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The Apology of Socrates (version 3)

Read by Fr. Richard Zeile of Detroit


Plato


Plato's account of Socrates' defense at his trial for "corrupting the youth" is a classic summation of his teacher's life and miss…

Bk 01 Ch 09: The Unexpected

In Les Misérables, Volume 2

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Victor Hugo, transl. Hapgood and Victor Hugo


This is book 2 of 5. An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the w…

Ecloga 9

In Eclogae (dramatic reading)

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Publius Vergilius Maro and Virgil


This book of poems, written between 42 en 39 BC, was a bestseller in ancient Rome, and still holds a fascination today. Held to be divinely …

00 - Dedication

In Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

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John Donne


Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English writer John Donne. It is a series of reflections that were written as …

32 - Upon our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount, Discourse XII

In Sermons on Several Occasions, First Series

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John Wesley


John Wesley, along with his brother Charles, are credited with founding the Methodist denomination. "The following Sermons contain the …

Section Seven

In The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 01

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Translated by Richard Burton and Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton


This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythol…

Chapter 7- Through the Mist

In Work: A Story of Experience

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Louisa May Alcott


It is one of "several nineteenth-century novels [which] uncovers the changes in women's work in the new industrial era, as well as the …

08 - Part 2 Chapter 1

In Crime and Punishment

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky


Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished St. Petersburg stude…

20 - Book 3 Chapter 7 - The Controversy

In The Brothers Karamazov

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky


The Brothers Karamazov (Russian: Братья Карамазовы) is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, and is generally considered …