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The Valley of Fear

Read by Katie Riley

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Doyle's final novel featuring the beloved sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, brings the detective and his friend to a country manor where they are pre…

Essays on Political Economy

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Frédéric Bastiat

Bastiat asserted that the only purpose of government is to defend the right of an individual to life, liberty, and property. From this defin…

Sophisms of the Protectionists

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Frédéric Bastiat

"To rob the public, it is necessary to deceive them," Bastiat said and believed. He reasoned, employing repetition to various appl…

Fourteen Months in American Bastiles

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Francis Key Howard

Francis Key Howard recounts in this book his life as a political prisoner of the United States. He points out that he was held captive at th…

Further Communications on Business Part 1

In Shirley

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Charlotte Brontë

Shirley is an 1849 social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë. It was Brontë's second published novel after Jane Eyre (…

1766(cont) to 1767

In The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. II

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James Boswell

Boswell's famous work on the life of his admired friend Johnson, the formidable poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, edito…

Ch 06 (1611, 1612) Jesuits in Arcadia

In Pioneers of France in the New World

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Francis Parkman and Francis Parkman, Jr.

Parkman has been hailed as one of America's first great historians and as a master of narrative history. Numerous translations have spread t…

29 - Christian Knowledge, pt 1

In Select Sermons

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Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards was a colonial American Congregational preacher, theologian, and missionary to Native Americans. Edwards "is widely ac…