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Book Ten, Part 1

In Paradise Lost

Read by Kurt Wong


John Milton


Paradise Lost is the first epic of English literature written in the classical style. John Milton saw himself as the intellectual heir of Ho…

Book 15

In The Odyssey

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Homer, transl. Samuel Butler and Homer


The Odyssey is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems (the other being the Iliad), attributed to the poet Homer. The poem is commonly…

Instinct - Part 2

In The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

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Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. and Charles Darwin


Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species (publ. 1859) is a pivotal work in scientific literature and arguably the pivotal work in evolutionary…

The Coral Realm

In Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Read by Kurt Wong


Jules Verne


Captain Nemo, The Nautilus, and the mysterious depths of the ocean. Unforgettable. Come join an adventure that will roam among coral and pea…

The Nibelungenlied (English Verse)

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Anonymoustranslated Bygeorge Henry Needler and Unknowntranslated Bygeorge Henry Needler


The only translation into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original of the epic German poem The Nibelungenlied. There was a 2013 Li…

阿Q正傳 (The True Story of Ah Q)

Read by Vivienne Wong


Xun Lu


The True Story of Ah Q (simplified Chinese: 阿Q正传; traditional Chinese: 阿Q正傳) is an episodic novella written by Lu Xun, first published as a …

狄公案 (Di Gong An - Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee)

Read by Vivienne Wong


Anonymous


Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee is an 18th-century Chinese gong'an detective novel by an anonymous author, "Buti zhuanren" (Chinese:…

An Old-Timer

In The Tale of Timothy Turtle (Version 2)

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Arthur Scott Bailey


For a fellow that can only waddle slowly and spends a lot of time sleeping on the bottom of the pond, Timothy Turtle has a surprising number…

The Golden Mile-Stone by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In Winter Poems by Favorite American Poets

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Various


Nine poems by American poets on the theme of Winter - Summary by Alan Mapstone

Algebra, Part 1

In The Science - History of the Universe Vol. 8: Mathematics

Read by Kurt


Francis Rolt-Wheeler


Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The eighth volume is on Pure Mathematics written by L. Leland Locke and on Math…

Chapter I, Introduction

In The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi

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Hattie Greene Lockett


“By a brief survey of present day Hopi culture and an examination into the myths and traditions constituting the unwritten literature of thi…