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Troilus and Criseyde
Read by Kevin Johnson
Geoffrey Chaucer
Troilus and Criseyde is a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set …
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…
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
Read by Kevin LaVergne
Mark Twain
"Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven" is a short-story written by American writer Mark Twain and published in 1909. The story fol…
Chronicles of Canada Volume 03 - Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain
Read by Kevin McAsh
Charles W. Colby
For Canada, Champlain is not alone a heroic explorer of the seventeenth century, but the founder of Quebec; and it is a rich part of our her…
A Wodehouse Miscellany
Read by Kevin McAsh
P. G. Wodehouse
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was an English comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. Best known toda…
Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders
Read by Kevin McAsh
Victor Appleton
Tom Swift is the young protagonist in a series of juvenile adventure novels which began in the early twentieth century and continue to the p…
One Hundred Verses from Old Japan
Read by Kevin Steinbach
Teika No Fujiwara
In 12th-13th century Japan there lived a man named Fujiwara no Teika (sometimes called Sadaie), a well-regarded poet in a society that prize…
A Hero of Our Time
Read by Kevin W. Davidson
Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov
A Hero of Our Time is indeed a portrait, but not of one man. It is a portrait built up of all our generation's vices in full bloom. You will…
The Daughter of the Commandant
Read by Kevin W. Davidson
Alexander Pushkin
"The Daughter of the Commandant" (better known as "The Captain's Daughter") is a historical novel by the Russian writer …
Oblomov
Read by Kevin W. Davidson
Ivan Goncharov
Oblomov is the best known novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859. Oblomov is also the central character of the nove…
Kriloff's Fables
Read by Kevin W. Davidson
Ivan Krylov
Herein is a collection of 86 fables translated into English from the 201 written by Kriloff. Some of Kriloff's fables are translations from …
Peasant Tales of Russia
Read by Kevin W. Davidson
Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko
Collection of Russian peasant tales:"The Deserted Mine" - The key to saving the trapped miners is held by a man who hasn't spoken …
Russian Fairy Tales
Read by Kevin W. Davidson
William Ralston Shedden-Ralston
Russian Fairy Tales is an anthology of stories by a noted Russian scholar and translator. The 51 stories are thematically organized with int…
Modern Russian Poetry: An Anthology
Read by Kevin W. Davidson
Varioustranslated Bybabette Deutsch
This volume...aims to present the lyrical poetry of Russian for the last hundred years by a selection of poems translated by the editors...T…
Idle Days in Patagonia
Read by Kevin W. Davidson
William Henry Hudson
Hudson traveled to Patagonia to study the birds, but shortly upon arrival accidentally shot himself in the knee, requiring a lengthy period …