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The Spoken Alexandria Project is creating a free Creative Commons library of spoken word recordings, consisting of classics in the public domain and modern works (with permission). AAC, Ogg Vorbis, and MP3 audiobooks available for free download and redistribution. Learn more on the Mission page.

June 30, 2009
Tao Te Ching
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by Lao Tzu
1 hour, 18 minutes
Unabridged Taoist Classic
400 BC


Tao Te Ching

The classic Taoist text and the most translated Chinese work of all time. The title is sometimes translated/spelled as "Dao De Jing" or "Tao Teh King." Translation by James Legge. Read by Alex Wilson.

Note: Only part 1 (of 2) is included in the podcast MP3. Both parts are included in the AAC, MP3, and Ogg Vorbis zipped downloads above.

Funding A Free Audio Library Originally for sale on June 25, 2004, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.

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June 28, 2009
To Build a Fire
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by Jack London
36 minutes, 37 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1902


To Build a Fire

"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.

Funding A Free Audio Library Originally for sale on June 18, 2004, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.

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June 27, 2009
The Destiny of Colored Americans
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by Frederick Douglass
8 minutes, 13 seconds
Unabridged Essay
1849


Douglass

"The white man's happiness cannot be be purchased by the black man's misery." A prophetic essay first published in his abolitionist newspaper, the North Star. Douglass started adding his initials "F.D." at the end of his writing when it was questioned that such thoughtful, well-reasoned work could come from an ex-slave. Read by Alex Wilson.

Funding A Free Audio Library Originally for sale on June 11, 2004, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.

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May 30, 2009
The War of the Worlds
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by H G Wells
5 hours, 53 minutes
Unabridged Science Fiction Novel
1898


H G Wells

"There's a slightly old-fashioned quality to his speech that compliments Wells' old-fashioned brand of science fiction ... rises above the source material, making these audio editions a great way to experience these two classics." - John Joseph Adams, Locus

"Worth buying." - The New York Times

The classic alien invasion novel by "The Father of Science Fiction" H.G. Wells. Read by James Spencer and produced by Active Voicing. Note: the Spoken Alexandria podcast includes only the first chapter of WotW. The full book is included in the zipped download options.

"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own..."

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May 26, 2009
The Lady or the Tiger?
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by Frank R. Stockton
14 minutes, 24 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1884


The Lady or the Tiger

"When a subject was accused of a crime of sufficient importance to interest the king, public notice was given that on an appointed day the fate of the accused person would be decided in the king's arena..."

A short fable about a young hero who angers a ruthless king who forces him to make an ultimate choice. But does the king's semi-barbaric daughter make the choice for him? Read by Max Miller.

Funding A Free Audio Library Originally for sale on May 14, 2004, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.

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Extracts from Adam's Diary
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by Mark Twain
27 minutes
Unabridged Short Story
1904


Twain

"This new creature with the long hair is a good deal in the way. It is always hanging around and following me about. I don't like this; I am not used to company. I wish it would stay with the other animals..."

The battle of the sexes begins in the Garden of Eden, as humourously told by Mark Twain, who "translated a portion" of "Adam's hieroglyphics." Note that the word "Extracts" is actually part of the title; this is the full, unabridged short story. Read by Alex Wilson.

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May 19, 2009
Merlin & Merlin II
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by Ralph Waldo Emerson
6 minutes
Unabridged Formal Poetry
1846


Two poems based on the Arthurian legend, written by the founder of trancendentalism. Podcast only includes the original "Merlin." Downloads include both poems, zipped. Read by Alex Wilson.

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May 17, 2009
Leaves of Grass Book II: Starting from Paumanok
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by Walt Whitman
25 minutes, 8 seconds
Unabridged Free Verse Poetry
1855


Whitman

The second book (of 35 total) of Walt Whitman's legendary Leaves of Grass. "Starting from Paumanok" is a longform poem in 19 parts. Read by Alex Wilson.

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Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
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by Percy Shelley
5 minutes, 13 seconds
Unabridged Formal Poetry
1816


Percy Shelley

A confessional poem by Shelley, written during the summer he spent on the shores of Lake Geneva. Read by Alex Wilson.

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May 10, 2009
Lecture to Art Students
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by Oscar Wilde
20 minutes, 6 seconds
Unabridged Lecture
1883


Wilde

With a professional's insight, an opinionated mind, and not a small amount of trademark 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."

Funding A Free Audio Library Originally for sale on April 23, 2004, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution License five years later. See the Mission page for why.

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May 9, 2009
The Raven
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by Edgar Allan Poe
8 minutes, 29 seconds
Unabridged Formal Poetry
1845


Poe

The archetype of dark poetry by the master of macabre. Read by Alex Wilson.
Once upon a midnight dreary,
while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious
volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping,
suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping,
rapping at my chamber door.
"'Tis some visitor," I muttered,
"tapping at my chamber door--
Only this, and nothing more..."

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April 14, 2009
New Testament: Epistles of John
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from the King James Bible
18 minutes, 49 seconds
Unabridged Religous Work
First Century AD


KJB


Three books from the King James Bible New Testament:

I John
II John
III John

All three are included in the downloaded zip files, but the podcast is I John only. Read by Alex Wilson.

Funding A Free Audio Library Originally for sale on April 2, 2004, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution License five years later. See the Mission page for why.

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March 21, 2009
A Modest Proposal
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by Jonathan Swift
18 minutes, 27 seconds
Unabridged Essay
1729


Wilde

"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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March 20, 2009
Leaves of Grass Book I: Inscriptions
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by Walt Whitman
19 minutes, 12 seconds
Unabridged Free Verse Poetry
1855


Whitman

The first book (of 35 total) of Walt Whitman's legendary Leaves of Grass. Contains 24 poems including...
One's Self I Sing
As I Ponder'd in Silence
In Cabin'd Ships at Sea
To Foreign Lands
To a Historian
To Thee Old Cause
Eidolons
For Him I Sing
When I Read the Book
Beginning My Studies
Beginners
To the States
On Journeys Through the States
To a Certain Cantatrice
Me Imperturbe
Savantism
The Ship Starting
I Hear America Singing
What Place is Besieged
Still Though the One I Sing
Shut Not Your Doors
Poets to Come
To You
Thou Reader
The podcast MP3 includes the entire recording in one file. The MP3, AAC, and Ogg Vorbis downloads splits the poems into individual, numbered files. Read by Alex Wilson.
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March 19, 2009
The Magic Shop
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by H G Wells
22 minutes, 2 seconds
Unabridged Fantasy Story
1903


H G Wells

Every speculative fiction author sooner or later writes about a trip to a magic shop. Here's the short story that might have started that trend by "The Father of Science Fiction" H.G. Wells. Read by Alex Wilson.
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March 7, 2009
Songs of Robin Hood
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by James Leigh Hunt
11 minutes, 52 seconds
Unabridged Formal Poetry
1820


Hunt

A lyrical nursery rhyme of a story in three parts. Includes "Robin Hood, A Child," "Robin Hood's Flight," and "Robin Hood, an Outlaw." Read by Alex Wilson.
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February 27, 2009
A Dog's Tale
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by Mark Twain
20 minutes, 55 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1904


Twain

"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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December 24, 2008
The Night Before Christmas
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by Clement Clarke Moore or Henry Livingston Jr.
3 minutes, 18 seconds
Unabridged Christmas Verse
1823

The Night Before Christmas

"A Visit from St Nicholas" (or "The Night Before Christmas"), since first published anonymously in the Troy Sentinel, widely introduced the modern concept of Santa Claus to the Western world.

The classic verse was later attributed to both Clement Clarke Moore and Henry Livingston, Jr., depending on who you ask.

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December 7, 2008
Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable 05: Phaeton
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by Thomas Bulfinch
19 minutes, 23 seconds
Unabridged Mythology/Literature
1913


Bulfinch's Mythology

Young Phaeton finds out he's the son of the god who drives the Sun around, and suddenly he feels all entitled to take the family car out for a cruise. What could possible go wrong?

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November 3, 2008
Casey at the Booth
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by Alex Wilson
3 minutes, 16 seconds
Unabridged SF poem/parody
2008

Casey at the Booth

A Filk of the Republic Sung in the Year 2088.

A political parody based on Ernest L Thayer's Casey at the Bat. First appeared in Inconsequential Art #4. Text online here. Cover art by Constantine Markopoulos.

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September 15, 2008
Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable 04: Juno and Her Rivals, Etc
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by Thomas Bulfinch
23 minutes, 33 seconds
Unabridged Mythology/Literature
1913


Bulfinch's Mythology

Juno and her Rivals, Io and Callisto, Diana and Actaeon, and Latona and the Rustics: an action-packed chapter in which we learn...
  • How the goddess Juno disposes of her husband's mistresses.
  • He has many mistresses.
  • The price one pays for seeing a virgin goddess naked.
  • The origin of frogs (not related to the naked thing).


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January 23, 2008
An Encounter with an Interviewer
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by Mark Twain
8 minutes, 42 seconds
Unabridged Humor/Literature
1874


Mark Twain - Encounter with an Interviewer

Mark Twain deals with the media. Performed by Alex Wilson.

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December 13, 2007
Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable 03: Apollo and Daphne, Etc
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by Thomas Bulfinch
23 minutes, 11 seconds
Unabridged Mythology/Literature
1913


Bulfinch's Mythology

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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November 7, 2007
Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable 02: Prometheus and Pandora
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by Thomas Bulfinch
18 minutes, 40 seconds
Unabridged Mythology/Literature
1913


Bulfinch's Mythology

Creation myths! Read by Alex Wilson.

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October 12, 2007
Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable 01: Introduction
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by Thomas Bulfinch
24 minutes, 44 seconds
Unabridged Mythology/Literature
1913


Bulfinch's Mythology

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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February 3, 2007
The Kiss
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by Kate Chopin
6 minutes, 24 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1895


The Kiss by Kate Chopin

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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November 16, 2006
Metamorphosis
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by Franz Kafka
2 hours, 15 minutes
Unabridged Novella
1915


Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis

"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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November 5, 2006
The Morals of Chess
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by Benjamin Franklin
8 minutes, 52 seconds
Unabridged Essay
1786


The Morals of Chess

American essaysist and humorist Benjamin Franklin on the game of chess, and its application to life.

Read by Alex Wilson.

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October 4, 2006
NIMH: Social Phobia
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from the National Institute of Mental Health
13 minutes, 37 seconds
Unabridged NIMH Informational Brochure
1999


Social Phobia
This unabridged recording includes two freely available brochures from the National Institute of Mental Health: Social Phobia: A Real Illness and Facts about Social Phobia.

Full text (including printable and redistributable brochures) available at the NIMH website.

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August 30, 2006
The Girl Detective
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by Kelly Link
46 minutes, 45 seconds
Unabridged Short SF Story
1999


The Girl Detective

"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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June 23, 2006
Clarion My Wayward Son 1 of 2
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by Alex Wilson
48 minutes, 4 seconds
Unabridged SF-related podcast
2006

Clarion My Wayward Son

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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May 31, 2006
Waiting for the Zephyr
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by Tobias S Buckell
13 minutes, 19 seconds
Unabridged Short SF Story
2000


When the fuel went, Mara's town turned to windpower. They struggled on as the lights left, as the cities fell fallow, and plastic became a memory. Their only link to the outside world is the Zephyr, and now it too has not shown up. Originally published in Jackhammer. Narrated by Mary Robinette Kowal of the Willamette Radio Workshop.

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April 28, 2006
Dulce et Decorum Est
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by Wilfred Owen
2 minutes, 5 seconds
Unabridged Formal Poetry
1920


The classic war poem written by a British soldier during World War I. Read by Alex Wilson.

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March 15, 2006
The Gettysburg Address
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by Abraham Lincoln
2 minutes, 22 seconds
Unabridged Speech
1863


Lincoln

"Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new n