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Transcendental Analytic

In The Critique of Pure Reason

Read by Hugh McGuire

Immanuel Kant

The Critique of Pure Reason, first published in 1781 with a second edition in 1787, has been called the most influential and important philo…

Chapter 1

In The Secret Agent

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conrad_j and Joseph Conrad

The Secret Agent is Conrad's dark, and darkly comic story of a band of spies, anarchists, agents-provocateurs plotting and counter-plotting …

Chapter 1-3

In Childhood

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Leo Tolstoy

Childhood, published in 1852, is the first novel in Leo Tolstoy’s autobiographical trilogy, which also includes Boyhood, and Youth. Publishe…

Struggle for Existence

In The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

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Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. and Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species (publ. 1859) is a pivotal work in scientific literature and arguably the pivotal work in evolutionary…

Nisus and Scylla--Echo and Narcissus--Clytie--Hero and Leander

In Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fable

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Thomas Bulfinch

Bulfinch’s Mythology, first published in 1855, is one of the most popular collections of mythology of all time. It consists of three volumes…

Preface

In Beyond Good and Evil

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Friedrich Nietzsche

First published in 1886 at Nietzsche’s own expense, the book was not initially considered important. In it, Nietzsche denounced what he cons…

Sonnet 73 - read by HMG

In Sonnet 073

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William Shakespeare

To celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday, LibriVox volunteers bring you ten different recordings of Sonnet 73. This was the weekly poetry project…

Chapter 6

In Typhoon

Read by Hugh McGuire

Joseph Conrad

Typhoon is a short novel by Joseph Conrad, begun in 1899 and published in Pall Mall Magazine in 1902. It is a classic sea yarn that describe…

Bk 1: Song VII: The Perturbations of Passion

In The Consolation of Philosophy

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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (transl. James) and Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

Consolation of Philosophy (Latin: Consolatio Philosophiae) is a philosophical work by Boethius written in about the year 524 AD. It has been…

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