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In Varney, the Vampyre Vol. 3

Read by Richard J May


Thomas Preskett Prest and Thomas Peckett Prest


This is volume 3 of 3. -- Originally published as a penny dreadful from 1845 until 1847, when it first appeared in book form, Varney the Vam…

Thoughts on South Africa

Read by Rachel May Ferriman


Olive Schreiner


'Thoughts on South Africa' is a collection of Schreiner's observations of colonial South Africa in the early 19th century, mostly regarding …

The Amber Treasure

Read by Richard Denning


Richard Denning


Cerdic is the nephew of a great warrior who died a hero of the Anglo-Saxon country of Deira. Growing up in a quiet village, he dreams of the…

A Tale of Two Cities (Version 5)

Read by Richard Reiman


Charles Dickens


Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities is a novel that views the eighteenth century French Revolution through the lens of nineteenth century…

Laddie's Magical Glowing Balls Of Colored Gas

Read by Richard Stephenson


Richard Stephenson


Laddie is a schizophrenic inmate who lives in the violent, obscene environment of a maximum security prison. Delusions swirl in his mind li…

The Hound of the Baskervilles (Version 6)

Read by Richard Reiman


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


The baronet of Baskerville Hall is found dead, possibly a victim of a supernatural hound, the fulfillment of an old family legend. Holmes an…

William Penn

Read by Richard Vogel


George Hodges


Biography of William Penn - Summary by Richard Vogel

The Story of George Fox

Read by Richard Vogel


Rufus Jones


A biography of George Fox, founder of The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). - Summary by Richard Vogel

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Read by J. Hall


L. Frank Baum


The timeless story of the Wizard Of Oz. Follow Dorothy as she leaves Kansas for Oz on a cyclone. She meets many strange, and wonderful peopl…

The Haunted Hotel, A Mystery of Modern Venice

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…

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…

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…

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 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 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…

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…

Life In Mexico

Read by Nathalie J.


Frances Calderón De La Barca


FRANCES CALDERON DE LA BARCA, born in Edinburgh, 1804, the daughter of William Inglis. After her father's death she settled in America, wher…

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