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The Communist Manifesto

Read by Jon Ingram


Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx


Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote their Manifesto in December 1847, as a guide to the fundamental principles and practices of Communists.…

14 - Book 13, Chapters 1 - 5:Unguents: at what period they were first introduce…

In The Natural History Volume 3

Read by Jon Ingram


Pliny the Elder


Naturalis Historia (Latin for "Natural History") is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the …

Chapter 17

In Dracula

Read by Jon Ingram


Bram Stoker


The classic vampire story by Bram Stoker revolves around a struggle between good and evil, tradition and modernity, and lust versus chastity…

The Artilleryman

In Short Poetry Collection 001

Read by Jon Ingram


Walt Whitman


LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 001: a collection of 29 public-domain poems.

Three Languages, The

In Grimms' Fairy Tales

Read by Jon Ingram


Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


A classic collection of oral German folklore, brought together for posterity by the scholarly brothers Grimm in the 1800s, this epitome of f…

THE FALSE VOLDEMAR THE SECOND OF BRANDENBURG

In Claimants to Royalty

Read by Jon Ingram


John H. Ingram and John Henry Ingram


A compilation of chronicles of the numerous impostors and impostures of kings, queens, and rulers. (Summary by Carmen H)

22 - Judgment and Reasoning

In Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young

Read by Jon Ingram


Jacob Abbott


Subtitled, "The principles on which a firm parental authority may be established and maintained, without violence or anger, and the rig…

A Shropshire Lad (version 2)

Read by Jon Sindell


A. E. Housman


This is a lovely collection of melodic poems, many melancholy in tone, many featuring Housman's constant theme of living this short life to …

The Eagle's Shadow

Read by Jon M.Wilson


James Branch Cabell


A romantic comedy in which love is complicated by a large inheritance. - Summary by W. Blaine Dowler

Mighty Roman Shorts

Read by Jon Sindell


Jon Sindell


The Mighty Roman is a baseball book for today, a funny, freewheeling novel about modern American manhood. It’s a modern Mutiny On The Bounty…

Chapter 2 - The Extermination of the Yaquis

In Barbarous Mexico

Read by David S. Ingram


John Kenneth Turner


Through personal experience and extensive travel in Mexico in the late 1900s, the author of “Barbarous Mexico” depicts the circumstances tha…

The Passion of the Blessed Martyr Lawrence

In The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

Read by David S. Ingram


Ælfric Of Eynsham


Ælfric's 40 homilies follow the church and are the "most ancient sermons in any of the Germanic tongues". - Summary by InThe…

Dickens's Points of View

In Great Writers Inspire

Read by Jon Mee


Various


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