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Our Young Folks' Plutarch

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Rosalie Kaufman


Plutarch's Lives is a series of fifty biographies of famous Greek and Roman men written around 100 AD. In Our Young Folks' Plutarch, Rosalie…

Philosophical Essays

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Bertrand Russell


Six out of seven essays appearing here were reprinted from other publications; indeed, this 1910 collection went out of print, so that two o…

George Washington

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Ferdinand Schmidt


Among all the numerous life stories written by Ferdinand Schmidt for the delectation and education of German youth, none surpasses that of W…

Cobb's Anatomy

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Irvin S. Cobb


Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb was born on June 23, 1876. At seventeen years of age, he began writing for the Paducah Daily News, his hometown paper…

Seed Thoughts

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Joseph Caryl


There is a work which few men possess, and which we are assured that no man alive ever ventured to read through. It is in two mighty folios,…

Wally K. Daly 625 Y



The Friday Play: 625Y First broadcast: Fri 22nd Jan 1999, 21:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM Research scientist Kate Brown makes a dramatic discovery i…

Biographien der Selbstmörder, 1. Teil

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Christian Heinrich Spieß


Die "Biographien der Selbstmörder" sind keine wirklichen Biographien, sondern eine Sammlung von kurzen Geschichten, die meist…

An Alphabet of History

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Wilbur D. Nesbit


An alphabet of historical characters presented in poetical form! In their original form, the contents of thisbook appeared in the Chicago Su…

The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

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Thomas Henry Huxley


Thomas H. Huxley, an English biologist and essayist, was an advocate of the theory of evolution and a self-proclaimed agnostic. A talented w…

Penrod

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Booth Tarkington


Join Penrod Schofield and his wistful dog Duke, in a hilarious romp through turn of the century Indianapolis, chronicling his life, loves, a…

Sherlock Holmes Tom Conway


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In Tune with the Infinite

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Ralph Waldo Trine


Trine tells us that by connecting and harmonizing with the Universe we attract love, health, peace and success. Trines' writings may have be…

Anna Karenina

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Leo Tolstoy


Der Roman aus der Epoche des russischen Realismus gibt einen tiefgründigen Einblick in das Leben und die Lebensanschauungen der russisc…

Jonathan Frock

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Heinrich Zschokke


Jonathan Frock hat es nicht leicht, zunächst wird er als Hauslehrer entlassen, weil er den Kindern zu viele freie Gedanken einflös…

Astounding Stories 01, January 1930

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Ray Cummings


In January of 1930 a new magazine with a flashy color cover appeared on newsstands, Astounding Stories of Super-Science. Filled with stories…

Reid's Critique of Hume

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Dan Robinson


University of Oxford Podcasts

Lenz

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Georg Büchner


Büchner schildert in dieser Erzählung, wie der deutsche Schriftsteller Jakob Lenz dem Wahnsinn verfällt.Vor dem abwechselnd d…

Letters From America

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Rupert Brooke


"[Rupert Brooke] started in May 1913 on a journey to the United States, Canada, and the South Seas, from which he returned next year at…

Meine Kindheit

Read by Claus Misfeldt


Friedrich Hebbel


In diesem ursprünglich als Teil einer Biographie gedachten Text schildert der Autor die ersten Jahre seines Lebens. Wir bekommen Einbli…

The Education of Henry Adams

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Henry Brooks Adams


The Education of Henry Adams records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Adams (1838-1918), in early old age, to come to terms with the dawning …

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