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A Gentle Complaint

In Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Vol 1

Read by Carl Donovan


Unknown


Volume 1 of a ten volume collection of amusing tales, observations and anecdotes by America's greatest wordsmiths. This work includes select…

The Art of Controversy (or: The Art of Being Right)

Read by Carl Manchester


Arthur Schopenhauer


The Art of Controversy (or The Art of Being Right) (Die Kunst, Recht zu Behalten) is a short treatise written in 1831 by the German philosop…

Wage-Labour and Capital

Read by Carl Manchester


Karl Marx


Originally written as a series of newspaper articles in 1847, Wage-Labour and Capital was intended to give an overview of Marx’s central the…

God and the State

Read by Carl Manchester


Mikhail Bakunin


Bakunin's most famous work, published in various lengths, this version is the most complete form of the work published hitherto.Originally t…

Eleven Theses on Feuerbach

Read by Carl Manchester


Karl Marx


The “Theses on Feuerbach” are eleven short philosophical notes written by Karl Marx in 1845. They outline a critique of the ideas of Marx’s …

Aphorisms

Read by Carl Manchester


Oscar Wilde


In 1894, Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) published two collections of aphorisms: A Few Maxims For The Instruction Of The Over-Educated, in the Sa…

Has a Frog a Soul?

Read by Carl Manchester


Thomas Henry Huxley


Thomas Huxley, known as “Darwin’s Bulldog” for his championing and development of Darwinism, was perhaps the most important Victorian biolog…

The Unreality of Time

Read by Carl Manchester


John Mctaggart


John McTaggart was a British metaphysician and philosophical idealist. In this famous article for the periodical Mind, he introduced the not…

The Parasite

Read by Carl Vonnoh, III


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Being a physiologist, Austin Gilroy is unconvinced that the occult is real. His friend Professor Wilson, however, is not only convinced that…

The Essays of Francis Bacon

Read by Carl Vonnoh, III


Francis Bacon and Sir Francis Bacon


Voltaire was an atheist. Diderot was Enlightened. But trite titles seldom encompass completely the beliefs of any individual. And this one f…

Cobb's Anatomy

Read by Carl Vonnoh, III


Irvin S. Cobb


Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb was born on June 23, 1876. At seventeen years of age, he began writing for the Paducah Daily News, his hometown paper…

51 - Bragelonne Continues His Inquiries

In Louise de la Valliere

Read by Wayne Donovan


Alexandre Dumas


After The Three Muskateers and Twenty Years After the adventurous story of Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan continues!The Vicomte of Br…

I take Command of the 'Yorkshire Lass

In The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn

Read by Tom Donovan


Harry Collingwood


Eric Blackburn's strange adventures begin when the ship on which he is engaged as fourth officer is struck by an enormous meteorite and sink…

From Multiversity to Postmodern University

In Department of Education Public Seminars

Read by Claire Donovan


Various


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