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A Portrait Of Ngaio Marsh



A programme featuring an extended interview with Ngaio Marsh, writer and drama producer. (Probably an episode of the series "Portrait f…

Introduction to Sanskrit


Jigme Nyendak


This class is primarily for those who practice Buddhist mantra recitation or yoga and would like to develop their basic understanding and pr…

The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 10 - 09. September 1899

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National Geographic Society


The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol X, September 1899.It includes the following articles:The Commercial Developmen…

Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote



Widely regarded as the first modern novel, Miguel de Cervantes's classic tale chronicles the adventures of the knight-errant Don Quixote de …

The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella

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Michelangelo Buonarroti


Michael Angelo and Campanella represent widely sundered, though almost contemporaneous, moments in the evolution of the Italian genius. Mich…

The Nobel Prize in 1904

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Various


The Nobel Prizes are international awards bestowed once a year by Scandinavian committees for cultural and scientific advances. They were es…

The Age of Reason

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Thomas Paine


The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology, a deistic treatise written by eighteenth-century British radical an…

Capital: a critical analysis of capitalist production, Vol 1

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Karl Marx


Capital, Volume I is the first of three volumes in Karl Marx’s monumental work, Das Kapital, and the only volume to be published during his …

A Tramp Abroad

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Mark Twain


A Tramp Abroad is a work of non-fiction travel literature by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880. The book details a journey by th…

The Odyssey (Version 3)

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Homer


The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other Homeric epic.…

Far from the Madding Crowd

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Thomas Hardy


Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and offers in ample measure the details of English rural life that Hardy so…

Bindle

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Herbert George Jenkins


Herbert Jenkins' most popular fictional creation was Mr. Joseph Bindle, who first appeared in a humorous novel in 1916 and in a number of se…

Nature (version 2)

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Ralph Waldo Emerson


First published anonymously in 1836, Nature marks the beginning both of Emerson’s literary career and the Transcendentalist movement. Asking…

Through the Looking-Glass (version 3)

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Lewis Carroll


Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a work of children's literature by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson),…

The Life of St. Teresa

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Frances Alice Forbes


Teresa of Ávila, also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptized as Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada (28 March 1515 – 4 October …

Apology of Socrates (version 2)

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Plato


The Apology is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he defended himself in 399 BC[2] against the charges of "corrupting t…

History of the Norwegian People, Volume 1

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Knut Gjerset


A detailed and exhaustive history of the Norwegian People, written in two volumes. The author, Knut Gjerset, was born in Western Norway in 1…

Pélerinage d'un nommé Chrétien, Le : écrit sous l'allégorie d'un songe

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John Bunyan


« Le pélerinage d'un nommé Chrétien » est un roman allégorique de John Bunyan, publié en 1678…

The Duel (version 2)

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Anton Chekhov


Known for his plays and short stories, Anton Chekhov also wrote a series of novellas, astonishing for their psychological complexity and com…

Exotics and Retrospectives

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Lafcadio Hearn


Lafcadio Hearn, born 1850 in Greece, went to Japan when he was 40 years old and became a Japanese citizen only 6 years later. His writings a…

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