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The Sword-Fish

In The Ocean Waifs

Read by Jim Price


Thomas Mayne Reid


"The “vulture of the sea,” borne upon broad wing, and wandering over the wide Atlantic, suddenly suspends his flight to look down upon …

The Boy who Overcame the Giants

In Canadian Fairy Tales

Read by Jim Price


Cyrus Macmillan


Professor Macmillan has placed all lovers of fairy tales under a deep debt of obligation to him. The fairy tale makes a universal appeal bot…

The Ascent of Mt. Ararat

In Across Asia on a Bicycle

Read by Jim Price


Thomas Gaskell Allen


In 1890, two Americans newly graduated from college set out to travel around the world on a then-new invention, the modern bicycle. In 1893 …

Summa Theologica - 01 Pars Prima, Initial Questions

Read by Jim Ruddy


Saint Thomas Aquinas


The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas although it …

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

Read by Jim Clevenger


Ulysses S. Grant


In preparing these volumes for the public, I have entered upon the task with the sincere desire to avoid doing injustice to any one, whether…

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…

Summa Theologica - 02 Pars Prima, Trinity and Creation

Read by Jim Ruddy


Saint Thomas Aquinas


The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas although it …

Psychology of the Unconscious

Read by Jim Locke


Carl Gustav Jung


Jung says in his subtitle that this work is a study of the transformations and symbolisms of the libido and a contribution to the history of…

Magna Carta

Read by Jim Mowatt


Unknown


The original document is in Latin so this can only be a fairly rough approximation of the actual content. The text used is the first version…

Amendments to the United States Constitution (version 2)

Read by Jim Cadwell


United States Government and Unit


The Constitution has a total of 27 amendments. The first ten, collectively known as the Bill of Rights, were ratified simultaneously. The fo…

The Theory of Psychoanalysis

Read by Jim Locke


Carl Gustav Jung


Jung says the following in his introduction: "in these lectures I have attempted to reconcile my practical experiences in psychoanalysi…

The Gettysburg Address (version 4)

Read by Jim Cadwell


Abraham Lincoln


The Gettysburg Address is the most famous speech of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and one of the most quoted speeches in United States hist…

Lady Jim of Curzon Street

Read by Jim Locke


Fergus Hume


Faced with bankruptcy and trapped in an unhappy marriage, Lady Jim Kaims has to solve her problems alone. After every decent way fails her, …

Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Father and His Youngest Sister

Read by Jim Clevenger


Ulysses S. Grant


Among the national leaders whose names will always hold an honorable place in American history is Ulysses S. Grant, the simple-hearted man a…

The Birth of Tragedy

Read by Jim Locke


Friedrich Nietzsche


In this famous early work of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, he investigates the artistic characteristics of Apollonian (reason) and…

My Bondage and My Freedom

Read by Jim Locke


Frederick Douglass


The life of Frederick Douglass, recorded in the pages which follow, is not merely an example of self elevation under the most adverse circum…

Laws (version 2)

Read by Jim Locke


Plato


Laws (Greek: Νόμοι) is Plato's last and longest dialogue. It is generally agreed that Plato wrote this dialogue as an older man, having fail…

Early Greek Philosophy and Other Essays

Read by Jim Locke


Friedrich Nietzsche


The essays contained in this volume treat of various subjects. With the exception of perhaps one we must consider all these papers as fragme…