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Part 2, chapter 3

In A Raw Youth

Read by Joshua Stevens


Fyodor Dostoyevsky


Arkady Dolgoruky, is a 19-year-old intellectual. He is the illegitimate son of a landowner and dreams to become rich. In his quest to fulfi…

'And Now Good Morning'

In A Little Queen of Hearts

Read by R. R. Oldja


Ruth Ogden


A charming children's story following the trials and tribulations of the simple life of Marie-Celeste as she endears herself to everyone who…

Chapter 01

In Nature And Art

Read by R. R. Oldja


Elizabeth Inchbald


This is a novel by the author of the play Lover's Vows which was mentioned in Mansfield Park by Jane Austen. William and Henry come to Londo…

CHAPTER XIII December

In Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amate…

Read by Bev J Stevens


Gertrude Jekyll


Wood and Garden reads like a walk through the garden with renowned garden designer Gertrude Jekyll as she discusses her plant choices and pl…

The Life of Samuel Johnson

In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 05

Read by Bev J Stevens


James Boswell


The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

Quatrains 102 - 200

In The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám (Persian original and Whinfield translation)

Read by Bev J Stevens


Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward Whinfield and Omar Khayyám


Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) was a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. In the Western world he is most famous for his many rub&aa…

chapter 3 - THE LIMITS OF INFERENCE

In The Ethics of Belief

Read by Bev J Stevens


William Kingdon Clifford


This is an essay on decision biases and a critique on prejudices, neatly written and thought provoking. (Summary by sidhu177)

PART I. CHAPTER IX. THE TABLES OF AGES.

In Strength and How to Obtain It

Read by Bev J Stevens


Eugen Sandow


In writing this book I have taken it as a commonplace that everyone—man, woman, and child—wants to be strong. Without strength—and by streng…

Chapter XX. Some Curiosities

In Nature's Miracles Volume 3: Electricity and Magnetism

Read by Bev J Stevens


Elisha Gray


Elisha Gray (August 2, 1835 – January 21, 1901) was an American electrical engineer who co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Compan…

Scenes, Actions and Dispositions of Relations and Positions

In Geography and Plays

Read by Bev J Stevens


Gertrude Stein


Geography and Plays is a 1922 collection of Gertrude Stein's "word portraits," or stream-of-consciousness writings. These stream-o…

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