19th Century AD Audiobooks
Thursday, September 27th, 2012
by Edgar Allan Poe
16 minutes, 27 seconds
Unabridged Horror Story
1842
What’s a Prince to do when his people are dying of plague? Why, wall himself off with a thousand other nobles and throw a masquerade ball, of course!
Silly prince. Doesn’t he know he’s in an Edgar Allan Poe story?
Narrated by Alex Wilson.
Originally for sale on September 27, 2007, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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Edgar Allan Poe, Podcast
Thursday, July 26th, 2012
by Lord Byron
5 minutes, 19 seconds
Unabridged Narrative Poem
1816
In which our hero, the most Romantic of all the Romantic poets, takes on the end of the world.
Written in Geneva, Switzerland in the summer of 1816, when Byron, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, and John Polidori spent their evenings telling each other ghost stories. The resulting tales included Shelley’s Frankenstein, Polidori’s creation of the vampire/vampyre genre (based on a novel fragment of Byron’s), and this gloomy, speculative verse.
Read by Alex Wilson.
Originally for sale on July 26, 2007, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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Lord Byron, Podcast
Friday, July 13th, 2012
by Jerome K Jerome
1 hour, 2 minutes
Unabridged Humor/Ghost/Christmas Novella
1891
A Christmas mystery story where even the narrator can’t be trusted to stay sober or keep his clothes on.
“There must be something ghostly in the air of Christmas–something about the close, muggy atmosphere that draws up the ghosts, like the dampness of the summer rains brings out the frogs and snails.”
Performed by Susie Berneis and Robert Bethune.
Originally for sale on July 13, 2007, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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Jerome K Jerome, Podcast
Wednesday, June 27th, 2012
by Lord Byron
22 minutes
Unabridged Longform Narrative Poem
1816
The story-poem about Francois Bonivard, a 16th century monk imprisoned in the Chateau de Chillon.
Read by Alex Wilson.
Originally for sale on June 27, 2007, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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Lord Byron, Podcast
Monday, April 23rd, 2012
by H G Wells
30 minutes, 18 seconds
Unabridged Science Fiction Story
1897
One hundred and one years before the films Armegeddon and Deep Impact entered U.S. theaters, 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.
Originally for sale on April 23, 2007, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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H G Wells, Podcast
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
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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Mark Twain, Podcast
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
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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Edgar Allan Poe, Podcast
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
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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Nathaniel Hawthorne, Podcast
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
by Henry David Thoreau
56 minutes, 45 seconds
Unabridged Essay/Speech
1859
Against the then-popular condemnation of the radical abolitionist who seized a federal armory, attempting to arm slaves and create a violent rebelion against the South, Thoreau delivered this spirited speech justifying Brown’s character and actions to those who would have rather resolved (or failed to resolve) the issue of slavery using discussions and diplomacy. Read by Alex Wilson.
Originally for sale on May 24, 2006, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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Henry David Thoreau, Podcast
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
by Walt Whitman
2 hours, 20 minutes
Unabridged Free Verse Poetry Collection
1855
“Song of Myself” is the longest and most famous book (of 35 total) of Walt Whitman’s legendary poetry collection Leaves of Grass. Song of Myself is a longform poem in 52 parts. Read by Alex Wilson.
Originally for sale on November 16, 2005, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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Podcast, Walt Whitman
