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Protagoras

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


Jowett, in his always informative introduction, sees this dialogue as transitional between the early and middle dialogues. Socrates meets wi…

Troilus and Criseyde

Read by Kevin Johnson


Geoffrey Chaucer


Troilus and Criseyde is a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set …

The Leavenworth Case (Version 2)

Read by Kevin Green


Anna Katharine Green


The Leavenworth Case is a gripping detective novel set in New York, and is one of the first detective fiction novels to be written by a fema…

Alcibiades I

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


As Jowett relates in his brilliant introduction, 95% of Plato's writing is certain and his reputation rests soundly on this foundation. The …

The Chronicles of Crime Vol 1

Read by Kevin Green


Camden Pelham


This catalogue of human weakness and at times downright atrocity has been brought together by Camden Pelham, a barrister-at-law of the Inner…

My Path to Atheism

Read by Kevin Green


Annie Besant


My Path to Atheism is a remarkable document in many ways, not least that it was written by a woman in Victorian England, not the most open f…

Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders

Read by Kevin McAsh


Victor Appleton


Tom Swift is the young protagonist in a series of juvenile adventure novels which began in the early twentieth century and continue to the p…

Lesser Hippias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


This work may not be by Plato, or his entirely, but Jowett has offered his sublime translation, and seems to lean towards including it in th…

The Worst Journey in the World, Vol 2

Read by Kevin Green


Apsley Cherry-Garrard


The Worst Journey in the World is a memoir of the 1910–1913 British Antarctic Expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott. It was written and publ…

One Hundred Verses from Old Japan

Read by Kevin Steinbach


Teika No Fujiwara


In 12th-13th century Japan there lived a man named Fujiwara no Teika (sometimes called Sadaie), a well-regarded poet in a society that prize…

The Vikings

Read by Kevin Johnson


Allen Mawer


This is a concise history of the Vikings by Allen Mawer, MA, Professor of English Language and Literature in Armstrong College, University o…

The Notting Hill Mystery

Read by Kevin Green


Charles Warren Adams


Charles Felix was the pseudonym of Charles Warren Adams, an English Lawyer and publisher and is now known to have been the author of "T…

Mr Munchausen

Read by Kevin Green


John Kendrick Bangs


The author has discovered for us in this volume the present stopping place of that famous raconteur of dear comic memory, the late Hieronymo…

The Angel of the Revolution

Read by Kevin Green


George Griffith


The Angel of the Revolution: A Tale of the Coming Terror (1893) is a science fiction novel by English writer George Griffith. It was his fir…

Four-Fifty Miles to Freedom

Read by Kevin Green


Maurice Andrew Brackenreed Johnston and Maurice Andrew Brackenreed Johnstonandkenneth Darlaston Yearsley


Four-Fifty Miles to Freedom is the true but little known story of the escape of eight British Prisoners-of-War from a Turkish POW camp durin…

Frey and his Wife

Read by Kevin Green


Maurice Henry Hewlett


Frey and his Wife is a Nordic Saga, but written in a saga style by a 20th Century Englishman. It tells the tale of Gunnar, a Norwegian wrong…

Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven

Read by Kevin LaVergne


Mark Twain


"Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven" is a short-story written by American writer Mark Twain and published in 1909. The story fol…

The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones

Read by Kevin Green


John Mastin


This is a good basic introduction to gemstones and their analysis. Admittedly a lot of the scientific tests have been superseded, but the ba…

Cupid in Africa

Read by Kevin Green


Percival Christopher Wren


Bertram Greene, brilliant student, aesthete, intellectual and shy, decides to make his military father proud of him at last and joins the co…

Chronicles of Canada Volume 03 - Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain

Read by Kevin McAsh


Charles W. Colby


For Canada, Champlain is not alone a heroic explorer of the seventeenth century, but the founder of Quebec; and it is a rich part of our her…

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