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Civil Disobedience [MP3 Audio]
by Henry David Thoreau
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 Originally entitled "Resistance to Civil Government," the classic libertarian essay on self-reliance, advocating the active refusal to disobey unjust laws. Read by Alex Wilson. 1849
Length: 1 hours, 19 minutes, 39 secs
Category: Politics/Government
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A Green Thumb [MP3 Audio]
by Tobias S. Buckell
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It's a very different USA, where necessity has provoked a very profound change in technology. And yet many things are still the same. Being a teenager is always tough, and there are many choices ahead. One of which is "how and where do you grow your very first car?" Read by Alex Wilson 2002
Length: 0 hours, 15 minutes, 21 secs
Category: Alternate History
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The Tell-Tale Heart [MP3 Audio]
by Edgar Allan Poe
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"You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me." The Master of the Macabre's most famous horrific short story. Read by Alex Wilson. 1843
Length: 0 hours, 18 minutes, 39 secs
Category: Classic Literature
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The Raven [MP3 Audio]
by Edgar Allan Poe
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The archetype of dark poetry by the master of macabre. Read by Alex Wilson. 1845
Length: 0 hours, 8 minutes, 30 secs
Category: Horror
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Lecture to Art Students [MP3 Audio]
by Oscar Wilde
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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. 1883
Length: 0 hours, 20 minutes, 6 secs
Category: Education
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The Time Machine [MP3 Audio]
by H. G. Wells
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Unabridged reading of the first science fiction time travel novel. An amateur scientist discovers that just as he may travel around in the three physical dimensions, he may also travel through the fourth--time. These are his adventures and discoveries through time. Read by James Spencer of Active Voicing. 1895
Length: 3 hours, 2 minutes, 33 secs
Category: Science Fiction
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Other Voices, Other Worlds [MP3 Audio]
by Bruce Boston
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An 18-poem audio chapbook by the Grand Master of science fiction poetry. Read by the author and set to music by Jack Poley. Includes readings of "For Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets" (1985 Rhysling Award Winner), "The FTL Addict Fixes" (1984 Rhysling Award Nominee), and "The Evolution of the Death Murals" (1986 Rhysling Award Nominee), as well as "The Alchemist Is Born in a Sudden Changing of Seasons," "The Alchemist in Transit," "The Alchemist Discovers a Universal Solvent," "A Thousand F... more info>> 1990 Rhysling Award Nominee, Rhysling Award Winner
Length: 0 hours, 33 minutes, 59 secs
Category: Science Fiction
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On the Decay of the Art of Lying [MP3 Audio]
by Mark Twain
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A humorous essay, read by Alex Wilson 1882
Length: 0 hours, 16 minutes, 36 secs
Category: Humor
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The Pit and the Pendulum [MP3 Audio]
by Edgar Allan Poe
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Poe's classic horror tale about one soul's torment as he awaits execution in a Spanish Inquisition torture chamber. Read by Alex Wilson. 1843
Length: 0 hours, 51 minutes, 39 secs
Category: Horror
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DRM Talk [MP3 Audio]
by Cory Doctorow
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On June 17, 2004, science fiction author and EFF spokesman Cory Doctorow talked to Microsoft Research Group and other interested parties about Digital Rights Management (DRM), copyright, and the technology that cleaves them together and apart. In five parts, Doctorow covers everything from DVD region coding and the player piano to the Apple iTunes Music Store and why Sony didn't create the digital successor to its once-ubiquitous Walkman. Everything you ever wanted to know about DRM, but were af... more info>> 2004
Length: 0 hours, 53 minutes, 1 secs
Category: Technology/Science
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The War of the Worlds [Unabridged] [MP3 Audio]
by H. G. Wells
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Unabridged reading of the classic alien invasion novel by "The Father of Science Fiction" H.G. Wells. Read by James Spencer of Active Voicing. 1898
Length: 5 hours, 53 minutes, 25 secs
Category: Science Fiction
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [MP3 Audio]
by L. Frank Baum
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Unabridged performance of the beloved novel about a quest to see a Wizard. Join Dorothy, Toto, the Scarecrow, The Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion in an adventure some would call the "first American fairy tale" (which would later inspire one of the most successful films ever made). Read by James Spencer. 1900
Length: 3 hours, 36 minutes, 0 secs
Category: Children's Fiction
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My First Lie (And How I Got Out of It) [Unabridged] [MP3 Audio]
by Mark Twain
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Twain's humorous memoir/essay on his first indiscretion, indiscretions in general, and the virtues and pleasures of indiscretioning. 1899
Length: 0 hours, 20 minutes, 50 secs
Category: Humor
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Tao Te Ching [unabridged] [MP3 Audio]
by Lao Tzu
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Translation by James Legge. 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." Read by Alex Wilson. 2004
Length: 1 hours, 17 minutes, 50 secs
Category: Spiritual/Religion
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Primordial Chili and Other Impossible Treats [Unabridged] [MP3 Audio]
by Tom Gerencer
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Four humorous short science fiction and fantasy stories, read by the author. Includes "Primordial Chili" in which the planets align, the gods speak, and supper turns out pretty good, too (Science Fiction Age, 1999), "A Taste of Damel," where even clerks from copy shops can have heroic qualities and even the very, very old can learn new tricks (Realms of Fantasy, 2002), "Demo Mode," offering a future vision where we'll all have knowledge grafted straight into our heads (Science Fiction Age, 2000)... more info>> 1999
Length: 0 hours, 54 minutes, 33 secs
Category: Science Fiction
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The Art of War [unabridged] [MP3 Audio]
by Sun Tzu
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The classic, definitive Chinese book on military strategies and tactics. For centuries it has influenced generals, rulers, and others interested in military intelligence. More recently it has become required reading for some businesses executives. Translation from the Chinese by Lionel Giles in 1910. Original text circa 600BC. Read by Alex Wilson. 1910
Length: 1 hours, 19 minutes, 0 secs
Category: General Nonfiction
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A Christmas Carol [Unabridged] [MP3 Audio]
by Charles Dickens
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The classic holiday tale of curmudgeon Ebenezer Scrooge and the visitation of three ghosts (four if you include Marley) in the run up to Christmas. Narrated by James Spencer. 1843
Length: 2 hours, 46 minutes, 53 secs
Category: Classic Literature
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [UNABRIDGED] [MP3 Audio]
by Mark Twain
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Big-river adventure and biting, laugh-out-loud satire in this classic novel. "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn," Ernest Hemingway wrote. "But it's the best book we've had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." Narrated by actor John Jennens. 1885
Length: 6 hours, 24 minutes, 16 secs
Category: Humor
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A Boy's Will [Unabridged] [MP3 Audio]
by Robert Frost
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A Boy's Will was 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. Includes the poems: Into My Own, Ghost House, My November Guest, Love and a Question, A Late Walk, Stars, Storm Fear, Wind and Window Flower To a Thawing Wind, A Prayer in Spring, Flower-Gathering, Rose Pagonias, Asking for Rosas, Waiting--A... more info>> 1913
Length: 0 hours, 45 minutes, 57 secs
Category: Classic Literature
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The Glass Dog and The Queen of Quok [Unabridged] [MP3 Audio]
by L. Frank Baum
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Two humorous tales by the author of The Wizard of Oz. The Glass Dog involves a wizard, a glass-blower, and a lady of high-society. The Queen of Quok tells the story of a young, broke king and the quest to replenish his kingdom's treasury. 1901
Length: 0 hours, 33 minutes, 34 secs
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A Bite of Bierce: Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories [Unabridged] [MP3 Audio]
by Ambrose Bierce
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Susie Berneis and Robert Bethune narrate five classic stories by Bierce: "An Occurrence on Owl Creek Bridge," "Staley Fleming's Hallucination," "The Damned Thing," "Diagnosis of Death," and "The Boarded Window." 1891
Length: 1 hours, 14 minutes, 0 secs
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The Call of the Wild [Unabridged] [MP3 Audio]
by Jack London
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The classic adventure novel. Narrated by John Jennens. 1903
Length: 3 hours, 8 minutes, 0 secs
Category: Classic Literature
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The Valley of the Spiders [Unabridged] [MP3 Audio]
by H. G. Wells
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Three adventurers face danger, death, and giant spiders, all for the capture/love of a woman, in this classic pulp adventure story. Read by Alex Wilson. 1903
Length: 0 hours, 29 minutes, 0 secs
Category: Science Fiction
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The Star [Unabridged] [MP3 Audio]
by H. G. Wells
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One hundred and one years before some blockbuster films showed us what might happen if cataclysmic-sized asteroids were about to strike the Earth, 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. 1897
Length: 0 hours, 30 minutes, 18 secs
Category: Science Fiction
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Young Goodman Brown [Unabridged] [MP3 Audio]
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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A puritan confronts witches, the devil, and his own morality in the spooky, Salem woods in this classic American short story. Read by Alex Wilson. 1835
Length: 0 hours, 38 minutes, 54 secs
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