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Chapters 24 and 25
Read by Anne Erickson
Mary Webb
In The Golden Arrow
Deborah, a young girl from a Shropshire farm family, falls so deeply in love with the new preacher that she agrees to live with him as man a…
02 - The Reading Public
Read by TriciaG
Stephen Leacock
In Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy
Humorous, ironic, and sometimes cynical observations of life in 1915 from Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by TriciaG)
Explanation
Read by Cliff Stone
H. G. Wells
In The Time Machine (Version 7)
The story follows a Victorian scientist, who claims that he has invented a device that enables him to travel through time, and has visited t…
The Loafer and the Squire
Read by Samanem
Porte Crayon
In The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 04
The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the fourth volume, 40 short stories and poems have been gathered from 33 author…
The Lurking Fear
Read by Cliff Stone
H. P. Lovecraft
In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 070
This year's Halloween edition of Ghost and Horror Collection features 15 stories of a wide variety in length as in content! Short and long s…
The Dragon Fang
Read by Ben Tucker
Fitz-James O'Brien
In The Diamond Lens with Other Stories
Irish-born author Fitz-James O'Brien is a underrated genius of weird fiction, serving as the missing link between Edgar Allan Poe and later …
Dagon
Read by Andrew Gaunce
H. P. Lovecraft
In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 059
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…
Sam At Mon Repos
Read by Zach Hoyt
P. G. Wodehouse
In Sam In The Suburbs
A young and somewhat eccentric American named Sam Shotter is sent by his uncle, a wealthy businessman, to England to get him out of his hair…
Author's Note
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
In Typhoon and Other Stories
An impossibly imperturbable old sea captain, with two hundred Chinese labourers aboard his steamship, faces a terrifying typhoon for the fir…
The Reader
Read by Ben Tucker
Robert Louis Stevenson
In Fables
Master storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson (Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped) brings us an entrancing and at times quite…
09 - Chapter IX
Read by Kristel Tretter
Joseph Conrad
In Almayer's Folly
A European businessman and his Malayan wife have a daughter, Nina. A Malayan prince comes to do trade with the businessman and falls in love…
Jonquil and Fleur-de-Lys
Read by Rob Marland
Lord Alfred Douglas
In The Collected Poems of Lord Alfred Douglas
This is a chronologically arranged collection of poems compiled by the author in his late 40s, after he had discarded the Uranian themes of …
Sin
Read by Foon
Madison Cawein
In The Garden of Dreams
Madison Cawein from Kentucky, displays a wider range of his poetic dreams, from the bright to the dark. - Summary by Larry Wilson
Sense of Sin
Read by InTheDesert
Thomas Doolittle
In A Spiritual Antidote against Sinful Contagion in Dying Times
A cordial for believers in dying times with a corrosive for wicked men in dying times at first written as a letter to private friends in dai…
Valenciennes
Read by Libby Gohn
Thomas Hardy
In Wessex Poems
A collection of poetry by Thomas Hardy, some of which were previously published or adapted into his prose works. - Summary by Libby Gohn
Author's Note
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
In Notes on Life and Letters
Conrad described the twenty-six essays collected here as a "one-man show" comprising "Conrad literary, Conrad political, Conr…
Chapter 1 of Beautiful Joe
Read by valroth
Marshall Saunders
In First Chapter Collection 013
The first chapter of a book is often the hook to draw a reader in. It could make you eager for more or realise it isn't for you. Here we off…
February Twenty Second
Read by Lia Lallo
Joseph C. Sindelar
In Nixie Bunny in Holiday-land
Nixie Bunny takes his family on vacation to Holiday-land where they learn about the different holidays of the year. - Summary by Cassandra A…