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Part 1, chapter 1

In A Raw Youth

Read by Joshua Stevens


Fyodor Dostoyevsky


Arkady Dolgoruky, is a 19-year-old intellectual. He is the illegitimate son of a landowner and dreams to become rich. In his quest to fulfi…

Chapter 3, Part 1

In Heart of Darkness (version 3)

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Joseph Conrad


Heart of Darkness tells the story of an English seaman, Charles Marlow, who embarks on a voyage up the Congo River and into the African wild…

Frivolities

In The "Mind The Paint" Girl

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Louis Tracy


"The "Mind The Paint" Girl, by Louis Tracy, is a delightful novelization of Sir Arthur Pinero's sparkling comedy now having a…

Chapter 11- Part 3

In The Rainbow (Version 3)

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D. H. Lawrence


The Rainbow is the story of three generations of the Brangwen family, a sexual and religious collection of incidents that eventually shows t…

The Damned Thing

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 043

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Ambrose Bierce


A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…

The Lost Lenore

In The Castle of Twilight

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Margaret Horton Potter


"Wistfully I deliver up to you my simple story, knowing that the first suggestion of “historical novel” will bring before you an image …

CHAPTER XIII December

In Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amate…

Read by Bev J Stevens


Gertrude Jekyll


Wood and Garden reads like a walk through the garden with renowned garden designer Gertrude Jekyll as she discusses her plant choices and pl…

The Life of Samuel Johnson

In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 05

Read by Bev J Stevens


James Boswell


The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

Quatrains 102 - 200

In The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám (Persian original and Whinfield translation)

Read by Bev J Stevens


Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward Whinfield and Omar Khayyám


Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) was a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. In the Western world he is most famous for his many rub&aa…

chapter 3 - THE LIMITS OF INFERENCE

In The Ethics of Belief

Read by Bev J Stevens


William Kingdon Clifford


This is an essay on decision biases and a critique on prejudices, neatly written and thought provoking. (Summary by sidhu177)

Letter XII

In Letters from Hell

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Valdemar Adolph Thisted


"Letters from Hell" is a didactic Christian fantasy novel, with a faint resemblance to C.S. Lewis' "The Screwtape Letters.&qu…

PART I. CHAPTER IX. THE TABLES OF AGES.

In Strength and How to Obtain It

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Eugen Sandow


In writing this book I have taken it as a commonplace that everyone—man, woman, and child—wants to be strong. Without strength—and by streng…

Chapter XX. Some Curiosities

In Nature's Miracles Volume 3: Electricity and Magnetism

Read by Bev J Stevens


Elisha Gray


Elisha Gray (August 2, 1835 – January 21, 1901) was an American electrical engineer who co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Compan…

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