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Heather and Snow

Read by Hannah Mary


George MacDonald


Set in the barren lowlands of Scotland with a small cast of characters, both lives and landscape are vividly portrayed and masterfully inter…

An American Idyll: The Life of Carlton H. Parker

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 Silent Barrier

Read by Mary Herndon Bell


Louis Tracy


Charles K. Spencer is a well-to-do young American mining engineer. Drinking his water in a hotel in London one day, he overhears a conversat…

The Rose Garden Husband

Read by Mary Herndon Bell


Margaret Widdemer


This novel was written by Margaret Widdemer, who won the Pulitzer prize for her collection of poetry in 1919. Phyllis is a 25-years-old chi…

Indiana

Read by Mary Herndon Bell


George Sand


This is George Sand's first novel. Her real name was Amantine (or Amandine) Lucile Dupin, and she later became baroness Dudevant. As an aris…

A Bachelor Girl in Burma

Read by Mary Ann Hadley


Geraldine Edith Mitton


Miss Mitton was an unusual English woman of her time. As a published author, this unmarried woman in her early 30s recorded her visit to Bu…

Bk 3: Section I, and Song I: The Thorns of Error

In The Consolation of Philosophy

Read by hugh mac


Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (transl. James) and Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius


Consolation of Philosophy (Latin: Consolatio Philosophiae) is a philosophical work by Boethius written in about the year 524 AD. It has been…

Book IV: A quarrel in Olympus

In The Iliad

Read by hugh mac


Homer, trans. Butler and Homer


The Iliad, together with the Odyssey, is one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer. The poem is commonly dated t…

Book 19

In The Odyssey

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Homer, transl. Samuel Butler and Homer


The Odyssey is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems (the other being the Iliad), attributed to the poet Homer. The poem is commonly…

IV - Of Speech

In Leviathan (Books I and II)

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Thomas Hobbes


Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly called Leviathan, is a book written in 1651…

Off For Tigers

In The Pirate Shark

Read by Mac Willdon


Harry Lincoln Sayler


Seventeen year old Mart Judson joins the crew of the yacht Seamew as its wireless operator. They are bound from San Francisco for waters off…

The Story of Zobeide

In The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Volume 01

Read by hugh mac


Anonymous, translated by Dr. Jonathan Scott and Anonymoustranslated Byjonathan Scott


The main frame story concerns a king and his new bride. The king, Shahryar, upon discovering his ex-wife's infidelity executes her and then …

Confessions of a Bird's-Nest Hunter

In A Rambler's Lease

Read by Mac Willdon


Bradford Torrey


The writer of this little book has found so much pleasure in other men's woods and fields that he has come to look upon himself as in some s…

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