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Wage-Labour and Capital

Read by Carl Manchester


Karl Marx


Originally written as a series of newspaper articles in 1847, Wage-Labour and Capital was intended to give an overview of Marx’s central the…

The Wind in the Willows (version 2)

Read by Mark F. Smith


Kenneth Grahame


This much-loved story follows a group of animal friends in the English countryside as they pursue adventure ... and as adventure pursues the…

Reflections on War and Death

Read by D.E. Wittkower


Sigmund Freud


Anyone, as Freud tells us in Reflections on War and Death, forced to react against his own impulses may be described as a hypocrite, whether…

Democracy in America Vol. I

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Alexis De Tocqueville


When Tocqueville visited America in the 1830s he found a thriving democracy of a kind he had not seen anywhere else. Many of his insightful …

Of the Shortness of Life

Read by Jonathan Hockey


Lucius Annaeus Seneca


Seneca the Younger wrote the moral essay "De Brevitate Vitae" — "On the Shortness of Life" — to his friend Paulinus. The…

Bible (Reina Valera) NT 04: Evangelio según San Juan

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Reina-Valera


El Evangelio según Juan es un libro de la Biblia en el Nuevo Testamento que contiene la historia de la vida de Jesucristo. El ap&oacu…

My First Summer in the Sierra

Read by Adrian Praetzellis


John Muir


The journal of nature-lover John Muir who spent the summer of 1869 walking California’s Sierra Nevada range. From French Bar to Mono Lake an…

Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

Read by Bob Neufeld


Friedrich Engels


The main idea of "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific" (1880) was distinguishing scientific socialism and utopian socialism. Engels …

The Story of Electricity

Read by Ruth Golding


John Munro


In the book's preface, the author writes: "Let anyone stop to consider how he individually would be affected if all electrical service …

Meditations on First Philosophy

Read by D.E. Wittkower


René Descartes


After several years working on a treatise putting forth his mechanistic philosophy and physics, Descartes shelved the project when his conte…

The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry

Read by Peter Yearsley


M. M. Pattison Muir


A light journey through the history of chemistry, from its start in the obscure mysteries of alchemy to what was, for the author, the cuttin…

Eight Pillars of Prosperity

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James Allen


It is popularly supposed that a greater prosperity for individuals or nations can only come through a political and social reconstruction. T…

The Joyful Wisdom (or: The Gay Science)

Read by TimSC


Friedrich Nietzsche


"The Joyful Wisdom," written in 1882, just before "Zarathustra," is rightly judged to be one of Nietzsche's best books. …

The Wealth of Nations, Book 5

Read by Stephen Escalera


Adam Smith


An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist Adam Smith, published on March 9…

Ulysses S. Grant

Read by David Wales


Owen Wister


Ulysses S. Grant was the great hero (for the North) in the Civil War and the 18th President of the United States. This short biography is on…

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

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Jerome K. Jerome


Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Th…

A Modern Utopia

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H. G. Wells


H. G. Wells's proposal for social reform was the formation of a world state, a concept that would increasingly preoccupy him throughout the …

The Enchiridion of Epictetus

Read by D.E. Wittkower


Epictetus


Epictetus (Greek: Επίκτητος; c.55–c.135) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. The name given by his parents, if one was given, is not known - the …

The Apology of Socrates (version 3)

Read by Fr. Richard Zeile of Detroit


Plato


Plato's account of Socrates' defense at his trial for "corrupting the youth" is a classic summation of his teacher's life and miss…

The Tao Teh King

Read by Eric S. Piotrowski


Laozi 老子 and Lao Tzu


Lao-Tze's Tao Teh King illuminates The Tao: a guiding principle of the universe and all within it. By exploring the nature of dualities and …

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