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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Jules Verne
✦Big ideas · 5h 41m
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
✦Big ideas · 9h 2m
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
✦Big ideas · 4h 9m
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
✦Big ideas · 5h
Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson
✦Big ideas · 5h 20m
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
✦Big ideas · 12h 23m
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
✦Big ideas · 4h 47m
On the Happy Life
Seneca
✦Big ideas · 52 min
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
✦Big ideas · 9h 59m
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
✦Big ideas · 8h 22m
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
✦Big ideas · 1h 42m
Tarzan of the Apes
Edgar Rice Burroughs
✦Big ideas · 5h 42m
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
✦Big ideas · 6h 57m
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
✦Big ideas · 3h 36m
Frankenstein
A scientist’s creation turns on its maker — the birth of modern science fiction and a meditation on ambition.
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
✦Big ideas · 1h 54m
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Mark Twain
✦Big ideas · 7h 50m
A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen
✦Big ideas · 1h 46m
A farewell to arms
Ernest Hemingway
✦Big ideas · 5h 54m
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Jules Verne
✦Big ideas · 5h 41m
A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett
✦Big ideas · 4h 25m
A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare
✦Big ideas · 1h 8m
A Modest Proposal: For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick
Jonathan Swift
✦Big ideas · 14 min
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
✦Big ideas · 5h 39m
A Princess of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs
✦Big ideas · 4h 28m
A Room with a View
E. M. Forster
✦Big ideas · 4h 25m
A Study in Scarlet
Arthur Conan Doyle
✦Big ideas · 2h 53m
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
✦Big ideas · 9h 2m
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
✦Big ideas · 7h 22m
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
✦Big ideas · 1h 54m
A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen
✦Big ideas · 1h 46m
A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare
✦Big ideas · 1h 8m
A Study in Scarlet
Arthur Conan Doyle
✦Big ideas · 2h 53m
Aesop's Fables
Aesop
✦Big ideas · 2h 45m
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
✦Big ideas · 1h 45m
Andersen's Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen
✦Big ideas · 3h 41m
Anthem
Ayn Rand
✦Big ideas · 1h 16m
Beowulf
Anonymous
✦Big ideas · 2h 28m
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell
✦Big ideas · 3h 58m
Candide
Voltaire
✦Big ideas · 2h 20m
Common Sense
Thomas Paine
✦Big ideas · 1h 28m
Cranford
Elizabeth Gaskell
✦Big ideas · 4h 42m
Cyrano de Bergerac
Edmond Rostand
✦Big ideas · 2h 23m
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Mark Twain
✦Big ideas · 7h 50m
A farewell to arms
Ernest Hemingway
✦Big ideas · 5h 54m
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Jules Verne
✦Big ideas · 5h 41m
A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett
✦Big ideas · 4h 25m
A Princess of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs
✦Big ideas · 4h 28m
A Study in Scarlet
Arthur Conan Doyle
✦Big ideas · 2h 53m
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
✦Big ideas · 7h 22m
Andersen's Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen
✦Big ideas · 3h 41m
Anne of Green Gables
L. M. Montgomery
✦Big ideas · 6h 48m
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
✦Big ideas · 4h 9m
Beowulf
Anonymous
✦Big ideas · 2h 28m
Captains Courageous
Rudyard Kipling
✦Big ideas · 3h 30m
Cynthia's Chauffeur
Louis Tracy
✦Big ideas · 5h 30m
Dainty's Cruel Rivals; Or, The Fatal Birthday
Alex. McVeigh, Mrs. Miller
✦Big ideas · 3h 35m
Aesop's Fables
Aesop
✦Big ideas · 2h 45m
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume
✦Big ideas · 3h 50m
Anthem
Ayn Rand
✦Big ideas · 1h 16m
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
✦Big ideas · 4h 7m
Candide
Voltaire
✦Big ideas · 2h 20m
Common Sense
Thomas Paine
✦Big ideas · 1h 28m
Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville
✦Big ideas · 12h 24m
Discourse on the Method
René Descartes
✦Big ideas · 1h 31m
Discourses of Epictetus
Epictetus
✦Big ideas · 4h 7m
Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson
✦Big ideas · 4h 30m
Fathers and Sons
Ivan Turgenev
✦Big ideas · 4h 56m
Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
✦Big ideas · 2h 30m
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
✦Big ideas · 2h 6m
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
✦Big ideas · 8h 6m
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