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Running Fox

Read by Drew Johnson


Elmer Russell Gregor



Having reached the age of sixteen winters, Running Fox, the son of Black Panther, a famous Delaware war-chief, determined to establish his r…

Gorgias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato



This dialogue brings Socrates face to face with the famous sophist Gorgias and his followers. It is a work likely completed around the time …

Alcibiades I

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato



As Jowett relates in his brilliant introduction, 95% of Plato's writing is certain and his reputation rests soundly on this foundation. The …

Critias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato



This is an incomplete dialogue from the late period of Plato's life. Plato most likely created it after Republic and it contains the famous …

Lesser Hippias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato



This work may not be by Plato, or his entirely, but Jowett has offered his sublime translation, and seems to lean towards including it in th…

Protagoras

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato



Jowett, in his always informative introduction, sees this dialogue as transitional between the early and middle dialogues. Socrates meets wi…

The Vikings

Read by Kevin Johnson


Allen Mawer



This is a concise history of the Vikings by Allen Mawer, MA, Professor of English Language and Literature in Armstrong College, University o…

An Artist In Crime

Read by Jon Hunter


Rodrigues Ottolengui



"An Artist in Crime" by Rodrigues Ottolengui opens with a mysterious conversation on a train. Expert detective Jack Barnes overhea…

The Communist Manifesto

Read by Jon Ingram


Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx



Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote their Manifesto in December 1847, as a guide to the fundamental principles and practices of Communists.…

The Eagle's Shadow

Read by Jon M.Wilson


James Branch Cabell



A romantic comedy in which love is complicated by a large inheritance. - Summary by W. Blaine Dowler

A Shropshire Lad (version 2)

Read by Jon Sindell


A. E. Housman



This is a lovely collection of melodic poems, many melancholy in tone, many featuring Housman's constant theme of living this short life to …

Mighty Roman Shorts

Read by Jon Sindell


Jon Sindell



The Mighty Roman is a baseball book for today, a funny, freewheeling novel about modern American manhood. It’s a modern Mutiny On The Bounty…

Penrod

Read by Jonathan Burchard


Booth Tarkington



Join Penrod Schofield and his wistful dog Duke, in a hilarious romp through turn of the century Indianapolis, chronicling his life, loves, a…

Penrod and Sam

Read by Jonathan Burchard


Booth Tarkington



Follow more of the hilarious life of the boy Penrod Schofield, his friends Sam Williams, Herman, Verman, Georgie, Maurice, and the love of h…

Seventeen

Read by Jonathan Burchard


Booth Tarkington



Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family, Especially William is a humorous novel by Booth Tarkington that gently sat…

Children of Rhatlan

Read by Jonathan Fesmire


Jonathan Fesmire



Garum and Vayin are "duals," twins trapped in each other's minds and bodies, sharing one life. When a deranged wizard hunts them, …

Of the Shortness of Life

Read by Jonathan Hockey


Lucius Annaeus Seneca



Seneca the Younger wrote the moral essay "De Brevitate Vitae" — "On the Shortness of Life" — to his friend Paulinus. The…

The Augsburg Confession

Read by Jonathan Lange


Philipp Melanchthon



The Augsburg Confession is the first and most fundamental Confession of the Lutheran Church. It was composed for a public reading at the Die…

The Smalcald Articles

Read by Jonathan Lange


Martin Luther



A summary of Lutheran doctrine, written by Martin Luther in 1537 for a meeting of the Schmalkaldic League in preparation for an intended ecu…

The Small Catechism

Read by Jonathan Lange


Martin Luther



Luther's Small Catechism (Der Kleine Katechismus) was written by Martin Luther and published in 1529 for the training of children. Luther's …

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