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Under the Shadow of Etna: Sicilian Stories
Read by Mary J
Giovanni Verga
The short stories of Giovanni Verga, one of the leading authors of Italian verismo, or realism, tell mostly of working-class characters in r…
La Vita Nuova
Read by Mary J
Dante Alighieri
In quella parte del libro della mia memoria dinanzi alla quale poco si potrebbe leggere, si trova una rubrica la quale dice Incipit Vita Nov…
The Spiral Tattoo
Read by Michael J. Parry
Michael J. Parry
When you're six inches tall and can fly, life can be tough in a big persons world. What better then than to be partnered with a seven foot t…
The Oaks Grove
Read by Michael J. Parry
Michael J. Parry
It was going to be a quiet weekend in the country. Elanore was going to spend it chatting with courtly gents about matters of higher importa…
The Crown Conspiracy
Read by Michael J. Sullivan
Michael J. Sullivan
They killed the king. They pinned it on two men. They chose poorly.
There's no ancient evil to defeat, no orphan destined for greatness, jus…
Little Eve Edgarton
Read by Nathalie J.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Eve Edgarton is not who she seems she is. A short encounter with Mr. Barton show that first impressions are not always right or indicative o…
Molly Make-Believe
Read by Nathalie J.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Carl Stanton is an invalid suffering from an unusual bout of rheumatism. His fiancee is gone for the winter and though he begs her to write …
The Indiscreet Letter
Read by Nathalie J.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Three fellow travelers on a train enter into a discussion concerning what they would call an 'indiscreet letter.' The discussion, albeit sho…
Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Mon…
Read by Nathalie J.
L. A. Abbott
This work the author claims is indeed a true story of how he happened to be married seven times to seven different women and the rollicking,…
The Middle of Things
Read by Nathalie J.
J. S. Fletcher
A habitual late night stroll down Markendale Square plunges Viner into the middle of things most mysterious and most perplexing. A murder, a…
The Theory of Social Revolutions
Read by Nathalie J.
Brooks Adams
Brooks Adams (1848-1927), was an American historian and a critic of capitalism. He believed that commercial civilizations rise and fall in p…
Life In Mexico
Read by Nathalie J.
Frances Calderón De La Barca
FRANCES CALDERON DE LA BARCA, born in Edinburgh, 1804, the daughter of William Inglis. After her father's death she settled in America, wher…
Cattle Brands
Read by Nathalie J.
Andy Adams
Cattle Brands is a collection of 14 entertaining short stories depicting not only the life of cowboys in the wild, wild West, but also the h…
Travels in West Africa
Read by Nathalie J.
Mary H. Kingsley
Mary Henrietta Kingsley (13 October 1862 – 3 June 1900) was an British explorer and writer who greatly influenced European ideas about Afric…
The Lost City
Read by Nathalie J.
Joseph E. Badger and Harry Hazelton
Bruno and Waldo Gillespie are orphaned brothers living with the extremely eccentric Professor Phaeton Featherwit. One day they set off in on…
The White Linen Nurse
Read by Nathalie J.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
The White Linen Nurse is a hysterical story of an exhausted nurse who comes to regret her profession and then somehow finds herself caring f…
Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper
Read by Nathalie J.
T. S. Arthur
Is housekeeping such a trial? Mrs. Smith thinks so and confesses all in this merry account of her escapades and near disasters! (Summary by …
The Haunted Hotel, A Mystery of Modern Venice
Read by Nathalie J.
Wilkie Collins
A kind, good-hearted, genteel young woman jilted, a suspicious death or two that only a few think could be murder, strange apparitions appea…
The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient
Read by Nicole J. LeBoeuf
Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens
A collection of folklore gathered from India, China, Japan, the Philippines, and Persia. - Summary by Nicole J. LeBoeuf
Lud-in-the-Mist
Read by Nicole J. LeBoeuf
Hope Mirrlees
Nathaniel Chanticleer, staid and respectable mayor of Lud-in-the-Mist, wants nothing more than to preserve the traditions of his city and th…