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Excerpts from "The New Life" and "The Banquet", by Dante Alighieri

In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 11

Read by Michael Channon


Dante Alighieri


The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

Decay of the Frankish Empire Division into Modern France, Germany and Italy, AD…

In The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05

Read by Michael Channon


Charles F. Horne


A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…

Bible (KJV) 20: Proverbs

Read by Michael Packard


King James Version


The book of Proverbs is referred to as wisdom literature along with several others: the book of Job, Ecclesiastes, the Song of Solomon, and …

Three Hundred Aesop's Fables

Read by Michael Armenta


Aesop


Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica are a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Gree…

The Man with Two Left Feet, and Other Stories

Read by Michael Yard


P. G. Wodehouse


The Man With Two Left Feet, and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on …

Bible (KJV) NT 01: Matthew

Read by Michael Packard


King James Version


The Gospel According to Matthew is one of the four canonical gospels, one of the three synoptic gospels, and the first book of the New Testa…

The Iliad of Homer, Rendered into English Blank Verse

Read by Michael Armenta


Homer


"It must equally be considered a splendid performance; and for the present we have no hesitation in saying that it is by far the best r…

The Origin Of Species by Means of Natural Selection (version 2)

Read by Michael Armenta


Charles Darwin


This is the 6th and last edition of "On The Origin of Species" with all additions and corrections, often considered the Definitive…

Typee

Read by Michael Scherer


Herman Melville


Typee is Herman Melville's first book, recounting his experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands in 1842, and becoming a …

Bible (KJV), Complete

Read by Michael Armenta


King James Version


The 1769 Oxford Edition. The King James Bible is one of the most important books in the English speaking world, so influential that its lang…

United States Historical Documents

Read by Michael Scherer


Various


The Articles of Confederation: On November 15th, 1777 The Articles of Confederation became the first constitution of the United States, thou…

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

Read by Michael Yard


Mark Twain


In one of his later novels, the master storyteller spins a tale of two children switched at infancy. A slave takes on the identity of master…

Reflections on the Revolution in France

Read by Michael Reuss


Edmund Burke


Reflections on the Revolution in France is a 1790 book by Edmund Burke, one of the best-known intellectual attacks against the (then-infant)…

The Wizard

Read by Michael Monhollon


H. Rider Haggard


Described by the author, best known for his King Solomon's Mines, as "a tale of victorious faith," this story begins on a Sunday a…

The Black Eagle Mystery

Read by Michael MacTaggert


Geraldine Bonner


A New York corporate lawyer falls eighteen stories from the Black Eagle Building. Suicide, cops say. That Hollings Harland was part of a bla…

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Le Gallienne) - Version 2

Read by Michael Armenta


Omar Khayyám


One of the greatest works of poetry in history, this lyric poem presents the deep feelings and emotions of the poet on subjects such as life…

The Devil's Deep

Read by Michael Wallace


Michael Wallace


Chad Lett is a mute witness to an attempted murder. He suffers from total paralysis, locked within a prison of his own mind. After years of …

David Copperfield - Condensed by the Author for his Dramatic Readings in America

Read by Michael Armenta


Charles Dickens


"This short collection of 6 selected scenes from "David Copperfield" were abridged and performed by Dickens himself during hi…

Must Not Sleep

Read by Michael Brownstein


Michael Brownstein


By turns hilarious and chilling, poet and novelist Michael Brownstein's latest novel MUST NOT SLEEP is a shamanic initiation into personal f…