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On Interpretation

Read by Geoffrey Edwards


Aristotle


Aristotle's On Interpretation (Greek Περὶ Ἑρμηνείας or Peri Hermeneias) or De Interpretatione (the Latin title) is the second of Aristotle's…

The Enchiridion of Augustine

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Saint Augustine of Hippo


The Enchiridion, Manual, or Handbook of Augustine of Hippo is alternatively titled, "Faith, Hope, and Love". The Enchiridion is a …

The World as Will and Idea Volume 1

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Arthur Schopenhauer


Schopenhauer used the word "will" as a human's most familiar designation for the concept that can also be signified by other words…

The Autobiography of St. Ignatius

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St. Ignatius Loyola


This account of the life of St. Ignatius, dictated by himself to Father Gonzalez, is a most valuable record of the great Founder of the Soc…

Ten Days in a Madhouse

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Nellie Bly


In 1887 Nellie Bly, one of the first female newspaper writers, and a young reporter who would soon go on to make a career for herself as an …

Gorgias

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Plato


This dialogue brings Socrates face to face with the famous sophist Gorgias and his followers. It is a work likely completed around the time …

The Shining Gateway

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James Allen


Students of the works of James Allen all over the world will welcome with joy another book from his able pen. In this work we find the Proph…

The God of All Comfort

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Hannah Whitall Smith


This book is written to Christians who profess to believe the Bible as God's revelation, but whose "lives are filled with discomfort an…

The Book of Nature Myths

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Florence Holbrook


This is a book of myths told by the Indians of North America to their children. They could be compared to present day Fairy Tales. (Summary …

The History of Standard Oil: Volume 1

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Ida M. Tarbell


The History of the Standard Oil Company is a book written by journalist Ida Tarbell in 1904. It was an exposé of the Standard Oil Com…

Concerning Christian Liberty

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Martin Luther


Early in the course of the Reformation (1520) Martin Luther penned a trilogy of foundational documents addressing the Church, the Nobility a…

Principles of Economics, Book 1: Preliminary Survey

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Alfred Marshall


Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the…

A Guide to Stoicism

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St. George William Joseph Stock


This book is a primer on the philosophy of stoicism, resurrected from its origins in Greek and Roman philosophy. The original philosophy was…

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

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Olive Gilbert


The Narrative of Sojourner Truth is the gripping autobiographical account of Sojourner Truths life as a slave in pre-Civil War New York Stat…

The Coming of the Fairies

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


After a number of deaths in his close family, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle turned to spiritualism in hope of finding proof of the afterlife. Being…

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. II

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Edward Gibbon


The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was writ…

Old Mother West Wind

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Thornton W. Burgess


Thornton Waldo Burgess (January 14, 1874 – June 5, 1965) was a conservationist and author of children's stories. He loved the beauty of natu…

Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 4

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John Calvin


Institutes of the Christian Religion is John Calvin's seminal work on Protestant systematic theology. Highly influential in the Western worl…

The Alhambra: A Series Of Tales And Sketches Of The Moors And Spaniards

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Washington Irving


This is a collection of essays, verbal sketches, and stories by Washington Irving. Irving lived at the Alhambra Palace while writing some of…

Sadhana, The Realisation of Life, version 2

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Rabindranath Tagore


A collection of essays on the Hindu/Buddhist view of humankind's place in the universe. As the author says in his introduction: "in the…

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