Martin Geeson

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Anonymous - Mabinogion, Volume 1

Sample a moment of magic realism from the Red Book of Hergest: On one side of the river he saw a flock of white sheep, and on the other a flock of black sheep. And whenever one of the white sheep bleated, one of...

Martin Geeson 4 hours 52 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm - Snowdrop and Other Tales

Many of these tales were published in English in 1909, the Brothers Grimm tales in this book were published separately in 1920 with illustrations by Arthur Rackham (1867-1939). (Summary by Ann Boulais)

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Political Science

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John Addington Symonds - Problem in Modern Ethics

“Society lies under the spell of ancient terrorism and coagulated errors. Science is either wilfully hypocritical or radically misinformed.” John Addington Symonds struck many an heroic note in this courageous...

Martin Geeson 4 hours 50 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

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Andrew Lang - Letters to Dead Authors

With twenty two letters, addressed to various already deceased authors, Andrew Lang discusses literary subjects with his usual humour and acidity. The impulse for the writing of the letters came, almost as a joke,...

Brian Mansi and 9 more 4 hours 36 minutes

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Romance

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Honoré de Balzac - Girl with the Golden Eyes

Listeners who like to plunge straight into a story would do well to skip the lengthy preamble. Here, Balzac the virtuoso satirist depicts the levels of Parisian society as a version of the Inferno of Dante — but...

Martin Geeson 4 hours 30 minutes

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Kottō : being Japanese curios, with sundry cobwebs

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Lafcadio Hearn - Kottō : being Japanese curios, with sundry cobwebs

Kottō contains 20 Japanese stories, collected from different sources and translated by Lafcadio Hearn. The types of stories in this collection are widespread: There are old ghost stories Hearn is best known for (The...

Scott Carpenter and 8 more 4 hours 19 minutes

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Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Vol. 2

Single Author Collections

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Marguerite of Navarre - Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Vol. 2

THE HEPTAMERON, first published posthumously in 1558, is divided into seven complete days containing 10 stories each, and an eighth day containing only 2 stories. The stories, many of which deal with love and...

Lynne T and 3 more 4 hours 7 minutes

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General Fiction

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Stuart Mason - Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality

“Who can help laughing when an ordinary journalist seriously proposes to limit the subject-matter at the disposal of the artist?” “We are dominated by journalism… Journalism governs for ever and ever.”[/i]...

Martin Geeson 3 hours 56 minutes

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Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things

Short Stories

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Lafcadio Hearn - Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things

Most of the following Kwaidan, or Weird Tales, have been taken from old Japanese books,— such as the Yaso-Kidan, Bukkyo-Hyakkwa-Zensho, Kokon-Chomonshu, Tama-Sudare, and Hyaku-Monogatari. Some of the stories may have...

Vilayvanh and 4 more 3 hours 51 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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George Chapman - Hero and Leander

“Who ever lov’d, that lov’d not at first sight?” The wonder-decade of the English drama was suddenly interrupted in 1592, when serious plague broke out in London, forcing the closure of the theatres. Leading...

Martin Geeson 3 hours 37 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Phaedrus

“For there is no light of justice or temperance, or any of the higher ideas which are precious to souls, in the earthly copies of them: they are seen through a glass, dimly…” Socrates and his earnest friend...

Martin Geeson 3 hours 33 minutes

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Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals

Early Modern

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Immanuel Kant - Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals

The Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, also known as The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals or Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals or Grounding of the Metaphysics of Morals, is Immanuel...

Martin Geeson and 3 more 3 hours 21 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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