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A Typical Sunday. Opposition and Trial. Valdocco. Illness of Don Bosco

In The Venerable Don Bosco the Apostle of Youth

Read by Michael Curran


M. S. Pine


This brief sketch of the holy life and marvelous achievements of a great inheritor of the spirit of Saint Francis of Sales, Saint Don Bosco …

''Joyful Tribulaciouns'' of Blessed Thomas More, Part 1

In A Book of English Martyrs

Read by Michael Curran


E. M. Wilmot-Buxton


This volume is a simple narrative suited to children's understanding of the thrilling times when English Catholics suffered for the Faith in…

Rookwood

Read by Paul Curran


William Harrison Ainsworth


A rich and complex Gothic-Romance centring on the murky deeds of an ancient family. It is a wonderfully atmospheric piece that combines narr…

Bible (KJV) 20: Proverbs

Read by Michael Packard


King James Version


The book of Proverbs is referred to as wisdom literature along with several others: the book of Job, Ecclesiastes, the Song of Solomon, and …

Three Hundred Aesop's Fables

Read by Michael Armenta


Aesop


Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica are a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Gree…

The Man with Two Left Feet, and Other Stories

Read by Michael Yard


P. G. Wodehouse


The Man With Two Left Feet, and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on …

Bible (KJV) NT 01: Matthew

Read by Michael Packard


King James Version


The Gospel According to Matthew is one of the four canonical gospels, one of the three synoptic gospels, and the first book of the New Testa…

The Iliad of Homer, Rendered into English Blank Verse

Read by Michael Armenta


Homer


"It must equally be considered a splendid performance; and for the present we have no hesitation in saying that it is by far the best r…

The Origin Of Species by Means of Natural Selection (version 2)

Read by Michael Armenta


Charles Darwin


This is the 6th and last edition of "On The Origin of Species" with all additions and corrections, often considered the Definitive…

Typee

Read by Michael Scherer


Herman Melville


Typee is Herman Melville's first book, recounting his experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands in 1842, and becoming a …

Bible (KJV), Complete

Read by Michael Armenta


King James Version


The 1769 Oxford Edition. The King James Bible is one of the most important books in the English speaking world, so influential that its lang…

United States Historical Documents

Read by Michael Scherer


Various


The Articles of Confederation: On November 15th, 1777 The Articles of Confederation became the first constitution of the United States, thou…

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

Read by Michael Yard


Mark Twain


In one of his later novels, the master storyteller spins a tale of two children switched at infancy. A slave takes on the identity of master…

Reflections on the Revolution in France

Read by Michael Reuss


Edmund Burke


Reflections on the Revolution in France is a 1790 book by Edmund Burke, one of the best-known intellectual attacks against the (then-infant)…

The Wizard

Read by Michael Monhollon


H. Rider Haggard


Described by the author, best known for his King Solomon's Mines, as "a tale of victorious faith," this story begins on a Sunday a…

The Black Eagle Mystery

Read by Michael MacTaggert


Geraldine Bonner


A New York corporate lawyer falls eighteen stories from the Black Eagle Building. Suicide, cops say. That Hollings Harland was part of a bla…