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Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress

Read by Edmund Bloxam


Daniel Defoe


The full title of the novel is Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress Or, a History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Bele…

The Case of Wagner / Nietzsche Contra Wagner / Selected Aphorisms

Read by Edmund Bloxam


Friedrich Nietzsche


A collection of three of Nietzsche's writings concerning the music of Wagner. In particular, he relates Wagner's music as degenerate, unrefi…

Drugging a Nation

Read by Edmund Bloxam


Samuel Merwin


Drugging a Nation is a journalistic reveal of the extent to which the British Empire was culpable in the dissemination and subsequent near t…

A Tale of a Tub

Read by Edmund Bloxam


Jonathan Swift


A Tale of a Tub was the first major work written by Jonathan Swift, composed between 1694 and 1697, that was eventually published in 1704. I…

The Black-Bearded Barbarian

Read by Edmund Bloxam


Mary Esther Miller Macgregor


A fictionalized biography of George Mackay (1844-1901), an influential Presbyterian missionary in northern Taiwan. (Summary by Edmund Bloxam…

The Singing Bone or The Adventures of Dr. Thorndyke

Read by Edmund Bloxam


R. Austin Freeman


In its original form, this book was published with the title, "The Singing Bone." It was later republished as "The Adventures…

Descriptive Analyses of Piano Works

Read by Edmund Bloxam


Edward Baxter Perry


A look at the poetic motivations behind certain piano works. An understanding of these pieces on purely poetic grounds, with little insight …

Catherine De' Medici

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Honoré de Balzac


The Philosophical Studies from The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine) are a series of works that are intended as a reflection on history in p…

Great Explorers in Space

Read by Edmund Bloxam


Various


‘The Pioneer’ by Irving E. Cox The greatest explorer of them all returns to Earth and finds the world upside down! ‘Flight Perilous’ by Ra…

Bizarre (version 2)

Read by Edmund Bloxam


Lawton Mackall


A series of humorous musings, short-length jokes, often concerning words and manners. - Summary by Edmund Bloxam

In Colonial Days

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Nathaniel Hawthorne


A collection of British aristocrats, soldiers, gentlemen and ladies gather at the Province House inn, as the American imperial possessions c…

Mists of Mars

Read by Edmund Bloxam


George A. Whittington


The Wild West, reimagined as the Martian landscape, where law is defined by whoever has the biggest weapons, be they guns, ships, or things …

Essays Before a Sonata

Read by Edmund Bloxam


Charles Ives


Some philosophical studies in relation to the ideas of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne. Although the sonata is not explicitly referenced in this…

08 - The End of Justinians Reign

In The Byzantine Empire

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Charles William Chadwick Oman


Fifty years ago the word “Byzantine” was used as a synonym for all that was corrupt and decadent, and the tale of the East-Roman Empire was …

The Coming of the Forward Pass

In Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 033

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Elmer Berry


Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include astronomy, religion, United States…