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In The Iron Horse

Read by Jay Wills


R. M. Ballantyne


“Is that your bundle, sir?” repeated Mr Blunt a little louder. “Eh? yes, yes—all right,” replied Edwin, annoyed at the interruption, and thi…

Chapter 30- The Last

In Post Haste

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R. M. Ballantyne


In this book, Ballantyne weaves the story of Phillip Mayland and his friend, George Aspel with an interesting portrayal of the British Post …

Chapter IV

In Windsor Castle, Book 5

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William Harrison Ainsworth


Book 5 - Mabel Lyndwood. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn a…

Chapter I

In Windsor Castle, Book 6

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William Harrison Ainsworth


Book 6 - Jane Seymour. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn as …

Moby Dick, or the Whale

Read by Stewart Wills


Herman Melville


Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique — but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel …

Lord Jim

Read by Stewart Wills


Joseph Conrad


A classic of early literary modernism, Lord Jim tells the story of a young "simple and sensitive character" who loses his honor in…

The Mysteries of London Vol. I part 2

Read by Dave Wills


George W. M. Reynolds


The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian England. The first series was published in weekly instalments from 1844-46…

Hidden Harbor Mysteries

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Jay Smith


Hidden Harbor, USA. It is a time of war and hardship for millions of Americans, many of whom live in a city of lies and corruption. But the…

Wednesday Morning

In A Collection of Family Prayers

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Samuel Palmer


That Family-prayer is an indispensible duty, and an important means of religion, are points which are here taken for granted. Among the many…

Introduction

In The Critique of Pure Reason

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Immanuel Kant


The Critique of Pure Reason, first published in 1781 with a second edition in 1787, has been called the most influential and important philo…

Chapter VIII, Part 1

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 2, Chapter 08)

Read by Rosalind Wills


Thomas Babington Macaulay


In this chapter of Thomas Babington Macaulay’s History of England we see conflict between James II and his subjects. James is Catholic but r…

Book 1, Chapters 4-5

In Hard Times

Read by Stewart Wills


Charles Dickens


Hard Times, the shortest of Dickens's full-length novels, is set in the fictitious Victorian-England city of Coketown, where facts are the r…