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She-rab Dong-bu (The Tree of Wisdom)

Read by Chris Masterson


Nagarjuna


The She-rab Dong-bu (Tree of Wisdom) is a metrical translation in Tibetan of a Sanscrit ethical work entitled Prajnya Danda, written by Naga…

Yang Chu's Garden of Pleasure

Read by Chris Masterson


Liezi


At the Court of Liang at the period of Yang Chu, about 300 B.C., the philosophers were treated as guests of the reigning king, who reserved …

Youth, a Narrative

Read by Chris Hughes


Joseph Conrad


An autobiographical short story written in 1898 and included as the first story in the 1902 volume Youth, a Narrative, and Two Other Stories…

The Glugs of Gosh

Read by Chris Goringe


C. J. Dennis


First published in 1917, The Glugs of Gosh satirizes Australian life at the start of the twentieth century - but the absurdities it catalogs…

A System of Logic

Read by Chris Greaves


John Stuart Mill


"In this work, he formulated the five principles of inductive reasoning that are known as Mill's Methods. This work is important in the…

The Blue Behemoth

Read by Chris Fong


Leigh Douglass Brackett


Shannon's Imperial Circus was a jinxed space-carny leased for a mysterious tour of the inner worlds. It made a one-night pitch on a Venusian…

Mornings at Bow Street

Read by Chris Caron


John Wight


This is a collection of various articles found in Morning Herald columns. Some are found interesting, some may be hilarious! The 84 pieces o…

Short Stories in Prose and Verse

Read by Chris Greaves


Henry Lawson


Short Stories in Prose and Verse” is Henry Lawson’s first published book (1894); his first published poem appeared in 1887. The volume is a …

The Powers That Prey

Read by Chris Pyle


Josiah Flynt


True stories of criminals (the powers that prey) and the system (the powers that rule) by journalists who went among the criminal classes to…

A Lady of Quality

Read by Linda Andrus


Frances Hodgson Burnett


Set in late 1600's England, the story follows the life of a woman living an unconventional life. The loves of her life and all of its ups an…

Thoughts are Things (Version 2)

Read by Linda Andrus


Prentice Mulford


Prentice Mulford was also instrumental in the founding of the popular philosophy, New Thought, along with other notable writers including Ra…

The Dawn of a To-morrow

Read by Linda Andrus


Frances Hodgson Burnett


A wealthy London business man takes a room in a poor part of the city.He is depressed and has decided to take his life by going the next day…

How We Think

Read by Linda Andrus


John Dewey


A book written by an American education philosopher in which he proposed “This scientific attitude of mind might, conceivably, be quite irr…

In the Closed Room

Read by Linda Andrus


Frances Hodgson Burnett


This is a short story about a shy, quiet little girl living in a big city. When her parents are offered the opportunity to take care of a ho…

His Grace of Osmonde

Read by Linda Andrus


Frances Hodgson Burnett


His Grace of Osmonde, being the portions of that nobleman's life omitted in the relation of his Lady's story presented to the world of fashi…

Robin

Read by Linda Andrus


Frances Hodgson Burnett


Starting with a summary of the 1922 novel The Head of the House of Coombe, which followed the relationships between a group of pre-WWI Engli…

Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Read by Linda Leu


Robert Bridges


Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89) was an English poet, educated at Oxford. Entering the Roman Catholic Church in 1866 and the Jesuit novitiate…

Briarwood Girls

Read by Linda Velwest


Julia Lestarjette Glover


Kindred Spirits return for their Sophomore year at Briarwood College. There's a new girl who upsets the status quo. (Introduction by Linda V…

Rain (Version 2)

Read by Linda Hogan


W. Somerset Maugham


Rain charts the moral disintegration of a missionary attempting to convert a Pacific island prostitute named Sadie Thompson. (Introduction b…

The Strange Story Book (version 2)

Read by Linda Andrus


Leonora Blanche Lang


This is the last book in the The Andrew Lang "Color" Fairy Books series published after his death by his wife. She wrote the stori…

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