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Chapter 5 - The Break

In Nequa or The Problem of the Ages

Read by Aimee van den Berg


Jack Adams


Nequa or The Problem of the Ages is one of the first feminist science fiction books published in the United States. It was first serialized …

Chapter 24

In Ellen Middleton

Read by Aimee van den Berg


Georgiana Fullerton


Ellen Middleton had a happy childhood with her uncle and aunt. She grew up alongside her cousin Julia. Suddenly, something happened. Her lif…

Empty Tool Boxes

In The House on the Cliff (Version 2)

Read by Aimee van den Berg


Franklin W. Dixon


The house had been vacant and was supposed to be haunted. Mr. Hardy started to investigate - and disappeared! (From an old ad)This the secon…

Dedication

In Ideala

Read by Aimee van den Berg


Sarah Grand


She came among us without flourish of trumpets. She just slipped into her place, almost unnoticed, but once she was settled there it seemed …

Smith School Seminars

Read by Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh


Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh


University of Oxford Podcasts

Julia

Read by Rolf den Otter


Rhijnvis Feith


De eerste sentimentele roman in Nederland uit 1783. Vol gloeiende taal en uitroeptekens. De liefde van Julia en Eduard wordt in alle invalsh…

How to Do Chemical Tricks

Read by Kyle Van DeGlast


A. T. Anderson


While a bit outdated in many of the more complex descriptions of several of the phenomena described, this book is nonetheless still fun and …

The Wolf-Leader

Read by John Van Stan


Alexandre Dumas


Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 2: The Massacres of the South

Read by John Van Stan


Alexandre Dumas


Dumas's 'Celebrated Crimes' was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language--has minced no words--to describe the violent …

Marguerite de Valois

Read by John Van Stan


Alexandre Dumas


A historical fiction novel set in Paris (1572) during Charles IX's reign and the French Wars of Religion. Marguerite de Valois, daughter of …

Moral letters to Lucilius (Epistulae morales ad Lucilium)

Read by John Van Stan


Lucius Annaeus Seneca


Seneca the Younger’s letters to his friend, Lucilius Junior, appear to have been written with a broad audience in mind. These letters introd…

Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (version 2) (includes annotatio…

Read by John Van Stan


Friedrich Nietzsche


The modern British philosopher, Anthony M. Ludovici, said that this text “is unquestionably Nietzsche’s opus magnum.” However, he warns the …

Chicot the Jester

Read by John Van Stan


Alexandre Dumas


This sequel to Dumas' “Marguerite de Valois” begins four years after the sudden death of King Charles IX and succession of his brother Henry…

Candide (version 3)

Read by John Van Stan


Voltaire


Ever since 1759, when Voltaire wrote "Candide" in ridicule of the notion that this is the best of all possible worlds, this world …