The Tao, by Lao Tzu.
The Tao, or the Teh King, by Lao Tzu (c. 550 BC) Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Dec 19, 2021•1 hr 35 min
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Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Part II
Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851). Part 2 (of 2). Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Dec 16, 2021•4 hr 13 min
Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Part I.
Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851). Part 1 (of 2). Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Dec 16, 2021•3 hr 48 min
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, by Friedrich Nietzsche. Part II.
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, by Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900). Part 2 (of 2). Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Dec 16, 2021•4 hr 24 min
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, by Friedrich Nietzsche. Part I.
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, by Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900). Part 1 (of 2). Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Dec 16, 2021•4 hr 2 min
The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri. Part II.
The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321, translated by Henry Longfellow. Part 2 (of 2). Collaborative Project. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Dec 15, 2021•6 hr 4 min
The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri. Part I.
The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321), translated by Henry Longfellow. Part 1 (of 2). Collaborative Project. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Dec 15, 2021•6 hr 19 min
The Odyssey, by Homer. Part II.
The Odyssey, by Homer (c. 800 BC), translated by Samuel Butler. Part 2 (of 2). Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Dec 15, 2021•5 hr 21 min
The Odyssey, by Homer. Part I.
The Odyssey, by Homer (c. 800 BC), translated by Samuel Butler. Part 1 (of 2). Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Dec 15, 2021•5 hr 41 min
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain. Part II.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (1835 - 1910). Part 2 (of 2). Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Dec 15, 2021•5 hr 34 min
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain. Part I.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (1835 - 1910). Part 1 (of 2). Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Dec 15, 2021•6 hr
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894). Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Dec 12, 2021•3 hr 8 min
China and the Chinese, by Herbert Allen Giles.
China and the Chinese, by Herbert Allen Giles (1845 - 1935). Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Dec 12, 2021•4 hr 29 min
The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka.
The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924). Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Dec 12, 2021•2 hr 34 min
Dream Psychology, by Sigmund Freud.
Dream Psychology, by Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). Collaborative Project. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Dec 12, 2021•6 hr 4 min
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë. Part III.
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855). Part 3 (of 3). Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Dec 09, 2021•6 hr 32 min
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë. Part II.
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855). Part 2 (of 3). Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Dec 09, 2021•5 hr 47 min
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë. Part I.
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855). Part 1 (of 3). Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Dec 09, 2021•6 hr 17 min
Peter Pan, by J. M. Barrie.
Peter Pan, the boy who wouldn't grow up, steals Wendy and her brothers away to a magical world called the Neverland. They come face to face with a fairy named Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, savages, pirates, mermaids, a crocodile that ticks, and Peter's nemesis -- Captain Hook! The book is filled with excitement, and wonder, and teaches that with happy thoughts, and a little help of pixy dust, you can fly! Peter Pan inspires children everywhere to believe! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.c...
Dec 09, 2021•5 hr 32 min
The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi.
Do today's children still learn what a "marionette" is? The beloved story of Pinocchio may represent a last lingering picture of a world not dominated by plastic or electronic toys. Pinocchio is a puppet made from a piece of wood that curiously could talk even before being carved. A wooden-head he starts and a wooden-head he stays - until after years of misadventures caused by his laziness and failure to keep promises he finally learns to care about his family - and then he becomes a real boy. F...
Dec 09, 2021•4 hr 42 min
Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Part II.
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson was first published in 1883, and is an adventure novel narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, Treasure Island is a tale noted for its atmosphere, characters and action, and also as a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality -- unusual for children's literature. The influence of Treasure Island on popular perceptions of pirates is enormous, including such elements as treasure maps marked with a...
Dec 08, 2021•4 hr 4 min
Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Part I.
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson was first published in 1883, and is an adventure novel narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, Treasure Island is a tale noted for its atmosphere, characters and action, and also as a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality -- unusual for children's literature. The influence of Treasure Island on popular perceptions of pirates is enormous, including such elements as treasure maps marked with a...
Dec 08, 2021•3 hr 28 min
The Art of War, by Sun Tzu.
The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise from around the 5th century BC by Sun Tzu ("Master Sun"). It is composed of 13 chapters, each one devoted to a different set of skills or art related to warfare and how it applies to military strategy and tactics. For almost 1,500 years The Art of War was the lead text in an anthology that was formalized the Seven Military Classics by Emperor Shenzong in 1080. The treatise remains the most influential strategy text in East Asian warfare and ...
Dec 08, 2021•1 hr 12 min
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll.
Alice’s adventures in Wonderland is probably one of the most well known and popular children's novels in the English language. Written in 1865 by Charles Lutwidge Dodgeson, better known by his pen name ‘Lewis Carrol’. Lewis, a mathematician, poet, photographer and inventor, tells a surreal fantasy tale, of Alice, who visits a world of unnatural logic after following a very smart White Rabbit, down a rabbit hole. The world she discovers is inhabited by the strangest and most endearing characters;...
Dec 08, 2021•2 hr 43 min
Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Part III.
Kidnapped is a historical fiction novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in July 1886. It's set among real events in 18th-century Scotland, notably the "Appin Murder", which occurred in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745. The main character David Balfour, a lad of seventeen and newly orphaned, is directed to go and live with his rich uncle, the master of the estate of Shaws in the lowlands of Scotland near Edinburgh. His uncle, Ebenezer (as close a miser as Dickens' Ebenezer ...
Dec 08, 2021•2 hr 57 min
Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Part II.
Kidnapped is a historical fiction novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in July 1886. It's set among real events in 18th-century Scotland, notably the "Appin Murder", which occurred in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745. The main character David Balfour, a lad of seventeen and newly orphaned, is directed to go and live with his rich uncle, the master of the estate of Shaws in the lowlands of Scotland near Edinburgh. His uncle, Ebenezer (as close a miser as Dickens' Ebenezer ...
Dec 08, 2021•2 hr 42 min
Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Part I.
Kidnapped is a historical fiction novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in July 1886. It is set among real events in 18th-century Scotland, notably the "Appin Murder", which occurred in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745. The main character David Balfour, a lad of seventeen and newly orphaned, is directed to go and live with his rich uncle, the master of the estate of Shaws in the lowlands of Scotland near Edinburgh. His uncle, Ebenezer (as close a miser as Dickens' Ebenezer...
Dec 08, 2021•2 hr 39 min
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen. Part II.
Pride and Prejudice is the most famous of Jane Austen’s novels, and its opening line is one of the most famous in English literature - “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” It was first published in 1813 and follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she works her way through issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizab...
Dec 08, 2021•5 hr 33 min
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen. Part I.
Pride and Prejudice is the most famous of Jane Austen’s novels, and its opening line is one of the most famous in English literature - “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” It was first published in 1813 and follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she works her way through issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizab...
Dec 08, 2021•5 hr 37 min
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens.
A Christmas Carol is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in 1843. The miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is a cold-hearted man of business and has little time for the good humor and charity of the Christmas season. But that's about to change. A visit from his deceased business partner sets in motion a night in which Scrooge is visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future. Will his listen to their messages? Will he heed their warnings? Ebenezer Scrooge is about to take a Christmas...
Dec 08, 2021•3 hr 11 min
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