Las Fábulas de Esopo, Vol. 6

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Aesop



Las clásicas Fábulas de Esopo han sido traducidas a todos idiomas por cientos de años. Las fábulas, en forma de …

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. III

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Edward Gibbon



The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was writ…

Bethink Yourselves!

Read by David Barnes


Leo Tolstoy



As Russia goes to war against Japan, Tolstoy urges those at all levels of society, from the Tsar down to the common soldier, to consider the…

The Consolation of Philosophy

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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius



Consolation of Philosophy (Latin: Consolatio Philosophiae) is a philosophical work by Boethius written in about the year 524 AD. It has been…

Wit and Wisdom of Chesterton

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G. K. Chesterton



This little volume, issued as a gift book for lovers of Mr. Chesterton's writings in 1911, is made up from essays to be found in "The D…

The World I Live In

Read by Laura Caldwell


Helen Keller



The World I Live In by Helen Keller is a collection of essays that poignantly tells of her impressions of the world, through her sense of to…

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…

Las Fábulas de Esopo, Vol. 5

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Aesop



Las clásicas Fábulas de Esopo han sido traducidas a todos idiomas por cientos de años. Las fábulas, en forma de …

A Letter Concerning Toleration

Read by D.E. Wittkower


John Locke



Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke was originally published in 1689. Its initial publication was in Latin, though it was immediately…

Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution

Read by Christian Pecaut


Vladimir Ilyich Lenin



In the heat of the failed 1905 revolution in Russia, Lenin here contrasts the precision of the Bolshevik political program and tactics with …

The Book of Tea

Read by Mike Rosenlof


Kakuzō Okakura



The Book of Tea was written by Okakura Kakuzo in the early 20th century. It was first published in 1906, and has since been republished many…

The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers and United States Army Corps Of Engineers



This is the official report, published nearly 11 months after the first and only atomic bombings in history (to date), of a group of militar…

Commentary on Galatians

Read by Jonathan Lange


St. John Chrysostom



St. Chrysostom’s Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians is continuous, according to chapter and verse, instead of being arranged in Homi…

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