Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA

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

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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 …

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 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, …