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02 - Chapters 3 through 6
Read by Tom Weiss
Gilbert Parker
In The Right of Way
Charley Steele is a successful and brilliant Canadian lawyer. He has a nagging wife, Kathleen, and a lazy brother-in-law, Billy. In spite of…
Stubby Tells What Happened to Him
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Frances Trego Montgomery
In Billy Whiskers' Adventures
Billy Whiskers, Stubby and Button return from France to New York where new adventures await our favorite goat and his friends. Trouble is s…
Crowcastle
Read by Ben Tucker
John Metcalfe
In The Smoking Leg and Other Stories
Celebrated science fiction author Brian Stableford has praised John Metcalfe's stories saying they "build up a unique sense of unease&q…
Author's note
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
In Victory (Version 2)
After spending some years wandering about the East and engaging in various adventures, Axel Heyst, a man of independent means who feels litt…
Chapter 24
Read by Ray Clare
G. K. Chesterton
In Tremendous Trifles
“None of us think enough of these things on which the eye rests. But don't let us let the eye rest. Why should the eye be so lazy? Let us ex…
Of Sin in General
Read by InTheDesert
Zacharias Ursinus
In Commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism
These lectures present a complete exposition of all the leading doctrines of the Christian religion in a most concise and simple form, adapt…
Letter XV
Read by Ryan Williams
Valdemar Adolph Thisted
In Letters from Hell
"Letters from Hell" is a didactic Christian fantasy novel, with a faint resemblance to C.S. Lewis' "The Screwtape Letters.&qu…
Chapter 16 - Jonathan Stubbs
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Anthony Trollope
In Ayala's Angel
Lucy and Ayala Dormer are left penniless by the death of their parents. Ayala is taken in by their rich aunt Lady Tringle and Lucy by their …
To my readers in America
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
In The Nigger of the "Narcissus" (Version 2)
Today, we're likely to react to the title of this novella, on whose 'sincerity of expression' Conrad was willing to stake his artisitic repu…
Chapter XXXVIIII. The Song of Sin Sin Wa
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Sax Rohmer
In Dope
A minor lord is killed and a rich socialite is missing, and they are both tied to the enigmatic Kazmah the Dream Reader, who has also disapp…
Author’s note
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
In The Rescue
"The Rescue" is the third of Conrad's novels to feature Captain Tom Lingard, an independent buccaneer operating in the Malayan arc…
Freya of the Seven Isles: Chapter 5
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
In 'Twixt Land and Sea
While the central figures in each of the three stories in this collection are sailing captains, the main action in two of them takes place o…
The Squire's story
Read by Phil Benson
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
In Short Stories (Household Words 1850-53)
Elizabeth Gaskell was a regular contributor to Charles Dickens's weekly magazine, Household Words, from 1850 through to 1853 In addition to …
Chapter 1
Read by Ben Tucker
H. P. Lovecraft
In Through the Gates of the Silver Key
"Through the Gates of the Silver Key," published complete in this issue, is an utterly amazing novelette. It is much more than a m…
Author's Note
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
In An Outcast of the Islands (Version 2)
This, Conrad's second, novel serves as an illuminating prequel of his first, 'Almayer's Folly', teasing out the origins of the factional ten…
Author's Note
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
In Nostromo (Version 2)
In Nostromo, Joseph Conrad has transformed an apocryphal anecdote about a sailor who got away with stealing a boat loaded with silver into a…
XVIII. Unexpected Visitors
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Arthur M. Winfield
In The Rover Boys on Land and Sea
The Boys are off on another series of adventures, beginning in San Francisco, where a run in with arch-enemy Dan Baxter leads them into the …
13-13 And Other Signs
Read by Dawn Larsen
Roy J. Snell
In Green Eyes
A teenage mystery bookWhile holidaying on Lake Huron Florence and a gypsy dancer friend meet up with a lady detective searching for a lost r…
The Last of Squire Ennismore
Read by April6090
Charlotte Riddell
In Idle Tales
These stories are quite captivating hovering between mysteries & ghostly imaginings. The author was an Irish-born lady that seemed to li…
Chapter VI
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
In A Personal Record
Conrad began dictating the series of loose autobiographical sketches that would become 'A Personal Record' in 1911, when he was half way thr…