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Nine Biological Lectures
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Various
Nine lectures on a variety of biological subjects delivered at The Marine Biological Laboratories of Wood's Holl in the summer session of 18…
The Case of the Lamp That Went Out
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Auguste Groner
"The Case of the Lamp That Went Out" is one of the earlier Joseph Muller stories by Austrian author, Auguste Groner, originally pu…
The House on the Downs
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Gladys Edson Locke
Mark Brandon, a writer from Australia is in England to visit an old friend, Sir Quenton Rotherdene. However, while walking across the Downs…
Exterior to the Evidence
Read by J. M. Smallheer
J. S. Fletcher
"Exterior to the Evidence" is a mystery novel by J. S. Fletcher originally published in The Black Mask, a magazine of mystery and …
The Chemical Constituents of the Active Principle of the Ava Root
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Alice A. Ball
The Chemical Constituents of Piper Methysticum or The Chemical Constituents of the Active Principle of The Ava Root is the text of a Master’…
Einstein and the Universe
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Charles Nordmann
"M. Nordmann has presented Einstein’s principle in words which lift the average reader over many of the difficulties he must encounter …
The Terriford Mystery
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Marie Belloc Lowndes
The Terriford Mystery is a 1924 novel by prolific English author, Marie Belloc Lowndes. The story revolves around handsome Harry Garlett an…
White Mountain Trails
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Winthrop Packard
"A survey of the White Mountains of New Hampshire from a naturalist's standpoint, useful alike to the tourist, the "tramper" …
The Kingdom of the Heavens
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Charles Nordmann
Thought is the most swift and subtle of vehicles. Let us therefore use that craft to reach a trysting-place in the skies. The light which r…
The Adventures of a Man of Science
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Clifford Halifax and L. T. Meade
"We have taken down these stories from time to time as our friend. Paul Gilchrist, has related them to us. He is a man whose life study…
AmerIndian 2192
Read by J. Scott Garibay
J. Scott Garibay
AmerIndian 2192 is a science-fiction novel that explores the intriguing possibilities of Native Americans in mankind's star flung future. Am…
The Isle of the Undead
Read by Louise J. Belle
Lloyd Eshbach
"A gripping, thrilling, uncanny tale about the frightful fate that befell a yachting party on the dreadful island of living dead men.&q…
Carmilla (Version 3)
Read by Louise J. Belle
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Carmilla is an 1872 Gothic novella by Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, originally published as a serial in the London-based literary ma…
The Horla
Read by Louise J. Belle
Guy de Maupassant
"The Horla" (French title "Le Horla") is among the most famous short stories by the French writer Guy de Maupassant. Th…
The Beckoning Fair One (Version 2)
Read by Louise J. Belle
Oliver Onions
"The Beckoning Fair One" is the most famous, and most widely anthologized, work by British author Oliver Onions. This novella, alo…
Nonsense Novels (Version 2)
Read by Louise J. Belle
Stephen Leacock
Stephen Leacock (1869-1944) was a Canadian writer, teacher, and political scientist. A prolific and popular humorist, he published dozens of…
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Neilson Translation)
Read by M. J. Boyle
The Gawain Poet and The Gawain Poettranslated Bywilliam Allan Neilson
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century Middle English alliterative romance outlining an adventure of Sir Gawain, a knight of…
Erec and Enide
Read by M. J. Boyle
Chrétien De Troyes
A medieval romance in which Erec goes through many trials until he is sure of Enide’s loyalty and true love (Summary by M. J. Boyle)
The New Life (La vita nuova)
Read by Mary J
Dante Alighieri
One of Dante's earliest works, La vita nuova or La vita nova (The New Life) is in a prosimetrum style, a combination of prose and verse, and…
The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella
Read by Mary J
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Michael Angelo and Campanella represent widely sundered, though almost contemporaneous, moments in the evolution of the Italian genius. Mich…