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The Northward Course of Empire was written to promote the idea of a new wave of civil expansion into the Arctic Circle, a region generally c…

Star Hunter

Read by Leonie Rose

Andre Norton

"Somewheres on the jungle world of Jumala, there was a man in hiding—a man whose mind had been reconditioned with another's brain patte…

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In North and South

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Set in Victorian England, North and South is the story of Margaret Hale, a young woman whose life is turned upside down when her family relo…

Chapter 29 Of Clear and Obscure, Distinct and Confused Ideas

In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book II

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John Locke

John Locke wrote four essays on human (or humane) understanding. Here are a few quotes from the book: "I see no reason to believe, that…

The Spirit of the Border

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Zane Grey

This is an early novel by the phenomenally successful author of frontier, western and sports stories. It deals with historical characters an…

John Keats: Selected Poems

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

John Keats

John Keats is perhaps the most talented poet of the English Romantic Period. Although his life was cut short by disease at the age of 25, he…

Kazan

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

James Oliver Curwood

Kazan (sometimes published with the subtitle The Wolf Dog) is a once very popular novel by environmentalist and author James Oliver Curwood.…

Shelley: Selected Poems and Prose

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The English Romantic Period in literature featured a towering group of excellent poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats. If …

Orley Farm

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Anthony Trollope

Orley Farm is Trollope at his best (as good as the Barsetshire series), which means some of the best characterizations in the English langua…

Evangeline

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Evangeline is one of Longfellow’s most popular poems and was once a great favorite with the American people. For many years almost every sch…

The Courtship of Miles Standish

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

During the late nineteenth century and until the middle of the twentieth, many elementary classrooms in America featured (along with a Gilbe…

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Mark Twain

The town of Hadleyburg had the reputation of being the most honest town in a wide area, indeed an incorruptible community. The elders took t…

Selected Poems

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) and his sister Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) played important roles in the artistic milieu of V…

Indian Summer

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

William Dean Howells

In his novel Indian Summer, William Dean Howells presents a mellow but realistic story that has the complete feel of that delightful time of…

Aucassin and Nicolette

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Andrew Lang, Unknowntranslated Byandrew Lang and Translated Byandrew Lang

Aucassin and Nicolette is a medieval romance written in a combination of prose and verse called a “song-story.” Created probably in the earl…

Amoretti: A sonnet sequence

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)

Edmund Spenser

The Amoretti (meaning little love poems) is a sequence of 89 sonnets written in the tradition of the Petrarchan sonnets, a popular form for …

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