The Longer Stuff Audiobooks
Monday, June 7th, 2010
by Percy Shelley
43 minutes, 21 seconds
Unabridged Formal Poem
1820
Shelley at his most playful (starting with the dedication to his wife, Frankenstein author Mary Shelley: “On her objecting to the following poem, upon the score of its containing no human interest.”), combining Greek and Egyptian myths into a fanciful meditation on creativity.
A longform poem of the fantastic, read by Alex Wilson.
Originally for sale on June 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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Percy Shelley, Podcast
Monday, April 26th, 2010
by Robert Frost
45 minutes, 56 seconds
Unabridged Lyrical Poetry Collection
1913
A Boy’s Will is the first poetry collection by Robert Frost. Includes 32 poems, painting pictures of New England and tackling Frost’s famously grand themes of isolation, death, coming of age (in literature and in life), and the world’s natural spirituality.
Part I:
Into My Own
Ghost House
My November Guest
Love and a Question
A Late Walk
Stars
Storm Fear
Wind and Window Flower
To a Thawing Wind
A Prayer in Spring
Flower-Gathering
Rose Pagonias
Asking for Rosas
Waiting–Afield at Dusk
In a Vale
A Dream Pang
In Neglect
The Vantage Point
Mowing
Going for Water |
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Part II
Revelation
The Trial by Existence
In Equal Sacrifice
The Tuft of Flowers
Spoils of the Dead
Pan with Us
The Demiurge’s Laugh
Part III
Now Close the Windows
A Line-Storm Song
October
My Butterfly
Reluctance
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Note: The podcast includes only the first third of the collection. The complete, unabridged poems are included in the downloadable bundles.
Read by Alex Wilson.
Originally for sale on April 26, 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, Robert Frost
Monday, April 5th, 2010
by L. Frank Baum
3 hours, 36 minutes
Unabridged Fantasy/ Young Adult Novel
1900
The beloved novel about a quest to see a Wizard. Join Dorothy, Toto, the Scarecrow, The Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion in an adventure that some would call the “first American fairy tale” (and, later, the inspiration for one of the most successful films ever made). Read by James Spencer.
Note: The podcast includes only the first chapter. The entire unabridged book is included in the downloadable bundles.
Originally for sale on April 5, 2005, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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L Frank Baum, Podcast
Monday, January 11th, 2010
by Edgar Allan Poe
51 minutes, 39 seconds
Unabridged Horror Fiction
1843
“I saw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me…”
Poe’s classic horror tale about one soul’s torment as he awaits execution in a Spanish Inquisition torture chamber. Read by Alex Wilson.
Originally for sale on January 11, 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, Spoken Alexandria
Monday, November 16th, 2009
by Robert W Service
1 hour, 19 minutes
Unabridged Lyrical Poetry Collection
1907
Thirty-four accessible, adventurous poems including the famous narrative oft-memorized poems “The Shooting of Dan McGrew” and “The Cremation of Sam McGee.” This collection has also been published as “Songs of a Sourdough.”
Read by Craig R Currier. Podcast includes the poem “My Madonna.” Complete audiobook collection (in the downloadable archives above) includes:
The Land God Forgot
The Spell of the Yukon
The Heart of the Sourdough
The Three Voices
The Law of the Yukon
The Parson’s Son
The Call of the Wild
The Lone Trail
The Pines
The Lure of Little Voices
The Song of the Wage Slave
Grin
The Shooting of Dan McGrew
The Cremation of Sam McGee
My Madonna
Unforgotten
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The Reckoning
Quatrains
The Men that Don’t Fit In
Music in the Bush
The Rhyme of the Remittance Man
The Low-Down White
The Little Old Log Cabin
The Younger Son
The March of the Dead
Fighting Mac
The Woman and the Angel
The Rhyme of the Restless Ones
New Year’s Eve
Comfort
The Harpy
Premonition
The Tramps
L’Envoi
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Originally for sale on November 16, 2004, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.
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Podcast, Robert W Service
Friday, August 14th, 2009
by H G Wells
3 hours, 2 minutes
Unabridged Science Fiction Novel
1895
An amateur scientist discovers that just as he may travel around in the three physical dimensions, he may also travel through the fourth–time. These are his adventures and discoveries through time. Read by James Spencer. Note: the Spoken Alexandria podcast includes only the first chapter of TM. The full book is included in the zipped download options
“There’s a slightly old-fashioned quality to his speech that compliments Wells’ old-fashioned brand of science fiction … rises above the source material, making these audio editions a great way to experience these two classics.” – John Joseph Adams, Locus
As James Patrick Kelly writes in this month’s (September 2004 issue) Asimov’s Science Fiction, “What makes this the first science fiction time travel story is that the Time Traveler actually builds his machine.” Previous fictitious time travelers (like Ebeneezer Scrooge or the Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court) didn’t have a choice in the matter.
Originally for sale on August 13, 2004, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later (though please note restrictions based on internationally diverse copyright standards). See the Mission page for why.
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H G Wells, Podcast
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
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by Rudyard Kipling
1 hour, 14 minutes
Unabridged Story Collection
1894, 1895
Two classic Rudyard Kipling stories of the Indian jungle:
The King’s Ankus (1895)
The python Kaa takes the manchild Mowgli to the ruined city of Cold Lairs, seeking treasure but finding something far worse.
“These are the Four that are never content,
that have never been filled since the Dews began:
Jacala’s mouth, and the glut of the Kite,
and the hands of the Ape, and the Eyes of Man.”
The Miracle of Purun Bhagat (1894)
A rich man casts away all possessions in the quest for (or from?) his true identity.
“The night we felt the earth would move
We stole and plucked him by the hand,
Because we loved him with the love
That knows but cannot understand.”
Performed by Robert Bethune.
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Rudyard Kipling
Monday, September 29th, 2008
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by Henry James
44 minutes, 35 seconds
Unabridged Fantasy/Horror Story
1868
The first ghost story of Henry James, and was part of a gothic literature revival in the 1880s. First appeared in The Atlantic Monthly. Performed by Susie Berneis.
(from Wikipedia:)
Henry James (April 15, 1843 - February 28, 1916) was an American-born British author. He is one of the founders and leaders of a school of realism in fiction; the fine art of his writing has led many academics to consider him the greatest master of the novel and novella form ... He is primarily known for a series of major novels in which he portrayed the encounter of America with Europe. His plots centered on personal relationships, the proper exercise of power in such relationships, and other moral questions. His method of writing from the point of view of a character within a tale allowed him to explore the phenomena of consciousness and perception...
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Henry James
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
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by Rudyard Kipling
1 hour, 15 minutes
Unabridged Story Collection
1891, 1894, 1902
Three classic elephant stories by Rudyard Kipling:
The Elephant’s Child (1902)
“In the High and Far-Off Times the Elephant, O Best Beloved, had no trunk. He had only a blackish, bulgy nose, as big as a boot, that he could wriggle about from side to side; but he couldn’t pick up things with it. But there was one Elephant–a new Elephant–an Elephant’s Child–who was full of ’satiable curtiosity, and that means he asked ever so many questions.”
Moti Guj Mutineer (1891)
“Once upon a time there was a coffee planter in India who wished to clear some forest land for coffee planting. When he had cut down all the trees and burned the under-wood the stumps still remained. Dynamite is expensive and slow-fire slow. The happy medium for stump clearing is the lord of all beasts, who is the elephant.”
Toomai of the Elephants (1894)
“Kala Nag stood ten fair feet at the shoulders, and his tusks had been cut off short at five feet, and bound round the ends, to prevent them splitting, with bands of copper; but he could do more with those stumps than any untrained elephant could do with the real sharpened ones.”
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Rudyard Kipling
Thursday, October 25th, 2007
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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.
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