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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 Mark Twain
16 minutes, 7 seconds
Unabridged Humor/Storytelling/Essay
1878
Twain proposes some realistic sequels to three common morality tales.
Read by Alex Wilson.
Originally for sale on February 14, 2007, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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by James Joyce
25 minutes, 14 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1914
Con men want to convince a maid to steal from her employer. “Two Gallants” is the sixth story in James Joyce’s collection Dubliners, classic tales dealing thematically with miscommunication, isolation, class differences, and emotional paralysis in Joyce’s Ireland.
Narrated by Alex Wilson.
Originally for sale on December 3, 2006, 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
27 minutes, 01 seconds
Unabridged Horror / Science Fiction
1835
What happens when you hypnotize a person in the moments before he dies? The story that began as a hoax (it was first published without the “fiction” label) is one of the first modern science fiction tales.
Narrated by Alex Wilson.
Originally for sale on October 18, 2006, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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by Nathaniel Hawthorne
38 minutes, 54 seconds
Unabridged Short Fiction
1835
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.
Originally for sale on September 13, 2006, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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by H G Wells
29 minutes, 11 seconds
Unabridged SF/Fantasy Pulp Adventure Story
1903
H G Wells was such a science fiction pioneer that he took all the great, archetypal titles (Think about it: The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Magic Shop, etc.. You’d think he would have at least been generous enough to call it, say, “A Magic Shop,” allowing that Asimov or Heinlein might decades later want to write about another one.) So it goes with “The Valley of the Spiders.”
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.
Originally for sale on May 10, 2006, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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from the King James Bible
23 minutes, 39 seconds
Unabridged Religous Work
First Century AD
The ninth book of the New Testament: the epistle of the apostle Paul to the Galatians. Paul argues that redemption comes from grace rather than as a reward for adherence to laws, “for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.”
Read by Alex Wilson.
Originally for sale on January 18, 2006, 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
21 minutes, 12 seconds
Unabridged Humorous Story
1870
A comedic fable about gender issues, succession, identity crisis, and, yes, a bit of love and romance in a patriarchal kingdom in the year 1222. By the incomparable Mark Twain.
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by James Joyce
27 minutes, 3 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1914
Two stories about Dubliners on the cusp of adulthood, figuring out how to balance their respective responsibilities and freedoms. “Eveline” and “After the Race” are the fourth and fifth stories in James Joyce’s collection Dubliners, classic tales dealing thematically with miscommunication, isolation, class differences, and emotional paralysis in Joyce’s Ireland.
Read by Alex Wilson.
Originally for sale on October 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 Willa Cather
16 minutes, 15 seconds
Unabridged Short Western Story
1892
A farmer in the Western frontier has a vision in one of Cather’s earliest stories. First published in The Hesperian.
Read by Alex Wilson.
Originally for sale on August 2, 2005, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
Willa Cather (1873-1947) was a Virginia-born author famous for her writing about life on the prairie. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for her novel One of Ours. Other famous novels include O Pioneers and Alexander's Bridge.
Alex Wilson is a writer and actor from northern Ohio and now based in Carrboro, North Carolina. His stories and comics have appeared/will appear in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Rambler, Outlaw Territory II (Image Comics), Weird Tales, Futurismic, LCRW and elsewhere. Locus has called him a "promising new writer," and Publishers Weekly also has nice things to say. Website)
Alex has performed lead roles in the North American premiere of (Richard Taylor's musical) Whistle Down the Wind and (Emmy-nominated director Jack Lucido's film) The Third Cord. He has recently appeared in the Deep Dish Theater productions of Hedda Gabler and Moon for the Misbegotten, and recorded narrations for Escape Pod and Night Shade Books. (Acting Resume/Reel) On early Telltale recordings, Alex is sometimes credited as "Alexander Wilson." He founded Telltale in 2004.
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by Oscar Wilde
25 minutes, 49 seconds
Unabridged Fairy Tale
1899
Oscar Wilde’s fable about the true meaning of happiness (and, um, just a wee bit of antisemitism).
Originally for sale on June 14, 2005, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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