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The Hart and the Vine

In Fables of Aesop and Others

Read by Mark Henry


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…

Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl

Read by Paul Henry Tremblay


John Greenleaf Whittier


A 750-line idyllic poem about a snow-storm from the narrator's childhood. (Summary by Paul Tremblay)

The Time Machine (Version 3)

Read by Mark Nelson


H. G. Wells


H.G. Wells' classic science fiction-fantasy story, in which a scientist known only as “The Time Traveller” tells the tale of his journey to …

As a Man Thinketh

Read by Mark Cawley


James Allen


Allen's books illustrate the use of the power of thought to increase personal capabilities. Although he never achieved great fame or wealth,…

Five Sci-Fi Short Stories by H. Beam Piper

Read by Mark Nelson


H. Beam Piper


Five short stories by classic science fiction writer H. Beam Piper.

The City at World's End

Read by Mark Nelson


Edmond Hamilton


A surprise nuclear war may cause the End of the World, but not the way anyone could have imagined. A classic science fiction tale from Galax…

My Man Jeeves

Read by Mark Nelson


P. G. Wodehouse


Bertram Wooster is an English gentleman living in New York, who seems to get himself into all sorts of jams. It’s up to his manservant Jeeve…

Right Ho, Jeeves

Read by Mark Nelson


P. G. Wodehouse


Bertram Wooster's manservant, Jeeves, is renown for his ability to apply his keen intellect to solve all problems domestic, and Bertie's fri…

Four-Day Planet

Read by Mark Nelson


H. Beam Piper


Fenris isn't a hell planet, but it's nobody's bargain. With 2,000-hour days and an 8,000-hour year, it alternates blazing heat with killing …

Space Viking

Read by Mark Nelson


H. Beam Piper


A galactic war has left the Terran Federation in ruins. Formerly civilized planets have decivilized into barbarism. Space Vikings roam the w…

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Read by Mark Nelson


Victor Hugo


One of the great literary tragedies of all time, The Hunchback of Notre Dame features some of the most well-known characters in all of ficti…

The Dunwich Horror

Read by Mark Nelson


H. P. Lovecraft


In a rundown farmhouse near isolated, rural Dunwich, a bizarre family conjures and nurtures an evil entity from another realm, with the purp…

Love Among the Chickens

Read by Mark Nelson


P. G. Wodehouse


Jeremy Garnet, a second-rate novelist, gets talked into joining his old pal Stanley Featheringstonehaugh Ukridge in an insane plan to start …

Plague Ship

Read by Mark Nelson


Andre Norton


Lured by its exotic gems, the space trader Solar Queen lands on the little-known planet of Sargol, only to find the ruthless Inter-Solar Com…

The Time Traders, (Version 2)

Read by Mark Nelson


Andre Norton


If it is possible to conquer space, then perhaps it is also possible to conquer time. At least that was the theory American scientists were …

The Cosmic Computer

Read by Mark Nelson


H. Beam Piper


Conn Maxwell returns from Terra to his poverty-stricken home planet of Poictesme, "The Junkyard Planet", with news of the possible…