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Chapter 12 – The Cave Retreat

In Robinson Crusoe

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe’s The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner (1719) is considered by many the first English…

The Bee-Pastures - Part 1

In The Mountains of California

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

John Muir

John Muir (1838–1914) was one of the first modern preservationists. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, and …

Bk 5 Ch 4: Niccolo Piccinino, in concert with the duke of Milan, deceives the p…

In History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy, Vol. 2

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Niccolò Machiavelli

History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy is an historical account by Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527). Toward the end of 1520, …

23 - Pauperism in the Tenements

In How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Jacob Riis and Jacob A. Riis

How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890) was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting…

Vol 2 - The Dinner of Trimalchio, Ch 27-37

In The Satyricon

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Gaius Petronius Arbiter

Satyricon (or Satyrica) is a Latin work of fiction in a mixture of prose and poetry. It is believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius,…

08 - Chapter 3 Part 1

In My Life in the South

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Jacob Stroyer

My Life in the South is the vivid and touching autobiography of African-American former slave, Jacob Stroyer. It recounts experiences from …

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