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Icarus; or, The Future of Science

Read by S. Emily Lee


Bertrand Russell


In this short book, Russell speculates on the effect of the progress of science in the future in a vast array of subjects, ranging from phys…

Drama: General Introduction, by George Pierce Baker

In Lectures on the Harvard Classics

Read by S. Emily Lee


Charles William Eliot


The Lecture Series on the contents of The Harvard Classics ought to do much to open that collection of literary materials to many ambitious …

Mistaken Identity

In Secret Service; or, Recollections of a City Detective

Read by S. Emily Lee


Andrew Forrester


This book of fiction from 1864, as you can guess from the title, presents a series of accounts of different cases that the “City Detective” …

HECTOR ST. JOHN DE CRÈVECŒUR

In Studies in Classic American Literature

Read by S. Emily Lee


D. H. Lawrence


The staid academic title belies the freewheeling prose of D.H. Lawrence's essays, which are as contrarian, penetrating, and sometimes unpala…

Fallacious Meditations on Criticism

In Plum Pudding (version 2)

Read by S. Emily Lee


Christopher Morley


Christopher Morley: A modern humorist with the tang of an Elizabethan. Plum Pudding: Thus Mr. Morley entitles his new volume, in which he ha…

The Moors in Spain

Read by S S Kim


Stanley Lane-Poole


“The history of Spain offers us a melancholy contrast. Twelve hundred years ago, Tarik the Moor added the land of the Visigoths to the long …

History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume I, From the Beginning until t…

Read by S S Kim


Simon Dubnow


Simon Dubnow was born in 1860 to a poor Jewish family in Belarussian town of Mstsislaw and later became authority of Jewish history and an a…

Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire

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James Headlam-Morley


"It is hard to be an Emperor under such a Chancellor." lamented Wilhelm I, the first emperor of the German Empire. Otto von Bismar…

History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume II, From the Death of Alexande…

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Simon Dubnow


Simon Dubnow was born in 1860 to a poor Jewish family in Belarussian town of Mstsislaw and later became an authority of Jewish history and a…

History of the Jews in Russia and Poland Volume III, From the Accession of Nich…

Read by S S Kim


Simon Dubnow


Simon Dubnow was born in 1860 to a poor Jewish family in Belarussian town of Mstsislaw and later became authority of Jewish history and an a…

The Shepherd of the Hills

Read by Emily Jarmard


Harold Bell Wright


The story depicts the lives of mountain people living in the Ozarks and the mystery surrounding an old man called 'The Shepherd of the Hills…

The City of Fire

Read by Emily Grace


Grace Livingston Hill


Home from college, Lynn is heartbroken to find her childhood friend Mark, has fallen away from his faith in God. After making some poor life…

Not Under The Law

Read by Emily Grace


Grace Livingston Hill


After both of Joyce's parents passed away, her beloved aunt raised her. But when her aunt gets sick and dies, Joyce's world turns upside dow…

Lucretia Borgia

Read by Emily Maynard


Ferdinand Gregorovius


According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day. Lucretia Borgia is the most unfortunate woman in modern history. Is this beca…