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Forty-One Letters on Religious Subjects
Read by InTheDesert
John Newton
Among the excellences which appear in all the published letters of Newton, we may mention:In the first place, the grand design — the high an…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 055
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Various
Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include Philosophy and Psychology: selectio…
How to Write a Novel
Read by Brett W. Downey
William James Mcglothlin
I address myself to the man or woman of talent—those people who have writing ability, but who need instruction in the manipulation of charac…
Doris and the Ankh
Read by Brian Holtz
Brian Holtz
A fantasy adventure for all ages.
Doris, a neurotic and quirky thirteen-year-old, is thrust into an alternate reality where flowers sneeze,…
Mark Twain's Partner
Read by John Greenman
Michael J. Phillips
In 1861, a 26-year-old Sam Clemens "went west" with his older brother Orion. By that time he'd had some experience with publishing…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 080
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Various
Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. "Not one of us actually thinks for himself, or in any orderly and scientific manne…
Ingersoll on ERNEST RENAN from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 11, Lec…
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Robert G. Ingersoll
Col. Ingersoll begins his lectures on famous people as follows: "It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius…
Bill Nye's Cordwood
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Bill Nye
From Galileo to Grover Cleveland, from wasps to cattle, from dinosaurs to the railroad, Bill Nye's wide ranging wit pokes gentle fun at ever…
The Red Room
Read by William Peck
August Strindberg
A young idealistic civil servant, Arvid Falk, leaves the drudgery of bureaucracy to become a journalist and author. As he explores various s…
The Adventures of a Dog, and a Good Dog Too
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Alfred Elwes
This fictional work is written in 1st person by the dog himself. It's a cute story of the adventures in the life of a noble dog who is appro…
Theodore Savage: A Story of the Past or the Future
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Cicely Hamilton
Theodore Savage: A Story of the Past or the Future is an early work of dystopian science fiction.
Impressions of Theophrastus Such (Version 2)
Read by Mark Leder
George Eliot
The ruminations and reflections of a minor scholar. - Summary by Mark Leder
Salavandra: A Coffee Tale
Read by Theodore Isaac Erski
Theodore Isaac Erski
Salavandra is an isolated Caribbean island. Its products-coffee, lumber and flowers-are controlled by Penkava Inc., a New York based multina…
Unconventional
Read by J.J. Hebert
J.J. Hebert
YOUNG JAMES FROST just knows, deep in his bones, that he's a writer. He writes far into early mornings, after his wearying hours of scrubbin…
Four Hundred Years of Freethought, Part 1
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Samuel Porter Putnam
This is Samuel Putnam's tour of European literature which began to appear once the globe was circumnavigated and the printing press made boo…
The Idiot (Part 03 and 04)
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The extraordinary child-adult Prince Myshkin, confined for several years in a Swiss sanatorium suffering from severe epilepsy, returns to Ru…
Gödel, Escher, Bach: A Mental Space Odyssey
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What do one mathematician, one artist, and one musician all have in common? Are you interested in zen Buddhism, math, fractals, logic, parad…
Rudin
Read by Lee Smalley
Ivan Turgenev
Rudin is the first and perhaps least known novel by Ivan Turgenev, a famous Russian writer best known for his short stories and the novel Fa…
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 12 - Miscellany
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Robert G. Ingersoll
Enjoy listening to some of The Great Agnostic's fiery articles, speeches and introductory remarks at a variety of banquets, expositions (lik…
From the Life of a Good-For-Nothing
Read by Christoph Stangenberg
Joseph Von Eichendorff
The main character leaves his parental home to earn his own livelihood. During his journey, he falls in love with Aurelie but believes she i…