Search Results

Chapter 1

In Robinson Crusoe in Words of One Syllable

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Mary Godolphin and Daniel Defoe

Mary Godolphin was the pseudonym of Lucy Aikin who undertook translating great literature into single-syllable words so that young readers c…

23 - The Trance of Cessation

In Buddhist Writings

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Henry Clarke Warren, translator and Varioustranslated Byhenry Clarke Warren

An anthology of Buddhist scriptures, appropriate as an introduction to its vast literature, or as a sampler for those who want to better und…

Preface to Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding

In Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Henry Fielding and Variousandcharles William Eliot

Charles W. Eliot, 21st President of Harvard University, edited this volume of prefaces ... authored by a Who's Who of World Literature: Baco…

Raven, The

In Grimms' Fairy Tales

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

A classic collection of oral German folklore, brought together for posterity by the scholarly brothers Grimm in the 1800s, this epitome of f…

31 - Book 3, Chapter 4 [A Young Hero ... Makes his First Appearance]

In The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Henry Fielding

This novel is sometimes thought of as [Fielding's] first because he almost certainly began composing it before he wrote Shamela and Joseph A…

< 1 2 3 4 5 6