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  Of Human Kindness - What...

  Paula Marantz Cohen

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  While exploring Shakespeare's plays with her students, Paula Marantz Cohen discovered that teaching and discussing his plays unlocked a surprising sense of compassion in the classroom. In this short and illuminating book, she shows how Shakespeare's genius lay with his ability to arouse empathy, even when his characters exist in alien contexts and behave in reprehensible ways. Cohen takes listeners through a selection of Shakespeare's most famous plays, including Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and The Merchant of Venice, to demonstrate the ways in which Shakespeare thought deeply and clearly about how we treat "the other." Cohen argues that only through close reading of Shakespeare can we fully appreciate his empathetic response to race, class, gender, and age. Wise, eloquent, and thoughtful, this book is a forceful argument for literature's power to champion what is best in us.

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  Viking Tales

  Jennie Hall

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  A teacher in Chicago at the beginning of the last century, Jennie Hall wrote a number of engaging history books for children. Viking Tales follows the story of Harald Fairhair from the time he is given his own thrall at the cutting of his first tooth, through his exploits as a Viking adventurer, to his crowning as King of Norway. Jennie Hall (1875 - 1921)

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  Dhammapada (Version 2)

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  - A Collection of Verses Being One of the Canonical Books of the BuddhistsDhammapada means "The path of Dharma." The Pali word Dhamma corresponds to the Sankrit word Dharma. It is a collection of the teachings of the Buddha. These verses, compil

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  The Haunted Palace

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Another well-known poem by Edgar Allan Poe presented by Renegade Arts Entertainment.

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  The Time Machine

  H. G. Wells

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  A Victorian scientist travels into the far future and discovers the descendants of humanity, the Eloi, living in apparent peace and tranquility. However, after his time machine goes missing, he discovers that humanity has in fact split into two distinct species, and the Morlocks are not quite so benign as the Eloi. The time traveller must arm himself and get his time machine back if he ever wants to return to his own era. 
  In this new audio version, narrator Jake Urry vividly brings this classic H. G. Wells tale to life for 21st-century audiences.

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  Selected Tales of Mystery & Terror

  Various Authors

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  Here is a selection of chilling tales only to be enjoyed of a dark evening when safely by the warmth of the fire. 
  The Monkey's Paw 
  In The Penal Colony 
  O Whistle and I'll Come to You my Lad 
  A Warning to the Curious 
  Afterwards 
  The Haunted and the Haunter 
  The Red Room 
  Tell Tale Heart 
  The Signal Man 
  August Heat 
  The Bus Conductor 
  In the Dark 
  Stories by E.Nesbit, Charles Dickens, Franz Kafka, Edgar Alan Poe, E.F Benson, H.G Wells, M.R James and others; narrated with perfect intensity by Simon Hester. Each with specially composed atmospheric music.

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