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Ambassador Morgenthau's Story
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Henry Morgenthau
Ambassador Morgenthau’s memoirs of his years in the service of the United States in Constantinople, (today Istanbul), are an important prima…
Eminent Victorians
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Giles Lytton Strachey
On Modern Library's list of 100 Best Non-Fiction books, "Eminent Victorians" marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also help…
Middlemarch (version 2)
Read by Margaret Espaillat
George Eliot
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. It is her seventh n…
Mistakes of Moses
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Robert G. Ingersoll
Robert G. Ingersoll was an extremely popular humanist orator in the late nineteenth century, and he wrote Mistakes of Moses after many bootl…
Futility: A Novel on Russian Themes
Read by Margaret Espaillat
William Alexander Gerhardi
From the preface written by Edith Wharton:Then I fell upon Futility. Some one said: “It's another new novel about Russia” –and every one of …
Royal Highness
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Thomas Mann
Royal Highness is the story of Prince Klaus Heinrich, a member of a struggling German duchy and an exotic American heiress who comes to live…
Java Head
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Joseph Hergesheimer
Java Head is a novel of the American merchant marine at the beginning of the great clipper ship era. It is laid in Salem, when that city was…
Effi Briest (abridged)
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Theodor Fontane
Effi Briest is a classic of Prussian Realism, relatively unknown in the English speaking world, but widely taught in German schools. This tr…
Atlantis
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Gerhart Hauptmann
Frederick von Kammacher is a young doctor in Germany whose wife has gone insane, whose children are in a boarding school, and whose career h…
Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An AutoBiography
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Walt Whitman
This story ran as a serial in 1852 in the New York Sunday Dispatch, and for more than 160 years was buried in obscurity, unknown to the worl…
Come Out of the Kitchen!
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Alice Duer Miller
A novel about a man who rents a house for the season and keeps having problems with the servants, especially the attractive cook. - Summary …
Grizelda
Read by Margaret R. Taylor
Margaret R. Taylor
In the Republic of Corvain, anybody who has a hint of magical power is rounded up and thrown into prison. They’re doing it to defend the ne…
The Confederacy of Heaven
Read by Margaret R. Taylor
Margaret R. Taylor
Nasan Rattlingbones was supposed to die. That’s what exile means in a post-apocalyptic Canada that hasn’t seen rain in almost two hundred y…
Collected Public Domain Works of Stanley G. Weinbaum
Read by Gregg Margarite (1957-2012)
Stanley G. Weinbaum
Stanley G. Weinbaum is best known for his short story “A Martian Odyssey” which has been influencing Science Fiction since it was first publ…
This Crowded Earth
Read by Gregg Margarite (1957-2012)
Robert Bloch
Robert Bloch (1917 – 1994) was a prolific writer in many genres. As a young man he was encouraged by his mentor H. P. Lovecraft, and was a c…
Victory
Read by Gregg Margarite (1957-2012)
Lester Del Rey
Lester del Rey (1915 – 1993) was a Golden Age science fiction author and editor closely connected to John W. Campbell Jr. and Astounding Sci…
Deathworld
Read by Gregg Margarite (1957-2012)
Harry Harrison
Harry Harrison is best known for his Stainless Steel Rat stories and the novel Make Room! Make Room! which was adapted for film as Soylent G…
The Stars, My Brothers
Read by Gregg Margarite (1957-2012)
Edmond Hamilton
Edmond Hamilton (1904 – 1977) had a career that began as a regular and frequent contributor to Weird Tales magazine. The first hardcover pub…
The Fisherman and his Soul
Read by Gregg Margarite (1957-2012)
Oscar Wilde
”The Fisherman and his Soul” is a fairy tale first published in November of 1891 in Wilde’s “A House of Pomegranates”. It tells of a fisherm…
Security
Read by Gregg Margarite (1957-2012)
Poul William Anderson
“Security” tells the story of a compartmentalized government physicist ordered by secret police to complete experiments aimed at developing …