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02 - The Beckoning Fair One, Part 2

In Widdershins (Version 2)

Read by Kevin Green


Oliver Onions


Onions wrote several collections of ghost stories, of which the best known is Widdershins (1911). It includes the novella The Beckoning Fair…

The Texas Rangers

In Six Years with the Texas Rangers, 1875 to 1881

Read by Kevin Waters


James B. Gillett


James Gillet recounts his adventures with the Texas Rangers 1856-1937. In a very entertaining style he recounts personal stories of wars, …

The Suicide

In The Count of Monte Cristo

Read by Kevin McAsh


Alexandre Dumas


The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, …

From the Junction of the Grand and Green to the Mouth of the Little

In Canyons of the Colorado

Read by Kevin McAsh


John Wesley Powell


John Wesley Powell was a pioneer American explorer, ethnologist, and geologist in the 19th Century. In 1869 he set out to explore the Colora…

THE EXPULSION

In Chronicles of Canada Volume 09 - The Acadian Exiles: A Chronicle of the Land o…

Read by Kevin McAsh


Arthur Doughty and Arthur G. Doughty


The name Acadia, which we now associate with a great tragedy of history and song, was first used by the French to distinguish the eastern or…

Mr de Courcy to Lady Vernon

In Lady Susan (version 2)

Read by Kevin Cade


Jane Austen


Jane Austen demonstrated her mastery of the epistolary novel genre in Lady Susan, which she wrote in 1795 but never published. Although the …

Chapter 5 - Inflation and Contraction

In U.S. Money vs. Corporation Currency, "Aldrich plan."

Read by Kevin Leung


Alfred Owen Crozier


In 1908, the National Monetary Commission was established by Congress to study financial boom-and-bust cycles. Senator Nelson Aldrich (Repub…

Life of Hume 2. Literary Labours till the Publication of the History

In David Hume and his Influence on Philosophy and Theology

Read by Kevin Manley


James Orr


David Hume justly takes rank as the most distinguished member of that brilliant circle of literary men whose names gave such a lustre to the…

Section II

In 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 …

The Oxen Story

In The Sandman: His Farm Stories

Read by Kevin Manley


William John Hopkins


Delightful short bedtime stories for small children. Not only are the stories entertaining, but they are educational and practical for the d…

The Sacredness of Personality

In Home Education Series Vol. VI: Towards A Philosophy of Education

Read by Kevin Manley


Charlotte Mason


The sixth volume in the Home Education Series detailing Charlotte Mason's method of education. This volume is subtitled A Liberal Education …

Decoration Day in the Cannibal Islands

In Mr Munchausen

Read by Kevin Green


John Kendrick Bangs


The author has discovered for us in this volume the present stopping place of that famous raconteur of dear comic memory, the late Hieronymo…

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