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Maxims 121-130

In The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Read by Sonrisa Jones


Baltasar Gracián


300 short maxims by Spanish Jesuit Baltasar Gracian (1601-1658). The advice is still useful and insightful for our modern world. Gracian was…

The Materialist in the Mask

In G.K. Chesterton's Newspaper Columns: The New Witness - 1922

Read by Lindsay Jones


G. K. Chesterton


A collection of the newspaper columns/essays written by G.K. Chesterton for "The New Witness", under the heading "At the Sign…

The Elephant's Child

In Children's Short Works, Vol. 051

Read by Jonathan Jones


Rudyard Kipling


Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 051: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

Aphorisms by J. M. Gottesman

In Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 6, August 1906

Read by Sonrisa Jones


Various


Mother Earth was an American anarchist journal that described itself as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature&qu…

The Last Supper

In Short Science Fiction Collection 077

Read by Tom Jones


T. D. Hamm


Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…

Chapter IV

In Why We Love Music

Read by Sonrisa Jones


Carl Emil Seashore


Psychologists have not explained why we love music. A technical psychologist indulges in generalizations and predictions in a practical and …

The Dream by Edna St. Vincent Millay

In Dreams Collection 3 - Stories and Poems

Read by Jonathan Jones


Edna St. Vincent Millay


This is a collection of 20 stories and/or poems, contributed by LibriVox volunteers, pertaining to dreams. - Summary by Michele Fry

Among Our Exchanges

In The American Bee Journal, Vol. XVII, No. 1, January 5, 1881

Read by Sonrisa Jones


Various


The American Bee Journal is the “oldest bee paper in America established in 1861 devoted to scientific bee-culture and the production and sa…

52 - A Jesuit of the Eleventh Year

In Ten Years Later

Read by Iolo Jones


Alexandre Dumas


After The Three Muskateers and Twenty Years After the adventurous story of Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan continues!The Vicomte of Br…

New Ground

In Tom Brown at Oxford

Read by Jonathan Jones


Thomas Hughes


This sequel to Tom Brown's School Days follows Tom to Oxford, where he studies at St. Ambrose's College. While the college is fictional, th…

03 - Chapters 4-5

In Don Quixote - Vol. 2

Read by Glendower Jones


Miquel de Cervantes Saavedra (transl. John Ormsby) and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra


Don Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in …

The Apache: The Messiah Craze

In The North American Indian, Volume 1

Read by Sonrisa Jones


Edward Sherriff Curtis


Edward Sherriff Curtis was an American photographer and ethnologist who was funded by J.P. Morgan to produce a series on Native Americans. …

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