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The Story of the Second Calender

In The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Volume 01

Read by Reynard T. Fox


Anonymous, translated by Dr. Jonathan Scott and Anonymoustranslated Byjonathan Scott


The main frame story concerns a king and his new bride. The king, Shahryar, upon discovering his ex-wife's infidelity executes her and then …

A Lament

In Poems

Read by Liza R. Fox


Lady Jane Francesca Wilde


Jane Wilde, the mother of Oscar Wilde, was an Irish poet who wrote under the pen name Speranza. She was politically active as an Irish natio…

Book 09

In The Odyssey

Read by Reynard T. Fox


Homer, transl. Samuel Butler and Homer


The Odyssey is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems (the other being the Iliad), attributed to the poet Homer. The poem is commonly…

The Return - Part 2

In The Return

Read by Reynard T. Fox


H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire and H. Beam Piper


Two-hundred years after a global nuclear war, two explorers from a research outpost, that largely survived the cataclysm, discover a settlem…

How Fear Came – Part 01

In The Second Jungle Book

Read by Reynard T. Fox


Rudyard Kipling


Kipling shows his love of the sub continent and its people and understanding of their beliefs in these tales. An older Mowgli roams the jung…

"THOSE WERE THE REAL CONQUESTS"

In The Lost World

Read by Reynard T. Fox


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


The Lost World is a 1912 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau (native name is Tepuyes) in South America (Venezu…

How Quercus Alba Went to Explore the Underworld

In The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children

Read by the quiet fox


Jane Andrews


"You may think that Mother Nature, like the famous "old woman who lived in the shoe," has so many children that she doesn't k…

Fidelity

In Long Poems Collection 005

Read by Reynard T. Fox


William Wordsworth


Long Poems Collection 005: a collection of 10 public-domain poems longer than 5 minutes in length.

The Adventure of the Dancing Men, part 1 (p. 36)

In The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Read by Reynard T. Fox


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Having left Sherlock Holmes apparently deceased at the conclusion of The Final Problem (in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes), we now find that…

Chapter 1

In The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Read by Reynard T. Fox


Edgar Allan Poe


The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1841. Poe referred to it as a "tale of ratiocination…

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