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The Romance of Modern Manufacture

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Charles R. Gibson


Those of us who have grown up with the results of Modern Manufacture around us are apt to miss the romance of the subject. Indeed, it is di…

The Romance of Modern Locomotion

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Archibald Williams


In the following pages we shall peep into the history of typical companies in Great Britain, the United States, and elsewhere; consider the …

Modern Prophets and Other Sketches

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Pansy


Short stories and sketches all relating in some way to temperance and advocating for prohibition. Each story looks at a different facet of t…

Islam and the Modern Age



Living in a New Age, The Model of Prophet Yunus, The Purpose of Life, Universal Outlook, The Secular Contribution of Isl…

Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus (1818)

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Mary Shelley


Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. Shelley wrote the novel when she was 18 years…

En Nyckfull kvinna del 4 - Modern

Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)


Emilie Flygare-Carlén


Fjärde delen av Emilie Flygare-Carléns ”En Nyckfull kvinna” med titeln ”Modern” börjar med att Ediths och Ernsts äkten…

The Story Of A Modern Woman

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Ella Hepworth Dixon


"This touching short novel tells the story of Mary Earl, a woman who has to fend for herself in London at the end of the 19th century. …

The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction

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Dorothy Scarborough


Scholar of the macabre Dorothy Scarborough provides us with the first comprehensive overview of supernatural fiction in literary history, a …

Rene Descartes



01 09 February 2000 Tonight on Ideas...Part One of a profile of Rene Descartes. Generally regarded as the father of modern philosophy, Desca…

Helena Thompson The Burning Times



Hayley Carmichael and Danielle Vitalis star in this modern Gothic drama. It is recorded on location with an electro acoustic sound design re…

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (Edition 1831)

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Mary Shelley


A mentally unstable genius, Victor Frankenstein, inspired by the dreams of ancient alchemists and empowered by modern science, creates a hum…

Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (version 3)

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Mary Shelley


Frankenstein begins in epistolary form, documenting the correspondence between Captain Robert Walton and his sister, Margaret Walton Saville…

Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy

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George Santayana


Before the beginning of World War II, during the time of the Modernist movement in philosophy, George Santayana wrote these five descriptive…

Madness: Between Medieval Islamic and Modern Perspectives


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Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus (Version 4)

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Mary Shelley


This is a classic (gothic) horror story, and one of the earliest examples of science fiction. The main characters are Dr. Frankenstein and h…

Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series

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Various


This book is composed of 24 short stories, published in 1918 by the Atlantic Monthly Press, and is the second collection of "modern sho…

064 A Miracle Story I Can Believe: Sean George Raised From the Dead


Sheridan Voysey


Miracles can be hard for the modern mind to accept. And I can be sceptical myself about 'miracle' stories. I've heard too many that proved t…

Ancient Ideals in Modern Life: Four Lectures

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Annie Besant


Four lectures about East Indian spirituality delivered at the twenty-fifth anniversary meeting of the Theosophical Society at Benares, 1900.…

Surah Al-Kahf And The Modern Age


Shaykh Imran Hosein


Shaykh Imran Hosein was born in the Caribbean island of Trinidad in 1942 from parents whose ancestors had migrated as indentured labourer fr…

Augustan Books of Modern Poetry: Robert Graves

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Robert Graves


Poems from Robert Graves published by the Augustan Books of Poetry. - Summary by KevinS

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