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14 books are on the shelf today, 4 of them with full audio. The shelf is growing toward 100 books.

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More classics are being prepared: Plato's Dialogues · Aristotle's Ethics · Meditations by Marcus Aurelius · The Analects of Confucius · the plays and sonnets of Shakespeare · Homer · Dante · Seneca · Epictetus · Laozi · Montaigne · Frederick Douglass · Mark Twain · Henry David Thoreau · Herman Melville. Each one arrives free, in full, with audio where we can find a great public domain recording.

Every book here is in the public domain. Texts from Standard Ebooks. Recordings from LibriVox.

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