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A Negro Explorer at the North Pole

Read by Lee Smalley


Matthew A. Henson


In this fascinating memoir, Matthew Henson describes the incredibly dangerous, exhausting, and bone-chilling trip to what was until then the…

Smoke

Read by Lee Smalley


Ivan Turgenev


Smoke is an 1867 novel by the highly acclaimed Russian writer Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883) that tells the gripping story of a secret love affai…

Centuries of Meditations

Read by Nicole Lee


Thomas Traherne


Thomas Traherne's best known work is a collection of paragraphs, divided into what he called "Centuries", meditating in a particul…

Love in a Mask, or Imprudence and Happiness

Read by Lee Smalley


Honoré de Balzac


Love in a Mask, or Imprudence and Happiness, is an entertaining short novel by Honoré de Balzac, unpublished in his lifetime. Beginni…

The Four Stragglers

Read by Lee Smalley


Frank L. Packard


This thrilling novel teems with intrigue and unforgettable characters. It opens during WWI with a few allied soldiers lost at night behind G…

Pierre & Jean

Read by Lee Smalley


Guy de Maupassant


This short novel’s titular characters are brothers. An old family friend dies, leaving without explanation his entire fortune to Jean, the y…

Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 5

Read by Nicole Lee


Samuel Richardson


Volume 5 continues the story in epistolary form of the despoliation of Clarissa, as all the forces of society and the personal nefariousness…

The Dark

Read by Lee Smalley


Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev


The Dark is a novella about a desperate young man, a “terrorist and nihilist”, trying to avoid arrest by taking refuge in a brothel. The sto…

Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 9

Read by Nicole Lee


Samuel Richardson


In Volume 9 Clarissa hastens to her fate and the various culprits reap the consequences of their crimes of indifference, cruelty and neglect…

The Shadow

Read by Lee Smalley


Arthur Stringer


A manhunt for a bank robber takes a determined and fixated New York City detective on a gripping, globe-spanning adventure, with many plot t…

From North Carolina to Southern California Without a Ticket and How I Did It

Read by Lee Smalley


John Peele


"... I have decided to write an account of a few of the many adventures and dangers that befell me while making my way, practically wit…

The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1661

Read by Nicole Lee


Samuel Pepys


Samuel Pepys was the first Secretary to the Admiralty during the reign of Charles II, instrumental in developing the Royal Navy and witness …

Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 7

Read by Nicole Lee


Samuel Richardson


In Volume 7, the degradation and humiliation of Clarissa continue, from all the forces of society and the personal nefariousness of the devi…

Take it From Dad

Read by Lee Smalley


George Livermore and George G. Livermore


Take It From Dad is a collection of letters written by a father to his son, Ted, at boarding school, away from home for the first time. In e…

Elective Affinities

Read by Nicole Lee


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Elective Affinities (Die Wahlverwandtschaften) was Goethe's third novel. It depicts human relationships in a Romantic crucible, and is the s…

The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1662

Read by Nicole Lee


Samuel Pepys


Samuel Pepys was the first Secretary to the Admiralty during the reign of Charles II, instrumental in developing the Royal Navy and witness …

Uncle Wiggily's Fortune

Read by Lee Smalley


Howard R. Garis


Uncle Wiggily Longears is the main character of a series of children's stories by American author Howard R. Garis. He began writing the stor…

Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 8

Read by Nicole Lee


Samuel Richardson


In Volume 8 Clarissa continues to decline towards her pitiful end, while Lovelace remains defiant, even as his nemesis Colonel Morden finall…

The Power of a Lie

Read by Lee Smalley


Johan Bojer


Norby is requested to guarantee a bank loan for Wangen and he obliges, signing the loan document in the presence of a witness. Some time lat…

Rudin

Read by Lee Smalley


Ivan Turgenev


Rudin is the first and perhaps least known novel by Ivan Turgenev, a famous Russian writer best known for his short stories and the novel Fa…

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