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"Project Gutenberg is well known for offering free electronic versions of famous public-domain texts. Now Telltale Weekly wants to be its audiobook equivalent." - The New York Times
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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 |
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 |
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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Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, concluded.
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