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The Cove of the Seven Swans

In The Ladder of Rickety Rungs

Read by David Granville Young

T. C. O'Donnell

Bedtime is the time for strange and wonderful stories as we drift into slumber. This children's book is full of them and the adventures of …

Chapter XLIV – Of Spiritual Darkness from Misinterpretation of Scripture, Part 1

In Leviathan (Books III and IV)

Read by Jamie Ash Young

Thomas Hobbes

In Books 3 and 4 of Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes elaborates on the political philosophy set forth in the first two books, by considering the nat…

Hibernation of the Canals

In Mars and Its Canals

Read by Melanie D. Young

Percival Lowell

In the days before telescope photography, astronomers had to draw what they thought they saw through the eyepiece throughout the long dark n…

Chapter Three

In The Princess and the Ploughman

Read by David Granville Young

Florence Morse Kingsley

On the surface, Mary is the typical literary heroine: Beautiful, animated, and accomplished. She will be rich, too, when she inherits her au…

The Big Southwest Strike

In Fifty Years a Detective: 35 Real Detective Stories

Read by Melanie D. Young

Thomas Furlong

Hitherto unpublished facts connected with some of Mr. Furlong's greatest cases—Other interesting incidents of his long and strenuous career …

Chapter XXXVI

In The Deluge Volume 2

Read by David Granville Young

Henryk Sienkiewicz

The Deluge (Polish: Potop) is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1886. It is the second volume of a th…

The Infamous Volstead Act Part 1

In The Rise and Fall of Prohibition

Read by Melanie D. Young

Charles Hanson Towne

Subtitle: "The Human Side of What the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act Have Done to the United States" From Chapter 1: &…

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