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Dialogues des Dieux
Lucien de Samosate
Au Fil des lectures Lucien de Samosate, écrivain grec du II siècle après Jésus-Christ, était un rhé…
Bibel (LB 1912) 17: Esther
Read by Anne
Lutherbibel
Esther wurde von ihrem Onkel aufgezogen. Sie leben in Susa; das weit weg von Israel liegt. Esther wird Königin. Eine Intrige wird verhi…
Wise and Otherwise
Read by TriciaG
Pansy
Immature Mr. Tresevant (from "The King's Daughter") comes to Newton with his spoiled wife to be the new pastor of the church atten…
Saxby: a tale of old and new England
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Emma Leslie
Set in the 17th Century, this book tells of the backdrop to the settlement of New England in the American Colonies: the struggles of the Chu…
Là-bas
Read by Peter Tucker
Joris-Karl Huysmans
The plot of Là-Bas concerns the novelist Durtal, who is disgusted by the emptiness and vulgarity of the modern world. He seeks relief…
The Persians
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Aeschylus
This is one of the few Greek tragedies that deals with historical events rather than mythological ones. The elders of the Persian court awa…
On the Sublime
Read by Amelia Chesley
Unknowntranslated Byherbert Lord Havell and Translated Byherbert Lord Havell
This is a classical text on aesthetics and proper style in writing and rhetoric, including commentary on various ancient Greek works such as…
The Inner Shrine
Read by Simon Evers
Basil King
At the opening of this story Diane Eveleth returns from a party in Paris to her mother-in-law, who tells her that her husband George Eveleth…
At the Villa Rose
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
A. E. W. Mason
Harry Wethermill, the brilliant young scientist, a graduate of Oxford and Munich, has made a fortune from his inventions, and is taking a va…
In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Westminster Boy
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G. A. Henty
Like all Henty books, this one centers around a young English lad whose courtesy and courage win the day. Harry Sandwith travels to France t…
Lancelot, or The Knight of the Cart
Read by Libby Gohn
Chrétien De Troyes
This medieval French romance is the oldest surviving work about Lancelot. When Queen Guinevere is abducted by Meleagrant, Lancelot must face…
Das Tier im Walde
Read by Hokuspokus
Therese Rie
Der junge Maler Ambrosius unternimmt 1836 eine Wanderung im Salzkammergut. Dort sind in letzter Zeit einige tragische Unf&au…
Babbitt
Read by John W. Michaels
Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis’ George F. Babbitt is a complicated and conflicted character. When you think you have his next move figured out he surprises …
LP0036 Medea's Letter to Jason
joel
Legendary Passages episode 0036 Medea's Letter to Jason Last time we reviewed the tragic events surrounding Jason and Medea in Corinth. This…
London Labour and the London Poor Volume III
Read by Gillian Hendrie
Henry Mayhew
Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.&…
The Morgesons
Read by jlenardon
Elizabeth Stoddard
Stoddard’s novel traces the education and development of a young female in American middle-class society. The protagonist, Cassandra Morgeso…
Le Jardin du Paradis
Hans Christian Andersen
Au Fil des Lectures Conte de Hans Christian Andersen, lu par Nicole Delage. 35 min
The Art of Fiction
Read by Julie VW
Henry James
A lecture on the art of fiction, given by the English critic Walter Besant on April 25, 1884, and an answer to the lecture by American write…
Ophelia, the Rose of Elsinore
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Mary Cowden Clarke
This story is from Mary Cowden Clarke's multi-volume work The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines, in which she imagined the early lives of c…
Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Additions to Esther
Read by Sam Stinson
Douay-Rheims Version
An additional six chapters appear interspersed in Esther in the Septuagint, the Greek translation, which then was noted by Jerome in compili…