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Walden

Read by Gord Mackenzie

Henry David Thoreau

Walden by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau’s lif…

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Read by Gord Mackenzie

Henry David Thoreau

Civil Disobedience is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. Published in 1849 under the title Resistance to Civil Government, it expressed Thorea…

Scaramouche

Read by Gord Mackenzie

Rafael Sabatini

Scaramouche is a romantic adventure and tells the story of a young aristocrat during the French Revolution. His successive endeavors as a la…

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In An International Episode

Read by Gord Mackenzie

Henry James

Two men visiting the US from London meet a pair of charming women who return the visit the following year in London. Romantic intrigues, mis…

The Miller's Tale

In The Canterbury Tales

Read by Gord Mackenzie

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the…

Part 1, Chapter 2

In White Fang

Read by Gord Mackenzie

Jack London

White Fang (1906) was written as a companion to Jack London's successful Call of the Wild (1903). It is the tale of a wild dog born in the …