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Chapter 06

In Robbery Under Arms

Read by Zachary Johnson


Rolf Boldrewood


A tale of cattle duffing, horse stealing and bushranging in the New South Wales outback with Captain Starlight.To quote the author "tho…

The Man Who Was Thursday, A Nightmare

Read by Zachary Brewster-Geisz


G. K. Chesterton


In a surreal turn-of-the-century London, Gabriel Syme, a poet, is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist task force at Scotland Yard. Lucian G…

Nightmare Planet

Read by Zachary Brewster-Geisz


Murray Leinster


In science-fiction, as in all categories of fiction, there are stories that are so outstanding from the standpoint of characterization, conc…

Master Zacharius

Read by Zachary Katz-Stein


Jules Verne


Master Zacharius is a man of science, skill, and overpowering pride. He is the first to successfully, and accurately, regulate time. Does th…

Cubs of the Wolf

Read by Zachary Katz-Stein


Raymond Fisher Jones


The Markovian Nucleus was once an existential threat to the council worlds, but then, in the space of only 70-80 years, their culture comple…

They Who Knock at Our Gates: A Complete Gospel of Immigration (Version 2)

Read by Zachary Katz-Stein


Mary Antin


In this extended essay, Mary Antin asks us to consider three questions:First: A question of principle: Have we any right to regulate immigra…

Gorgias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


This dialogue brings Socrates face to face with the famous sophist Gorgias and his followers. It is a work likely completed around the time …

Critias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


This is an incomplete dialogue from the late period of Plato's life. Plato most likely created it after Republic and it contains the famous …

Protagoras

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


Jowett, in his always informative introduction, sees this dialogue as transitional between the early and middle dialogues. Socrates meets wi…

Troilus and Criseyde

Read by Kevin Johnson


Geoffrey Chaucer


Troilus and Criseyde is a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set …

Alcibiades I

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


As Jowett relates in his brilliant introduction, 95% of Plato's writing is certain and his reputation rests soundly on this foundation. The …

Lesser Hippias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


This work may not be by Plato, or his entirely, but Jowett has offered his sublime translation, and seems to lean towards including it in th…

The Vikings

Read by Kevin Johnson


Allen Mawer


This is a concise history of the Vikings by Allen Mawer, MA, Professor of English Language and Literature in Armstrong College, University o…

The Son of Man

Read by CW Johnson


CW Johnson


Imagine they set out to clone the Son of God. Imagine they succeed... The Holy Blood Altar, an elaborate shrine whose centerpiece is said to…

Running Fox

Read by Drew Johnson


Elmer Russell Gregor


Having reached the age of sixteen winters, Running Fox, the son of Black Panther, a famous Delaware war-chief, determined to establish his r…

The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

Read by A. Bryan Johnson


Alexander Dunlop Lindsay


Born in Scotland, Alexander Dunlop Lindsay was a teacher of philosophy at a number of universities in England in the early 1900s. This brief…

My Brother's Story

Read by Allen Johnson Jr.


Allen Johnson Jr.


The Blackwater Novels are set in the 1930s along the Blackwater Swamp, near the fictional town of Turpentine, Georgia. Get in trouble with t…

Cedar Run, part 1

In Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War

Read by Zachary David


George Francis Robert Henderson


Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War is a book combining a biography and military history of Confederate Lt. General Thomas Jonathan…

Preface

In The Introduction to Shakespeare Apocrypha

Read by Zachary Trent


C. F. Tucker Brooke


"The ambition of the editor has been to provide an accurate and complete text, with adequate critical and supplementary matter, of all …