Fiction
Short Science Fiction Collection 047
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Philip K. Dick
This is a collection of science fiction short stories.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (version 3)
Read by Phil Chenevert
Washington Irving
Everyone knows the story of the Headless Horseman but perhaps you, like me, did not remember what a marvelous story teller Washington Irving…
Short Science Fiction Collection 048
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Various
Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and sci…
Flower of the North
Read by Roger Melin
James Oliver Curwood
Flower of the North finds Philip Whittemore on an adventure which takes him up the Churchill River of northern Canada to a land which he tho…
The Sign of Silence
Read by Tom Weiss
William Le Queux
Edward Royle is the head of a well-known chemical manufacturer in England, which he has inherited. He is engaged to the daughter of his fath…
The Parasite (version 2)
Read by Delmar H Dolbier
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In this short novel of 1894, Conan Doyle describes a character with seemingly extraordinary powers. Are these powers occult or are they only…
First Love
Read by Martin Geeson
Ivan Turgenev
The title of the novella is almost an adequate summary in itself. The "boy-meets-girl-then-loses-her" story is universal but not, …
An Outcast Of The Islands
Read by Tom Weiss
Joseph Conrad
An Outcast of the Islands is the second novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1896, inspired by Conrad's experience as mate of a steamer, the…
Eugene Onéguine
Read by MaryAnn
Alexander Pushkin
Eugene Oneguine is a classic of Russian literature, and its eponymous protagonist has served as the model for a number of Russian literary h…
The Hand of Ethelberta
Read by Simon Evers
Thomas Hardy
Ethelberta was raised in humble circumstances but became a governess and consequently, at the age of 18, married well. However, her husband …
New Arabian Nights
Read by Don W. Jenkins
Robert Louis Stevenson
New Arabian Nights is a collection of short stories which include Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest fiction as well as those considered his …
Murder Madness
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Murray Leinster
Murder Madness! Seven Secret Service men had completely disappeared. Another had been found a screaming, homicidal maniac, whose fingers wri…
Ivan the Fool
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Leo Tolstoy
Written after Tolstoy suffered a spiritual crisis, Ivan the Fool is a fairy tale that offers children instruction in how to live rightly, si…
Black Beauty - Young Folks' Edition
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Anna Sewell
The same beloved story of the adventures of a young horse that we all know and love, but rewritten by the author for young people. All of th…
The Golden Snare
Read by Roger Melin
James Oliver Curwood
With but two years of service in the RNMP Philip Raine finds himself somewhat unwillingly on the trail of Bram Johnson, wanted for murder an…
Best Russian Short Stories
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Varioustranslated Bythomas Seltzer and Varioustranslated By Thomas Seltzer
In this collection of Russian stories, editor and compiler Thomas Seltzer selects from a range of the best examples of 19th and early 20th c…
White Jacket, or The World in a Man-of-War
Read by James K. White
Herman Melville
This is a tale based on Melville's experiences aboard the USS United States from 1843 to 1844. It comments on the harsh and brutal realities…
The Life, Adventures & Piracies of Captain Singleton
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Daniel Defoe
The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton is a "bipartite adventure story whose first half covers a traversal…
The Ghost Ship
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John C. Hutcheson
This book intentionally veers in and out of the supernatural, as the title implies. The officers get more and more bewildered as they work o…
Cross Currents
Read by Chiquito Crasto
Eleanor H. Porter
Cross Currents: The Story of Margaret, to give it its full title, is delightful story about a little girl’s resilience and a mother’s unwave…