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How a Man May Inoffensively Praise Himself Without Being Liable to Envy

In The Morals (Moralia), Book 2

Read by Josh Kirsh

Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus

The Moralia (loosely translatable as "Matters relating to customs") of the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea is an e…

Chapter 6

In A Half Century of Conflict

Read by Josh Kirsh

Francis Parkman, Jr.

Francis Parkman (1823-1893) is one of the great nineteenth century United States historians along with William Prescott, John Lothrop Motley…

Fourth Book: Poems 256-258

In The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Pieces In the English Language

Read by Josh Kirsh

Francis T. Palgrave

Palgrave's principal contribution to the development of literary taste was contained in his Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics (186…

The Strength of Ten

In Little Stories of Married Life

Read by Josh Kibbey

Mary Stewart Cutting and Mary Stewart Doubleday Cutting

Marriage is a big adventure. It makes for great stories, too: both in case of a happy marriage and in case of an unhappy one. Eleven of thes…

How Something Came from Somewhere

In The Column of Dust

Read by Josh Mitteldorf

Evelyn Underhill

Evelyn Underhill, the preeminent scholar of mysticism, wrote 3 novels in her youth, of which this is #3. Constance Tyrrel, a poor but liter…

Chapter 18

In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (version 3)

Read by Josh Kibbey

Mark Twain

An adventure story for children, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a fun-filled book that shows life along the Mississippi River in the 1840s.…

Up to the Sky and Back by Katharine Orr

In The Mermaid's Message and Other Stories

Read by Josh Kibbey

Various

This is a collection of fairy tales and fables compiled in 1919. The stories contain original but old-fashioned tales which modern children …

How the White Man Came

In Children's Short Works, Vol. 027

Read by Josh Kibbey

Mabel Powers

Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 027: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

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