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Ch.27 The Legal Position of Hare and his Wife

In The History of Burke and Hare, And of the Resurrectionist Times

Read by Catherine Emerson


George Macgregor


From the preface: ".....of all the criminal events that have occurred in Scotland, few have excited so deep, widespread, and lasting an…

Fir-cone Mushroom to Maned Mushroom

In Mushrooms and Toadstools (Third Edition)

Read by Catherine Emerson


Worthington George Smith


This is a useful, but not comprehensive description of both edible and poisonous fungi found in Great Britain. Although the book is well ill…

Chapter II — GREEK MEDICINE, Alexandrian School

In The Evolution of Modern Medicine

Read by Catherine Emerson


Sir William Osler and Sir William Osler


This is the manuscript of Sir William Osler's lectures on the "Evolution of Modern Medicine," delivered at Yale University in 1913…

The Georgics: A Poem of the Land

Read by George Emerson


Virgil


A poem by the Latin poet Virgil, the second of his three known works. "Georgic" means "to work the land," and on such ma…

Literature and Form

Read by Catherine Brown


Catherine Brown


University of Oxford Podcasts

George Eliot

Read by Catherine Brown


Catherine Brown


University of Oxford Podcasts

D.H. Lawrence

Read by Catherine Brown


Catherine Brown


University of Oxford Podcasts

There is an Air of Majesty

In Mountain Idylls, and Other Poems

Read by George Emerson


Alfred Castner King


"The author of this unpretentious volume has long questioned the advisability of adding a book to our already inflated and overloaded l…

The Stratagems, Book 1, Part 3

In The Stratagems and The Aqueducts of Rome

Read by Emerson Wells


Sextus Julius Frontinus


Frontinus' Stratagems is a collection of examples of military stratagems from Greek and Roman history, which the author comments based on h…

In the Wilderness

In Stories of the Bible, Volume 1: The People of the Chosen Land

Read by Laurel Emerson


Myles Endicott


Brief Bible stories from the Old Testament, many accompanied by poems. - Summary by Larry Wilson

The Imperial Institute

In Dagonet Ditties

Read by Emerson Wells


George R. Sims


George Robert Sims was an English journalist, poet, dramatist, novelist, prolific in his output and known for his satire and humor. These q…

Edgar Allan Poe, Part 1, An Appreciation

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 085

Read by George Emerson


Unknown


"A regard for decency, even at the cost of success, is but the regard for one's own dignity" was novelist Joseph Conrad's take on …