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The Mind and Its Education

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 065

Read by Courtney S


George Herbert Betts


Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. A review of William Carlos Williams' "Kora in Hell" by Robert McAlmon is one …

Chapter 11

In Regiment of Women

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Clemence Dane


Set in a small town in Edwardian England, Regiment of Women is about the relationship between two teachers at a private (and elitist) girls'…

On Some Country Snobs

In The Book of Snobs

Read by Courtney Smith


W M Thackeray and William Makepeace Thackeray


The necessity of a work on Snobs, demonstrated from History, and proved by felicitous illustrations:—I am the individual destined to write t…

The Moors in Spain

Read by S S Kim


Stanley Lane-Poole


“The history of Spain offers us a melancholy contrast. Twelve hundred years ago, Tarik the Moor added the land of the Visigoths to the long …

History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume I, From the Beginning until t…

Read by S S Kim


Simon Dubnow


Simon Dubnow was born in 1860 to a poor Jewish family in Belarussian town of Mstsislaw and later became authority of Jewish history and an a…

Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire

Read by S S Kim


James Headlam-Morley


"It is hard to be an Emperor under such a Chancellor." lamented Wilhelm I, the first emperor of the German Empire. Otto von Bismar…

History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume II, From the Death of Alexande…

Read by S S Kim


Simon Dubnow


Simon Dubnow was born in 1860 to a poor Jewish family in Belarussian town of Mstsislaw and later became an authority of Jewish history and a…

History of the Jews in Russia and Poland Volume III, From the Accession of Nich…

Read by S S Kim


Simon Dubnow


Simon Dubnow was born in 1860 to a poor Jewish family in Belarussian town of Mstsislaw and later became authority of Jewish history and an a…

Ocherki proshlago : razskazy

Read by Maya S


Lev Osipovich Levanda


A collection of six short stories about life of a Jewish community in Poland. (Summary by MayaS)

Moo Cow Tales (Version 2)

Read by Alicia S.


Rosamund Edith Nesbit Bland


Four short children's stories regarding a family's barnyard cows and their comical adventures. - Summary by Alicia S

Where Evil Grows

Read by S. Lawrence Parrish


S. Lawrence Parrish


Where Evil Grows: Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll... from Hell. It's 1976. The rock group KISS is cool. Every teenager alive wishes they could…

Shape Shifters

Read by S. Lawrence Parrish


S. Lawrence Parrish


The sun sets. The moon rises. And the night howls... The people in the foothills town of Black Diamond are thrilled to hear of government pl…

The Tao Teh King

Read by Eric S. Piotrowski


Laozi 老子 and Lao Tzu


Lao-Tze's Tao Teh King illuminates The Tao: a guiding principle of the universe and all within it. By exploring the nature of dualities and …

SHAT

Read by S. Lawrence Parrish


S. Lawrence Parrish


In a post-plague world where plants have suffered as much as animals, a colony of human survivors has gathered in a fortified former-luxury …

Eternity

Read by Casey S Townsend


Casey S Townsend


The world you know has changed. Science has been replaced by dark, supernatural forces and those that know how have harnessed them to contro…

Chicken Pi

Read by S. Lawrence Parrish


S. Lawrence Parrish


Chicken Pi: Twisted tales intended for a mature audience. Horror, sci-fi, sci-fi/horror, and WTF. Be sure to subscribe to Chicken Pi; more t…

Yog-Sothoth's Box

Read by S. Lawrence Parrish


S. Lawrence Parrish


Heed not the limits of time and space,for the Ageless Ones know no such place.And man, that slave to light and life,should free himself with…

The Oregon Trail

Read by R. S. Steinberg


Francis Parkman, Jr.


The book is a breezy, first-person account of a 2 month summer tour of the U.S. states of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas when Parkm…

Origin Scroll

Read by Richard S. Tuttle


Richard S. Tuttle


Origin Scroll is the first volume of the Targa Trilogy and the cornerstone of the epic fantasy Alcea Collection which spans sixteen volumes …