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When God Laughs, and Other Stories

Read by Don W. Jenkins


Jack London


This collection of Jack London's short stories touches on a variety of topics, from his love of boxing, to relationships between criminals, …

Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man

Read by Don W. Jenkins


Sinclair Lewis


"At thirty-four Mr. Wrenn was the sales-entry clerk of the Souvenir Company. He was always bending over bills and columns of figures at…

King of the Khyber Rifles

Read by Brett W. Downey


Talbot Mundy


Athelstan King is a British Secret Agent stationed in India at the beginning of WWI. He is attached to the Khyber Rifles regiment as a cover…

A Hero of Our Time

Read by Kevin W. Davidson


Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov


A Hero of Our Time is indeed a portrait, but not of one man. It is a portrait built up of all our generation's vices in full bloom. You will…

Mrs. Bindle

Read by Don W. Jenkins


Herbert George Jenkins


Herbert Jenkins' most popular fictional creation was Mr. Joseph Bindle, who first appeared in a humorous novel in 1916 and in a number of se…

Rappaccini's Daughter

Read by Brett W. Downey


Nathaniel Hawthorne


The story is set in Padua in a distant, but unspecified past. From his quarters, Giovanni, a young student of letters, observes Beatrice, th…

Tales of the Fish Patrol

Read by Don W. Jenkins


Jack London


Wildest among the fisher-folk may be accounted the Chinese shrimp-catchers. It is the habit of the shrimp to crawl along the bottom in vast …

Faery Lands of the South Seas

Read by John W. Michaels


James Norman Hall


Returning from the horrors of World War I James Hall and Charles Nordhoff follow a dream to tour the South Pacific. They later co authored “…

Poems from the Divan of Hafiz

Read by Kevin W. Davidson


Hafiz and Hafez


Hafiz was a Persian poet. His collected works (Divan) are regarded as a pinnacle of Persian literature. While influenced by Islam, his mysti…

Our Mutual Friend, Version 2

Read by Don W. Jenkins


Charles Dickens


Our Mutual Friend (written in the years 1864–65) is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, …

The Innocents, A Story for Lovers

Read by Don W. Jenkins


Sinclair Lewis


“Mr. and Mrs. Seth Appleby were almost old. They called each other 'Father' and 'Mother.' But frequently they were guilty of holding hands, …

The Biography of a Grizzly

Read by John W. Michaels


Ernest Thompson Seton


I first read this little book when I was in the fifth grade, and now more than fifty years later, I still find it fascinating. Ernest Thomps…

Dutch Courage and Other Stories

Read by Don W. Jenkins


Jack London


Jack London was quoted as saying, "I've never written a line that I'd be ashamed for my young daughters to read, and I never shall writ…

More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter

Read by Don W. Jenkins


Robert Louis Stevenson


More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (1885) is a collection of linked short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Vandegrift. Three …

The Sorcery Club

Read by Don W. Jenkins


Elliott O'Donnell


Leon Hamar and his friends were out-of-work and starving in San Francisco after the firm they worked for went out of business. Leon acquired…

The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses

Read by John W. Michaels


P. R. Kincaid and P. R. Kincaidandjohn J. Stutzman


Back in the day before automobiles, a good horse trainer and veterinarian was the equivalent of “Mr Goodwrench”. A badly behaving or unhealt…

Widdershins

Read by Don W. Jenkins


Oliver Onions


Onions wrote several collections of ghost stories, of which the best known is Widdershins (1911). It includes the novella The Beckoning Fair…

Tom of the Raiders

Read by Brett W. Downey


Austin Bishop and William Henry Bishop


Young Adult historical fiction of a young man joining the Union Army and taking part in the Great Locomotive Chase. (Summary by Brett Downey…

Messengers of Evil

Read by Don W. Jenkins


Marcel Allain


Fantômas was introduced a few years after Arsène Lupin, another well-known thief. But whereas Lupin draws the line at murder, F…

The Pagan Madonna

Read by Don W. Jenkins


Harold Macgrath


The Pagan Madonna, one of Harold MacGrath's numerous novels, set in Shanghai, tells a story of intrigue, murder, and illicit art “collecting…

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