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The Beckoning Fair One
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
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…
The Christian Mythology
Read by Louise J. Belle
Ethel Brigham Leatherbee
"Knowledge is power, but ignorance is the mother of devotion."Christianity, like all other religions, came not into the world full…
I and My Chimney
Read by Louise J. Belle
Herman Melville
Herman Melville (1819–1891) is best known for his epic novel Moby Dick (1851), as well as the short story “Bartleby the Scrivener” (1853) an…
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Read by M. J. Boyle
The Gawain Poet, The Gawain Poettranslated Bywilliam Allan Neilson and The Gawain Poettranslated By William 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
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…
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 Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti
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…
Under the Shadow of Etna
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…
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…
The Haunted Hotel
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 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…
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 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…
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…