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Essays on Political Economy

Read by Katie Riley


Frédéric Bastiat


Bastiat asserted that the only purpose of government is to defend the right of an individual to life, liberty, and property. From this defin…

Là-bas

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Joris-Karl Huysmans


The plot of Là-Bas concerns the novelist Durtal, who is disgusted by the emptiness and vulgarity of the modern world. He seeks relief…

The Law

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Frédéric Bastiat


"The law perverted! The law—and, in its wake, all the collective forces of the nation. The law, I say, not only diverted from its prope…

Capital and Interest

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Frédéric Bastiat


Frédéric Bastiat was an early 19th century French economist/statesman whose common sense essays tried to battle the rise of so…

The French Revolution: A History. Volume 1: The Bastille (Version 2)

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Thomas Carlyle


Subtitled "The Bastille", Volume 1 of Thomas Carlyle's three volume "The French Revolution: A History" was first publish…

The Jewel of Bas

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Leigh Douglass Brackett


There was a boy-God, sleeping through eternity. And there were his "Stone of Life" and the androids he had createdof matter and en…

Der Hund von Baskerville

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Dartmoor, England, Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts. Der alte Sir Charles Baskerville wird in der Allee vor seinem Landsitz in Dartmoor, wo er sp&a…

Taking the Bastile

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Alexandre Dumas


Pitou lost his mother when he was small. He was raised by a stern aunt who did not really love him. He starts knowing the world by going to …

Oswald Bastable and Others

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E. Nesbit


This book is a collection of short stories about different children. Four of the stories feature the Bastable children.(Summary by Natalia )

Sophisms of the Protectionists

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Frédéric Bastiat


"To rob the public, it is necessary to deceive them," Bastiat said and believed. He reasoned, employing repetition to various appl…

Fourteen Months in American Bastiles

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Francis Key Howard


Francis Key Howard recounts in this book his life as a political prisoner of the United States. He points out that he was held captive at th…

Cousin Henry

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Anthony Trollope


Indefer Jones struggles to name an heir to his estate. Will he choose his favorite niece, Isabel, or a male heir? The story turns on the tro…

La Noël de Marthe


Anatole Le Braz


Au Fil des Lectures Un conte d'Anatole Le Braz, lu par Victoria. 26 min

The Angel of Terror (version 2)

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Edgar Wallace


Beautiful Jean Briggerland is the epitome of evilness in this twisting and turning thriller. She plots many different ways to steal her new …

Figures of Several Centuries

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Arthur Symons


Arthur Symons talks through the histories and works of poets, playwrights, scholars and scribes. He provides both personal experience and cr…

Eine Mont-Blanc-Besteigung

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Paul Verne


Paul Verne war der Bruder von Jules Verne. Er verfaßte für die Buch Reihe seines Bruders zwei Reiseberichte, die zusammen mit Jul…

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 030

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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres."Die Blumen der kleinen Ida" übersetzt von Paul A…

The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl (Version 2)

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Adelbert von Chamisso


In Peter Schlemihl, the luckless hero enters into a deal with a mysterious stranger, only to learn, that he dealt with the proverbial. He so…

Aus der Sommerfrische

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Hans Hoffmann


Mit viel Menschenkenntnis und feinem Humor erzählt Hoffmann in diesen Kurzgeschichten von manchmal sehr natürlichen Eindrücke…

The Adventures of Gil Blas de Santillane

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Alain René Lesage


Gil Blas is born in misery to a stablehand and a chambermaid of Santillana in Cantabria, and is educated by his uncle. He leaves Oviedo at t…

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