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John Dewey - How We Think

A book written by an American education philosopher in which he proposed “This scientific attitude of mind might, conceivably, be quite irrelevant to teaching children and youth. But this book also represents the...

Linda Andrus 8 hours 54 minutes

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Christianity - Other

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Isabella Lilias Trotter - Parables of the Cross

Death is the Gate of Life. There was deep insight in those old words. For man's natural thought of death is that of a dreary ending in decay and dissolution. And from his standpoint he is right: death as the...

47 minutes

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Egyptian Tales, translated from the Papyri, Series Two : XVIIIth to XIXth Dynasty

Literary Criticism

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William Matthew Flinders Petrie - Egyptian Tales, translated from the Papyri, Series Two : XVIIIth to XIXth Dynasty

Egyptian stories translated from ancient, often incomplete, documents. — Summary by Timothy Ferguson

Timothy Ferguson 1 hour 59 minutes

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Sherman’s Military Lessons Of The American Civil War, From His Memoirs

War & Military

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William Tecumseh Sherman - Sherman’s Military Lessons Of The American Civil War, From His Memoirs

This librivox recording comprises chapter 25 (Conclusion – Military Lessons Of The War) of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Memoirs, published in 1875. Sherman was one of the premier generals fighting for...

David Wales 1 hour 11 minutes

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Sherman’s Recollections of California, 1846-1848, 1855-1857, from his Memoirs

*Non-fiction

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William Tecumseh Sherman - Sherman’s Recollections of California, 1846-1848, 1855-1857, from his Memoirs

This librivox recording comprises three chapters from American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Memoirs. The chapters deal with a posting to California in his pre-Civil War military career in the years...

David Wales 4 hours 7 minutes

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Family Life

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Eleanor's Victory

Only 15-years-old, Eleanor Vane is very happy with her lot: educated in an expensive finishing school in Paris, the apple of her father's eye, and disposed to be kind. Of course there are things missing: she does not...

Eleanor Howard 18 hours 9 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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L. Frank Baum - Phoebe Daring

A headstrong female detective strives to clear a good man's name in this children's mystery by Oz author L. Frank Baum. Summary by Miriam Esther Goldman

Miriam Esther Goldman and 9 more 6 hours 14 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Émile Zola - Ladies' Paradise

Zola's original French publication, Au Bonheur des Dames («The Ladies' Delight»), published 1882, is the eleventh novel in his Rougon-Macquart series. This English translation by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly, was published...

K.G.Cross 16 hours 11 minutes

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Dynamic Thought; Or, The Law of Vibrant Energy

Psychology

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William Walker Atkinson - Dynamic Thought; Or, The Law of Vibrant Energy

This is a queer book. It is a marriage of the Ancient Occult Teachings to the latest and most advanced conceptions of Modern Science--an odd union, for the parties thereto are of entirely different temperaments. The...

Sandra Knight and 4 more 5 hours 18 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Jonathan Swift - On A Shadow In A Glass

Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. Swift is remembered for...

Ann K and 9 more 29 minutes

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Oh! Had We Some Bright Little Isle Of Our Own

Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Thomas Moore - Oh! Had We Some Bright Little Isle Of Our Own

Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of «The Minstrel Boy» and «The Last Rose of Summer». Moore is often considered Ireland's National Bard and is...

Bruce Kachuk and 11 more 18 minutes

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Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia and Letter to a Friend

Essays & Short Works

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Thomas Browne - Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia and Letter to a Friend

Selections from the varied writings of a 17th century English doctor with a well-stocked mind, an interest in the new science of his age and a deep religious faith. His prose is famous for its Baroque complexity and...

Barbara Baker 7 hours 34 minutes

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