The Great Stone of Sardis
Frank R. Stockton
Read by Lucy Lo Faro
The home of Roland Clewe, a small house plainly furnished, but good enough for a bachelor's quarters, stood not half a mile from the station, and near it were the extensive buildings which he called his Works. Here were laboratories, large machine-shops in which many men were busy at all sorts of strange contrivances in metal and other materials; and besides other small edifices there was a great round tower --like structure, with smooth iron walls thirty feet high and without windows, and which was lighted and ventilated from the top. This was Clewe's special workshop; and besides old Samuel Block and such workmen as were absolutely necessary and could be trusted, few people ever entered it but himself. The industries in the various buildings were diverse, some of them having no apparent relation to the others. Each of them was expected to turn out something which would revolutionize something or other in this world, but it was to his lens-house that Roland Clewe gave, in these days, his special attention. Here a great enterprise was soon to begin, more important in his eyes than anything else which had engaged human endeavor. . . . (6 hr 52 min)
Chapters
The Arrival of the Euterpe-Thalia | 15:14 | Read by Lucy Lo Faro |
The Sardis Works | 10:25 | Read by Lucy Lo Faro |
Margaret Raleigh | 12:19 | Read by Lucy Lo Faro |
The Mission of Samuel Block | 21:56 | Read by Lucy Lo Faro |
Under Water | 13:38 | Read by Lucy Lo Faro |
Voices from the Polar Seas | 15:32 | Read by Lucy Lo Faro |
Good News Goes from Sardis | 13:53 | Read by Lucy Lo Faro |
The Devil on the Dipsey | 10:40 | Read by Lucy Lo Faro |
The Artesian Ray | 18:11 | Read by Lucy Lo Faro |
'Lake Shiver' | 19:14 | Read by Lucy Lo Faro |
They Believe it is the Polar Sea | 12:54 | Read by Lucy Lo Faro |
Captain Hubbell Takes Comand | 14:25 | Read by Lucy Lo Faro |
Longitude Everything | 17:39 | Read by Lucy Lo Faro |
A Region ofNothingness | 18:10 | Read by Lucy Lo Faro |
The Automatic Shell | 13:14 | Read by Lucy Lo Faro |
The Track of the Shell | 20:33 | Read by Lucy Lo Faro |
Captain Hubbell Declines to go Whaling | 16:22 | Read by Lucy Lo Faro |
Mr. Marcy's Canal | 17:06 | Read by Lucy Lo Faro |
The Icy Gateway | 20:26 | Read by Lucy Lo Faro |
'This Is How I Love You' | 10:32 | Read by Lucy Lo Faro |
The Cave of Light | 16:37 | Read by Lucy Lo Faro |
Clewe's Theory | 13:35 | Read by Lucy Lo Faro |
The Last Dive of the Dipsey | 11:40 | Read by Lucy Lo Faro |
Rovinski Comes to the Surface | 22:41 | Read by Lucy Lo Faro |
Laurels | 35:41 | Read by Lucy Lo Faro |
Reviews
Engaging story
Sherie Black
Excellent reader. My first story from this author. So glad I listened. Interesting scientific quests for the era
Paul Ajzenman
Sorry to give such a low rating. Well into the second chapter I didn't know what the story was about. Compounding the slow, uninteresting start, the reader's style and rhythm was not for me.