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Chapter 23

In Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret

Read by Jessica Hendra

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Dr. Grimshawe is a spider-cultivating eccentric. The central secret of the book is an all-encompassing spiders web. The central character is…

Chapter IX. The Pursuit

In The Apartment Next Door

Read by Jessica Zdanowicz

William Johnston

Jane Strong witnessed two men chasing each other in the middle of the night; then heard a gunshot. The man who came back was none other but …

Silly Jura

In The Key of Gold: 23 Czech Folk Tales

Read by Jessica Orlando

translated by Joseph Baudis and Joseph Baudis

Not your common fairy tales, this collection is a mixture of morals, quirkiness, and sarcasm. In it one finds ironic derivatives (if not roo…

Part 3, Chapter 5

In White Fang

Read by Jessica Jeffries

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 …

Chapter XLIII – Of What is Necessary for a Man's Redemption into the Kingdom of…

In Leviathan (Books III and IV)

Read by Jessica Louise

Thomas Hobbes

In Books 3 and 4 of Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes elaborates on the political philosophy set forth in the first two books, by considering the nat…

Preface

In Autobiography of Anthony Trollope

Read by Jessica Louise

Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope's autobiography will delight you whether or not you've read (or listened to) any of his many works. His honest if self-depr…

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