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Chapter 4

In Pan Michael: An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey

Read by David Granville Young

Henryk Sienkiewicz

This is the third part of the Sienkiewicz trilogy. It is loosely based on the politics of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.It is better kn…

Chapter VI - A new Home

In Rufus and Rose, or The Fortunes of Rough and Ready

Read by David Granville Young

Horatio Alger, Jr.

Here are the adventures of Rufus, an older brother caring for his sister after leaving their drunk stepfather - captured by counterfeiters -…

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 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…

Ethics of Human Subjects Research: A Historical Perspective, Chapter 2, Part 1

In Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments

Read by Melanie D. Young

Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments and Advisory Committee On Human Radiation Experiments

Researchers in the United States have performed thousands of human radiation experiments to determine the effects of atomic radiation and ra…

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…

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Hitherto unpublished facts connected with some of Mr.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 …

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