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17 - The Reckoning
Read by Becky Cook
Robert W. Service
In The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses
Known as the Bard of the Yukon and as a people's poet, Robert Service immortalized his experience with the Yukon and its gold rush and this …
To You Who Read My Book
Read by Michael MacTaggert
Countee Cullen
In Color
Countee Cullen’s poetry in Color contemplates Black Americans’ fractured sense of self—at once spiritually tied to homelands where their anc…
Chapter VIII The Mind Reader Strikesr
Read by cyndajm
Harold L. Goodwin
In The Electronic Mind Reader: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story
Rick, Scotty and Barby concoct a plan to use hidden technology in a quiz show. In the background, the Coast Guard contacts Spindrift Scient…
A warning to the curious
Read by Peter Yearsley
M. R. James
In A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories (Version 2)
The fourth collection of ghost stories made by the author, including one written for Queen Victoria (The haunted doll's house). - Summary b…
The Miniature - Read by NB
Read by nbvoices
George Pope Morris
In The Miniature
George Pope Morris was an American editor, poet, and songwriter. In addition to his publishing and editorial work, Morris was popular as a p…
Chapter 13
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…
Pepsin
Read by Christine Rottger
Various
In Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22, 1888
The Scientific American may be the oldest continuously published periodical in the United States, having launched its first publication in 1…
Part 7
Read by Phil Chenevert
Leigh Douglass Brackett
In Queen Of The Martian Catacombs
This is the very first story with the Conan-like barbarian hero, Eric John Stark. There were more written by Brackett and all just as exciti…
Interpreted
Read by Foon
Madison Cawein
In The Poems of Madison Cawein Vol. 5
This is Volume 5: Poems of Meditation and of Forest and Field of the collected works of Madison Julius Cawein, an American poet from Kentuck…
Chapter XIX
Read by Phil Chenevert
E. E. “Doc” Smith
In The Skylark of Valeron
The Skylark of Valeron is the third volume in the classic Skylark trilogy by E.E. ‘Doc’ Smith. DuQuesne has survived to become Master of t…
Mathurin
Read by Kate Follis
Gilbert Parker
In The Lane that had no Turning, and Other Tales concerning the People of Pontiac
This is a collection of short stories by Gilbert Parker. Parker was a Canadian writer who wrote a number of bestsellers that had a lasting i…
The Mallows
Read by BettyB
Various
In Birds and Nature, Vol. VIII, No 2, September 1900
"Birds and Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief …
The Library
Read by Phil Schempf
James Hebblethwaite
In The Poems of James Hebblethwaite
James Hebblethwaite (22 September 1857 – 13 September 1921) was an English-born Australian poet, teacher and clergyman. Hebblethwaite was a …
The Readers' Corner Part 1
Read by esheffield
various and Ray Cummings
In Astounding Stories 10, October 1930
Issue no. 10 of the magazine brings you:- Stolen Brains by Captain S.P. MeekThe Invisible Death by Victor Rousseau Prisoners on the Electro…
Our Common Lot
Read by MaryAnn
Various
In The Reader's Digest, Volume 1, Issue 2
Twenty one articles each month from leading magazines - Each article of enduring value and interest, in condensed and compact form.A most co…
Chapter 20
Read by Siegen Bretzke
Ray Cummings
In Wandl the Invader (version 2)
There were nine major planets in the Solar System and it was within their boundaries that man first set up interplanetary commerce and began…
Readers' Corner, Part 2
Read by Bill Boerst
various and Ray Cummings
In Astounding Stories 17, May 1931
This issue of the science-fiction magazine includes a novella by Charles W. Diffin titled "Dark Moon" and several short stories, i…
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…
Introductory
Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Katharine Carl
In With the Empress Dowager of China
Through the eyes of an artist, With the Empress Dowager of China provides a glimpse of life in the Chinese Imperial Court, unseen by any oth…
1 - Watchbird, part 1
Read by Phil Chenevert
Robert Sheckley
In Watchbird
3 Robert Sheckley short stories that demonstrate the breadth of his fantastic imagination. In Watchbird, the question "can machines so…