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In Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fable

Read by Thomas Wells


Thomas Bulfinch


Bulfinch’s Mythology, first published in 1855, is one of the most popular collections of mythology of all time. It consists of three volumes…

We Hear from Yanina

In The Count of Monte Cristo

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Alexandre Dumas


The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, …

Chapter 04

In The Last of the Mohicans - A Narrative of 1757 (version 2)

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James Fenimore Cooper


This story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns a Huron massacre (with passive French a…

The Doings of Raffles Haw

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


The people of the small town of Tamfield are not used to exciting things happening. When millionaire Raffles Haw moves to town, rumors sprea…

Woyzeck

Read by Thomas Rappel


Georg Büchner


Woyzeck ist ein Dramenfragment des deutschen Dramatikers und Dichters Georg Büchner. Büchner begann vermutlich zwischen Juni und S…

The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights

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James Knowles and Sir Thomas Malory


The Publishers have asked me to authorise a new edition, in my own name, of this little book—now long out of print—which was written by me t…

In the Pecos Country

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Edward S. Ellis


Edward Sylvester Ellis was a major American author during the era of inexpensive fiction of the nineteenth century (dime novels). Because he…

Badge of Infamy (version 2)

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Lester Del Rey


Set in the early 22nd century: Dr. Daniel Feldman, stripped of rank and status and named pariah for violating Medical Lobby rules, stows aw…

Common Sense, How to Exercise It

Read by Thomas Rose


Yoritomo Tashi


One of three seminal philosophical works by the twelfth century Japanese Shogun, Yoritomo-Tashi. (From the Preface) He knows how to clothe…

The Cave In the Mountain

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Edward S. Ellis


Edward Sylvester Ellis was a major American author during the era of inexpensive fiction of the nineteenth century (dime novels). Because he…

The World Is Badly Made

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Thomas Corfield


When the palace of Arabesque’s aide d’camp, a cat named the Tremblees, stumbles upon a translation of an ancient language that reveals the e…

The Alchemists Of Vra

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Thomas Corfield


Consider a world inhabited with only cats and dogs: a society recognizable as our own, but with its eccentricities being the norm, rather th…

The Purging Of Ruen

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Thomas Corfield


When assigned to determine the cause of brewing tensions in the exclusive seaside city of Ruen, Oscar Teabag-Dooven discovers it’s on the br…

Writing Wrongly

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Thomas Corfield


When the worst writer in history self-publishes his books, the world of literature is decimated overnight. Illiteracy becomes something to a…

The Inner Chapters, Volume 1

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Thomas Gideon


The Inner Chapters journal my own quest to improve in the craft of programming. Each chapter reflects on a specific practice or principle t…

A Princess of Mars (Version 3)

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


Edgar Rice Burroughs


John Carter is mysteriously conveyed to Mars, where he discovers two intelligent species continually embroiled in warfare. Although he is a …

Paradise Lost (version 2)

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


John Milton


As Vergil had surpassed Homer by adapting the epic form to celebrate the origin of the author’s nation, Milton developed it yet further to r…

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (Edition 1831)

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Mary Shelley


A mentally unstable genius, Victor Frankenstein, inspired by the dreams of ancient alchemists and empowered by modern science, creates a hum…