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Soyen Shaku - Sermons of a Buddhist Abbot
Look! it's the science of sitting, No! it's the science of meditating, No! it's Zen. If you wanted to know anything regarding Zen Buddhism and you did not have the opportunity then here is your chance to listen to the...
5 hours 11 minutes
Memoirs
868
William Atherton - Narrative of the Suffering and Defeat of the North-Western Army, Under General Winchester
This memoir dating from 1812ff, but only published in 1840s is a strikingly profound contrast with our modern materialism and comfort. It is personal and at the same time very formal and reserved. As a foot soldier...
3 hours 36 minutes
Narratives
865
George Gordon, Lord Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto IV
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a lengthy narrative poem in four parts written by Lord Byron. It was published between 1812 and 1818 and is dedicated to «Ianthe». The poem describes the travels and reflections of a...
1 hour 59 minutes
General Fiction
865
Harriet Lummis Smith - Peggy Raymond's Way (or Blossom Time At Friendly Terrace)
In this fifth and (as far as is known) final volume of Peggy Raymond and her Friendly Terrace entourage, we find the Girls winding down from the Great War, and pursuing more domestic and mischievous pursuits....
5 hours 27 minutes
Earth Sciences
922
National Geographic Society - National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 4
National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 4 published in 1889. Topics of articles are: Irrigation in California Round about Asheville A Trip to Panama and Darien Across Nicaragua with Transit and Machéte...
2 hours 56 minutes
Humorous Fiction
906
Anthony Trollope - Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson
Billed as a satire concerning the dishonest advertising and business practices of the day, it tells the tale of an upstart clothing business doomed from the get-go to utter failure. Its senior partner (the elderly...
8 hours 7 minutes
Drama
767
Harry Clifford Fulton - Jean Valjean; or, The Shadow of the Law
A late 19th-century stage adaptation of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables in English, The Shadow of the Law dramatizes the struggles of Hugo's legendary characters: Jean Valjean, the former convict; his relentless pursuer,...
2 hours 42 minutes
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