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Arnold Bennett - Human Machine

Bennett asks us to consider our brains as the most wonderful machine, a machine which is the only thing in this world that we can control. As he writes: «I am simply bent on calling your attention to a fact which...

Ruth Golding 2 hours 48 minutes

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Thomas Troward - Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science

Thomas Troward was a divisional Judge in British-administered India. His avocation was the study of comparative religion. Influences on his thinking, as well as his later writing, included the teachings of Christ,...

Algy Pug 3 hours 9 minutes

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Genevieve Behrend - Your Invisible Power

Genevieve Behrend was a teacher of Mental Science, a New Thought discipline created by Thomas Troward (1847- 1916). Your Invisible Power, published in 1921, is her first and most famous book. It is a guide to the use...

Algy Pug 1 hour 40 minutes

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Philosophy

Niccolò Machiavelli - Prince (Version 3)

The Prince (Italian: Il Principe) is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a...

Bob Neufeld 3 hours 26 minutes

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Self and Self-management: Essays about Existing

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Arnold Bennett - Self and Self-management: Essays about Existing

Bennett's essays always provide food for thought and bring a wry smile to the lips. Human nature, it appears, changes little over the ages, and Bennett, as always, stands the test of time, though in the case of...

Ruth Golding 1 hour 57 minutes

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John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works

This biography is actually a series of essays by prominent personalities of the time that shed light on John Stuart Mill's life and areas of endeavor. Those areas include his experiences in India House, his moral...

Bill Boerst 2 hours 33 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Coming of the Fairies

After a number of deaths in his close family, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle turned to spiritualism in hope of finding proof of the afterlife. Being open in this way, he wanted to believe that spirits and other supernatural...

Rapunzelina and 5 more 3 hours 34 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Laws

Laws (Greek: Νόμοι) is Plato's last and longest dialogue. It is generally agreed that Plato wrote this dialogue as an older man, having failed in his effort in Syracuse on the island of Sicily to guide a tyrant's...

Geoffrey Edwards 17 hours 12 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Alfred Lawson - Born Again

«I doubt that anyone who reads [Born Again] will ever forget it: it is quite singularly bad, with long undigestible rants against the evils of the world, an impossibly idealistic Utopian prescription for the said...

Chuck Williamson and 1 more 7 hours 46 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

G. K. Chesterton - Wit and Wisdom of Chesterton

This little volume, issued as a gift book for lovers of Mr. Chesterton's writings in 1911, is made up from essays to be found in «The Defandant», «Varied Types» and «Tremendous Trifles». These 12 pieces were chosen to...

TriciaG and 7 more 2 hours 10 minutes

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General Fiction

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Edna Lyall - Autobiography of a Slander

The Autobiography of a Slander exposes the consequences of reckless words or, even worse, intentionally disparaging words. In this moral tale, told from the point of view of «the slander», Edna Lyall (pseudonym used...

Rhonda Federman 1 hour 41 minutes

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Frederick William Faber - Kindness

Father Frederick William Faber was a beloved spiritual writer, preacher, and superior of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri in London. An Oxford scholar and Anglican priest since 1839, Faber converted to Roman Catholicism...

dave7 2 hours 40 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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