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Chapter 02

In Candide

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Voltaire

Candide, ou l’Optimisme, (“Candide, or Optimism”) (1759) is a picaresque novel by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire. Voltaire never ope…

The Value Of Edison's Inventions To The World

In Edison, His Life and Inventions

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin and Frank Lewis Dyer

A detailed biography of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of such things as the telephone, the microphone, the electric motor, the storage batter…

Chapter 23

In War and Peace, Book 01: 1805

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy,…

Fox and the Grapes, The

In Baby's Own Aesop

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Walter Crane

"Baby's Own Aesop" presents the fables as one-stanza limericks, each "pictorially pointed" by Walter Crane, the noted pa…

Preface and Chapter One The Huckster

In The Sea Hawk

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

Rafael Sabatini

The Sea Hawk is a novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1915. The story is set in the late 16th century, and concerns a Cornish …

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