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Confucius 孔子 - Confucian Analects

The Analects, or Lunyu (simplified Chinese: 论语; traditional Chinese: 論語; pinyin: Lún Yǔ; literally «Classified/Ordered Sayings»), also known as the Analects of Confucius, are considered a record of the words and acts...

Jing Li 5 hours 34 minutes

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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John Masefield - Selected Public Domain Poems

Maritime and metaphysical verse by John Masefield, English poet and author, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until his death. (Summary by Liam Neely)

Liam Neely 27 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Aristotle - On the Heavens

On the Heavens (Greek: Περί ουρανού, Latin: De Caelo or De Caelo et Mundo) is Aristotle's chief cosmological treatise. In it Aristotle argues that the Earth is a sphere by pointing to the evidence of lunar eclipses....

Geoffrey Edwards 5 hours

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Aristotle - Parva Naturalia

<p?Parva Naturalia [the «short treatises on nature» (a conventional Latin title first used by Giles of Rome)] is a collection of books by Aristotle, which discuss natural phenomena involving the body and the soul....

Geoffrey Edwards 4 hours 28 minutes

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George Santayana - Life of Reason volume 2

The Life of Reason, subtitled «the Phases of Human Progress», is a book published in five volumes from 1905 to 1906, by Spanish-born American philosopher George Santayana (1863-1952). It consists of Reason in Common...

Fredrik Karlsson and 6 more 6 hours

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Aristotle - De Anima

On the Soul (Greek Περὶ Ψυχῆς (Perì Psūchês), Latin De Anima) is a major treatise by Aristotle on the nature of living things. His discussion centres on the kinds of souls possessed by different kinds of living...

Geoffrey Edwards 3 hours 33 minutes

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Clarence Darrow - Crime: Its Cause and Treatment

Clarence Darrow was an American lawyer. He remains notable for his wit and agnosticism, which marked him as one of the most famous American lawyers and civil libertarians. In this book, Darrow expands on his...

Peter Yearsley 7 hours 44 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Edmund Spenser - Amoretti: A sonnet sequence

The Amoretti (meaning little love poems) is a sequence of 89 sonnets written in the tradition of the Petrarchan sonnets, a popular form for poets of the Renaissance period. Spenser’s sequence has been largely...

Leonard Wilson 1 hour 51 minutes

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Oscar Wilde - De Profundis (version 2)

This is a letter written from prison in 1897 by Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas, in which he recounts how he came to be in prison and charts his spiritual development. (summary by AdamH) NOTE: .«Transcribed from...

AdamH 1 hour 47 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Marguerite Bernard - Deer Godchild

A young New-Yorker of twelve heard an appeal for the Fatherless Children of France and his heart was touched. He had no money, but he resolved to give his spare time and his utmost energy to support a «kid in France.»...

MaryAnn and 2 more 1 hour 38 minutes

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Thomas H. Burgoyne - Light of Egypt Volume II

«The Light of Egypt» will be found to be an Occult library in itself, a textbook of esoteric knowledge, setting forth the «wisdom Religion» of life, as taught by the Adepts of Hermetic Philosophy. It will richly repay...

Jill Preston 6 hours 8 minutes

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Omens and Superstitions of Southern India

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Edgar Thurston - Omens and Superstitions of Southern India

This book deals mainly with some aspects of what may be termed the psychical life of the inhabitants of the Madras Presidency, and the Native States of Travancore and Cochin.(Summary by Edgar Thurston)

ashleighjane and 5 more 9 hours 32 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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