An Encounter with an Interviewer
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8 minutes, 42 seconds
Unabridged Humor/Literature
1874
Mark Twain deals with the media. Performed by Alex Wilson.
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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.
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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.
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18 minutes, 40 seconds
Unabridged Mythology/Literature
1913
Creation myths! Read by Alex Wilson.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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30 minutes, 18 seconds
Unabridged Science Fiction Story
1897
One hundred and one years before the films Armegeddon and Deep Impact entered U.S. theaters, the father of modern science fiction scared the crap out of Victorian London with this, the first of such death-from-above science fiction tales. Read by Alex Wilson. Not for sale in the EU.
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16 minutes, 18 seconds
Unabridged Religous Work
First Century AD
The eleventh book of the New Testament: the epistle of the apostle Paul to the Philippians. It was written during Paul's first imprisonment in Rome, yet he emphasizes joy and rejoicing at the gospel.
Read by Alex Wilson.
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50 minutes, 34 seconds
Unabridged Short Mystery Story
1904
Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard seeks the guidance of Sherlock Holmes and Watson when the mysterious destruction of statues leads to murder.
Read by Alex Wilson.
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39 minutes, 28 seconds
Unabridged Free Verse Poetry Collection
1855
"Calamus" is the fifth book of Walt Whitman's legendary poetry collection Leaves of Grass. In these thirty-nine poems, Whitman compares "athletic love" (or love between two men) to the calamus plant, in terms of diversity and depth. It includes the poems:
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In Paths Untrodden Scented Herbage of My Breast Whoever You are, Holding Me now in Hand For You, O Democracy These, I, Singing in Spring Not Heaving from My Ribb'd Breast Only Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances The Base of all Metaphysics Recorders Ages Hence When I heard at the Close of the Day Are You the New person Drawn Toward Me? Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone Not Heat Flames up and Consumes Trickle Drops City of Orgies Behold this Swarthy Face I saw in Louisiana a Live Oak Growing To a Stranger This Moment, Yearning and Thoughtful I Hear It Was Charged Against Me |
The Prairie-Grass Dividing When I Peruse the Conquer’d Fame We Two Boys Together Clinging A Promise to California Here the Frailest Leaves of Me No Labor-Saving Machine A Glimpse A Leaf for Hand in Hand Earth! my Likeness! I Dream'd in a Dream What think You I take my Pen in Hand? To the East and to the West Sometimes with One I Love To a Western Boy Fast Anchor'd, Eternal O Love! Among the Multitude O You Whom I Often and Silently Come That Shadow, my Likeness Full of Life, Now |
Read by Alex Wilson. Sample contains the complete poem "Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances."
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16 minutes, 7 seconds
Unabridged Humor/Storytelling/Essay
1878
Twain proposes some realistic sequels to three common morality tales.
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6 minutes, 24 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1895
A short story about a woman believing and hoping (and manipulating) that she may have both her security in marriage and passions outside of it. Read by Alex Wilson.
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25 minutes, 14 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1914
Con men want to convince a maid to steal from her employer. "Two Gallants" is the sixth story in James Joyce's collection Dubliners, classic tales dealing thematically with miscommunication, isolation, class differences, and emotional paralysis in Joyce's Ireland.
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2 hours, 15 minutes
Unabridged Novella
1915
"One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin." So begins the classic existential tale about the traveling salesman who too late realizes what he's become.
Translation by David Wyllie. Read by Alex Wilson.
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8 minutes, 52 seconds
Unabridged Essay
1786
American essaysist and humorist Benjamin Franklin on the game of chess, and its application to life.
Read by Alex Wilson.
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27 minutes, 01 seconds
Unabridged Horror / Science Fiction
1835
What happens when you hypnotize a person in the moments before he dies? The story that began as a hoax (it was first published without the "fiction" label) is one of the first modern science fiction tales.
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13 minutes, 37 seconds
Unabridged NIMH Informational Brochure
1999
Full text (including printable and redistributable brochures) available at the NIMH website.
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38 minutes, 54 seconds
Unabridged Short Fiction
1835
A puritan confronts witches, the devil, and his own morality in the spooky, Salem woods in this classic American short story.
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46 minutes, 45 seconds
Unabridged Short SF Story
1999
"Think of the underworld as the back of your closet, behind all those racks of clothes that you don't wear anymore. Things are always getting pushed back there and forgotten about. The underworld is full of things that you've forgotten about."
First published in Event Horizon in 1999. Later reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection and Link's short story collection Stranger Things Happen, a Salon Book of the Year and one of the Village Voice's 25 Favorite Books of 2001.
Read by Alex Wilson.
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48 minutes, 4 seconds
Unabridged SF-related podcast
2006
Telltale founder Alex Wilson, preparing to attend the famous Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop, gives an introduction and "before" picture. Featuring Michael A. Burstein and Jason Erik Lundberg.
Follow along with the adventures in Alex's Clarion Journal. The theme song "Untitled Pretention Pontificated by a Passive Voice" is available separately here. Photo by Jamie Bishop.
Expect the second and final Clarion podcast in the first half of 2007.
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56 minutes, 45 seconds
Unabridged Essay/Speech
1859
Against the then-popular condemnation of the radical abolitionist who seized a federal armory, attempting to arm slaves and create a violent rebelion against the South, Thoreau delivered this spirited speech justifying Brown's character and actions to those who would have rather resolved (or failed to resolve) the issue of slavery using discussions and diplomacy. Read by Alex Wilson.
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29 minutes, 11 seconds
Unabridged SF/Fantasy Pulp Adventure Story
1903
H G Wells was such a science fiction pioneer that he took all the great, archetypal titles (Think about it: The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Magic Shop, etc.. You'd think he would have at least been generous enough to call it, say, "A Magic Shop," allowing that Asimov or Heinlein might decades later want to write about another one.) So it goes with "The Valley of the Spiders."
Three adventurers face danger, death, and giant spiders, all for the
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