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William Morris - Signs of Change

In the 1880s William Morris, the artist and poet famously associated with the Arts and Crafts movement, left the Liberal Party and threw himself into the Socialist cause. He spoke all over the country, on street...

Deborah Brabyn 4 hours 44 minutes

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409

Francis Fisher Browne - Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln

This detailed biography covers the places in Lincoln's life: Indiana, Illinois, Washington. It also traces his various roles as storekeeper, serviceman, state legislator, lawyer, politician, Republican Party leader,...

Bill Boerst 20 hours 24 minutes

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Political Science

447

Hilaire Belloc - Free Press

I propose to discuss in what follows the evil of the great modern Capitalist Press, its function in vitiating and misinforming opinion and in putting power into ignoble hands; its correction by the formation of small...

Sean McClain 1 hour 48 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

461

George William Foote - Satires and Profanities

«Believing as I do that James Thomson is, since Shelley, the most brilliant genius who has wielded a pen in the service of Freethought, I take a natural pride and pleasure in rescuing the following articles from...

Crln Yldz Ksr and 13 more 7 hours 22 minutes

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Poetry

455

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Masque of Anarchy

The Masque of Anarchy was Shelley's response to the Peterloo massacre at St Peter's Fields, Manchester, where 18 died and hundreds were injured, after Hussars charged into a rally for parliamentary reform. Written in...

Phil Benson 1 hour 26 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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General Fiction

512

Frank Norris - Octopus

Frank Norris based his 1901 novel The Octopus (A Story of California) on the Mussel Slough Tragedy of 1880, a bloody conflict between ranchers and agents of the Southern Pacific Railroad. The central issue was over...

Delmar H Dolbier 21 hours 44 minutes

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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Version 2)

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466

Henry David Thoreau - On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Version 2)

ivil Disobedience (Resistance to Civil Government) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments...

Bob Neufeld 1 hour 2 minutes

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Plays

420

Susan Glaspell - Inheritors

Inheritors, (1921) by American dramatist Susan Glaspell concerns the legacy of an idealistic farmer who wills his highly coveted midwest farmland to the establishment of a college (Act I.) Forty years later, when his...

2 hours 45 minutes

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Political Science

425

Owen Wister - Pentecost of Calamity

Nonfiction. Appalled by the savagery of World War I, Owen Wister in 1915 published an attempt to move the United States out of neutrality into joining the Allies against Germany. His aim was the quicker defeat of that...

David Wales 1 hour 38 minutes

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Philosophy

498

H. G. Wells - Anticipations

Wells considered this book one of his most important, a natural follow-up to such works as his Man of the Year Million and The Time Machine. His goal was to get people to think and act in new ways. The book starts...

John Trevithick and 2 more 8 hours 31 minutes

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Historical Fiction

448

Sarah Orne Jewett - Gray Mills of Farley

As contemporary today as it was over a century ago, this relatively unsentimental tale of labor relations still packs a punch. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

Bellona Times 54 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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