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Java Head

Read by Margaret Espaillat


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…

Merton of the Movies

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Harry Leon Wilson


Merton of the Movies is a comedy that centers around Merton Gill, an aspiring dramatic artist from Simsbury, Illinois who makes his way to H…

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…

Effi Briest (abridged)

Read by Margaret Espaillat


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…

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…

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 …

Come Out of the Kitchen!

Read by Margaret Espaillat


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 …

The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers Vol. 1

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Robert Henry Newell


These are a collection of humorous "letters" written by a fictional character to a relation in the north during the Civil War. The…

The Raven

Read by Chris Goringe


Edgar Allan Poe


Perhaps Edgar Allen Poe's most famous poem, the "Raven" is a macabre exploration of a man, his memories of Lenore, and the black b…

The Book of Lieh-Tzu

Read by Chris Masterson


Liezi


Although Lieh Tzu's work has evidently passed through the hands of many editors and gathered numerous accretions, there remains a considerab…

Walking

Read by Chris Masterson


Henry David Thoreau


This was originally a lecture given by Thoreau in 1851 at the Concord lyceum titled "The Wild" . He revised it before his death an…

Shakespeare's Sonnets (version 2)

Read by Chris Hughes


William Shakespeare


Shakespeare's Sonnets, or simply The Sonnets, comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal wit…

She-rab Dong-bu (The Tree of Wisdom)

Read by Chris Masterson


Nagarjuna


The She-rab Dong-bu (Tree of Wisdom) is a metrical translation in Tibetan of a Sanscrit ethical work entitled Prajnya Danda, written by Naga…

Yang Chu's Garden of Pleasure

Read by Chris Masterson


Liezi


At the Court of Liang at the period of Yang Chu, about 300 B.C., the philosophers were treated as guests of the reigning king, who reserved …

Youth, a Narrative

Read by Chris Hughes


Joseph Conrad


An autobiographical short story written in 1898 and included as the first story in the 1902 volume Youth, a Narrative, and Two Other Stories…

The Glugs of Gosh

Read by Chris Goringe


C. J. Dennis


First published in 1917, The Glugs of Gosh satirizes Australian life at the start of the twentieth century - but the absurdities it catalogs…

A System of Logic

Read by Chris Greaves


John Stuart Mill


"In this work, he formulated the five principles of inductive reasoning that are known as Mill's Methods. This work is important in the…

The Blue Behemoth

Read by Chris Fong


Leigh Douglass Brackett


Shannon's Imperial Circus was a jinxed space-carny leased for a mysterious tour of the inner worlds. It made a one-night pitch on a Venusian…

Mornings at Bow Street

Read by Chris Caron


John Wight


This is a collection of various articles found in Morning Herald columns. Some are found interesting, some may be hilarious! The 84 pieces o…

Short Stories in Prose and Verse

Read by Chris Greaves


Henry Lawson


Short Stories in Prose and Verse” is Henry Lawson’s first published book (1894); his first published poem appeared in 1887. The volume is a …

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