F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is more than one of America's most-read, taught, and debated novels. Gatsby represents a paradigm shift in the novel form, a deep dive into the intimacies of the dark and selfish aspects of human nature. The novel is an over-the-top display of the Jazz Age as s...
Translated by William Gemmell.
Narrated by Denis Daly
The Diamond Sutra is one of the most revered philosophical texts in Buddhist literature. It has long been very popular among Buddhists in China, and with the exception of the Lotus of the Good Law, and the Leng-Yen-Ching, perhaps no other Sut...
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Arthur Conan Doyle's 1887 novella introduced the world to Sherlock Holmes, the brilliant consulting detective, as portrayed through the eyes of his friend and colleague Dr. John Watson, a retired army physician. In A Study in Scarlet, Holmes and Watson take on their f...
"The Siege of Corinth" is a tragic narrative poem first published in 1816. It was inspired by the Ottoman siege of the Venetian-held Acrocorinth in 1715.
The poem is the fifth in the series of Byron's Oriental Romances or Heroic Tales - the other poems being "The Giaour", "The Bride of Abydos", "T...
Five years after the Rise of the Furies, the walking dead are dying out. Bites don't infect...but anyone who dies turns.
Skilled outdoorsman Tom Vanicek wants a future for the two children he's protected so fiercely through five years of living hell. But life in the Columbus sanctuary zone has pro...
The author of The Secret Garden charms yet another generation with her delightful tales.
First, we learn that Queen Silver-Bell has lost her fairy, Temper, and that Fairyland has begun to melt away. How will it end?
Then we hear that Mother Rook has abandoned her nest. A little girl, Winnie, com...
If a society was created entirely by criminals with no memory of their former world, what would they come up with? It couldn't be crazier than Omega, where the religion is the worship of evil, humans are hunted for fun, status is attained one corpse at a time, and life expectancy is three years...if...
The Wreck of the Deutschland by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Narrated by Denis Daly
This poem was composed in 1875 and 1876 but was not published until 1918. It is considered by many to be Hopkins' masterpiece.
It bears the following dedication:
"To the happy memory of five Franciscan Nuns, exiles...
Back to Methuselah by George Bernard Shaw
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George Bernard Shaw embraced the concept of what he called creative evolution, which he saw as development generated by a perception of need, rather than evolution by the operation of the blind forces of natural selection.
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No experience has a deeper and longer-lasting impression upon a young man than engaging in a war.
Krebs, Hemingway's protagonist, leaves home a college kid and returns a very changed man. This story explores the extremely changed family dynamics within the Krebs family when Harold returns home. Ro...
The Jumblies and Other Nonsense Verses**by Edward Lear
Narrated by Denis Daly, Sarah Bacaller, and Lucy Bacaller
These 14 poems have been drawn from the Nonsense Books of Edward Lear.
"The Jumblies"
"The Owl and the Pussy-Cat"
"The Daddy Long Legs and the Fly"
"The Broom, the Shovel, the...
American psychologist William James (1842-1910) was also a philosopher of considerable repute and borrowed the theory of pragmatism first put forward by Charles Peirce to help form his own interpretation of the philosophy. Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking is based on the notion t...
