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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Vol 2, by Charles Mackay. Part I.
20 april 2026 · 2 uur 23 min
"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one." Lees meer
"In reading the history of nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities; their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first."
So wrote author Charles MacKay in this landmark work, which is still in print in the twenty-first century, and is considered most important for its analysis of economic "bubbles," such as the dot com bubble of 1997-2001. To a lesser degree, it was one of the first serious attempts to examine crowd psychology and is still a touchstone in that field. The history of the twentieth century suggests that as the planet has become more populated, the workings of crowd psychology have increasingly influenced everyday life, sustaining the longevity of MacKay's observations.
In this volume are eight topics, four of which MacKay would classify as "Peculiar Follies:" the Crusades, the Witch Mania, the outbreak of assassination by slow poisoning, and a belief in haunted houses. The other four: Popular Admiration for Great Thieves, Popular Follies in Great Cities, Duels & Ordeals, and Relics, he classified as national delusions.
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The Land that Time Forgot, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Part IV.
16 april 2026 · 30 min
The Land That Time Forgot is a science fiction novel, the first of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Caspak trilogy. His working title for the story was "The Lost U-Boat." Lees meer
Starting out as a harrowing wartime sea adventure, the story ultimately develops into that of a fantastical lost world. (Adapted from Wikipedia.)
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The Land that Time Forgot, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Part III.
16 april 2026 · 58 min
The Land That Time Forgot is a science fiction novel, the first of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Caspak trilogy. His working title for the story was "The Lost U-Boat." Lees meer
Starting out as a harrowing wartime sea adventure, the story ultimately develops into that of a fantastical lost world. (Adapted from Wikipedia.)
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The Land that Time Forgot, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Part II.
16 april 2026 · 1 uur 7 min
The Land That Time Forgot is a science fiction novel, the first of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Caspak trilogy. His working title for the story was "The Lost U-Boat." Lees meer
Starting out as a harrowing wartime sea adventure, the story ultimately develops into that of a fantastical lost world. (Adapted from Wikipedia.)
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The Land that Time Forgot, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Part I.
16 april 2026 · 1 uur 15 min
The Land That Time Forgot is a science fiction novel, the first of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Caspak trilogy. His working title for the story was "The Lost U-Boat." Lees meer
Starting out as a harrowing wartime sea adventure, the story ultimately develops into that of a fantastical lost world. (Adapted from Wikipedia.)
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A Double Barreled Detective Story, by Mark Twain. Part II.
16 april 2026 · 59 min
A Double Barrelled Detective Story is a novel by Mark Twain, in which Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the American west. At a mining camp in California, Fetlock Jones, a nephew of Sherlock Holmes, kills his master, a silver-miner, by blowing up his cabin. Lees meer
Since this occurs when Holmes happens to be visiting, he brings his skills to bear upon the case and arrives at logically worked conclusions that are proved to be abysmally wrong by an amateur detective with an extremely keen sense of smell, which he employs in solving the case.
This could be seen as yet another piece where Twain tries to prove that life does not quite follow logic. (From Wikipedia.)
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A Double Barreled Detective Story, by Mark Twain. Part I.
16 april 2026 · 1 uur 2 min
A Double Barrelled Detective Story is a novel by Mark Twain, in which Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the American west. At a mining camp in California, Fetlock Jones, a nephew of Sherlock Holmes, kills his master, a silver-miner, by blowing up his cabin. Lees meer
Since this occurs when Holmes happens to be visiting, he brings his skills to bear upon the case and arrives at logically worked conclusions that are proved to be abysmally wrong by an amateur detective with an extremely keen sense of smell, which he employs in solving the case.
This could be seen as yet another piece where Twain tries to prove that life does not quite follow logic. (From Wikipedia.)
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Vol 1, by Charles Mackay. Part XIV.
13 april 2026 · 20 min
The book chronicles and vilifies its targets in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions". The subjects of Mackay's debunking include alchemy, beards (influence of politics and religion on), witch-hunts, crusades and duels. Lees meer
Present day writers on economics, such as Andrew Tobias, laud the three chapters on economic bubbles. (From Wikipedia.)
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Vol 1, by Charles Mackay. Part XIII.
13 april 2026 · 1 uur 11 min
The book chronicles and vilifies its targets in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions". The subjects of Mackay's debunking include alchemy, beards (influence of politics and religion on), witch-hunts, crusades and duels. Lees meer
Present day writers on economics, such as Andrew Tobias, laud the three chapters on economic bubbles. (From Wikipedia.)
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Vol 1, by Charles Mackay. Part XII.
13 april 2026 · 1 uur 1 min
The book chronicles and vilifies its targets in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions". The subjects of Mackay's debunking include alchemy, beards (influence of politics and religion on), witch-hunts, crusades and duels. Lees meer
Present day writers on economics, such as Andrew Tobias, laud the three chapters on economic bubbles. (From Wikipedia.)
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Vol 1, by Charles Mackay. Part XI.
13 april 2026 · 54 min
The book chronicles and vilifies its targets in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions". The subjects of Mackay's debunking include alchemy, beards (influence of politics and religion on), witch-hunts, crusades and duels. Lees meer
Present day writers on economics, such as Andrew Tobias, laud the three chapters on economic bubbles. (From Wikipedia.)
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Vol 1, by Charles Mackay. Part X.
13 april 2026 · 1 uur 10 min
The book chronicles and vilifies its targets in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions". The subjects of Mackay's debunking include alchemy, beards (influence of politics and religion on), witch-hunts, crusades and duels. Lees meer
Present day writers on economics, such as Andrew Tobias, laud the three chapters on economic bubbles. (From Wikipedia.)
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Vol 1, by Charles Mackay. Part IX.
13 april 2026 · 1 uur
The book chronicles and vilifies its targets in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions". The subjects of Mackay's debunking include alchemy, beards (influence of politics and religion on), witch-hunts, crusades and duels. Lees meer
Present day writers on economics, such as Andrew Tobias, laud the three chapters on economic bubbles. (From Wikipedia.)
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Vol 1, by Charles Mackay. Part VIII.
13 april 2026 · 1 uur 22 min
The book chronicles and vilifies its targets in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions". The subjects of Mackay's debunking include alchemy, beards (influence of politics and religion on), witch-hunts, crusades and duels. Lees meer
Present day writers on economics, such as Andrew Tobias, laud the three chapters on economic bubbles. (From Wikipedia.)
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Four-Day Planet by H. Beam Piper. Part VI.
9 april 2026 · 1 uur
Fenris isn't a hell planet, but it's nobody's bargain. With 2,000-hour days and an 8,000-hour year, it alternates blazing heat with killing cold. A planet like that tends to breed a special kind of person: tough enough to stay alive and smart enough to make the best of it. Lees meer
When that kind of person discovers he's being cheated of wealth he's risked his life for, that kind of planet is ripe for revolution.
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Four-Day Planet by H. Beam Piper. Part V.
9 april 2026 · 53 min
Fenris isn't a hell planet, but it's nobody's bargain. With 2,000-hour days and an 8,000-hour year, it alternates blazing heat with killing cold. A planet like that tends to breed a special kind of person: tough enough to stay alive and smart enough to make the best of it. Lees meer
When that kind of person discovers he's being cheated of wealth he's risked his life for, that kind of planet is ripe for revolution.
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Four-Day Planet by H. Beam Piper. Part IV.
9 april 2026 · 59 min
Fenris isn't a hell planet, but it's nobody's bargain. With 2,000-hour days and an 8,000-hour year, it alternates blazing heat with killing cold. A planet like that tends to breed a special kind of person: tough enough to stay alive and smart enough to make the best of it. Lees meer
When that kind of person discovers he's being cheated of wealth he's risked his life for, that kind of planet is ripe for revolution.
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Four-Day Planet by H. Beam Piper. Part III.
9 april 2026 · 1 uur 4 min
Fenris isn't a hell planet, but it's nobody's bargain. With 2,000-hour days and an 8,000-hour year, it alternates blazing heat with killing cold. A planet like that tends to breed a special kind of person: tough enough to stay alive and smart enough to make the best of it. Lees meer
When that kind of person discovers he's being cheated of wealth he's risked his life for, that kind of planet is ripe for revolution.
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Four-Day Planet by H. Beam Piper. Part II.
9 april 2026 · 1 uur 15 min
Fenris isn't a hell planet, but it's nobody's bargain. With 2,000-hour days and an 8,000-hour year, it alternates blazing heat with killing cold. A planet like that tends to breed a special kind of person: tough enough to stay alive and smart enough to make the best of it. Lees meer
When that kind of person discovers he's being cheated of wealth he's risked his life for, that kind of planet is ripe for revolution.
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Four-Day Planet by H. Beam Piper. Part I.
9 april 2026 · 1 uur 10 min
Fenris isn't a hell planet, but it's nobody's bargain. With 2,000-hour days and an 8,000-hour year, it alternates blazing heat with killing cold. A planet like that tends to breed a special kind of person: tough enough to stay alive and smart enough to make the best of it. Lees meer
When that kind of person discovers he's being cheated of wealth he's risked his life for, that kind of planet is ripe for revolution.
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Vol 1, by Charles Mackay. Part VII.
6 april 2026 · 48 min
The book chronicles and vilifies its targets in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions". The subjects of Mackay's debunking include alchemy, beards (influence of politics and religion on), witch-hunts, crusades and duels. Lees meer
Present day writers on economics, such as Andrew Tobias, laud the three chapters on economic bubbles. (From Wikipedia.)
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Episode VIII to XIV will be published on April 13th.
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Vol 1, by Charles Mackay. Part VI.
6 april 2026 · 1 uur 13 min
The book chronicles and vilifies its targets in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions". The subjects of Mackay's debunking include alchemy, beards (influence of politics and religion on), witch-hunts, crusades and duels. Lees meer
Present day writers on economics, such as Andrew Tobias, laud the three chapters on economic bubbles. (From Wikipedia.)
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Vol 1, by Charles Mackay. Part V.
6 april 2026 · 54 min
The book chronicles and vilifies its targets in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions". The subjects of Mackay's debunking include alchemy, beards (influence of politics and religion on), witch-hunts, crusades and duels. Lees meer
Present day writers on economics, such as Andrew Tobias, laud the three chapters on economic bubbles. (From Wikipedia.)
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Vol 1, by Charles Mackay. Part IV.
6 april 2026 · 51 min
The book chronicles and vilifies its targets in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions". The subjects of Mackay's debunking include alchemy, beards (influence of politics and religion on), witch-hunts, crusades and duels. Lees meer
Present day writers on economics, such as Andrew Tobias, laud the three chapters on economic bubbles. (From Wikipedia.)
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Vol 1, by Charles Mackay. Part III.
6 april 2026 · 1 uur 3 min
The book chronicles and vilifies its targets in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions". The subjects of Mackay's debunking include alchemy, beards (influence of politics and religion on), witch-hunts, crusades and duels. Lees meer
Present day writers on economics, such as Andrew Tobias, laud the three chapters on economic bubbles. (From Wikipedia.)
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Vol 1, by Charles Mackay. Part II.
6 april 2026 · 1 uur 26 min
The book chronicles and vilifies its targets in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions". The subjects of Mackay's debunking include alchemy, beards (influence of politics and religion on), witch-hunts, crusades and duels. Lees meer
Present day writers on economics, such as Andrew Tobias, laud the three chapters on economic bubbles. (From Wikipedia.)
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Vol 1, by Charles Mackay. Part I.
6 april 2026 · 1 uur 7 min
The book chronicles and vilifies its targets in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions". The subjects of Mackay's debunking include alchemy, beards (influence of politics and religion on), witch-hunts, crusades and duels. Lees meer
Present day writers on economics, such as Andrew Tobias, laud the three chapters on economic bubbles. (From Wikipedia.)
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Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 1, by Plutarchus. Part VIII.
2 april 2026 · 59 min
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving lives, contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired, single lives. Lees meer
Plutarch was not concerned with writing histories, as such, but in exploring the influence of character, good or bad, on the lives and destinies of famous men. The first pair of lives the Epaminondas-Scipio Africanus no longer exists, and many of the remaining lives are truncated, contain obvious lacunae and/or have been tampered with by later writers.
His Life of Alexander is one of the five surviving secondary or tertiary sources about Alexander the Great and it includes anecdotes and descriptions of incidents that appear in no other source. Likewise, his portrait of Numa Pompilius, an early Roman king, also contains unique information about the early Roman calendar.
In this copyright expired 11-volume translation from the Loeb Classical library, the order of the paired lives is rearranged to present the Greek lives in chronological order. Vol 1 presents the paired lives of Theseus and Romulus, Lycurgus and Numa, and Solon and Poplicola. (Adapted from Wikipedia.)
Translated by Bernadotte Perrin.
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Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 1, by Plutarchus. Part VII.
2 april 2026 · 1 uur 5 min
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving lives, contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired, single lives. Lees meer
Plutarch was not concerned with writing histories, as such, but in exploring the influence of character, good or bad, on the lives and destinies of famous men. The first pair of lives the Epaminondas-Scipio Africanus no longer exists, and many of the remaining lives are truncated, contain obvious lacunae and/or have been tampered with by later writers.
His Life of Alexander is one of the five surviving secondary or tertiary sources about Alexander the Great and it includes anecdotes and descriptions of incidents that appear in no other source. Likewise, his portrait of Numa Pompilius, an early Roman king, also contains unique information about the early Roman calendar.
In this copyright expired 11-volume translation from the Loeb Classical library, the order of the paired lives is rearranged to present the Greek lives in chronological order. Vol 1 presents the paired lives of Theseus and Romulus, Lycurgus and Numa, and Solon and Poplicola. (Adapted from Wikipedia.)
Translated by Bernadotte Perrin.
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Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 1, by Plutarchus. Part VI.
2 april 2026 · 1 uur 14 min
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving lives, contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired, single lives. Lees meer
Plutarch was not concerned with writing histories, as such, but in exploring the influence of character, good or bad, on the lives and destinies of famous men. The first pair of lives the Epaminondas-Scipio Africanus no longer exists, and many of the remaining lives are truncated, contain obvious lacunae and/or have been tampered with by later writers.
His Life of Alexander is one of the five surviving secondary or tertiary sources about Alexander the Great and it includes anecdotes and descriptions of incidents that appear in no other source. Likewise, his portrait of Numa Pompilius, an early Roman king, also contains unique information about the early Roman calendar.
In this copyright expired 11-volume translation from the Loeb Classical library, the order of the paired lives is rearranged to present the Greek lives in chronological order. Vol 1 presents the paired lives of Theseus and Romulus, Lycurgus and Numa, and Solon and Poplicola. (Adapted from Wikipedia.)
Translated by Bernadotte Perrin.
This is a collaborative reading.
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Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 1, by Plutarchus. Part V.
2 april 2026 · 48 min
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving lives, contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired, single lives. Lees meer
Plutarch was not concerned with writing histories, as such, but in exploring the influence of character, good or bad, on the lives and destinies of famous men. The first pair of lives the Epaminondas-Scipio Africanus no longer exists, and many of the remaining lives are truncated, contain obvious lacunae and/or have been tampered with by later writers.
His Life of Alexander is one of the five surviving secondary or tertiary sources about Alexander the Great and it includes anecdotes and descriptions of incidents that appear in no other source. Likewise, his portrait of Numa Pompilius, an early Roman king, also contains unique information about the early Roman calendar.
In this copyright expired 11-volume translation from the Loeb Classical library, the order of the paired lives is rearranged to present the Greek lives in chronological order. Vol 1 presents the paired lives of Theseus and Romulus, Lycurgus and Numa, and Solon and Poplicola. (Adapted from Wikipedia.)
Translated by Bernadotte Perrin.
This is a collaborative reading.
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Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 1, by Plutarchus. Part IV.
2 april 2026 · 1 uur 9 min
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving lives, contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired, single lives. Lees meer
Plutarch was not concerned with writing histories, as such, but in exploring the influence of character, good or bad, on the lives and destinies of famous men. The first pair of lives the Epaminondas-Scipio Africanus no longer exists, and many of the remaining lives are truncated, contain obvious lacunae and/or have been tampered with by later writers.
His Life of Alexander is one of the five surviving secondary or tertiary sources about Alexander the Great and it includes anecdotes and descriptions of incidents that appear in no other source. Likewise, his portrait of Numa Pompilius, an early Roman king, also contains unique information about the early Roman calendar.
In this copyright expired 11-volume translation from the Loeb Classical library, the order of the paired lives is rearranged to present the Greek lives in chronological order. Vol 1 presents the paired lives of Theseus and Romulus, Lycurgus and Numa, and Solon and Poplicola. (Adapted from Wikipedia.)
Translated by Bernadotte Perrin.
This is a collaborative reading.
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Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 1, by Plutarchus. Part III.
2 april 2026 · 1 uur 15 min
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving lives, contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired, single lives. Lees meer
Plutarch was not concerned with writing histories, as such, but in exploring the influence of character, good or bad, on the lives and destinies of famous men. The first pair of lives the Epaminondas-Scipio Africanus no longer exists, and many of the remaining lives are truncated, contain obvious lacunae and/or have been tampered with by later writers.
His Life of Alexander is one of the five surviving secondary or tertiary sources about Alexander the Great and it includes anecdotes and descriptions of incidents that appear in no other source. Likewise, his portrait of Numa Pompilius, an early Roman king, also contains unique information about the early Roman calendar.
In this copyright expired 11-volume translation from the Loeb Classical library, the order of the paired lives is rearranged to present the Greek lives in chronological order. Vol 1 presents the paired lives of Theseus and Romulus, Lycurgus and Numa, and Solon and Poplicola. (Adapted from Wikipedia.)
Translated by Bernadotte Perrin.
This is a collaborative reading.
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Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 1, by Plutarchus. Part II.
2 april 2026 · 50 min
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving lives, contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired, single lives. Lees meer
Plutarch was not concerned with writing histories, as such, but in exploring the influence of character, good or bad, on the lives and destinies of famous men. The first pair of lives the Epaminondas-Scipio Africanus no longer exists, and many of the remaining lives are truncated, contain obvious lacunae and/or have been tampered with by later writers.
His Life of Alexander is one of the five surviving secondary or tertiary sources about Alexander the Great and it includes anecdotes and descriptions of incidents that appear in no other source. Likewise, his portrait of Numa Pompilius, an early Roman king, also contains unique information about the early Roman calendar.
In this copyright expired 11-volume translation from the Loeb Classical library, the order of the paired lives is rearranged to present the Greek lives in chronological order. Vol 1 presents the paired lives of Theseus and Romulus, Lycurgus and Numa, and Solon and Poplicola. (Adapted from Wikipedia.)
Translated by Bernadotte Perrin.
This is a collaborative reading.
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Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 1, by Plutarchus. Part I.
2 april 2026 · 1 uur 23 min
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving lives, contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired, single lives. Lees meer
Plutarch was not concerned with writing histories, as such, but in exploring the influence of character, good or bad, on the lives and destinies of famous men. The first pair of lives the Epaminondas-Scipio Africanus no longer exists, and many of the remaining lives are truncated, contain obvious lacunae and/or have been tampered with by later writers.
His Life of Alexander is one of the five surviving secondary or tertiary sources about Alexander the Great and it includes anecdotes and descriptions of incidents that appear in no other source. Likewise, his portrait of Numa Pompilius, an early Roman king, also contains unique information about the early Roman calendar.
In this copyright expired 11-volume translation from the Loeb Classical library, the order of the paired lives is rearranged to present the Greek lives in chronological order. Vol 1 presents the paired lives of Theseus and Romulus, Lycurgus and Numa, and Solon and Poplicola. (Adapted from Wikipedia.)
Translated by Bernadotte Perrin.
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Daniel Boone, by John Stevens Cabot Abbott. Part VII.
30 maart 2026 · 56 min
This is a detailed biography of the life and adventures of Daniel Boone. His accomplishments are brushed over in history classes these days and not given the recognition they deserve. Lees meer
This biography clearly paints a picture of the benevolent person of Daniel Boone, as well as the activities he made in furthering European settlement in America.
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Daniel Boone, by John Stevens Cabot Abbott. Part VI.
30 maart 2026 · 1 uur 3 min
This is a detailed biography of the life and adventures of Daniel Boone. His accomplishments are brushed over in history classes these days and not given the recognition they deserve. Lees meer
This biography clearly paints a picture of the benevolent person of Daniel Boone, as well as the activities he made in furthering European settlement in America.
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Daniel Boone, by John Stevens Cabot Abbott. Part V.
30 maart 2026 · 57 min
This is a detailed biography of the life and adventures of Daniel Boone. His accomplishments are brushed over in history classes these days and not given the recognition they deserve. Lees meer
This biography clearly paints a picture of the benevolent person of Daniel Boone, as well as the activities he made in furthering European settlement in America.
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Daniel Boone, by John Stevens Cabot Abbott. Part IV.
30 maart 2026 · 1 uur 24 min
This is a detailed biography of the life and adventures of Daniel Boone. His accomplishments are brushed over in history classes these days and not given the recognition they deserve. Lees meer
This biography clearly paints a picture of the benevolent person of Daniel Boone, as well as the activities he made in furthering European settlement in America.
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Daniel Boone, by John Stevens Cabot Abbott. Part III.
30 maart 2026 · 1 uur
This is a detailed biography of the life and adventures of Daniel Boone. His accomplishments are brushed over in history classes these days and not given the recognition they deserve. Lees meer
This biography clearly paints a picture of the benevolent person of Daniel Boone, as well as the activities he made in furthering European settlement in America.
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Daniel Boone, by John Stevens Cabot Abbott. Part II.
30 maart 2026 · 50 min
This is a detailed biography of the life and adventures of Daniel Boone. His accomplishments are brushed over in history classes these days and not given the recognition they deserve. Lees meer
This biography clearly paints a picture of the benevolent person of Daniel Boone, as well as the activities he made in furthering European settlement in America.
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Daniel Boone, by John Stevens Cabot Abbott. Part I.
30 maart 2026 · 1 uur 37 min
This is a detailed biography of the life and adventures of Daniel Boone. His accomplishments are brushed over in history classes these days and not given the recognition they deserve. Lees meer
This biography clearly paints a picture of the benevolent person of Daniel Boone, as well as the activities he made in furthering European settlement in America.
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Rain, by W. Somerset Maugham. Part III.
26 maart 2026 · 33 min
While stranded waiting for their ship to be released from quarantine, Dr. and Mrs. Macphail must share lodging with the insufferable Davidsons—self-righteous and over-zealous missionaries who also happen to be the only polite company on the god-forsaken island near Pago-Pago. Lees meer
But, things take a dreadful and unexpected turn when Mr. Davidson takes it upon himself to rescue the soul of their neighbor downstairs from second cabin—the insolent, carousing, and inimitable Miss Sadie Thompson.
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Rain, by W. Somerset Maugham. Part II.
26 maart 2026 · 27 min
While stranded waiting for their ship to be released from quarantine, Dr. and Mrs. Macphail must share lodging with the insufferable Davidsons—self-righteous and over-zealous missionaries who also happen to be the only polite company on the god-forsaken island near Pago-Pago. Lees meer
But, things take a dreadful and unexpected turn when Mr. Davidson takes it upon himself to rescue the soul of their neighbor downstairs from second cabin—the insolent, carousing, and inimitable Miss Sadie Thompson.
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Rain, by W. Somerset Maugham. Part I.
26 maart 2026 · 45 min
While stranded waiting for their ship to be released from quarantine, Dr. and Mrs. Macphail must share lodging with the insufferable Davidsons—self-righteous and over-zealous missionaries who also happen to be the only polite company on the god-forsaken island near Pago-Pago. Lees meer
But, things take a dreadful and unexpected turn when Mr. Davidson takes it upon himself to rescue the soul of their neighbor downstairs from second cabin—the insolent, carousing, and inimitable Miss Sadie Thompson.
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The Jumping Frog, by Mark Twain. Part II.
26 maart 2026 · 26 min
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is an 1865 short story by Mark Twain. It was also published as "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog." Lees meer
In it, the narrator retells a story he heard from a bartender, Simon Wheeler, at the Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, about the gambler Jim Smiley. Upon discovering a French translation of this story, Twain re-translated the story, word for word and keeping the French grammar structure, back into English.
He then published all three versions under the title "The Jumping Frog: In English, Then in French, and Then Clawed Back Into A Civilized Language Once More by Patient, Unremunerated Toil." (From Wikipedia.)
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The Jumping Frog, by Mark Twain. Part I.
26 maart 2026 · 39 min
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is an 1865 short story by Mark Twain. It was also published as "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog." Lees meer
In it, the narrator retells a story he heard from a bartender, Simon Wheeler, at the Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, about the gambler Jim Smiley. Upon discovering a French translation of this story, Twain re-translated the story, word for word and keeping the French grammar structure, back into English.
He then published all three versions under the title "The Jumping Frog: In English, Then in French, and Then Clawed Back Into A Civilized Language Once More by Patient, Unremunerated Toil." (From Wikipedia.)
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Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 2: The Massacres of the South, by Alexandre Dumas. Part VII.
23 maart 2026 · 1 uur 6 min
Dumas's 'Celebrated Crimes' was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language--has minced no words--to describe the violent scenes of a violent time. Lees meer
In some instances facts appear distorted out of their true perspective, and in others the author makes unwarranted charges. The careful, mature reader, for whom the books are intended, will recognize, and allow for, this fact. (Summary from publishers note.)
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Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 2: The Massacres of the South, by Alexandre Dumas. Part VI.
23 maart 2026 · 1 uur 3 min
Dumas's 'Celebrated Crimes' was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language--has minced no words--to describe the violent scenes of a violent time. Lees meer
In some instances facts appear distorted out of their true perspective, and in others the author makes unwarranted charges. The careful, mature reader, for whom the books are intended, will recognize, and allow for, this fact. (Summary from publishers note.)
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Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 2: The Massacres of the South, by Alexandre Dumas. Part V.
23 maart 2026 · 1 uur 28 min
Dumas's 'Celebrated Crimes' was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language--has minced no words--to describe the violent scenes of a violent time. Lees meer
In some instances facts appear distorted out of their true perspective, and in others the author makes unwarranted charges. The careful, mature reader, for whom the books are intended, will recognize, and allow for, this fact. (Summary from publishers note.)
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