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The Water Ghost and Others

Read by David Wales


John Kendrick Bangs


Eight ghost stories by a master story teller and humorist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. (Summary by David Wales)

Bible (KJV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Prayer of Manasses

Read by David Shamp


King James Version


The Prayer of Manasses is supposed to have been the prayer of Manasses King of Judah when he repented from his idolatrous ways when he was h…

Three Short Works

Read by David Barnes


Gustave Flaubert


Here is a collection of strikingly different pieces by Flaubert: a prose poem in the voices of Death, Satan and Nero; the trials and apotheo…

Treatises On Friendship And Old Age

Read by David Wales


Marcus Tullius Cicero


Friendship. Old Age. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, orator, lawyer, and philosopher. He is considered one …

Myths And Legends Of The Pacific Northwest Especially Of Washington And Oregon

Read by David Wales


Katharine Berry Judson


The basis on which these myths were selected necessarily excluded those which showed traces of the white man's religion or of the red man's …

The Great K. & A. Train-Robbery

Read by David Wales


Paul Leicester Ford


In this short novel the narrator is a superintendent on the K. & A. railroad, sometime in the late nineteenth century. The train is robb…

Blazed Trail Stories and Stories Of The Wild Life

Read by David Wales


Stewart Edward White


Thirteen short stories by a popular writer of the early 20th century (not to be confused with an earlier book Blazed Trail). White's books …

Auguste Rodin

Read by David Wales


Rainer Maria Rilke


Rodin has pronounced Rilke's essay the supreme interpretation of his work. (From the translators’ Preface)Auguste Rodin, 1840-1917, was a …

Bible (KJV) NT 13: 1 Thessalonians

Read by David Lawrence


King James Version


The First Epistle of Paul to the Thessalonians, usually referred to simply as First Thessalonians and often written 1 Thessalonians, is a bo…

The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel

Read by David Wales


A. E. W. Mason


Inspector Hanaud is a member of the French Sûreté. He is said to have been the model for Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, as w…

Holy Sonnets

Read by David Barnes


John Donne


John Donne (1572 – March 31, 1631) was a Jacobean poet and preacher, representative of the metaphysical poets of the period. His works, nota…

Sevastopol

Read by David Wales


Leo Tolstoy


Sevastopol Sketches (Russian: Севастопольские рассказы, Sevastopolskiye rasskazy) are three short stories written by Leo Tolstoy and publish…

Bible (KJV) NT 17: Titus

Read by David Lawrence


King James Version


The Epistle of Paul to Titus, usually referred to simply as Titus, is one of the three Pastoral Epistles (with 1 Timothy and 2 Timothy), tra…

Christmas Every Day and Other Stories Told for Children

Read by David Wales


William Dean Howells


Five short delightful stories for children, told in the voice of "the papa" to "the girl" and "the boy" Willia…

Five Tales

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John Galsworthy


This 1918 book consists of five short stories or novelettes by Galsworthy. They are The First and Last (1914), A Stoic, The Apple Tree (1916…

The Wheel of Time

Read by David Wales


Henry James


Fanny Knocker is a very, very plain young woman. She is introduced to the extremely handsome, thoroughly impoverished, younger son of an old…

A Little Book of Christmas

Read by David Wales


John Kendrick Bangs


Summary: Four short Christmas stories, a bit sentimental, but still affecting and worthwhile. Plus Four Christmas verses. (Summary by David …

The House Of The Arrow

Read by David Wales


A. E. W. Mason


A young English girl is accused in Dijon of murdering her French aunt. Hanaud to the rescue! Inspector Hanaud is a member of the French S&uc…

Union and Communion - or Thoughts on the Song of Solomon

Read by David Barnes


J. Hudson Taylor


This little book, whose design is to lead the devout Bible student into the Green Pastures of the Good Shepherd, thence to the Banqueting Ho…

Bible (KJV) NT 14: 2 Thessalonians

Read by David Lawrence


King James Version


The Second Epistle of Paul to the Thessalonians, often referred to as Second Thessalonians and written 2 Thessalonians, is a book from the N…

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