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Emerson's Writings

In The Posthumous Essays of John Churton Collins

Read by Lucretia B.


John Churton Collins


John Churton Collins was a literary critic who lived from 1848-1908. In 1904 John Collins became professor of English literature at Birmingh…

15 - Patsy Meets with an Accident

In Aunt Jane's Nieces

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L. Frank Baum


Jane Merrick is a wealthy, elderly, difficult invalid woman who is preparing for her approaching death. In her youth, she inherited her mone…

31 - Letters in Conclusion - Letter 1

In Basil

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Wilkie Collins


Basil, son of a father who values the family pedigree and who would not let him marry below his station, falls in love at first sight with a…

22 - GLEANINGS

In The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

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Olive Gilbert and Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert


The Narrative of Sojourner Truth is the gripping autobiographical account of Sojourner Truths life as a slave in pre-Civil War New York Stat…

19 - THAT TO STUDY PHILOSOPY IS TO LEARN TO DIE

In Essays book 1

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Michel de Montaigne and Michel Eyquem De Montaigne


Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary …

02 - Gagtooth's Image

In The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales

Read by Becca B


John Charles Dent


John Charles Dent, the author of the following remarkable stories, was born in Kendal, Westmorland, England, in 1841. His parents emigrated …

Bk 02, ch. 12: The Bishop works

In Les Misérables, Volume 1

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Victor Hugo


This is book 1 of 5. An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the w…

CHAPTER 47

In The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby

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Charles Dickens


The action takes place in London, with excursions to Devon, Yorkshire, and Portsmouth, as we follow the adventures of the eponymous hero. Ni…

XXVII - Of Crimes, Excuses, and Extenuations

In Leviathan (Books I and II)

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Thomas Hobbes


Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly called Leviathan, is a book written in 1651…

Chapter 9

In The Hampstead Mystery

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John Watson and Arthur Rees and Arthur J. Rees


A murder whodunit... Location: Hampstead, England. Victim: Sir Horace Fewbanks, a distinguished High Court judge. Cause of death: gun shot w…

06 - Concerning the Cure of Anger: a Dialogue, part 2

In The Morals (Moralia), Book 1

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Plutarch and 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…

Chapter 20, The Material of Ornament, part 1

In The Stones of Venice, Volume 1

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John Ruskin


The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin, first published from …

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