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14 - The Conquest of Power, Part 1

In Ten Days that Shook the World

Read by Richard Beck

John Reed

Ten Days that Shook the World (1919) is a book by American journalist and socialist John Reed about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917…

Chapter 09

In War and Peace, Book 01: 1805

Read by Richard Grove

Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy,…

1770

In The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. II

Read by Richard Ellwood

James Boswell

Boswell's famous work on the life of his admired friend Johnson, the formidable poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, edito…

Episode 9: Scylla and Charybdis, part 2

In Ulysses (version 2)

Read by Richard Wallis

James Joyce

Ulysses is a groundbreaking novel in which Irish author James Joyce explores realism through stream-of-consciousness technique and shifting …

12 - Ch. 28: Francis I and Charles V, part 12

In A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 4

Read by Richard Carpenter

Francois Guizot and François Pierre Guillaume Guizot

François Pierre Guillaume Guizot was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prio…

Chapter 1.XXIII.—How Gargantua was instructed by Ponocrates, and in such sort d…

In Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book I

Read by Richard Wallis

Francois Rabelais and François Rabelais

The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (in French, La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel) is a connected series of five novels written in th…

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