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Our Little Mexican Cousin

Read by Mike Dunn


Edward Crompton Butler


This book tells about life in Mexico in the early 20th century, through the eyes of a little girl, Juanita. As the story follows her, the re…

Lilith

Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA


George MacDonald


Lilith, written by the father of fantasy literature, George MacDonald, was first published in 1895. Its importance was recognized in its lat…

Undine

Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA


Friedrich De La Motte Fouqué


Undine is a novel by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué concerning Undine, a water spirit who marries a Knight named Huldbrand in order to …

The Expressman and the Detective

Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA


Allan Pinkerton


Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884), a Scotsman by birth and a barrel-maker by trade, settled in Chicago in its infancy and founded the Pinkertons, …

Hymns to the Night

Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA


Novalis


"Hymns to the Night" is the last published work of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (1772-1801), the German philoso…

The World of Unicellular

Read by Oleg Seriy and MaRiCaBo


Oleg Seriy and MaRiCaBo


It is the next book of an author of apocalyptic books. It may be said that this book is an adapted version of “Book of Rescue from the Dooms…

City of Masks

Read by Mike Reeves-McMillan


Mike Reeves-McMillan


City of Masks is a swashbuckling adventure in a setting reminiscent of Shakespeare's Italy (complete with twins). In the city-state of Bonvi…

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (version 3)

Read by Peter Yearsley


Lewis Carroll


"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do ..." .. and from that mom…

The Enchanted Castle

Read by Peter Eastman


E. Nesbit


Three children, forced to remain at school during the holidays, go in search of adventure. What they find is a magic castle straight out of …

The People of the Abyss

Read by Peter Yearsley


Jack London


Jack London lived for a time within the grim and grimy world of the East End of London, where half a million people scraped together hardly …

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Read by Peter Bobbe


James Joyce


This is James Joyce's first novel, the semi-autobiographical story of a young Irish boy who struggles with family, country, and religion to …

The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry

Read by Peter Yearsley


M. M. Pattison Muir


A light journey through the history of chemistry, from its start in the obscure mysteries of alchemy to what was, for the author, the cuttin…

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

Read by Peter Yearsley


M. R. James


Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) was a medieval scholar; Provost of King’s College, Cambridge. He wrote many of his ghost stories to be rea…

Grim Tales

Read by Peter Yearsley


E. Nesbit


A collection of gentle stories that draw us into that hidden world where fear is just around the next corner, and where loving hands can tou…

The King in Yellow (part 1)

Read by Peter Yearsley


Robert W. Chambers


Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933) studied art in Paris in the late 80's and early 90's, where his work was displayed at the Salon. However, sho…

Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories

Read by Peter Yearsley


Ambrose Bierce


Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often …

Life in a Mediaeval City, Illustrated by York in the XVth Century

Read by Peter Yearsley


Edwin Benson


A short and gentle overview of mediaeval life in a large city. It lightly covers the class structure of society, local government, guilds, p…

Sadhana, The Realisation of Life, version 2

Read by Peter Yearsley


Rabindranath Tagore


A collection of essays on the Hindu/Buddhist view of humankind's place in the universe. As the author says in his introduction: "in the…

John Barleycorn or Alcoholic Memoirs

Read by Peter Kelleher


Jack London


Jack London died at the age of forty. In this autobiographical work, London describes his life as seen through the eyes of John Barleycorn (…

The Song of Hiawatha

Read by Peter Yearsley


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


I sing the Song of Hiawatha,Brave of heart and strong of arm.Daughter's son of old Nokomis,Fathered by the harsh West Wind.With its regular,…

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