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In diesem vielzitierten Essay aus dem Jahre 1851 ist Schopenhauers generell herablassende Einstellung zu Frauen zusammengefaßt. Frauen…

Mathematical Problems

Read by Prachi Pendse

David Hilbert

Lecture delivered before the International Congress of Mathematicians at Paris in 1900 and subsequently published in the Bulletin of the Ame…

Essays, Second Series

Read by Bob Neufeld

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, philosopher, and poet, best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid 1…

On the Nature of the Gods

Read by Geoffrey Edwards

Marcus Tullius Cicero

De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods) outlines Stoic, Epicurean and Academic (Skeptical) views on religious questions. Problems discu…

What I Saw in America

Read by Ray Clare

G. K. Chesterton

“Let me begin my American impressions with two impressions I had before I went to America. One was an incident and the other an idea; and wh…

Declaration of Independence of the United States of America

Read by Jim Cadwell

Thomas Jefferson

Declaration of Independence is the document in which the Thirteen Colonies declared themselves independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain a…

Give Me Liberty

Read by Mark F. Smith

Patrick Henry

This speech was given March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia, and is credited with having singlehandedly convinced the V…

United States Historical Documents

Read by Michael Scherer

Various

The Articles of Confederation: On November 15th, 1777 The Articles of Confederation became the first constitution of the United States, thou…

The Road

Read by Barry Eads

Jack London

Jack London credited his skill of story-telling to the days he spent as a hobo learning to fabricate tales to get meals from sympathetic str…

The Superstition of Divorce

Read by Ray Clare

G. K. Chesterton

This short book was written in 1920, and in it Chesterton, with his usual wit and incisive logic, presents a series of articles defending ma…

A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind

Read by ej

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

This work presents Rousseau's belief in the profoundly transformational effects of the development of civilization on human nature, which Ro…

A Modest Proposal

Read by John Gonzalez

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift almost defines satire in this biting and brutal pamphlet in which he suggests that poor (Catholic) Irish families should fatt…

Essays, First Series

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal b…

The Alhambra: A Series Of Tales And Sketches Of The Moors And Spaniards

Read by David Wales

Washington Irving

This is a collection of essays, verbal sketches, and stories by Washington Irving. Irving lived at the Alhambra Palace while writing some of…

Sadhana, The Realisation of Life, version 2

Read by Peter Yearsley

Rabindranath Tagore

A collection of essays on the Hindu/Buddhist view of humankind's place in the universe. As the author says in his introduction: "in the…

Orthodoxy

Read by G.K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton

"Orthodoxy," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. First published in 1908. "The only possible excuse for this boo…

The Morals (Moralia), Book 1

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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus

The Moralia (or The morals or Matters relating to customs and mores) is a work by the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea. It is…

The World I Live In

Read by Laura Caldwell

Helen Keller

The World I Live In by Helen Keller is a collection of essays that poignantly tells of her impressions of the world, through her sense of to…

Wit and Wisdom of Chesterton

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G. K. Chesterton

This little volume, issued as a gift book for lovers of Mr. Chesterton's writings in 1911, is made up from essays to be found in "The D…

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