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Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories

Read by Nick Bulka


Bret Harte


A collection of short stories set in the American West at the end of the 19th century. (Summary by Nick Bulka)

Framley Parsonage (version 2)

Read by Nick Whitley


Anthony Trollope


Framley Parsonage is the fourth novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire. It was first published in serial …

Lucinda

Read by Nick Bulka


Anthony Hope


It's 1914 London, and it's Waldo and Lucinda's wedding day. Unfortunately, Lucinda is nowhere to be found. A messenger boy brings Lucinda's …

Liber Amoris

Read by Nick Duncan


William Hazlitt


Liber Amoris is unlike anything Hazlitt wrote and probably like nothing you've come across before. On the face of it it tells the story of H…

The True Life Story of Swiftwater Bill Gates

Read by Nick Bulka


Iola Beebe


The life of American frontiersman, adventurer, and prospector "Swiftwater" Bill Gates as told by his mother in law. During the K…

Bizarre

Read by Nick Bulka


Lawton Mackall


A series of essays offering a humorous look at commonplace items and occurrences. (Summary by Nick Bulka)

Longhead: The Story of the First Fire

Read by Nick Bulka


C. H. Robinson


A fictionalized version of the self-discovery of primitive man, including: fire, cooking, defense and protection, architecture, community,…

The Small House at Allington (version 2)

Read by Nick Whitley


Anthony Trollope


The Small House at Allington concerns the widowed Mrs.Dale, her daughters Isabella ("Bell") and Lilian ("Lily"), who liv…

The Satyrs of Decimus Junius Juvenalis

Read by Nick Hillier


Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis


16 satires in verse of the celebrated classical poet of the 1st and 2nd Century translated into verse by John Dryden an English satirist of …

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Read by J. Hall


L. Frank Baum


The timeless story of the Wizard Of Oz. Follow Dorothy as she leaves Kansas for Oz on a cyclone. She meets many strange, and wonderful peopl…

The Haunted Hotel, A Mystery of Modern Venice

Read by Nathalie J.


Wilkie Collins


A kind, good-hearted, genteel young woman jilted, a suspicious death or two that only a few think could be murder, strange apparitions appea…

The Middle of Things

Read by Nathalie J.


J. S. Fletcher


A habitual late night stroll down Markendale Square plunges Viner into the middle of things most mysterious and most perplexing. A murder, a…

Cattle Brands

Read by Nathalie J.


Andy Adams


Cattle Brands is a collection of 14 entertaining short stories depicting not only the life of cowboys in the wild, wild West, but also the h…

The New Life (La vita nuova)

Read by Mary J


Dante Alighieri


One of Dante's earliest works, La vita nuova or La vita nova (The New Life) is in a prosimetrum style, a combination of prose and verse, and…

Travels in West Africa

Read by Nathalie J.


Mary H. Kingsley


Mary Henrietta Kingsley (13 October 1862 – 3 June 1900) was an British explorer and writer who greatly influenced European ideas about Afric…

The Theory of Social Revolutions

Read by Nathalie J.


Brooks Adams


Brooks Adams (1848-1927), was an American historian and a critic of capitalism. He believed that commercial civilizations rise and fall in p…

La Vita Nuova

Read by Mary J


Dante Alighieri


In quella parte del libro della mia memoria dinanzi alla quale poco si potrebbe leggere, si trova una rubrica la quale dice Incipit Vita Nov…

The Lost City

Read by Nathalie J.


Joseph E. Badger and Harry Hazelton


Bruno and Waldo Gillespie are orphaned brothers living with the extremely eccentric Professor Phaeton Featherwit. One day they set off in on…

The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella

Read by Mary J


Michelangelo Buonarroti


Michael Angelo and Campanella represent widely sundered, though almost contemporaneous, moments in the evolution of the Italian genius. Mich…

The White Linen Nurse

Read by Nathalie J.


Eleanor Hallowell Abbott


The White Linen Nurse is a hysterical story of an exhausted nurse who comes to regret her profession and then somehow finds herself caring f…

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