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Moby Dick, or the Whale

Read by Stewart Wills

Herman Melville

Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique — but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel …

Lord Jim

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Joseph Conrad

A classic of early literary modernism, Lord Jim tells the story of a young "simple and sensitive character" who loses his honor in…

The Mysteries of London Vol. I part 2

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George W. M. Reynolds

The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian England. The first series was published in weekly instalments from 1844-46…

Wednesday Morning

In A Collection of Family Prayers

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Samuel Palmer

That Family-prayer is an indispensible duty, and an important means of religion, are points which are here taken for granted. Among the many…

Introduction

In The Critique of Pure Reason

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Immanuel Kant

The Critique of Pure Reason, first published in 1781 with a second edition in 1787, has been called the most influential and important philo…

Chapter VIII, Part 1

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 2, Chapter 08)

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Thomas Babington Macaulay

In this chapter of Thomas Babington Macaulay’s History of England we see conflict between James II and his subjects. James is Catholic but r…

Book 1, Chapters 4-5

In Hard Times

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Charles Dickens

Hard Times, the shortest of Dickens's full-length novels, is set in the fictitious Victorian-England city of Coketown, where facts are the r…