Search Results

Tiruppavai

Read by Neeru Iyer


Andal


ஆண்டாள் அருளிச்செய்தத் திருப்பாவைபன்னிரண்டு ஆழ்வார்களில் ஒரே பெண் ஆழ்வாரான ஆண்டாள் (சூடிக்கொடுத்த சுடர்கொடி), திருமாலையே எண்ணி இயற்றிய இந்…

People Like That

Read by Neeru Iyer


Kate Langley Bosher


A single woman from a family that is well-off, buys a house at a place that is looked down upon and disapproved by her family and friends al…

09 - Chapters 26 & 27

In The Wheels of Chance

Read by Neeru Iyer


H.G.Wells and H. G. Wells


The Wheels of Chance - A Bicycling Idyll follows the adventures of a draper's assistant who, having brought an ancient bicycle, sets off on …

20 - Chapter 31

In Around the World in Eighty Days (version 3)

Read by Neeru Iyer


Jules Verne


Enigmatic Phileas Fogg accepts a wager about whether it's possible to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days or under. The book charts his adve…

1-02-Primitive Societies

In The Social Contract

Read by Neeru Iyer


Jean-Jacques Rousseau


The Social Contract outlines Rousseau's views on political justice, explaining how a just and legitimate state is to be founded, organized a…

1-18 Viertausend Meilen unter'm Stillen Ocean

In 20.000 Meilen unter dem Meer

Read by Neeru Iyer


Jules Verne


20.000 Meilen unter dem Meer ist ein Roman des französischen Schriftstellers Jules Verne. Der Roman ist vorgeblich ein Erlebnisbericht …

Chapter 17 - Confessions

In Agnes Grey

Read by Neeru Iyer


Anne Bronte and Anne Brontë


The novel tells the story of Agnes Grey, the daughter of a minister, whose family comes to financial ruin. Desperate to earn the money to ca…

Book X Chapter 01: A Discovery

In Cecilia: Memoirs of an Heiress

Read by Neeru Iyer


Frances Burney


The plot of Cecilia revolves around the heroine, Cecilia Beverley, whose inheritance from her uncle comes with the stipulation that she find…

06 - Letters 26-30

In Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne

Read by Neeru Iyer


Dorothy Osborne


A lively, interesting and important collection of 17th century love-letters written by an English lady, against the background of the Civil …

On University Snobs

In Coffee Break Collection 001 - Humor

Read by Neeru Iyer


W.M. Thackeray and William Makepeace Thackeray


This is a collection of short (15 minute or less readings) stories suitable for a coffee break at work or a short commuter ride. Emphasis f…

Language

In Nature

Read by Neeru Iyer


Ralph Waldo Emerson


Nature is a short essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson published anonymously in 1836. It is in this essay that the foundation of transcendentalism i…

Chapter 38

In The Humbugs of the World

Read by Neeru Iyer


P. T. Barnum


P. T. Barnum exposes some of the chief humbugs of the world with his usual entertaining style. He looks at medicine and quacks, ghosts, witc…