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Chapters 25-30

In The Eagle's Shadow

Read by Jon M.Wilson

James Branch Cabell

A romantic comedy in which love is complicated by a large inheritance. - Summary by W. Blaine Dowler

Friar Bacon and the Brazen Head

In Thirty More Famous Stories Retold

Read by Jon Smith

James Baldwin

Thirty More Famous Stories Retold, the sequel to the popular Fifty Famous Stories Retold, retells the stories of legendary people and mythol…

First Impressions Of Yucatan

In The American Egypt

Read by Jon Smith

Channing Arnold

Arnold and Frost were English archaeologists who traveled to the Yucatan Peninsula and wrote "the first book ever written by Englishmen…

14 - Chapter 3B

In John Quincy Adams

Read by Jon Smith

John T. Morse

This biography contains three main sections. the first covers Adams's early years and his time as a diplomat--both in America and overseas. …

Why the Danger Sign was Up

In The Submarine Boys' Lightning Cruise

Read by Jon Kerfoot

Victor G. Durham

Captain Jack Benson and Hal Hastings have been sailing in torpedo submarines a while now. But, there is new danger that they will have to g…

22 - Judgment and Reasoning

In Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young

Read by Jon Ingram

Jacob Abbott

Subtitled, "The principles on which a firm parental authority may be established and maintained, without violence or anger, and the rig…

10 - Interest and Discipline

In Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

Read by Jon Miller

John Dewey

An important, controversial, and often cited work on public education. Dewey discusses the role of public education in a democracy and the d…

67alt - A Sermon to Leopold (alternate reading)

In Thomas Wingfold, Curate

Read by Jon Smith

George MacDonald

Republished in modern times as "The Curate's Awakening". A young man (Thomas Wingfold) "enters the church" through no re…

Chapter Eleven: Laws the Cause of Slavery

In The Slavery of Our Times

Read by Jon Saunders

Leo Tolstoy (Aylmer Maude, Translator) and Leo Tolstoy

This little book shows, in a short, clear, and systematic manner, how the principle of Non-Resistance, about which Tolstoy has written so mu…

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