March 15th, 2010
by H G Wells
23 minutes, 16 seconds
Unabridged Science & Philosophy Essay
1891
“Science is a match that man has just got alight.” An important early essay on science and philosophy, offering insight into the unfettered mind that would a few years later belong to “The Father of Science Fiction.” Read by Alex Wilson. Not for sale in the EU.
Originally for sale on March 15, 2005, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later (though please note restrictions based on internationally diverse copyright standards). See the Mission page for why.
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March 8th, 2010
by Sherwood Anderson
11 minutes, 3 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1921
The narrator meets a refugee on a train, and learns the true meaning (or lack of meaning) of war.
Read by Alex Wilson.
Originally for sale on March 8, 2005, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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February 22nd, 2010
by Carl Sandburg
2 hours, 15 minutes
Unabridged Free Verse Poetry Collection
1916
This complete collection includes the Telltale Weekly recordings of all 7 volumes of Carl Sandburg’s Chicago Poems, originally sold individually as
- Chicago Poems – 55 poems – 65 minutes
- Handfuls – 11 poems – 4 minutes
- War Poems 1914-1915 – 11 poems – 11 minutes
- The Road and the End – 11 poems, 10 minutes
- Fogs and Fires – 28 poems – 17 minutes
- Shadows – 9 poems – 6 minutes
- Other Days (1900-1910) – 23 poems – 22 minutes
Read by Alex Wilson.
Originally for sale on February 22, 2005, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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February 15th, 2010
Ambrose Bierce’s stories Present at a Hanging & An Arrest, concluded.
(This post exists solely for the benefit of the podcast. See initial entry for more info and download options.)
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February 15th, 2010
by Ambrose Bierce
8 minutes, 25 seconds
Two Unabridged Short Ghost Stories
1910
Two short, Civil War era ghost stories by one of the most mysterious authors in American history.
Read by Alex Wilson.
Originally for sale on February 15, 2005, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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February 1st, 2010
by Ambrose Bierce
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.
Read by Alex Wilson.
Originally for sale on February 1, 2005, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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January 18th, 2010
by Mark Twain
29 minutes, 45 seconds
Unabridged Humorous Speeches
1899-1908
Five speeches by the master at making them interesting and witty.
Theoretical Morals (1899)
“A man can’t become morally perfect by stealing one or a thousand green watermelons, but every little bit helps.”
The Alphabet and Simplified Spelling (1907)
“Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can take it too far.”
Education and Citizenship (1908)
“Now I want to tell a story about jumping to conclusions. It was told to me by Bram Stoker and it concerns a christening.”
Layman’s Sermon (1906)
“Now I am not modest. I was born modest, but it didn’t last.”
University Settlement Society (1901)
“Marvelous it is, to think of schools where you don’t have to drive the children in, but drive them out! It was not so in my day.”
Note: The podcast includes only “Theoretical Morals.” All five speeches are included in the downloadable bundles.
Read by Alex Wilson.
Originally for sale on January 18, 2005, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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January 11th, 2010
by Edgar Allan Poe
51 minutes, 39 seconds
Unabridged Horror Fiction
1843
“I saw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me…”
Poe’s classic horror tale about one soul’s torment as he awaits execution in a Spanish Inquisition torture chamber. Read by Alex Wilson.
Originally for sale on January 11, 2005, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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December 7th, 2009
by Cory Doctorow
53 minutes, 1 second
Unabridged Speech on Technology and Business Issues
2004
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 afraid to tell Microsoft.
Read by Alex Wilson. The text of this speech is freely available online [new window].
Originally for sale on December 7, 2004, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later (approximately; apologies for the delay). See the Mission page for why.
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November 16th, 2009
by Robert W Service
1 hour, 19 minutes
Unabridged Lyrical Poetry Collection
1907
Thirty-four accessible, adventurous poems including the famous narrative oft-memorized poems “The Shooting of Dan McGrew” and “The Cremation of Sam McGee.” This collection has also been published as “Songs of a Sourdough.”
Read by Craig R Currier. Podcast includes the poem “My Madonna.” Complete audiobook collection (in the downloadable archives above) includes:
The Land God Forgot
The Spell of the Yukon
The Heart of the Sourdough
The Three Voices
The Law of the Yukon
The Parson’s Son
The Call of the Wild
The Lone Trail
The Pines
The Lure of Little Voices
The Song of the Wage Slave
Grin
The Shooting of Dan McGrew
The Cremation of Sam McGee
My Madonna
Unforgotten
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The Reckoning
Quatrains
The Men that Don’t Fit In
Music in the Bush
The Rhyme of the Remittance Man
The Low-Down White
The Little Old Log Cabin
The Younger Son
The March of the Dead
Fighting Mac
The Woman and the Angel
The Rhyme of the Restless Ones
New Year’s Eve
Comfort
The Harpy
Premonition
The Tramps
L’Envoi
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Originally for sale on November 16, 2004, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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