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Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy
Read by Gary Gilberd
John Stuart Mill
This is Mill’s first work on economics. It foreshadows his Political Economy which was the standard Anglo-American Economics textbook of the…
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Read by Gary Gilberd
Benjamin Franklin
Franklin wrote his autobiography in the form of an extended letter to his son. While recording the events of his life, he adds instructions …
Common Sense
Read by Gary Gilberd
Thomas Paine
Common Sense, Paine's pro-independence monograph published anonymously on 10 January 1776, spread quickly among literate colonists. Within t…
The Philosophy of Style
Read by Gary Gilberd
Herbert Spencer
“The Philosophy of Style,” explored a growing trend of formalist approaches to writing. Highly focused on the proper placement and ordering …
Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy
Read by Gary Gilberd
George Santayana
Before the beginning of World War II, during the time of the Modernist movement in philosophy, George Santayana wrote these five descriptive…
The Calvanism of To-day
In
What's Wrong With the World
Read by Gary Gilberd
GK Chesterton
and
G. K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) has been called the “prince of paradox.” Time magazine observed of his writing style: “Whenever possibl…
Androcles
In
The Junior Classics Volume 1: Fairy and Wonder Tales
Read by Gary Gilberd
William Patten
The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, sto…
Chapter X: Parties In The United States
In
Democracy in America Vol. I
Read by Gary Gilberd
Alexis de Tocqueville
and
Alexis De Tocqueville
When Tocqueville visited America in the 1830s he found a thriving democracy of a kind he had not seen anywhere else. Many of his insightful …
Letter VII - ANIMAL HEAT, its laws and influence on the Animal Functions
In
Familiar Letters on Chemistry
Read by Gary Gilberd
Justus Liebig
and
Justus Von Liebig
Justus von Liebig (1803-1873) was a German chemist who made major contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry and is known for hi…
Chapter XXV: Jovian and Valentinian Pt. 1
In
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. II
Read by Gary Gilberd
Edward Gibbon
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was writ…
Speech on capital punishment, 1868
In
United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection, volume 2
Read by Gary Gilberd
John Stuart Mill
This is the second LibriVox collection of speeches given in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The collection comprises recordings …