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A Knock at the Door

In 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…

Scene from a New After-Piece

In Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

Read by Richard Garifo

Charles Babbage

Some men write their lives to save themselves from ennui, careless of the amount they inflict on their readers. Others write their personal …

Danger from Macedonia (348 B.C.) by Demosthenes

In The World’s Story Volume IV: Greece and Rome

Read by Richard Potenza

Eva March Tappan

This is the fourth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March T…

Sir Ernest Shackleton's Text

In A Casket of Cameos

Read by Richard Potenza

Frank W. Boreham

Frank Boreham was a well known preacher who served in England, Australia, and New Zealand. He published dozens of books and thousands of edi…

The Cock Lane Ghost

In Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters

Read by Mark Richard

Henry Addington Bruce

The author describes popular ghost occurrences from a skeptical point of view, providing explanations based on recent scientific research (e…

The Arizona Green Jay

In Birds, Vol. I, No 4, April 1897

Read by Richard Beiswanger

Various

Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems…

One Stone

In Stories without Tears

Read by Richard Potenza

Barry Pain

This is a collection of short stories by Barry Pain, first published in 1914. While generally best-known for his horror and supernatural fic…

The Fowler and the Partridge

In Fables of Aesop and Others

Read by Richard Auty

Aesop

The origins of these fables are perhaps lost in obscurity, but they are so closely identified with the Greek writer Aesop, that we may regar…

Without Visible Means

In Tales of Mean Streets

Read by Richard Auty

Arthur Morrison

This is the first book of a trilogy (A Child of the Jago, To London Town) set in the harsh world of London's East End. Violence and poverty …

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