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The Ransom of Red Chief [MP3 Audio]
by O. Henry
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 "It looked like a good thing: but wait till I tell you. We were down South, in Alabama--Bill Driscoll and myself-when this kidnapping idea struck us. It was, as Bill afterward expressed it, during a moment of temporary mental apparition; but we didn't find that out till later." The classic humorous tale about a kidnapping gone awry by the beloved O Henry. Read by Alex Wilson. (Published: 1907)
Length: 0 hours, 22 minutes, 2 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." (Published: 1891)
Length: 1 hours, 14 minutes, 0 secs
Category: Classic Literature
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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>> (Published: 1913)
Length: 0 hours, 45 minutes, 57 secs
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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. (Published: 1843)
Length: 2 hours, 46 minutes, 53 secs
Category: Classic Literature
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A Dog's Tale [MP3 Audio]
by Mark Twain
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"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. (Published: 1904)
Length: 0 hours, 20 minutes, 55 secs
Category: Humor
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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. (Published: 1849)
Length: 1 hours, 19 minutes, 39 secs
Category: Politics/Government
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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>> (Published: 2004)
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Category: Technology/Science
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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. (Published: 1883)
Length: 0 hours, 20 minutes, 6 secs
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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. (Published: 1899)
Length: 0 hours, 20 minutes, 50 secs
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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 (Published: 1882)
Length: 0 hours, 16 minutes, 36 secs
Category: Humor
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Outgoing [MultiFormat]
by Alex Wilson
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Introverts collide in a space adventure. (Published: 2007)
Words: 13901 - Reading Time: 39-55 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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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. (Published: 2004)
Length: 1 hours, 17 minutes, 50 secs
Category: Spiritual/Religion
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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. (Published: 1910)
Length: 1 hours, 19 minutes, 0 secs
Category: General Nonfiction
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [Unabridged] [MP3 Audio]
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Benjamin Button is born as a fully grown man and for the next seventy years grows toward infancy. One of Fitzgerald's most famous stories. Read by Alex Wilson. First published in Collier's Weeky. (Published: 1921)
Length: 0 hours, 55 minutes, 44 secs
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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. (Published: 1843)
Length: 0 hours, 51 minutes, 39 secs
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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. (Published: 1845)
Length: 0 hours, 8 minutes, 30 secs
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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. (Published: 1897)
Length: 0 hours, 30 minutes, 18 secs
Category: Science Fiction
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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. (Published: 1843)
Length: 0 hours, 18 minutes, 39 secs
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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. (Published: 1895)
Length: 3 hours, 2 minutes, 33 secs
Category: Science Fiction
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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. (Published: 1903)
Length: 0 hours, 29 minutes, 0 secs
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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. (Published: 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. (Published: 1900)
Length: 3 hours, 36 minutes, 0 secs
Category: Children's 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. (Published: 1835)
Length: 0 hours, 38 minutes, 54 secs
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