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Tales of the Elephant
1 hour, 15 minutes Unabridged Story Collection 1891, 1894, 1902  Three classic elephant stories by Rudyard Kipling: The Elephant's Child (1902) "In the High and Far-Off Times the Elephant, O Best Beloved, had no trunk. He had only a blackish, bulgy nose, as big as a boot, that he could wriggle about from side to side; but he couldn't pick up things with it. But there was one Elephant--a new Elephant--an Elephant's Child--who was full of 'satiable curtiosity, and that means he asked ever so many questions."Moti Guj Mutineer (1891) "Once upon a time there was a coffee planter in India who wished to clear some forest land for coffee planting. When he had cut down all the trees and burned the under-wood the stumps still remained. Dynamite is expensive and slow-fire slow. The happy medium for stump clearing is the lord of all beasts, who is the elephant."Toomai of the Elephants (1894) "Kala Nag stood ten fair feet at the shoulders, and his tusks had been cut off short at five feet, and bound round the ends, to prevent them splitting, with bands of copper; but he could do more with those stumps than any untrained elephant could do with the real sharpened ones." Performed by Robert Bethune. Keep reading for more info/sample audio from "Tales of the Elephant" Categories: 1-2 hours, 1st Century AD, 2008 Release, 20th Century AD, 300 cents, Adventure, Fiction, Rudyard Kipling, Short Story, Susie Berneis and Robert Bethune (Readers), The Longer Stuff
An Encounter with an Interviewer
8 minutes, 42 seconds Unabridged Humor/Literature 1874  Mark Twain deals with the media. Performed by Alex Wilson. Keep reading for more info/sample audio from "An Encounter with an Interviewer" Categories: 19th Century AD, 2008 Release, Alex Wilson (Reader), Fiction, Free, Humor, Mark Twain, Podcast
Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable 03: Apollo and Daphne, Etc
23 minutes, 11 seconds Unabridged Mythology/Literature 1913  Here we have Apollo and Daphne and how one of them refuses the other's advances and becomes a laurel tree. Then we have Pyramus and Thisbe, the love story that inspired Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, or at least the bloody parts of it. And finally: Cephalus and Procris and how the wind is slutty and how misunderstanding can inspire uxoricide. Read by Alex Wilson. Categories: 2007 Release, 20th Century AD, Alex Wilson (Reader), Fables and Fairy Tales, Free, Mythology, Nonfiction, Podcast, Thomas Bulfinch
Dubliners: The Boarding House
17 minutes, 2 seconds Unabridged Short Story 1914  Sometimes romance needs a bit of deliberation; this is Joyce at his most satiric. "The Boarding House" is the seventh story in his collection Dubliners, classic tales dealing thematically with miscommunication, isolation, class differences, and emotional paralysis in Joyce's Ireland. Keep reading for more info/sample audio from "Dubliners: The Boarding House" Categories: 15-30 minutes, 2007 Release, 20th Century AD, 75 cents, Alex Wilson (Reader), Fiction, Humor, James Joyce, Relationships, Romance, Short Story
Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable 02: Prometheus and Pandora
18 minutes, 40 seconds Unabridged Mythology/Literature 1913 Creation myths! Read by Alex Wilson. Categories: 15-30 minutes, 2007 Release, 20th Century AD, Alex Wilson (Reader), Fables and Fairy Tales, Free, Mythology, Nonfiction, Podcast, Thomas Bulfinch
When the World Was Young
38 minutes, 6 seconds Unabridged Horror Short Story 1910  "And then the thing happened — the thing unthinkable and unexpected." London's speculative story about the frightening, dual nature of man. Read by William Coon. Keep reading for more info/sample audio from "When the World Was Young" Categories: 150 cents, 2007 Release, 20th Century AD, 30-60 minutes, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Jack London, SF Story, Short Story, Speculative, The Longer Stuff, William Coon (Reader)
Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable 01: Introduction
24 minutes, 44 seconds Unabridged Mythology/Literature 1913 An introduction to the stories and legends of ancient Greece and Rome, and an overview of the pantheon. Read by Alex Wilson. Categories: 15-30 minutes, 2007 Release, 20th Century AD, Alex Wilson (Reader), Fables and Fairy Tales, Free, Mythology, Nonfiction, Podcast, Religion, Thomas Bulfinch
The Masque of the Red Death
16 minutes, 27 seconds Unabridged Horror Story 1842  What's a Prince to do when his people are dying of plague? Why, wall himself off with a thousand other nobles and throw a masquerade ball, of course! Silly prince. Doesn't he know he's in an Edgar Allan Poe story? Keep reading for more info/sample audio from "The Masque of the Red Death" Categories: 15-30 minutes, 1st Century AD, 2007 Release, 75 cents, Alex Wilson (Reader), Edgar Allan Poe, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, SF Story, Short Story
Two for a Cent
34 minutes, 52 seconds Unabridged Short Story 1922  A man makes a pilgrimage to his hometown and finds you can, indeed, put a price on fate. Read by William Coon. Keep reading for more info/sample audio from "Two for a Cent" Categories: 15-30 minutes, 150 cents, 2007 Release, 20th Century AD, F Scott Fitzgerald, Fiction, Short Story, William Coon (Reader)
Darkness
5 minutes, 19 seconds Unabridged Narrative Poem 1816  In which our hero, the most Romantic of all the Romantic poets, takes on the end of the world. Written in Geneva, Switzerland in the summer of 1816, when Byron, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, and John Polidori spent their evenings telling each other ghost stories. The resulting tales included Shelley's Frankenstein, Polidori's creation of the vampire/vampyre genre (based on a novel fragment of Byron's), and this gloomy, speculative verse. Read by Alex Wilson. Keep reading for more info/sample audio from "Darkness" Categories: 1-15 minutes, 19th Century AD, 2007 Release, 25 cents, Alex Wilson (Reader), Fantasy, Formal Verse, Lord Byron, Poetry, SF Poetry, Speculative
Told After Supper
1 hour, 2 minutes Unabridged Humor/Ghost/Christmas Novella 1891  A Christmas mystery story where even the narrator can't be trusted to stay sober or keep his clothes on. "There must be something ghostly in the air of Christmas--something about the close, muggy atmosphere that draws up the ghosts, like the dampness of the summer rains brings out the frogs and snails." Performed by Susie Berneis and Robert Bethune. Keep reading for more info/sample audio from "Told After Supper" Categories: 1-2 hours, 19th Century AD, 2007 Release, 300 cents, Christmas, Fiction, Ghosts, Humor, Jerome K Jerome, Mystery, Novella, Short Story, Susie Berneis and Robert Bethune (Readers)
The Prisoner of Chillon
22 minutes Unabridged Longform Narrative Poem 1816 The story of Francois Bonivard, a 16th century monk imprisoned in the Chateau de Chillon. Read by Alex Wilson. Keep reading for more info/sample audio from "The Prisoner of Chillon" Categories: 100 cents, 15-30 minutes, 19th Century AD, 2007 Release, Adventure, Alex Wilson (Reader), Formal Verse, Lord Byron, Lyrical Verse, Poetry
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