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The Triumph of the Humanities

In Rothermere American Institute

Read by Michael S. Malone


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University of Oxford Podcasts

De Rerum Natura

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Titus Lucretius Carus


An exposition of Epicurus atomic theory and the ethical tenets based upon it. Drawing upon this materialist philosophy, Lucretius cites the …

Epistulae Morales Selectae

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca


Seneca is an important repository of Stoic doctrine. His reputation, based on the ancient testimony, has remained ambiguous down to the pres…

Georgica

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Virgil


Vergil's Georgica is the culmination of a long tradition in antiquity of poems about agriculture, beginning with Hesiod in the eighth c. BC.…

Aeneidis Libri XII

Read by Malone


Virgil


Aeneas flees the destruction of Troy, abandons Dido, queen of the Carthaginians, and wends his way to Latium in Italy, where slaying Turnus,…

De Agricultura

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Marcus Porcius Cato


Noted for being the most extensive piece of early Latin prose, it abounds in archaic imperatives and shows an almost total lack of subordina…

The Moors in Spain

Read by S S Kim


Stanley Lane-Poole


“The history of Spain offers us a melancholy contrast. Twelve hundred years ago, Tarik the Moor added the land of the Visigoths to the long …

History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume I, From the Beginning until t…

Read by S S Kim


Simon Dubnow


Simon Dubnow was born in 1860 to a poor Jewish family in Belarussian town of Mstsislaw and later became authority of Jewish history and an a…

Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire

Read by S S Kim


James Headlam-Morley


"It is hard to be an Emperor under such a Chancellor." lamented Wilhelm I, the first emperor of the German Empire. Otto von Bismar…

History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume II, From the Death of Alexande…

Read by S S Kim


Simon Dubnow


Simon Dubnow was born in 1860 to a poor Jewish family in Belarussian town of Mstsislaw and later became an authority of Jewish history and a…

History of the Jews in Russia and Poland Volume III, From the Accession of Nich…

Read by S S Kim


Simon Dubnow


Simon Dubnow was born in 1860 to a poor Jewish family in Belarussian town of Mstsislaw and later became authority of Jewish history and an a…

Ocherki proshlago : razskazy

Read by Maya S


Lev Osipovich Levanda


A collection of six short stories about life of a Jewish community in Poland. (Summary by MayaS)

Moo Cow Tales (Version 2)

Read by Alicia S.


Rosamund Edith Nesbit Bland


Four short children's stories regarding a family's barnyard cows and their comical adventures. - Summary by Alicia S

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 …

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