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Short Ghost Story Collection by Various

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 6 ratings
The Short Ghost Story Collection contains ten classic spooky tales written by such master craftsmen as Algernon Blackwood, Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker and Saki among others. The stories range from...

Selected Short Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 42 ratings
A shy and dowdy country girl, Berenice feels socially inept beside her vivacious and sophisticated cousin, Marjorie. But Marjorie decides to groom her and when Berenice turns out better than she ex...

Warlord of Kor by Terry Carr

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
Warlord of Kor was originally published in 1963 as half of an Ace Double, selected by legendary editor Donald A. Wollheim. It is an interplanetary adventure, as humans probe the mysteries of the pl...

An American Robinson Crusoe by Samuel B. Allison

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
An American Robinson Crusoe is a short version of the original story. An indolent, rebellious teen goes on a marine voyage against his parents’ wishes. The ship (and all of its crew) is lost in a s...

Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Real men don’t take guff from snotty kids. Neither does Disko Troop, skipper of the “We’re Here”, a fishing schooner out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, when his crew fishes Harvey Cheyne out of the ...

Short Science Fiction Collection by Various

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 33 ratings
Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological and technical speculations based on current or future scien...

Children's Short Works by Unknown

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Most parents know and understand the value of children's stories. Reading aloud to your children becomes an occasion for family warmth and bonding. But quite apart from this, the true importance of...

The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
The typical action hero with a stiff upper lip whose actions speak louder than his words, a mysterious American who lives in dread of being killed, an anarchist plot to destabilize Greece, a deadly...

Wage-Labour and Capital by Karl Marx

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Orignally written as a series of newspaper articles in 1847, Wage-Labour and Capital was intended to give a short overview, for popular consumption, of Marx’s central threories regarding the econom...

Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud

10 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 20 ratings
From the dawn of human consciousness, dreams have always fascinated us. Do they mean something? Do dreams help us see into the future? These questions have intrigued us for centuries. Sigmund Freud...

Psalms by American Bible Union

11 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
This 1871 revision of The Psalms by the American Bible Union is based on the “Common Version”, another name for the 1833 revision of the King James Version of The Bible by Noah Webster.

Wedding Poems by Unknown

11 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
In honor of Kristin and Corey’s wedding (April 2006) we’ve recorded a selection of wedding-themed poems. Congratulations, you two!

This Crowded Earth by Robert Bloch

12 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
Robert Bloch was a prolific writer in many genres. As a young man he was encouraged by his mentor H. P. Lovecraft, and was a close friend of Stanley G. Weinbaum. Besides hundreds of short stories a...

All Things Considered by G. K. Chesterton

12 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 13 ratings
Another delightful and sharply pointed excursion into the topics of the day, and of this day as well, with Gilbert Keith Chesterton. These reprinted magazine articles are filled with his good natur...

12 Creepy Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

12 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★ - 38 ratings
From the master of the psychological horror genre comes this brilliant collection 12 Creepy Tales by Edgar Allan Poe. It features some of his classics like The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat and Th...

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

12 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Once regarded as a cult book in the 1960s by the Flower Power generation, Siddhartha by Herman Hesse remains even today a simple and fresh tale of a man's spiritual quest. Penned by a deeply spirit...

Charles Dickens by G. K. Chesterton

12 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
G. K. Chesterton was a great admirer of Charles Dickens, and wrote a noted critique of Dickens’ works expressing his opinion in his own inimitable style.

Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Peter Kropotkin

12 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution is a book by Peter Kropotkin on the subject of mutual aid, written while he was living in exile in England. It was first published by William Heinemann in London i...

Humility : The Beauty of Holiness by Andrew Murray

12 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 24 ratings
A book on the all importance of humility, how Jesus was humble, and how we also can become humble. Murray wrote “Without humility, there can be no true abiding in God’s presence or experience of Hi...

Essays, First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson

12 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
“I do not wish to treat friendships daintily but with roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass beads or frost-work but the solidest thing we know....” is how Ralph Waldo Emerson saw...

Ophelia by Walter de la Mare

12 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
Ophelia, poem of the week for February 25, 2007; read here by twelve of our readers. Ophelia loved Hamlet, was repulsed by him, and went insane. She drowned in a stream, gathering flowers of remem...

Anthem by Ayn Rand

12 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
The title 'Anthem' is derived as an anthem to sense of self and self-governing thoughts. Anthem is a story of Equality 7-2521 who is a young man living in some unspecified future time and place. ...

Tales of Terror and Mystery by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

12 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 24 ratings
Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his detective stories, he also wrote other short stories which are masterpieces of mystery and suspense. In some of the stories in “Tales of Terror a...

Folk Ballad Collection by Unknown

13 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★ - 1 rating
First collection of sung and spoken folk ballads (13 in collection).

Triplanetary by E.E. “Doc” Smith

13 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 7 ratings
“Doc” E.E. Smith pretty much invented the space opera genre, and Triplanetary is a good and well-known example. Physics, time, and politics never stand in the way of a plot that gallops ahead witho...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

13 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
An acclaimed children’s classic depicting the odd, but riveting journeys of the curious Alice as she explores the surreal world of Wonderland. Written by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson or better known un...

What Katy Did at School by Susan Coolidge

13 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
The continuing story of Katy Carr, recounting the time she spent at boarding school with her sister Clover.

Arabic Primer by Sir Arthur Cotton

13 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
“Languages”, Sir Arthur Cotton writes, “are usually learnt as if it took a long time to learn the grammar &c., but that to speak with a good pronunciation and expression, and freely, and to catch t...

Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers

13 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★ - 8 ratings
The first novel in her renowned series of detective fiction, Sayers introduces Lord Peter Wimsey, a bon vivant gentleman, whose hobby of playing detective is put to the test, as he is launched into...

No Thoroughfare by Charles Dickens

13 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, with disastrous consequences in adulthood. Two associates, wishing to right the wrong, are commissioned to find a missing heir. Their q...