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In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 01

Read by Joshua Paul Johnson


Henry Adams and Henry Brooks Adams


The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

Chapter 10

In The Lair of the White Worm (Version 2)

Read by Joshua Paul Johnson


Bram Stoker


The Lair of the White Worm (also known as The Garden of Evil) is a horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, who also wrote Dracula. It is p…

Jean-Christophe, Volume I

Read by Joshua Paul Seeger.


Romain Rolland


The central character, Jean-Christophe Krafft, is a German musician of Belgian extraction, a composer of genius whose life is depicted from …

Cleone. A Tragedy

Read by Joshua Paul Seeger.


Robert Dodsley


This is a play in 5 acts. From the playwright's preface: "An imperfect hint towards the Fable of the following Tragedy was taken from t…

Tarzan and the Golden Lion

Read by Joshua Herring


Edgar Rice Burroughs


Tarzan's amazing ability to establish kinship with some of the most dangerous animals in the jungle serves him well in this exciting story o…

Bible (KJV) NT 23: 1 John

Read by Joshua Nicholson


King James Version


The First Epistle of John, often referred to as First John and written 1 John, is a book of the New Testament. This fourth catholic or "…

Gorgias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


This dialogue brings Socrates face to face with the famous sophist Gorgias and his followers. It is a work likely completed around the time …

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 …

Protagoras

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


Jowett, in his always informative introduction, sees this dialogue as transitional between the early and middle dialogues. Socrates meets wi…

Troilus and Criseyde

Read by Kevin Johnson


Geoffrey Chaucer


Troilus and Criseyde is a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set …

Alcibiades I

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


As Jowett relates in his brilliant introduction, 95% of Plato's writing is certain and his reputation rests soundly on this foundation. The …

Lesser Hippias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


This work may not be by Plato, or his entirely, but Jowett has offered his sublime translation, and seems to lean towards including it in th…

The Vikings

Read by Kevin Johnson


Allen Mawer


This is a concise history of the Vikings by Allen Mawer, MA, Professor of English Language and Literature in Armstrong College, University o…

The Son of Man

Read by CW Johnson


CW Johnson


Imagine they set out to clone the Son of God. Imagine they succeed... The Holy Blood Altar, an elaborate shrine whose centerpiece is said to…

Running Fox

Read by Drew Johnson


Elmer Russell Gregor


Having reached the age of sixteen winters, Running Fox, the son of Black Panther, a famous Delaware war-chief, determined to establish his r…

Sanctuary: Surviving The Zombie Apocalypse

Read by Joshua Jared Scott


Joshua Jared Scott


Brutal, agonizing convulsions simultaneously strike a quarter of the Earth’s population. There is no warning and no discernible pattern rega…

The Coal Hole

Read by Joshua Jared Scott


Joshua Jared Scott


Following more than twenty years of conflict, a pair of brothers come to terms, putting aside the troubles of their past, and both families …

The Ballad of the White Horse

Read by Joshua B. Christensen


G. K. Chesterton


An English epic poem that follows the exploits of Alfred the Great in his defense of Christian civilization in England from the heathen nihi…