Alex Wilson (reader) Audiobooks
Saturday, December 3rd, 2011
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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James Joyce, 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.
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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, April 12th, 2011
by Edgar Allan Poe
54 minutes, 13 seconds
Unabridged Horror / Mystery Fiction
1839
“I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow. An air of stern, deep, and irredeemable gloom hung over and pervaded all…”
Disease (vampirism?) and decay of both man and stone (do they share a soul?) in the master of the macabre’s famous tale. Includes Poe’s poem “The Haunted Palace” with musical accompaniment.
Performed by Alex Wilson.
Originally for sale on April 12, 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, March 29th, 2011
by D H Lawrence
58 minutes, 39 seconds
Unabridged Free and Formal Verse Poetry Collection
1918
The 1918 “New Poems” collection by the ever controversial (sometimes-deemed “pornographic,” but this collection contains only a smattering of his erotica) English writer. Includes 42 poems:
Apprehension
Coming Awake
From a College Window
Flapper
Birdcage Walk
Letter from Town: The Almond Tree
Flat Suburbs, SW, in the Morning
Thief in the Night
Letter from Town: On a Grey Evening in March
Suburbs on a Hazy Day
Hyde Park at Night: Clerks
Gipsy
Two-Fold
Under the Oak
Sigh No More
Love Storm
Parliament Hill in the Evening
Piccadilly Circus at Night: Street-Walkers
Tarantella
In Church
Piano
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Embankment at Night: Charity
Phantasmagoria
Next Morning
Palimpsest of Twilight
Embankment at Night: Outcasts
Winter in the Boulevard
School on the Outskirts
Sickness
Everlasting Flowers
The North Country
Bitterness of Death
Seven Seals
Reading a Letter
Twenty Years Ago
Intime
Two Wives
Heimweh
Debacle
Narcissus
Autumn Sunshine
On That Day |
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Originally for sale on March 29, 2006, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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D H Lawrence, Podcast
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011
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.”
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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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King James Bible, 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
Monday, November 1st, 2010
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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Mark Twain, Podcast
Monday, October 18th, 2010
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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James Joyce, Podcast
