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Walden

Read by Gord Mackenzie

Henry David Thoreau

Walden by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau’s lif…

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

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Henry David Thoreau

Civil Disobedience is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. Published in 1849 under the title Resistance to Civil Government, it expressed Thorea…

Scaramouche

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Rafael Sabatini

Scaramouche is a romantic adventure and tells the story of a young aristocrat during the French Revolution. His successive endeavors as a la…

Being Wanted

In Five Children and It

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nesbit_e and E. Nesbit

This delightful novel begins when a family of five children moves from London to the English countryside. While playing in a gravel pit soon…

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In Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus

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Mary Shelley

Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of animating lifeless matter and, by assembling body parts, creates the monster who has no name in …

The Miller's Tale

In The Canterbury Tales

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Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the…

Tam O'Shanter

In Short Poetry Collection 074

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Robert Burns

This is a collection of poems for the month of December 2008.

Section 2

In An International Episode

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Henry James

Two men visiting the US from London meet a pair of charming women who return the visit the following year in London. Romantic intrigues, mis…

Part 2 Chapter 4

In Notes from the Underground

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dostoyevsky_f and Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s short masterpiece about a ranting, slightly mad civil servant. The stylistic inventiveness, and the insights into the a…