Fiction Audiobooks
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, June 14th, 2011
by Jack London
3 hours, 8 minutes
Unabridged Adventure Novel
1903
“Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing…” The classic adventure novel.
Narrated by John Jennens. ote: the podcast MP3 includes only the first part (of seven) of The Call of the Wild. Find the complete recording in any of the zip files.
Originally for sale on June 14, 2006, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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Jack London, Podcast
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
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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H G Wells, 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
Monday, February 21st, 2011
by Mark Twain
9 hours, 24 minutes
Unabridged Adventure/Humor Novel
1885
Ernest Hemingway wrote: “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn … it’s the best book we’ve had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.”
Big-river adventure and biting, laugh-out-loud satire in this classic “Great American Novel.” Narrated by John Jennens.
[Note: Two downloads are required for the complete novel. You can download just the first part if you want, but it might lack the closure you're looking for. Also the podcast includes only a fraction of the book. A good fraction, but still.]
Originally for sale on February 21, 2006, 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, December 7th, 2010
by Charles Dickens
2 hours, 47 minutes
Unabridged Classic Novel
1843
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is the classic tale of curmudgeon Ebeneezer Scrooge and the visitation of three ghosts (four if you include Marley) in the run up to Christmas. Read by James Spencer.
Originally for sale on December 7, 2005, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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Charles Dickens, Podcast
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
Monday, September 20th, 2010
by Edgar Allan Poe
33 minutes, 22 seconds
Unabridged Horror / Mystery Fiction
1843
“Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?”
Poe’s classic horror tale about intoxication, murder, and a most mysterious cat. Read by Alex Wilson.
Originally for sale on September 20, 2005, 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
