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"Sun Tzŭ on the Art of War: The Oldest Military Treatise in the World" by Sunzi is an ancient Chinese military treatise written in the 5th century BC. Composed of 13 chapters, each explores different aspects of warfare, strategy, and tactics. This influential text emphasizes intelligence...

Three days after his burial, Lazarus returns from the grave—but he does not return unchanged. Once warm and joyful, he is now silent, physically decayed, and utterly detached from the world of the living. He refuses to reveal what he witnessed beyond death. Yet those who meet his gaze begin to...

E.C., the old groundskeeper and tennis teacher, is like a secretary recording his wishes, ideas, reflections, observations, and prayers as he goes about his rounds of going to church, to work, to teaching tennis, to playing tennis, and visiting his friends. He thinks that God and life bring...

One missing letter. One eccentric inventor. One very smoky meeting with the Viceroy of India. John Fennil Wonder is an ambitious private secretary with a talent for involving himself in matters far beyond his authority. Determined to manage the affairs of the British Raj—and occasionally the...

A faithful donkey. A difficult journey. A timeless lesson in kindness. Told in his own voice, Neddy recounts a life shaped by both human compassion and human cruelty. His earliest days are filled with sunshine, freedom, and the gentle affection of his young mistress, Annie. Under her patient...

Heroes rise. Monsters awaken. Legends endure. In Beowulf, translated by Lesslie Hall, listeners are transported into one of the oldest and most influential epic tales in English literature. Filled with fierce battles, monstrous foes, ancient kingdoms, and themes of courage, honor, and fate, this...

"Trial by water by Sewell Peaslee Wright" is a pulp adventure short story written in the late 1920s. The tale uses a hazardous river passage as a crucible to test love and loyalty, focusing on jealousy, courage, and betrayal. Jean Baptiste Chabrier, a quiet northern bushman, guides a canoe...

Jesus didn’t die in a vacuum. His death was not random or isolated. It was the fulfillment of a story God had been telling for generations — a story rooted in the Hebrew Scriptures. Long before Jesus arrived, God had already given Israel a sacrificial system — not to appease an angry deity...

Why is it that so many Christians read these as metaphors: "The Whore of Babylon" (Revelation 17:5) "Pluck out your eye" (Matthew 5:29) "Strain a gnat, swallow a camel" (Matthew 23:24) "Salt of the Earth" (Matthew 5:13) "Living Stones" (1 Peter 2:5) "A Thorn in the Flesh" (2 Corinthians 12:7)...

What if the ultimate honeymoon took place among the planets? In A Honeymoon in Space, George Chetwynd Griffith invites listeners on an extraordinary journey through the solar system. Written during the dawn of science fiction, this imaginative classic follows a newly married couple as they...

A Modern Comedic Satire relating to and utilizing how the film "Drunken Master" used novel characters to depict different aspects of Kung Fu.

Sam, a wealthy industrialist, holds his business rival, Bill, responsible for the death of his wife, Robin. Because of this, he is hell-bent on putting Bill out of business. A strange woman named Dee comes into Sam's life and awakens a heart that had lain dormant for many years following the death of his wife. Dee's appearance triggers a series of dreams of being visited by his deceased wife, trying to give him a message. One event after another seems to drive Sam to find the truth of what he believed, finding the answers to questions and a way to live again.

E. C., the old groundskeeper and tennis teacher, is like a secretary recording the ideas, reflections, observations, and prayers that come through his life as he goes about his rounds of going to church, to work, to teaching tennis, to playing tennis, and to visiting his friends.

"Judaism is often called the religion of reason. It is this, but it is also the religion of the soul. It recognises the value of that mystic insight, those indefinable intuitions which, taking up the task at the point where the mind impotently abandons it, carries us straight into the presence of the King."

"In capitalist society work is the cause of all intellectual degeneracy, of all organic deformity." This essay raises interesting questions: is work really a virtue? Isn't work the source of many social imbalances? These are all questions that lend themselves to an exciting and topical debate on the role of work in our society.

We have said that Anarchy is society without government. But is the suppression of government possible, desirable, or wise? Let us see.... Errico Malatesta (4 December 1853 – 22 July 1932) was an Italian anarchist. He spent much of his life exiled from Italy and in total spent more than ten years in prison. Malatesta wrote and edited a number of radical newspapers and was also a friend of M. Bakunin.

In Symposium, Plato presents a series of perspectives that move from the practical to the profound. Love is explored as a source of courage, a guide to beauty, and ultimately, a path toward higher truth. As each speaker builds upon—or challenges—the last, the dialogue unfolds into one of philosophy’s most enduring examinations of human connection.

At his Aunt Dahlia’s country estate, Bertie Wooster finds himself surrounded by romantic entanglements, wounded pride, and a cast of eccentrics that seem determined to complicate life at every turn. Confident in his own abilities—and against the better judgment of his ever-reliable valet—Bertie takes it upon himself to set things right. The result? Utter pandemonium.

The Adventures of Chanticleer and Partlet follows a proud rooster and his clever hen as their cheerful outings spiral into a chain of absurd bargains, clever tricks, and startling consequences. What begins as a playful journey to the mountains for ripe nuts quickly becomes a darkly comic procession of talking animals, strange companions, and escalating misfortune—told with the sharp humor and moral indifference that define the original Grimm tradition.

Long before he hopped across the Australian plains, Old Man Kangaroo was a small, woolly creature with an oversized opinion of himself. Determined to be different from all other animals—and wonderfully run after—he makes his wish to the powerful god Nqong. The answer arrives not by magic words or gentle spells, but in the form of an endless chase led by the ever-hungry Yellow-Dog Dingo. Across deserts, salt-pans, grasslands, and rivers, Kangaroo runs, leaps, and finally hops—his legs stretching longer, his balance shifting, his shape forever altered by necessity.