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Chronicles of Canada Volume 03 - Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain

Read by Kevin McAsh


Charles W. Colby


For Canada, Champlain is not alone a heroic explorer of the seventeenth century, but the founder of Quebec; and it is a rich part of our her…

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour

Read by Kevin Green


Robert Smith Surtees


Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour is a delightful comic satire of the fox-hunting fraternity of the mid 19th Century. Surtees takes great pleasure …

Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel

Read by Kevin Green


Margaret Herschel


For many people, the name Caroline Herschel will be unfamiliar, but she was one of the most significant women on the English scientific scen…

Christmas Poetry and Hymn Collection

Read by Douglas D. Anderson


Various


This collection includes 40 different Christmas carols collected and read by Douglas D. Anderson, the creator of The Hymns and Carols of Chr…

Russian Fairy Tales

Read by Kevin W. Davidson


William Ralston Shedden-Ralston


Russian Fairy Tales is an anthology of stories by a noted Russian scholar and translator. The 51 stories are thematically organized with int…

The Daughter of the Commandant

Read by Kevin W. Davidson


Alexander Pushkin


"The Daughter of the Commandant" (better known as "The Captain's Daughter") is a historical novel by the Russian writer …

Peasant Tales of Russia

Read by Kevin W. Davidson


Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko


Collection of Russian peasant tales:"The Deserted Mine" - The key to saving the trapped miners is held by a man who hasn't spoken …

Oblomov

Read by Kevin W. Davidson


Ivan Goncharov


Oblomov is the best known novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859. Oblomov is also the central character of the nove…

A Hero of Our Time

Read by Kevin W. Davidson


Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov


A Hero of Our Time is indeed a portrait, but not of one man. It is a portrait built up of all our generation's vices in full bloom. You will…

Poems from the Divan of Hafiz

Read by Kevin W. Davidson


Hafiz and Hafez


Hafiz was a Persian poet. His collected works (Divan) are regarded as a pinnacle of Persian literature. While influenced by Islam, his mysti…

Modern Russian Poetry: An Anthology

Read by Kevin W. Davidson


Varioustranslated Bybabette Deutsch


This volume...aims to present the lyrical poetry of Russian for the last hundred years by a selection of poems translated by the editors...T…

Idle Days in Patagonia

Read by Kevin W. Davidson


William Henry Hudson


Hudson traveled to Patagonia to study the birds, but shortly upon arrival accidentally shot himself in the knee, requiring a lengthy period …

Kriloff's Fables

Read by Kevin W. Davidson


Ivan Krylov


Herein is a collection of 86 fables translated into English from the 201 written by Kriloff. Some of Kriloff's fables are translations from …

How a British Subject Became President of the United States

Read by Kevin W. Davidson


Arthur P. Hinman


In 1880, the New York Times reported a curious story from St. Albans, Vermont, about a mysterious figure, an attorney and Democratic operati…

Implant

Read by Michael Wallace and Jefferey Anderson


Michael Wallace and Jefferey Anderson


Neurosurgeon Julia Nolan places cortical implants into the brains of field operatives to record data from their auditory and visual cortices…

Poem 197 - 自夏口至鹦鹉洲夕望岳阳寄源中丞 (Mandarin)

In 唐诗三百首 卷四 Three Hundred Tang Poems, Volume 4

Read by Kevin


Liu Chang Qing


Compiled around 1763, 'Three Hundred Tang Poems' is the standard collection of the poetic art of the Tang Dynasty (618 to 907). Volume Four …

How Can I Protect My Ideas? - Chapter 6

In Building a Business

Read by Robert Anderson


Various


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