Fiction
The Calico Cat (version 2)
Read by Mark F. Smith
Charles Miner Thompson
The consequences of letting your irritation get the better of you are humorously portrayed in this story of a self-important man who fires a…
Buttered Side Down
Read by Xe Sands
Edna Ferber
"And so," the story writers used to say, "they lived happily ever after."Um-m-m—maybe. After the glamour had worn off, a…
Short Science Fiction Collection 033
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H. G. Wells
Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and sci…
The Girl with the Golden Eyes
Read by Martin Geeson
Honoré de Balzac
Listeners who like to plunge straight into a story would do well to skip the lengthy preamble. Here, Balzac the virtuoso satirist depicts th…
Nostromo
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Joseph Conrad
Señor Gould is a native Costaguanan of English descent who owns the silver-mining concession in Sulaco. He is tired of the political …
Maezli
Read by Daryl Wor
Johanna Spyri
"Mäzli" may be pronounced the most natural and one of the most entertaining of Madame Spyri's creations. The atmosphere is cr…
The Great K. & A. Train-Robbery
Read by David Wales
Paul Leicester Ford
In this short novel the narrator is a superintendent on the K. & A. railroad, sometime in the late nineteenth century. The train is robb…
Brood of the Dark Moon
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Charles Willard Diffin
Once more Chet, Walt and Diane are united in a wild ride to the Dark Moon—but this time they go as prisoners of their deadly enemy Schwartzm…
Thorstein of the Mere: A Saga of the Northmen in Lakeland
Read by Phil Benson
William Gershom Collingwood
A fine adventure set in 10th-century England at a time when everyday life in north was made hazardous by wars and shifting alliances among S…
The Old English Baron
Read by MaryAnn
Clara Reeve
The story follows the adventures of Sir Philip Harclay, who returns to medieval England to find that the castle seat and estate of his frien…
The Island of Sheep
John Buchan
This is the last of Buchan’s ‘Richard Hannay’ novels. It’s cast of Characters, in addition to Hannay himself, includes from earlier novels, …
The Wide, Wide World
Read by Bridget Gaige
Susan Warner
"How should a seven year old child react when forced to be separated from a mother who meant everything to her? How should she react wh…
The Kreutzer Sonata
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Leo Tolstoy
Publication of The Kreutzer Sonata in 1889 was a significant intellectual event worldwide. Censored in Russia, it set off an explosive debat…
Raggedy Andy Stories
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Johnny Gruelle
Raggedy Ann is a fictional character created by writer Johnny Gruelle (1880–1938) in a series of books he wrote and illustrated for young ch…
The Woman Who Did
Read by Ruth Golding
Grant Allen
Most times, especially in the time when this book was written (1895), it is just as nature and society would wish: a man and woman "fal…
Fame and Fortune
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Horatio Alger, Jr.
Richard Hunter, formerly Ragged Dick, continues to advance in the world through luck and excellent morals. He, along with his friend Henry, …