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Bible (BBE) 22, 25, 39: Song of Solomon, Lamentations, Malachi

Read by Mark Penfold


Bible In Basic English


The Bible in Basic English, translated by an American committee led by S.H. Hooke, uses Basic English, a simplified English vernacular devel…

The Conquest of Plassans, Book Four of Rougon-Maquart Cycle

Read by Mark Leder


Émile Zola


The placid Provencal lives of Francois Mouret and his wife Marthe are irreparably impacted by the arrival of a suspicious cleric, Abbe Fauja…

The Fat and the Thin, Book Three of Rougon-Macquart Cycle

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Émile Zola


Florent, an escaped political prisoner, finds shelter with his half-brother Quenu, and his wife Lisa Quenu (a Macquart). They get him a job…

Ovid And His Influence

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Edward Kennard Rand


In this early entry into the Our Debt To Greece and Rome series, Rand provides a lively summary and commentary on all of Ovid's poetical wor…

Bible (WNT) NT 13-14: 1 & 2 Thessalonians

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Weymouth New Testamenttranslated Byrichard Francis Weymouth and Weymouth New Testament


These are the letters of the Apostle Paul to the fellowship at Thessalonica. Both letters cover a variety of subjects, including proper con…

Abbe Mouret's Transgression, Book Five of Rougon-Macquart Cycle

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Émile Zola


This, the fifth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart Cycle, serves effectively as a sequel to "The Conquest of Plassans". Serge Mouret…

Characters and Events of Roman History

Read by Mark Harrington


Guglielmo Ferrero


Guglielmo Ferrero was an Italian historian and journalist, and this book contains his Lowell Lectures, presented in 1908 at the Lowell Insti…

Impressions of Theophrastus Such (Version 2)

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George Eliot


The ruminations and reflections of a minor scholar. - Summary by Mark Leder

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 2)

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Mark Twain


In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain creates an entertaining adventure of Middle America in the 1800's - afloat on a raft on th…

The Mysterious Island

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Jules Verne


A story of castaways, similar to Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson, this book details the escape from Civil War-era Richmond, Vi…

Great Expectations

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Charles Dickens


This classic tale tells of an orphan, Pip, who through a series of strange circumstances first finds a trade as a blacksmith's apprentice an…

The Communist Manifesto (version 2)

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Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx


The Communist Manifesto was conceived as an outline of the basic beliefs of the Communist movement. The authors believed that the European P…

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 3)

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Dr. Watson chronicles here some of the more interesting detective cases that he and his good friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, have encountered d…

How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day

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Arnold Bennett


"Which of us lives on twenty-four hours a day? And when I say 'lives,' I do not mean exists, nor 'muddles through.'" -- Arnold Ben…

Tarzan of the Apes

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Edgar Rice Burroughs


Tarzan of the Apes is Burroughs’ exciting, if improbable, story of an English lord, left by the death of his stranded parents in the hands o…

The Man in the Iron Mask

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Alexandre Dumas


In this, the last of the Three Musketeers novels, Dumas builds on the true story of a mysterious prisoner held incognito in the French penal…

The Swiss Family Robinson

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Johann David Wyss


The Swiss Family Robinson has delighted generations of readers with its exciting tale of a family which, though shipwrecked, displays “the r…

Kidnapped

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Robert Louis Stevenson


David Balfour, a lad of seventeen and newly orphaned, is directed to go and live with his rich uncle, the master of the estate of Shaws in t…

The Lone Star Ranger

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Zane Grey


Buck Duane, son of a famous gunfighter, falls prey to the old problem - called out by a cowboy who wants to make trouble, Duane kills him an…

The Time Machine (Version 2)

Read by Mark F. Smith


H. G. Wells


Surely the Time Traveler threw great dinner parties! His guests were treated to a once-in-forever trial of a miniature time machine - an exq…

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