When the World Was Young
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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.
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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.
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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.
Continue reading "Young Goodman Brown"
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44 minutes, 3 seconds
Unabridged Free Verse Poetry Collection
1855
"Children of Adam" is the fourth book (of 35 total) of Walt Whitman's legendary poetry collection Leaves of Grass. This book is among Whitman's most controversial with its celebration of sexuality. It includes the poems:
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To the Garden the World From Pent-up Aching Rivers I Sing the Body Electric A Woman Waits for Me Spontaneous Me One Hour to Madness and Joy |
We Two--How Long We were Fool’d Out of the Rolling Ocean, the Crowd Native Moments Once I Pass’d Through a Populous City Facing West from California’s Shores Ages and Ages, Returning at Intervals O Hymen! O Hymenee! As Adam, Early in the Morning |
Read by Alex Wilson.
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33 minutes, 22 seconds
Unabridged Horror / Mystery Fiction
1843
"Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?"
Poe's classic horror tale about intoxication, murder, and a most mysterious cat. Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "The Black Cat"
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34 minutes, 25 seconds
Unabridged Epic SF Poem
1798
The classic longform adventure poem in seven parts. MP3 Sample below includes the entire first part.
Continue reading "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
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37 minutes, 26 seconds
Two Unabridged Humor Essays
1882,1899
Includes the Telltale Weekly comedic recordings of Mark Twain's "My First Lie (And How I Got Out of It)" and "On the Decay of the Art of Lying." From "My First Lie (and How I Got Out of It):"
"As I understand it, what you desire is information about 'my first lie, and how I got out of it.' I was born in 1835; I am well along, and my memory is not as good as it was. If you had asked about my first truth it would have been easier for me and kinder of you, for I remember that fairly well. I remember it as if it were last week. The family think it was the week before, but that is flattery..."
From "On the Decay of the Art of Lying:"
"Observe, I do not mean to suggest that the custom of lying has suffered any decay or interruption--no, for the Lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend, is immortal, and cannot perish from the earth while this club remains. My complaint simply concerns the decay of the art of lying..."
Two humorous essays/speeches read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "Mark Twain Lies!"
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43 minutes, 21 seconds
Unabridged Formal Poem
1820
Shelley at his most playful (starting with the dedication to his wife, Frankenstein author Mary Shelley: "On her objecting to the following poem, upon the score of its containing no human interest."), combining Greek and Egyptian myths into a fanciful meditation on creativity. A longform poem of the fantastic, read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "The Witch of Atlas"
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45 minutes, 56 seconds
Unabridged Lyrical Poetry Collection
1913
A Boy's Will is the first poetry collection by Robert Frost. Includes 32 poems, painting pictures of New England and tackling Frost's famously grand themes of isolation, death, coming of age (in literature and in life), and the world's natural spirituality.
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36 minutes, 37 seconds
Unabridged Memoir / Essay
1881
"In the first narrative of my experience in slavery, written nearly forty years ago, and in various writings since, I have given the public what I considered very good reasons for withholding the manner of my escape..." Frederick Douglass reveals the missing piece of his autobiography, in a tale that could not have been told without endangering others while slavery continued to exist.
Continue reading "My Escape from Slavery"
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44 minutes, 30 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1892
Sherlock Holmes and Watson investigate the matter of a mysterious, deformed man, a more mysterious animal, and an even (wait for it) more mysterious murder in a locked room. Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "Sherlock Holmes: The Crooked Man"
Posted by alex at 9:22 PM
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36 minutes, 37 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1902
"All a man had to do was to keep his head, and he was all right. Any man who was a man could travel alone. But it was surprising, the rapidity with which his cheeks and nose were freezing. And he had not thought his fingers could go lifeless in so short a time. Lifeless they were, for he could scarcely make them move together to grip a twig, and they seemed remote from his body and from him. When he touched a twig, he had to look and see whether or not he had hold of it."
The classic man vs. nature story. Read by Max Miller.
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Posted by alex at 9:04 PM
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30 minutes, 28 seconds
Unabridged Fairy Tale
2004
A short story based on the poem of the same title by William Blake. Ideal for children ages 4-10, but suitable for all ages. Includes an original song composed by Ennis and performed by Mike Jasper, using the original lyrics by Blake. The story is encoded at 64kbps, the song at 128kbps. Read by the author.
Continue reading "Ah Sunflower"
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33 minutes, 27 seconds
Unabridged Nonfiction Stories
2001
These are nonfiction stories from the mountains of North Carolina. They are a unique look at the underbelly of an eccentric city. Twenty-four vignettes read by the author.
This audiobook collects all six 25-cent volumes of the "Stories from Asheville" series, the first modern storytelling/memoir to appear at Telltale Weekly.
Continue reading "Stories from Asheville"
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