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2 B R 0 2 B by Kurt Vonnegut

1 episode - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
In this chilling short-story by a master of the craft, Kurt Vonnegut creates a fictional world of the future where life and death are no longer matters of individual choice or destiny. The title re...

Caedmon's Hymn by Caedmon

1 episode - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Cædmon was an Anglo-Saxon herdsman attached to the double monastery of Streonæshalch (657–681). Originally ignorant of the art of song, Cædmon learned to compose one night in the course of a dream....

Short Poetry Collection by Various

2 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Short Poetry Collection 001: a collection of 29 public-domain poems.

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

2 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Oedipus the King (often known by the Latin title Oedipus Rex) is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed c. 429 BC. It was the second of Sophocles's three Theban plays to be produ...

Second Variety by Philip K. Dick

2 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Early victories by the USSR in a global nuclear war cause the United Nations government to retreat to the moon leaving behind troops and fierce autonomous robots called “Claws”, which reproduce and...

Afterward by Edith Wharton

2 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
A short story classified under the American Gothic genre, the piece depicts an eerie set of events following the distressing occurrences within the Boyne household, as their dream relocation takes ...

Poems of William Blake by William Blake

3 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★ - 5 ratings
Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul are two books of poetry by the English poet and painter, William Blake. Although Songs of Innocence was first...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Unknown

3 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 5 ratings
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th Century Middle English alliterative romance outlining an adventure of Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur’s Round Table. In the tale, Sir Gawain accep...

Spirits in Bondage: a cycle of lyrics by C. S. Lewis

3 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
First published in 1919 under his pseudonym Clive Hamilton, Spirits in Bondage, is also the first published book by the notorious novelist C.S. Lewis. This early piece of work represents Lewis’ you...

Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville

4 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a novella by the American novelist Herman Melville (1819–1891). It first appeared anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 editi...

Three Ghost Stories by Charles Dickens

4 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
As a gifted writer with a strong interest in supernatural phenomena, Charles Dickens produced a string of ghost stories with enduring charm. Three of them are presented here, of which The Signal Ma...

Four Max Carrados Detective Stories by Ernest Bramah

4 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
Ernest Bramah is mainly known for his ‘Kai Lung’ books – Dorothy L Sayers often used quotes from them for her chapter headings. In his lifetime however he was equally well known for his detective s...

First Love by Ivan S. Turgenev

5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
The title of the novella is almost an adequate summary in itself. The “boy-meets-girl-then-loses-her” story is universal but not, I think, banal – despite a surprise ending which notoriously turns ...

Long Poems Collection by Various

5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
Long Poems Collection 1: a collection of 5 public-domain poems longer than 5 minutes in length.

The Tragedy of Hamlet by William Shakespeare

5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 11 ratings
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet exacts on his uncle Claudius for murdering...

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 10 ratings
William Shakespeare’s most well-known play is more than most people realize. While it is the story of star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, it is also the story of two families in the middle of a...

Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories by Ambrose Bierce

5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Ambrose Bierce (1842 – 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often sprinkled with subtle cynical comments on human behaviour...

Initiative Psychic Energy by Warren Hilton

5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
Learn how to accomplish your goals through increasing your mental power, avoiding energy drains, and becoming more mentally efficient.

Typhoon by Joseph Conrad

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
First published in 1902 as a serial in Pall Mall Magazine, the adventure novel follows the disrupting events onboard a steamboat after it takes a perilous course at sea, which triggers a state of m...

Othello by William Shakespeare

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 5 ratings
In seventeenth century Venice, a wealthy and debauched man discovers that the woman he is infatuated with is secretly married to a Moorish general in the Venetian army. He shares his grief and rage...

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
First published in Blackwood’s magazine as a three part serial in 1899 and published in 1902, Heart of Darkness centers on the experiences of protagonist Charles Marlow as he is assigned the duty t...

Eirik the Red's Saga by Anonymous

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
In this saga, the events that led to Eirik the Red’s banishment to Greenland are chronicled, as well as Leif Eirikson’s discovery of Vinland the Good (a place where wheat and grapes grew naturally)...

Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Shakespeare’s Sonnets, or simply The Sonnets, comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality. T...

Little Wizard Stories of Oz by L. Frank Baum

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
The “Little Wizard Stories of Oz” are six short stories written by L. Frank Baum in 1913. By all accounts, Baum intended to finish the Oz series with “The Emerald City of Oz,” published in 1910. Fo...

Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy by George Santayana

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
Before the beginning of World War II, during the time of the Modernist movement in philosophy, George Santayana wrote these five descriptive essays. He examined John Locke’s sensationalism, British...

Spurgeon's Sermons May 1858 by Charles Spurgeon

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
Charles Spurgeon was a popular Baptist minister in London in mid-Victorian times; his ministry was highly influential and had a significant effect on many families in London and further afield. It ...

Principles of Economics by Alfred Marshall

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★ - 1 rating
“The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings.” An uncannily prophetic quote from an 1890 book, Principles of Economics by Alfred Marshall presents an idea that has been accept...

The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 11 ratings
Right from its famous opening scene which begins, “Thunder and lightning. Enter Three Witches” The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare holds the reader fast in a stirring, monumental experien...

An International Episode by Henry James

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
Two men visting the US from London meet a pair of charming women who return the visit the following year in London. Romantic intrigues, miscommunication and cultural faux pas abound in this short b...

Daisy Miller: A Study in Two Parts by Henry James

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
Daisy Miller is an 1878 novella by Henry James. It portrays the confused courtship of the eponymous American girl by Winterbourne, a compatriot of hers with much more sophistication. His pursuit of...