Single Author Collections
Revenge!
Read by Roger Melin
Robert Barr
A collection of 20 short stories of the crime, detective, and thriller variety, sharing a common theme of .... you guessed it, revenge, and …
Round the Red Lamp
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
This is a collection of short stories focusing on the problems that present themselves to physicians and surgeons in the course of their wor…
The Farmer's Bride
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Charlotte Mew
The Farmer's Bride is a collection of 28 poems by British modernist writer Charlotte Mew. The original edition was published in 1916; this e…
Round The Fire Stories
Read by David Wales
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In the present [1908] collection those [stories] have been brought together which are concerned with the grotesque and with the terrible—suc…
Tales of the Fish Patrol
Read by Don W. Jenkins
Jack London
Wildest among the fisher-folk may be accounted the Chinese shrimp-catchers. It is the habit of the shrimp to crawl along the bottom in vast …
Tales of Wonder
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Lord Dunsany
The Last Book of Wonder, originally published as Tales of Wonder, is the tenth book and sixth original short story collection of Irish fanta…
The Prussian Officer
Read by Cate Barratt
D. H. Lawrence
The collection of short stories - of which The Prussian Officer is one - was Lawrence’s first such book. A German officer and his orderly ar…
Poems from the Divan of Hafiz
Read by Kevin W. Davidson
Hafiz and Hafez
Hafiz was a Persian poet. His collected works (Divan) are regarded as a pinnacle of Persian literature. While influenced by Islam, his mysti…
Tender Buttons
Read by Cori Samuel
Gertrude Stein
"The time came when there was a birthday. Every day was no excitement and a birthday was added, it was added on Monday, this made the m…
Poems
Read by Laura Atkinson
Emily Dickinson
"The eagerness with which the first volume of Emily Dickinson's poems has been read shows very clearly that all our alleged modern arti…
Lanagan Amateur Detective
Read by David Wales
Edward H. Hurlbut
This is a 1913 collection of ten short detective stories by a not well known writer. Jack Lanagan is a police reporter for a daily newspaper…
Rainer Maria Rilke
Read by Peter Tucker
Rainer Maria Rilke
A selection of poems by this renowned German poet. - Summary by Peter Tucker
The Liar
Read by Deborah Percy
Henry James
A successful painter reconnects with the woman he once loved during a visit to an English country house. His surprise is great when he learn…
Martin Hewitt, Investigator
Read by Kirsten Wever
Arthur Morrison
Here are seven mystery stories featuring Martin Hewitt, Detective, and narrated (of course) by his (nameless) sidekick. Arthur Morrison cert…
Christmas With Lucy Maud Montgomery
Read by David Wales
Lucy Maud Montgomery
This work is a selection of Christmas stories (or sometimes chapters) of Lucy Maud Montgomery from different sources and different times. Th…
The Prophet
Read by Adam Santoni
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet and writer Kahlil Gibran. It was originally…
The Passionate Pilgrim
Read by Caliban
William Shakespeare
The Passionate Pilgrim was published by William Jaggard, later the publisher of Shakespeare's First Folio. The first edition survives only i…
The House With The Mezzanine
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Anton Chekhov
Six short stories and a novella by the Russian master. (david wales)
The Empty House
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Algernon Blackwood
An anthology of short, chilling stories from Algernon Blackwood. They will make you start at noises in the night and wonder about your neigh…
The Burial of the Guns
Read by Mark F. Smith
Thomas Nelson Page
This is a book of short stories centered around the Civil War and its aftermath. The author was a prominent Virginian in his day, and his wr…