Dubliners: The Boarding House
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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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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?
Continue reading "The Masque of the Red Death"
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17 minutes, 19 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1920
A story of love lost and found, after an absence of six years. The reasons for connection and separation quickly become clear, but what will be the choice this time around?
A beautiful day. A discussion of classlessness. A snobbish ex-lover. What could possibly go right?
Read by William Coon.
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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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16 minutes, 7 seconds
Unabridged Humor/Storytelling/Essay
1878
Twain proposes some realistic sequels to three common morality tales.
Continue reading "About Magnanimous-Incident Literature"
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16 minutes, 15 seconds
Unabridged Short Western Story
1892
A farmer in the Western frontier has a vision in one of Cather's earliest stories. First published in The Hesperian.
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21 minutes, 58 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1914
"It was Joe Dillon who introduced the Wild West to us. He had a little library made up of old numbers of The Union Jack , Pluck and The Halfpenny Marvel . Every evening after school we met in his back garden and arranged Indian battles. He and his fat young brother Leo, the idler, held the loft of the stable while we tried to carry it by storm; or we fought a pitched battle on the grass. But, however well we fought, we never won siege or battle and all our bouts ended with Joe Dillon's war dance of victory..."
The second coming-of-age story in James Joyce's collection Dubliners, classic tales dealing thematically with miscommunication, isolation, class differences, and emotional paralysis in Joyce's Ireland.
Read by Alex Wilson.
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23 minutes, 51 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1914
"There was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke. Night after night I had passed the house (it was vacation time) and studied the lighted square of window: and night after night I had found it lighted in the same way, faintly and evenly. If he was dead, I thought, I would see the reflection of candles on the darkened blind for I knew that two candles must be set at the head of a corpse. He had often said to me: 'I am not long for this world,' and I had thought his words idle. Now I knew they were true..."
The first story in James Joyce's collection Dubliners, classic tales dealing thematically with miscommunication, isolation, class differences, and emotional paralysis in Joyce's Ireland.
Read by Alex Wilson.
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17 minutes, 27 seconds
Unabridged Short War Story
1892
A soldier in the Civil War makes an incredible decision. One of Bierce's most famous short stories.
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18 minutes, 39 seconds
Unabridged Horror Fiction
1843
"You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me."
The Master of the Macabre's most famous horror story. Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "The Tell-Tale Heart"
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18 minutes, 34 seconds
Unabridged Fairy Tale
1901
"You haven't a penny in the world, but you have a kingdom. There are many rich women who would be glad to give their wealth in exchange for a queen's coronet--even if the king is but a child. So we have decided to advertise that the one who bids the highest shall become the queen of Quok."
This humourous story by the author of the Wizard of Oz series involves a young, broke king and the quest by his advisors to replenish the treasury. It was published in 1901 with eleven other fantastical stories in a volume entitled American Fairy Tales. In his introduction to the second publication of these stories in 1908, Baum wrote:
My friends, the children, will find these stories quite as astonishing as if they had been written hundreds of years ago, for ours is the age of astonishing things. They are not too serious in purpose, but aim to amuse and entertain, yet I trust the more thoughtful of my readers will find a wholesome lesson hidden beneath each extravagant notion and humorous incident.This is the unabridged short story, read by J. Winter Collins.
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14 minutes, 45 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1906
O. Henry's most famous and most beloved story about a young couple trying to make ends meet around Christmas time. Read by Alex Wilson.
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20 minutes, 6 seconds
Unabridged Lecture
1883
With a professional's insight, an opinionated mind, and not a small amount of trademark dry wit, Oscar Wilde offers his advice on "what makes an artist and what does the artist make; what are the relations of the artist to his surroundings, what is the education the artist should get, and what is the quality of a good work of art." Read by Damian Hess.
"Art is the science of beauty, and Mathematics the science of truth: there is no national school of either... Nor is there any such thing as a school of art even. There are merely artists, that is all."
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18 minutes, 49 seconds
Unabridged Religous Work
First Century AD
Three books from the King James Bible New Testament: I John, II John, and III John.
Read by Alex Wilson.
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18 minutes, 27 seconds
Unabridged Essay
1729
"A Modest Proposal for preventing the children of poor people in Ireland from being a burden to their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the public." A satiric essay read by Alex Wilson.
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19 minutes, 12 seconds
Unabridged Free Verse Poetry
1855
The first book (of 35 total) of Walt Whitman's legendary Leaves of Grass. Contains 24 poems including...
Continue reading "Leaves of Grass Book I: Inscriptions"
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20 minutes, 55 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1904
"My father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a Presbyterian. This is what my mother told me, I do not know these nice distinctions myself..."
A funny, sweet short story by the incomparable Mark Twain. Read by Alex Wilson.
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