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From October to Brest-Litovsk

Read by Rebecca Dittman


Leon Trotsky



This account by Trotsky is of the events in Russia from the October Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd, to his signing of the Brest-Litovsk tre…

The War of the Worlds (version 2)

Read by Rebecca Dittman


H. G. Wells



War of the Worlds by Herbert George Wells (H.G. Wells) was published in 1898 at a time when he wrote a series of novels related to a number …

The Adventures of Ulysses

Read by Rebecca Dittman


Charles Lamb



Lamb used Homer's Odyssey as the basis for the re-telling of the story of Ulysses's journey back from Troy to his own kingdom of Ithaca. Not…

Selections from Josephus

Read by Rebecca Eden Walker


Flavius Josephus



Jewish historian, military leader and Roman citizen, Titus Flavius Josephus, provides the most thorough history of the 1st century Roman Emp…

The Grand Cañon of the Colorado

Read by Rebecca Eden Walker


John Muir



Nothing is ordinary in the world of John Muir, naturalist and author known as the Father of the US National Parks. In this short work, writ…

The Body and Being Network

Read by Rebecca Leach and Stanely Ulijaszek


Rebecca Leach and Stanely Ulijaszek



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