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The Apology of Socrates (version 3)

Read by Fr. Richard Zeile of Detroit

Plato

Plato's account of Socrates' defense at his trial for "corrupting the youth" is a classic summation of his teacher's life and miss…

Chapter 36

In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 3)

Read by Fr. Richard Zeile of Detroit

Mark Twain

The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River, and its sober and often scathing look at en…

Chapter 7- Through the Mist

In Work: A Story of Experience

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Louisa May Alcott

It is one of "several nineteenth-century novels [which] uncovers the changes in women's work in the new industrial era, as well as the …

Mischief

In David Copperfield

Read by Fr. Richard Zeile of Detroit

Charles Dickens

"David Copperfield" or "The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blun…

Little Red Hen

In Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories

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Various

Since this series of books is intended for all young people from oneto one hundred, it opens with about eighty of the old MOTHER GOOSERHYMES…

Ecloga 9

In Eclogae (dramatic reading)

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Publius Vergilius Maro and Virgil

This book of poems, written between 42 en 39 BC, was a bestseller in ancient Rome, and still holds a fascination today. Held to be divinely …

20 - Book 3 Chapter 7 - The Controversy

In The Brothers Karamazov

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Brothers Karamazov (Russian: Братья Карамазовы) is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, and is generally considered …

08 - Part 2 Chapter 1

In Crime and Punishment

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished St. Petersburg stude…

Book 09, chapters 01-08

In Confessions (Outler translation)

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St. Augustine of Hippo and Saint Augustine of Hippo

Confessions (Latin: Confessiones) is the name of an autobiographical work, consisting of 13 books, by St. Augustine of Hippo, written betwee…