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The Chemical History of A Candle

by Michael Faraday Read by Availle 4.9
The Chemical History of a Candle is a series of 6 lectures on chemistry presented to a juvenile audience in 1848. Taught by Michael Faraday …

Among the Tibetans

by Isabella L. Bird Read by Availle 4.6
Isabella L. Bird was an English traveller, writer and natural historian. She was travelling in the Far East alone at a time when such endeav…

Bushido: The Soul of Japan

by Inazō Nitobe Read by Availle 4.6
Bushido: The Soul of Japan written by Inazo Nitobe was one of the first books on samurai ethics that was originally written in English for a…

The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen Vol. 1

by Howard Carter and Arthur C. Mace Read by Availle 4.8
On 26 November 1922, after eight years of work in the Valley of the Kings, archeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen, …

Noli Me Tangere (The Social Cancer)

by José Rizal Read by Availle 4.9
Noli Me Tangere (Latin for Touch Me Not) is a novel by the National Hero of the Philippines, Dr. José Rizal. It was originally writte…

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

by Isabella L. Bird Read by Availle 4.5
Isabella Lucy Bird was a 19th century English traveller, writer, and natural historian. She was a sickly child, however, while she was trave…

Radioactive Substances

by Marie Curie Read by Availle 4.9
Marie Curie, born in Warsaw in 1867, was a Polish-French physicist and chemist famous for her work on radioactivity. She was a pioneer in th…

The Fourth Dimension Simply Explained

by Henry Parker Manning Read by Availle 4.5
In January 1909 a friend of the Scientific American paid the sum of 500$ which was to be awarded as a prize for the best popular explanation…

The Einstein Theory of Relativity

by Hendrik A. Lorentz Read by Availle 4.4
When Albert Einstein published his first paper on relativity theory, it caused a stir in the physicists' community. When more and more evide…

The Tosa Diary

by No Tsurayuki Ki Read by Availle 4.6
Ki no Tsurayuki was a Japanese waka poet of the Heian period. In 905, he was one of the poets ordered to compile the "Kokinshu - Collec…

The Early History of the Airplane

by Orville Wright Read by Availle 4.5
The Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air flight, on 17th December 1903. They…

Lot No. 249

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Availle 4.2
Abercrombie Smith, Edward Bellingham and William Monkhouse Lee are three students at Oxford University, sharing adjacent lodgings. When peop…

Madame Butterfly

by John Luther Long Read by Availle 4.8
Madame Butterfly is the story of the young Japanese girl Cho-Cho San, who marries a flighty American naval officer, and is thenceforth outca…

Nami-ko

by Kenjiro Tokutomi Read by Availle 4.4
Nami-ko, a young woman of a noble Japanese family, has recently married the naval officer Takeo, the only heir of a friend of her father's. …

The History of the Suez Canal

by Ferdinand de Lesseps Read by Availle 4.4
A lively picture of the origin and completion of the Suez Canal (built between 1859 and 1869) and his architect, Vicomte de Lesseps. This is…

Botchan

by Sōseki Natsume Read by Availle 4.4
Botchan is the story of a young math teacher from Tokyo whose first assignment takes him to a middle school in the country side. His arrival…

The Wind

by Dorothy Scarborough Read by Availle 4.2
After her mother's death, Letty is forced to move in with her only relative, cousin Bev. From the start, the naive 18-year-old finds it diff…

Korea and Her Neighbors

by Isabella L. Bird Read by Availle 4.4
In this book, Isabella L. Bird, who had been elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society only 2 years prior, describes her travels th…

A Tangled Tale

by Lewis Carroll Read by Availle 4.3
Lewis Carroll is best known for 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'. It is less widely known that he worked as a lecturer for mathematics at …

The Principles of Secularism

by George J. Holyoake Read by Availle 5
George Jacob Holyoake was an English secularist and newspaper editor. He was one of the last people convicted for blasphemy and served six m…

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