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Advance Agent
Read by Paul Hampton
Christopher Anvil
Raveling Porcy's systematized enigma, Dan found himself with a spy's worst break—he was saddled with the guise of a famed man! A masterful s…
Ingersoll on THOMAS PAINE, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 1, Lec…
Read by William Allan Jones
Robert G. Ingersoll
Col. Ingersoll begins his lectures on famous people as follows: [i]"It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of ge…
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, or the Causes of Corrupt Eloquence
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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
The scene of the Dialogus de Oratoribus, as this work is commonly known, is laid in the sixth year of Vespasian, 75 a.D. The commentators ar…
The Verbalist
Read by Bill Boerst
Alfred Ayres
Osmun arranges usage problems alphabetically and treats certain areas in greater detail as he sees fit. For example, his first entry is A-AN…
Greek and Roman Ghost Stories
Read by Timothy Ferguson
Lacy Collison-Morley
A non-fiction work, comparing and collecting ghost stories by Classical Greek and Republican or Imperial Roman authors. (Summary by Timothy …
Lucian's Dialogues Volume 4: Zeus the Tragedian
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Lucian Of Samosata
Zeus, gloomy and in tragic distress, is implored by Hermes and Athena to divulge the cause of his melancholy condition; while Hera, true to …
Gorgias
Read by Kevin Johnson
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 …
A Critical History of Greek Philosophy
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Walter Terence Stace
This book contains the substance, and for the most part the words, of a course of public lectures delivered during the first three months of…
Agricola
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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
The Agricola (Latin: De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae, lit. On the life and character of Julius Agricola) is a book by the Roman historian…
Bill Nye's Cordwood
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Bill Nye
From Galileo to Grover Cleveland, from wasps to cattle, from dinosaurs to the railroad, Bill Nye's wide ranging wit pokes gentle fun at ever…
Homilies on Romans
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St. John Chrysostom
St. Chrysostom's commentary on the Epistle to the Romans is one of the closest and most argumentative of those he has left us... The rhetori…
Boule de suif
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Guy de Maupassant
Douze nouvelles dans lesquelles Guy de Maupassant pose un regard ironique, voire pessimiste, sur la société française d…
Futility: A Novel on Russian Themes
Read by Margaret Espaillat
William Alexander Gerhardi
From the preface written by Edith Wharton:Then I fell upon Futility. Some one said: “It's another new novel about Russia” –and every one of …
The Diaries of John Evelyn Volume I
Read by Anthony Ogus
John Evelyn
John Evelyn was a 17th century polymath, with interests in the fine arts, architecture, gardening, as well as anatomy and the natural scienc…
Second Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow
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Jerome K. Jerome
A second volume of humorous essays on various subjects, following the success of Idle thoughts Of An Idle Fellow. (Summary by Chris Garbett)
The Professor's House
Read by Amy Dunkleberger
Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather
A portrait of Americas many social groups with the chief interest centered on a university professor and his family - Summary by Publishers …
Capitol Coven
Read by Peter E. Abresch
Peter E. Abresch
Ninety percent of the federal laws, resolutions, and appropriations pass or fail in the U. S. Congress by a handful of votes. When Alexand…
Poetics
Read by Robert Foster
Aristotle
Aristotle’s Poetics from the 4th century B.C. aims to give a short study of storytelling. It discusses things like unity of plot, reversal o…