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The complete audio is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0H3CC6Y47 Dynamic Thought or The Law of Vibrant Energy By William Walker Atkinson Narrated by Denis Daly William Walker Atkinson (1862-1932) was an author and publisher of texts covering a wide range of New Thought teachings. According to Atkinson, the idea of 'Dynamic Thought' underlies the entire universe an...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0H3CJM5LZ The Scholar Gypsy By Matthew Arnold Narrated by Denis Daly Matthew Arnold, poet, critic, and by profession a school inspector, was embedded in the world of Victorian academic tradition. His verse and essays display fears that the stability of traditional ways was under threat from the uncertainty...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0H3BJ38VX Songs of Kabir Translated by Rabindranath Tagore With an Introduction by Evelyn Underhill Narrated by Denis Daly Although Kabir (1398-1448, or in the Samvat calendar 1440-1518) was born of Mohammedan parentage, in his youth he became a disciple of a noted Hindu ascetic, Ramananda. As a spiritual...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/kz3zzn Miscellaneous Poems By Percy Bysshe Shelley Narrated by Denis Daly This collection of 59 short poems consists of verses, some of them incomplete, which remained unpublished at the time of Shelley’s death. Some of them have become the best known of Shelley’s shorter works. The poems were collated and edited by Mar...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/Promptness-and-Other-Errors-Audiobook/B0H2KBK9QR Promptness and Other Errors By Otto Handley Read by Lyndal Curran Doolan This surreal collection of vignettes explores a world where linear time and logic have fractured, replaced by a state of "administrative continuation" where life moves sideways rather th...

Infinite Lubricity The Fluid of Salvation (Greasepolis, Book 9) By Otto Handley Narrated by Gregory Dwyer In the surreal academic landscape of Tumbarumba, history professor Stella Pontifex discovers that grease is not merely a culinary byproduct but a metaphysical archive of human memory. As the world suffers from “The Great Sizzle” and a subsequent “thinning” of reality known as attenuation, Stel...

The Myth of the Resurrection and Other Essays By Joseph McCabe Narrated by Oberon Michaels In one of his most celebrated assertions the Apostle Paul wrote: “And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised; If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.” (From 1 Corinthians 15) I...

The Classical Monologues By Robert Browning Read by Evan and Marie Blackmore Robert Browning was fascinated by people—not only people of his own day, but also people who had lived in the remote past. Five of his famous dramatic monologues are spoken by characters from the ancient Classical world: a Greek goddess (Artemis), a Roman senator (in “Imperante Augusto Natus Est—“), an Arab physician (Kar...

The Cavalier Poets Collected and edited by Thomas W. Parrott Read by Denis Daly The poets whose work is included in this collection were contemporaries of John Milton and were active during the reigns of Charles I and Charles II and the intervening period of the Commonwealth. While Milton expressed his disdain for these light-hearted lyrics, they display a compelling and ingenuous charm which has...

A Victorian Miscellany Selected and edited by Thomas W. Parrott Read by Denis Daly During the Victorian era many authors tried their hand at a range of literary genres, including poetry. Many of the authors whose work is represented in this collection are famous for their activity in other genres, eg. Macaulay as a historian, Stevenson as a writer of classic adventure novels, John Henry Newman as...

An Elizabethan Miscellany Selected and edited by Thomas W. Parrott Read by Denis Daly Shakespeare's dominance during the Elizabethan era has overshadowed the works of many of his truly gifted contemporaries. This collection features poems covering a wide range of subjects, including love songs, wedding songs and meditations on death, presented in a variety of forms. 1 - Introduction by Thomas W. P...

History and Beliefs of the Major Religions By Warren Scholl Narrated by Oberon Michaels Warren Scholl’s pamphlet on world religions was published in 1924, and reflects the spiritual philosophies and membership levels of the day. The author provides succinct and accessible summaries of the doctrines of each faith, which are totally free of apologetic bias. The religions discussed are as follows: Co...

Who Should Have Been Poet Laureate? Collected and edited by Evan Blackmore Narrated by Evan Blackmore In 1892, Alfred Tennyson, the official Poet Laureate of Great Britain, died. According to custom, a new Laureate now had to be chosen by the Prime Minister. But on this occasion, uniquely, there was a problem. Many different candidates for the position were suggested, but for several years, none w...

Marx’s Capital: Hegelian Sources By Andy Blunden Narrated by Gary MacFadden and Denis Daly This is sequel to another volume by Andy Blunden, The Capital/Logic Debate. In this book, the author provides a systematic presentation of the Hegelian structure of the three volumes of Capital. It is shown that Capital contains three distinct layers of structure, originating from Marx’s reading of Hegel’s L...

The Vision of Piers Plowman By William Langland Narrated by Evan Blackmore Butchers, bakers, brewers, businessmen, farmers, fabric workers, entertainers, comedians, gluttons, lechers, spongers and swindlers, prostitutes and parasites, the pope and his priests, the king and his courtiers, compete for attention in this lively and subversive vision of corruption in fourteenth-century England. The pop...

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin Read by Oberon Michaels The original title of this text was Recollections of the Development of my Mind and Character. This memoir was intended for Darwin’s family and was written between May and August 1876. The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Autobiography-of-Charles-Darwin-Audiobook/B0FVBF9PRL

Debunking the Lourdes Miracles and Other Articles By Joseph McCabe Read by Oberon Michaels Lourdes is a town in south-western France which in 1858 became the site of one of the most famous Marian apparitions. The recipient of the vision, Bernadette Soubirous, was directed to start digging in a cave, and a spring was uncovered. The waters of the spring gained the reputation of possessing healing pr...

The Four Last Things And a few more. By Otto Handley Read by Graham Scott Where do we go after we die? In this story, the recently deceased Oscar Whatmore is judged as worthy of admission to Heaven. But is the posthumous paradise a realm of unalloyed happiness? And is Hell as dire as it is usually portrayed? Oscar decides to find out. The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com...

The Virgin and the Gypsy By D. H. Lawrence Narrated by Patrick Barker Yvette, daughter of the Anglican rector of an East Midlands village, is awakened to the possibilities of life and love by an encounter with a dark, handsome gypsy. Published shortly after Lawrence’s death in 1930, this short novel was written in 1926 and was a precursor to Lady Chatterley’s Lover. The complete audiobook is avail...

The Protestant Pope By Tom Lindsay Narrated by Denis Daly In a world weighed down by centuries of doctrine and power, a boy from Belfast makes an unexpected journey marked by social and personal upheaval. Born of Protestant roots and forged in suffering, his life challenges the boundaries of faith, tradition, and institutional control. Through violence, doubt, silence, and revelation, he comes to...

The Shorter Byron Lyrical and Other Poems Satirical and Occasional Verse Letters Selected and Edited by Ernest Rhys Narrated by Denis Daly This collection contains a wide range of pieces, demonstrating Byron’s versatility in form and expression. Also included is a selection of Byron’s letters to colleagues, friends and lovers, which show the poet in his more revealing and unguarded moments. The co...

This is the story of Edgar Blunt, an ordinary man who discovers an annotated anthology of philosophy and becomes obsessed with achieving virtue through rigid interpretations of Aristotelian concepts. The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Man-Who-Tried-to-Impress-Aristotle-Audiobook/B0GPRHYFB9

What might happen if a sceptical medical professional met G. K. Chesterton? This narrative explores the intellectual and moral tension between flamboyant philosophy and the quiet discipline of maintenance. The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Man-Who-Tried-to-Impress-G-K-Chesterton-Audiobook/B0GPZ2286Z

One day Gregory Thistlethwaite, an unremarkable student, experiences a life changing auditory hallucination – Jordan Peterson orders him to clean his room. The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Man-Who-Tried-to-Impress-Jordan-Peterson-Audiobook/B0GF35F1Q3

The Middle Ages was the high point of papal power. Pope Blatantly IV plans to reclaim this level of control by an ambitious plan of territorial expansion and theocratic overreach. He is opposed by Frank, the Grease Prophet who sets up the Grease Underground. The conflict culminates in a "Greasequake," which triggers the forced resignation of Blatantly IV, and the final scene suggests a return to t...