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The New Life (La vita nuova)

Read by Mary J


Dante Alighieri


One of Dante's earliest works, La vita nuova or La vita nova (The New Life) is in a prosimetrum style, a combination of prose and verse, and…

Travels in West Africa

Read by Nathalie J.


Mary H. Kingsley


Mary Henrietta Kingsley (13 October 1862 – 3 June 1900) was an British explorer and writer who greatly influenced European ideas about Afric…

The Theory of Social Revolutions

Read by Nathalie J.


Brooks Adams


Brooks Adams (1848-1927), was an American historian and a critic of capitalism. He believed that commercial civilizations rise and fall in p…

La Vita Nuova

Read by Mary J


Dante Alighieri


In quella parte del libro della mia memoria dinanzi alla quale poco si potrebbe leggere, si trova una rubrica la quale dice Incipit Vita Nov…

The Lost City

Read by Nathalie J.


Joseph E. Badger and Harry Hazelton


Bruno and Waldo Gillespie are orphaned brothers living with the extremely eccentric Professor Phaeton Featherwit. One day they set off in on…

The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella

Read by Mary J


Michelangelo Buonarroti


Michael Angelo and Campanella represent widely sundered, though almost contemporaneous, moments in the evolution of the Italian genius. Mich…

The White Linen Nurse

Read by Nathalie J.


Eleanor Hallowell Abbott


The White Linen Nurse is a hysterical story of an exhausted nurse who comes to regret her profession and then somehow finds herself caring f…

Life In Mexico

Read by Nathalie J.


Frances Calderón De La Barca


FRANCES CALDERON DE LA BARCA, born in Edinburgh, 1804, the daughter of William Inglis. After her father's death she settled in America, wher…

Molly Make-Believe

Read by Nathalie J.


Eleanor Hallowell Abbott


Carl Stanton is an invalid suffering from an unusual bout of rheumatism. His fiancee is gone for the winter and though he begs her to write …

Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper

Read by Nathalie J.


T. S. Arthur


Is housekeeping such a trial? Mrs. Smith thinks so and confesses all in this merry account of her escapades and near disasters! (Summary by …

Under the Shadow of Etna: Sicilian Stories

Read by Mary J


Giovanni Verga


The short stories of Giovanni Verga, one of the leading authors of Italian verismo, or realism, tell mostly of working-class characters in r…

The Indiscreet Letter

Read by Nathalie J.


Eleanor Hallowell Abbott


Three fellow travelers on a train enter into a discussion concerning what they would call an 'indiscreet letter.' The discussion, albeit sho…

Little Eve Edgarton

Read by Nathalie J.


Eleanor Hallowell Abbott


Eve Edgarton is not who she seems she is. A short encounter with Mr. Barton show that first impressions are not always right or indicative o…

Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Mon…

Read by Nathalie J.


L. A. Abbott


This work the author claims is indeed a true story of how he happened to be married seven times to seven different women and the rollicking,…

The Book of Saint Basil On the Spirit

Read by J Denning


Basil Of Caesarea


“The heresy of Arius lowered the dignity of the Holy Ghost as well as that of the Son. He taught that the Three Persons of the Holy Trinity …

My Story of the Civil War and the Under-Ground Railroad

Read by J Denning


Marvin Benjamin Butler


Story of the Civil War as told by a private soldier's perspective of daily routines, challenges, anxieties, skirmishes, battle. (summary by …

Defence of the Nicene Definition

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Athanasius of Alexandria


“This letter must have been written in the interval between the return of Athanasius in 346 and his flight in 356...It is written in answer …

St. John Chrysostom on First Corinthians, Volume 2

Read by J Denning


St. John Chrysostom


Interpretative homilies on 1st Corinthians. Homilies # 25-44. - Summary by Soloist

Thirty Years A Slave

Read by James K. White


Louis Hughes


Louis Hughes was born a slave near Charlottesville, Virginia to a white father and a black slave woman. Throughout his life he worked mostly…

The Monk: A Romance

Read by James K. White


Matthew Lewis


Matthew Gregory Lewis's The Monk: A Romance is a story of frustrated and unrequited desire between mentor and pupil mixed with elements of t…

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