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Riverdale Stories: A Story for Little Folks

Read by Scarlett Martin


Oliver Optic and William Taylor Adams


A compilation of stories of the children of Riverdale who learn life lessons of how to be kind, polite, and helpful as they grow up. Writte…

The Call of Cthulhu (version 2)

Read by Martin Reyto


H. P. Lovecraft


“[The Call of Cthulhu] is a masterpiece, which I am sure will live as one of the highest achievements of literature. Mr. Lovecraft holds a u…

La Bella Principessa: A Leonardo Discovered

Read by Martin Kemp, Kathryn Barush and Maya Corry


Martin Kemp, Kathryn Barush and Maya Corry


University of Oxford Podcasts

The War of the Worlds - Book 1 - Chapter 08

In The War of the Worlds

Read by Mike Shapiro


H. G. Wells


H. G. Wells wrote The War of the Worlds in 1898, when there was much speculation about life on the planet Mars. The book is considered to be…

Ant-Eaters, Armadilloes, and other Odd Animals

In Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 013

Read by Caroline Shapiro


Mayne Reid and Thomas Mayne Reid


A collection of sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were inde…

Stage Tricks, Part 4

In Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring

Read by Caroline Shapiro


Professor Louis Hoffman


This "how-to" book covers everything for the 1800's illusionist, from stage presence & dress, program and stage arrangement, t…

Native Americans

In The Complete Book of Cheese

Read by Caroline Shapiro


Robert Carlton Brown and Bob Brown


Bob Brown, after living thirty years in as many foreign lands and enjoying countless national cheeses at the source, returned to New York an…

A Lion Hunt

In The Giraffe Hunters

Read by Caroline Shapiro


Thomas Mayne Reid


The Young Yägers, Hans and Hendrik Von Bloom, Groot Willem and Arend Van Wyk, are again on a hunting expedition. This time, the reader…

08- The Eighth Surprise: The Bravery of Prince Jollikin

In The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People

Read by Caroline Shapiro


L. Frank Baum


The Magical Monarch of Mo is a set of stories about the titular king, his queen, and his royal children. The stories are uproariously funny,…

Club Snobs

In The Book of Snobs

Read by Caroline Shapiro


W M Thackeray and William Makepeace Thackeray


The necessity of a work on Snobs, demonstrated from History, and proved by felicitous illustrations:—I am the individual destined to write t…

Chapter 3, Part 1

In Melmoth The Wanderer

Read by Martin


Charles Robert Maturin


One of the first horror novels, it tells the story of Melmoth, who sells his soul so he could have an extended life. Throughout the novel, h…

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