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Bk1, C1-Ancient Mexico,its climate and its products

In History of the Conquest of Mexico

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


William H. Prescott


Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;Round many western islands have I beenWhich bards in fe…

Ode to Autumn - Read by DS

In Ode to Autumn

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


John Keats


LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 different recordings of Ode to Autumn by John Keats. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of Nov…

A Nocturnal Visit

In The Count of Monte Cristo

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Alexandre Dumas


The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, …

Useful Phrases: pacific disposition - political malcontent

In Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Grenville Kleiser


A Practical Handbook of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, and Oratorical Terms, for the Embelli…

03 - The Story of Prometheus

In Old Greek Stories

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


James Baldwin


A retelling of old Greek stories involving mythological heroes and their adventures. Tales include those of Prometheus, Io, Perseus and Thes…

Widowers and Widows

In The Spinster Book

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Myrtle Reed


A cross between guidebook and social commentary, The Spinster Book gives clever and humorous insights on topics such as courting, handling m…

The Value Of Edison's Inventions To The World

In Edison, His Life and Inventions

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin and Frank Lewis Dyer


A detailed biography of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of such things as the telephone, the microphone, the electric motor, the storage batter…

Nature

In Nature

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Ralph Waldo Emerson


Nature is a short essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson published anonymously in 1836. It is in this essay that the foundation of transcendentalism i…

Chapter 04

In The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen

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Rudolf Erich Raspe


The stories about Münchhausen were first collected and published by an anonymous author in 1781. An English version was published in Lo…

56 - Book 4, Chapters 31 - 33

In Amadis of Gaul

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Vasco de Lobeira and Vasco De Lobeira


Amadis of Gaul (Amadís de Gaula, in Spanish) was not the first, but certainly one of the best known knight-errantry tales of the 16th…

Bk 5 Ch 4: Niccolo Piccinino, in concert with the duke of Milan, deceives the p…

In History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy, Vol. 2

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Niccolò Machiavelli


History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy is an historical account by Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527). Toward the end of 1520, …

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