Behind the Throne-William Le Queux

Literature of Arabia by Epiphanius Wilson.A collection of many romantic stories: it has no epic unity. The author chose the most striking of these episodes as best calculated to serve as genuine specimens of Arabian literature.Featured on The Prince.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Short Science Fiction Collection 056.Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative nature of the genre inspires thought and plants seeds that have led to advances in science. The genre can spark an interest in the sciences and is cited as the impetus for the career choice of many scientists. It is a playing field to explore social perspectives, predictions of the future, and engage in adventures unbound into the richness of the human mind.Featured on The Prince.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

History Teacher's Magazine, Vol. I, No. 2, October 1909.The History Teacher's Magazine was a monthly publication devoted to the interests of teachers specializing in history, civics, and geography. It provides scholarly articles as well as advice on organizing course content, tips for engaging students, book reviews, and inspiration.Featured on The Prince.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Religion and Science from Galileo to Bergson by John Charlton Hardwick.This history of Western philosophy, published in 1920, explores how people have explained the natural world during the last few centuries, whether by spiritual interpretation or through advances in science. From the Preface: "The chapters which follow are not intended as even a slight sketch of the history of Thought since the Renaissance. Their object is more modest, i.e. to illustrate the thesis that mankind, being 'incurably religious,' insists (however hopeless the enterprise may sometimes seem) upon interpreting the universe spiritually."Featured on The Prince.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Tales Of The Trail; Short Stories Of Western Life by Henry Inman.This 1898 collection of thirteen previously published articles exhibits the acute perception of one of the most popular writers of the late 19th-early 20th centuries. “These "Tales of the Trail" are based upon actual facts which came under the personal observation of the author… and will form another interesting series of stories of that era of great adventures, when the country west of the Missouri was unknown except to the trappers, hunters, and army officers.” Henry Inman (1837 – 1899) was an American soldier, frontiersman, and author. He served in the military during the Indian campaigns and the American Civil War, having earned distinction for gallantry on the battlefield. He was commissioned lieutenant general during the Indian wars. He settled in Kansas and worked as a journalist and author of short stories and books of the plains and western frontier.Featured on The Prince.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Chronicles of America Volume 04 by Crusaders of New France-William Bennett Munro.The previous volumes in the Chronicles of America series placed Spain and England at the fore in the discovery and development of the New World. This book focuses on the role that France played in America's journey to becoming a world power.Featured on The Prince.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

History of Freedom of Thought by John Bagnell Bury.The great civil liberties we enjoy today, like Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press, have their foundation in Freedom of Thought. Without being able to freely explore all kinds of matter with an inquisitive mind, whether it be religious, political, societal, scientific, etc., any expression thereof is limited in and of itself. John Bagnell Bury tells the history of freedom of thought from its roots in Ancient Greece and Rome through the dark and restrictive Middle Ages and its renewed liberation in the Renaissance and the Reformation until the Rationalism of the 17th - 19th centuries. The focus of this book is on religious freethought, but the ideas and values of freedom of thought can be applied to any subject where rigorous thinking is beneficial.Featured on The Prince.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Sacred and Profane Love by Arnold Bennett.Carlotta Peel is an unusual young woman – clever, self-opinionated, a brilliant author and yearning to love and be loved but also to serve her lover. The book, written in the first person, follows her surprising (and odd) journey through life.Featured on The Prince.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Twilight Sleep by Edith Wharton.Wharton miraculously finds it possible to satirize the very rich while simultaneously showing compassion and even grudging admiration for some of her victims. Every character she introduces is vividly depicted, no matter how minor. Yet for all the clarity of these depictions, the lives these people live, though busy, are empty and meaningless. The novel is a brilliant description of evasion and inauthenticity.Featured on The Prince.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Chronicles of America Volume 11 by Eve of the Revolution-Carl L. Becker.Here is a look at the evolution of thought and events that led Benjamin Franklin to make this statement: "British subjects, by removing to America, cultivating a wilderness, extending the domain, and increasing the wealth, commerce, and power of the mother country, at the hazard of their lives and fortunes, ought not, and in fact do not thereby lose their native rights."Featured on The Prince.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.