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The New Life
Read by Mary J
Dante Alighieri
One of Dante's earliest works, La vita nuova or La vita nova (The New Life) is in a prosimetrum style, a combination of prose and verse, and…
The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti
Read by Mary J
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Michael Angelo and Campanella represent widely sundered, though almost contemporaneous, moments in the evolution of the Italian genius. Mich…
Under the Shadow of Etna
Read by Mary J
Giovanni Verga
The short stories of Giovanni Verga, one of the leading authors of Italian verismo, or realism, tell mostly of working-class characters in r…
Saint Columbanus The First European
Read by Mary McAleese
RTÉ Radio 1 and Drama on One
In “Columbanus - The First European,” we learn about this remarkable man who played a definitive role in the cultural, educational, and spir…
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
Read by Mary Reagan
Nellie Bly
This is a true account by American woman journalist who, in 1889, set out to see whether she could beat the fictional journey in Jules Verne…
The Life of the Spirit and the Life of Today
Read by Mary Reagan
Evelyn Underhill
Underhill emphasizes the practical, here-and-now nature of spiritual life. She argues that spirituality is a genuine and abiding human fact,…
Psychopathology of Everyday Life
Read by Mary Schneider
Sigmund Freud
Professor Freud developed his system of psychoanalysis while studying the so-called borderline cases of mental diseases, such as hysteria an…
Totem and Taboo
Read by Mary Schneider
Sigmund Freud
Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics is a book by Sigmund Freud published in German in 1913 under…
Pathological Lying, Accusation, and Swindling
Read by Mary Schneider
William Healy
This work describes and analyzes several cases of pathological behavior. The interest comes not only from the cases themselves, but also fro…
In Our Convent Days
Read by Mary Schneider
Agnes Repplier
With her usual wit and charm, Ms. Repplier recalls her days at Eden Hall, the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Torresdale, north of Philadelph…
The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets
Read by Mary Schneider
Jane Addams
Much of the material in the following pages has appeared in current publications. It is here presented in book form in the hope that it may …
The Precipice
Read by Mary Schneider
Elia Wilkinson Peattie
Elia Peattie was an outspoken journalist and social activist who gave her attention to such areas as orphanages, charity hospitals, the Woun…
Americans and Others
Read by Mary Schneider
Agnes Repplier
A collection of sometimes biting, always clever commentaries on some of life's foibles -- as apt today as when Ms. Repplier wrote them in 19…
An American Idyll
Read by Mary Schneider
Cornelia Stratton Parker
In a memoir marked by joy, love, and an unbending sense of adventure, Cornelia Stratton Parker reveals the heart of a unique man and their l…
The Mariner's Secret
Read by Mary TomasiDubois
Mary TomasiDubois
Thugs, chases through the streets of San Francisco, scientific discoveries, and other mysteries abound! Matt and Heather Townsend, orphaned …
The Mariner's Secret
Read by Mary TomasiDubois
Mary TomasiDubois
Thugs, chases through the streets of San Francisco, scientific discoveries, and other mysteries abound! Matt and Heather Townsend, orphaned …
The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop
Read by Mary Wimbush
Gladys Mitchell
Beatrice Adela Bradley is a fictional detective created by Gladys Mitchell. In this dramatic adaptation, Mrs. Bradley, portrayed by Mary Wim…
The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song
Read by Marya James
Frederick Walker Mott
From the Preface: "The contents of this little book formed the subject of three lectures delivered at the Royal Institution "On th…
All of Grace
Read by MaryAnn
Charles H. Spurgeon
HE WHO SPOKE and wrote this message will be greatly disappointed if it does not lead many to the Lord Jesus. It is sent forth in childlike d…
North and South
Read by MaryAnn
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
North and South is set in the fictional industrial town of Milton in the North of England. Forced to leave her home in the tranquil rural so…