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On Propositions: What They Are and How They Mean
Read by Landon D. C. Elkind
Bertrand Russell
In this piece, Bertrand Russell offers an account of propositions. This essay has been widely regarded as a turning point in Russell's thoug…
Philosophical Essays
Read by Landon D. C. Elkind
Bertrand Russell
Six out of seven essays appearing here were reprinted from other publications; indeed, this 1910 collection went out of print, so that two o…
The Oaks Grove
Read by Michael J. Parry
Michael J. Parry
It was going to be a quiet weekend in the country. Elanore was going to spend it chatting with courtly gents about matters of higher importa…
The Storm
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Daniel Defoe
The Storm (1704) holds a special place in the writings of Daniel Defoe. Widely considered a founding document of modern journalism, The Sto…
The Crown Conspiracy
Read by Michael J. Sullivan
Michael J. Sullivan
They killed the king. They pinned it on two men. They chose poorly. There's no ancient evil to defeat, no orphan destined for greatness, jus…
Ball-of-Fat
Read by Michael Thomas Robinson
Guy de Maupassant
The first significant published short story of French author Guy de Maupassant, and generally acknowledged as his greatest work, "Ball-…
Canadian Wonder Tales
Read by Sean Michael Hogan
Cyrus Macmillan
This is a collection of folk tales originating in Canada, some from aboriginal oral tradition and others due to early French, Scottish, Iris…
Plan and Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Samuel Johnson
The published dictionary was a huge book: with pages nearly 1½ feet tall and 20 inches wide, it contained 42,773 words; it also sold …
Deep Thoughts
Read by Michael R. Mennenga
Michael R. Mennenga
Short-form Humor from the mind of Michael R. Mennenga. Editorial on daily life and the human condition.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice
Read by Sean Michael Hogan
Stephen Leacock
This lengthy political essay by noted Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock was written while he was professor of political economy at McGill U…
My Mark Twain
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
William Dean Howells
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) became fast friends with Mark Twain from the moment in 1869 when Twain strode into the office of The Atlant…
The House that Jack Built
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Unknown
"The House that Jack Built" is a standard of juvenile literature that delights children and adults alike with the increasingly len…
Thank God For Plan B, Because Plan A Didn't Work - Vol 1
Read by Michael Mahue Moore
Michael Mahue Moore
I believe that in everyone's life there is “PLAN A” and a “PLAN B”; however, not in the traditional sense as in having a backup plan, but ra…
Robinson Crusoe in Words of One Syllable
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Daniel Defoe
Mary Godolphin was the pseudonym of Lucy Aikin who undertook translating great literature into single-syllable words so that young readers c…
The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Henry Fielding
This novel is sometimes thought of as [Fielding's] first because he almost certainly began composing it before he wrote Shamela and Joseph A…
Denslow's Three Bears
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
W. W. Denslow
This version of the classic tale of the three bears has a heroine named Golden Hair. The jolly bears, instead of chasing her away from their…
Christy
Read by Michael Thomas Cunningham
Michael Thomas Cunningham
A journey tale about love, loss, and what it truly means to come home. Christy, a woman hardened by the streets and clinging to a life of…
The Curtezan Unmasked
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Anonymous
"The Curtezan unmasked or, the Whoredomes of Jezebel Painted to the Life: With Antidotes against them, or Heavenly Julips to cool Men i…
Baby's Own Aesop
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Walter Crane
"Baby's Own Aesop" presents the fables as one-stanza limericks, each "pictorially pointed" by Walter Crane, the noted pa…
Rock A Bye Library: A Book of Fables
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Unknown
A book of short fables with morals. (Summary by DSayers)
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