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Cuban Doctor, The
Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Wallace Stevens
In The Collected Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens, Volume 1
A collection of Wallace Stevens poems written before 1923.Stevens trained to be a lawyer. Within eleven years after this series of poems wer…
Best-Seller
Read by Roxanne Weber
O. Henry
In Options
O. Henry needs no introduction of course; the man who made the short story with the surprise ending famous. These 16 stories are all wonder…
32 - Appendix F, Part 2
Read by Aaron Weber
Jefferson Davis
In The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1a
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is written by Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America …
03 - Celebrities
Read by Phil Benson
M. E. Francis
In In a North Country Village
M. E. Francis was born Mary E. Sweetman in Dublin and moved to Lancashire on her marriage to Francis Nicholas Blundell, of the Blundell fami…
Ch. 11: The Boarder's Visit, pt. 2
Read by Sibella Denton
Frank R. Stockton
In Rudder Grange
This book presents a number of short, comedic sketches of a country life in middle America in the late 1800s. The hilarious twists and turns…
The Carolina Paroquet
Read by Andrea Kotzer
Various
In Birds and All Nature, Vol. VI, No 4, November 1899
"Birds and All Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and br…
The Barbecue
Read by Bob R
Frank H. Spearman
In Laramie Holds The Range
As with most of Frank Spearman's novels (and non-fiction), "Laramie Holds the Range" is set in the West during our early railroad …
The great star ruby, by Barnes MacGreggor
Read by ToddHW
Various
In The Black Cat Vol. 01 No. 03 December 1895
The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…
Rothschild's Fiddle
Read by Paul Rizik
Anton Chekhov
In Short Story Collection Vol. 064
This collection comprises 20 short stories of various genres, chosen by the readers. Contributions include works from Guy de Maupassant, Rud…
The Comedian as the Letter C …
Read by KevinS
Wallace Stevens
In Harmonium
This is the first edition of Stevens's first book, with poetry written between 1914 and 1923. A later edition was printed with the inclusion…
Harsk, Harsk
Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)
Carl Sandburg
In Slabs of the Sunburnt West
Thirty-two poems about life in the American Midwest, focusing on the city of Chicago, Illinois. Summary by Matt Pierard
3 - "Q." A Psychic Pstory of the Psupernatural
Read by Phil Chenevert
Stephen Leacock
In Soaked In Seaweed and 7 other nonsense novels
8 great spoofs of 'types' of fiction by the premier Canadian humorist Leacock, taken from his book Nonsense Novels. The title of each parody…
15 - Baylor's Mail
Read by Phil Chenevert
Joel Harris and Joel Chandler Harris
In The Tar Baby and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus
26 of Uncle Remus's stories put into verse and song. With the exception of the Tar Baby story, they were all new to this publication of 1904…
Query
Read by Laurie Banza
Harold Vinal
In White April
In five section parts, Golden Windows, Sonnets for Weeping, Of Mariners, White Glamour, and Overtones, Harold Vinal writes about deep feeli…
Antonio García Cubas
Read by DJRickyV
Frederick Starr
In Readings from Modern Mexican Authors
Starr visited Mexico in 1894 and became acquainted with a wide array of contemporary writers. This work is a compendium of 29 of those write…
Dudley’s Fight with the Texan
Read by Greg Giordano
Palmer Cox
In Frontier Humor in Verse, Prose and Picture
Also known for his "Brownies" books, Canadian humorist Palmer Cox give us a delightful collection of humorous verse and short pros…
Selected excerpts
Read by Bruce Pirie
Charles Blanc
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 05
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Vallombreuse
Read by Peter Tucker
Théophile Gautier
In Captain Fracasse
The story, set in the 17th Century during the reign of Louis XIII in France, concerns the progress of an impoverished nobleman as he venture…
02 - 'Q.' A Psychic Pstory of the Psupernatural
Read by TriciaG
Stephen Leacock
In Nonsense Novels
Ten silly stories by Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by Tricia G)
V. The Hoax of the Spirit Lover
Read by Ben Tucker
Harry Houdini
In Weird Tales Presents: The Strange World of Harry Houdini
In 1924, the odd and wonderful Weird Tales Magazine published a series of stories written (or ghost-written in at least one instance) by not…