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Doctor Ox's Experiment

Read by Alan Winterrowd


Jules Verne


An early, light-hearted short story, published in 1872 by Jules Verne. It takes place in the Flemish town of Quiquendone, where life moves a…

No Thoroughfare

Read by Alan Chant


Charles Dickens


Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, with disastrous consequences in adulthood. Two associates, wishing to right th…

The Door of the Unreal

Read by Alan Winterrowd


Gerald Biss


An early werewolf novel, praised by H.P Lovecraft. The only weird fiction from an author of mainly crime fiction. Two strange disappearanc…

History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 1

Read by Alan Winterrowd


Friedrich Schiller


The History of the Thirty Years War is a five volume work, which followed his very successful History of the Revolt of the Netherlands. Writ…

The Airlords of Han

Read by Alan Winterrowd


Philip Francis Nowlan


Airlords of Han is the 2nd Buck Rogers story, the sequel to Armageddon 2419 A.D.. Anthony Rogers takes the fight to free 25th Century Americ…

History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 2

Read by Alan Winterrowd


Friedrich Schiller


The History of the Thirty Years War is a five volume work, which followed his very successful History of the Revolt of the Netherlands. Writ…

Fantômas

Read by Alan Winterrowd


Marcel Allain


Fantômas is the first of 32 novels penned from 1911 to 1913 by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre. The title character is a ruthless t…

History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 3

Read by Alan Winterrowd


Friedrich Schiller


The History of the Thirty Years War is a five volume work, which followed his very successful History of the Revolt of the Netherlands. Writ…

Judith Lee - Pages From Her Life

Read by Alan Winterrowd


Richard Marsh


Judith Lee is a young woman with an unusual gift, she can read lips at a distance as well as she can hear the person next to her. Her skill …

Niels Klim's Journey under the Ground

Read by Alan Winterrowd


Ludvig, Baron Holberg


Niels Klim's Underground Travels, originally published in Latin as "Nicolai Klimii Iter Subterraneum" (1741) is a satirical scienc…

The Exploits of Juve (version 2)

Read by Alan Winterrowd


Marcel Allain


The second book in the Fantômas series by the prolific authors Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre (they published 32 Fantômas no…

The Track of the "Typhoon"

Read by Alan Dove


William Washburn Nutting


In 1920, William Nutting, editor of Motor Boat Magazine and an experienced sailor, commissioned his friend, legendary naval architect Willia…

The Skipper's Wooing

Read by Alan Lord


W. W. Jacobs


The crew of the ship come together in a syndicate to find the missing father of the lady whom their skipper should like to favour. Their res…

Tannhäuser

Read by Alan Mapstone


Richard Wagner


The legend of Tannhäuser, the Minstrel Knight who, having betrayed his love for the virtuous Elizabeth by dallying in the Venusberg, re…

Selection from Poems

Read by Alan Mapstone


Alexander Pushkin


Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin is often called "the father of Russian literature". He was the first great poet to write in Russian …

Poems Concerning the Slave Trade

Read by Alan Mapstone


Robert Southey


Robert Southey, a future Poet Laureate, was born in Bristol, one of the principal ports in England for the slave trade. He wrote these poems…

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

Read by Alan Mapstone


George Gordon, Lord Byron


English Bards and Scotch Reviewers was first published anonymously in 1809 with Byron only identified as the author in the 2nd edition. Byro…

The King's Son, Or, a Memoir of Billy Bray

Read by Alan Chant


Frederick William Bourne


Billy Bray, was an unconventional Cornish preacher. He was born in 1794 in the village of Twelveheads, Cornwall, England. After leaving sch…

Poems of Pilgrimage

Read by Alan Mapstone


Thomas Hardy


A short collection of poems by Thomas Hardy describing his feelings when visiting various places of historic interest in Italy and Switzerla…

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto III

Read by Alan Mapstone


George Gordon, Lord Byron


Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a narrative poem in four parts written by Lord Byron. It was published between 1812 and 1818. The poem describ…

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