Free Audiobooks
Saturday, November 24th, 2012
by James Joyce
17 minutes, 2 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1914
Sometimes romance needs a bit of deliberation; this is Joyce at his most satiric.
“The Boarding House” is the seventh story in his 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 November 24, 2007, 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
Thursday, October 25th, 2012
by Jack London
38 minutes, 6 seconds
Unabridged Horror Short Story
1910
“And then the thing happened–the thing unthinkable and unexpected.” London’s speculative story about the frightening, dual nature of man.
Read by William Coon.
Originally for sale on October 25, 2007, 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
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
Sunday, August 12th, 2012
by F Scott Fitzgerald
34 minutes, 52 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1922
A man makes a pilgrimage to his hometown and finds you can, indeed, put a price on fate.
Read by William Coon.
Originally for sale on August 12, 2007, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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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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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
Sunday, June 17th, 2012
by Katherine Mansfield
17 minutes, 19 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1920
A story of love lost and found, after an absence of six years. The reasons for connection and separation quickly become clear, but what will be the choice this time around?
A beautiful day. A discussion of classlessness. A snobbish ex-lover. What could possibly go right?
Read by William Coon.
Originally for sale on June 17, 2007, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a New Zealand-born author of short stories and critical writings. She was a prominent modernist in the first part of the 20th century.
Athough William Coon is a relative newcomer to audiobook recording, he has many years of experience using his voice to inform, persuade, and educate his consulting clients. A recent contributor to the podcast timetravelershow.com, Bill has narrated over 30 short works for LibriVox. A list of his LibriVox recordings can be found here.
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Katherine Mansfield, 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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Friday, April 6th, 2012
from the King James Bible
16 minutes, 18 seconds
Unabridged Religous Work
First Century AD
The eleventh book of the New Testament: the epistle of the apostle Paul to the Philippians. It was written during Paul’s first imprisonment in Rome, yet he emphasizes joy and rejoicing at the gospel.
Read by Alex Wilson.
Originally for sale on April 6, 2007, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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