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Bob Bowen Comes To Town

Read by Howard Skyman


Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones and H. Bedford-Jones


Bob Bowen is a free spirited young man who likes to take chances. However after a chance meeting on a train with a high stakes mining stock …

Winning His Game

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Ralph Henry Barbour


Dudley Baker is new to Grafton School. Like many rookie students he finds himself feeling out of place amongst the strange new faces he enco…

For The Freedom Of The Seas

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Ralph Henry Barbour


It is the dawning of World War One and Nelson Troy is young and enthusiastic. Although America is not yet involved in the war effort he drea…

Grimms' Fairy Tales (version 2)

Read by Bob Neufeld


Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen) is a collection of German origin fairy tales first published in 1812 b…

The Republic (version 2)

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Plato


The Republic is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato around 380 BC concerning the definition of justice and the order and character of the j…

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Version 2)

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Washington Irving


"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story by Washington Irving contained in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon…

A Tale of Two Cities (version 3)

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Charles Dickens


A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 mill…

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Version 2)

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Henry David Thoreau


Civil Disobedience (Resistance to Civil Government) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published i…

Heart of Darkness (version 2)

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Joseph Conrad


Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. Before its 1903 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood…

The Picture Of Dorian Gray (1891 Version)

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Oscar Wilde


The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 Ju…

Common Sense (version 2)

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Thomas Paine


Thomas Paine has a claim to the title The Father of the American Revolution because of Common Sense, the pro-independence monograph pamphlet…

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (version 3)

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Robert Louis Stevenson


The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novel written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was fi…

Phaedo

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Plato


Plato's Phaedo is one of the great dialogues of his middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium. The Phaedo, which depicts the …

The Art of War (Version 4)

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Sun Tzu 孙武


The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu, a high-ranking military general, strategist and tactician. The…

The Island of Doctor Moreau (Version 2)

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H. G. Wells


In this classic of H. G. Wells, Edward Prendick is shipwrecked on a beautiful island in the South Seas and is drawn into the wild and cruel …

Notes From The Underground (version 2)

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky


Notes from Underground is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. It presen…

Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

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Friedrich Engels


The main idea of "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific" (1880) was distinguishing scientific socialism and utopian socialism. Engels …

The Hound of the Baskervilles (version 2)

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of four crime novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originall…

The Prince (Version 3)

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Niccolò Machiavelli


The Prince (Italian: Il Principe) is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavel…

Essays, First Series (version 2)

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Ralph Waldo Emerson


Essays: First Series is a series of 12 essays written by Ralph Waldo Emerson concerning transcendentalism, including Self-Reliance. It was p…

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