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The Great Gatsby (version 2)

Read by Adrian Wilson


F. Scott Fitzgerald


The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel d…

Endospore

Read by R.A. Wilson


R.A. Wilson


Alan is a virgin, but that is not a big problem for him with Tracy and Gwinn desiring his attentions. He has larger concerns on his mind. He…

The Shadow-Line (Version 2)

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


In this engaging and well-crafted novella, an older man recalls how a combination of obscure personal impulses and diabolical co-incidences …

Arthur Conan Doyle’s Memories and Adventures

Read by Adrian Wilson


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Arthur Conan Doyle first published his memories of his many various adventures around the world and his relationships with such famous figur…

Victory (Version 2)

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


After spending some years wandering about the East and engaging in various adventures, Axel Heyst, a man of independent means who feels litt…

Poems of Nature

Read by Larry Wilson


Henry David Thoreau


The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved. Many of the…

The Man with the Black Feather

Read by Adrian Wilson


Gaston Leroux


Theophrastus Longuet is a retired manufacturer of rubber stamps in Paris. He now spends his days relaxing, safe from life’s vicissitudes. wi…

A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818

Read by Larry Wilson


Elisabeth G. Stryker


This is a brief biography of Samuel J. Mills who was instrumental in establishing the first missionary society in the United States, and als…

No Man's Land

Read by Adrian Wilson


Sapper


This book was written by a British Army officer and decorated Western Front veteran. Soldiers could not publish books using their real names…

Clara A. Swain, M.D.

Read by Larry Wilson


Mrs. Robert Hoskins


This is a brief biography of Clara A. Swain, M.D. who is regarded as the "first Medical Missionary to the Women of the Orient." S…

The Book of the Cheese

Read by Peter Yearsley


Thomas Wilson Reid


"Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese" is a pub on Fleet Street, London. It was rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1666, and has been frequented …

The Dark Road: Further Adventures of Chéri-Bibi

Read by Adrian Wilson


Gaston Leroux


One of a series of exciting adventure stories featuring Leroux's criminal mastermind Chéri-Bibi. When the story starts the "asto…

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Volume 1

Read by Peter Tucker


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


The novel is in eight books. The eponymous hero undergoes a journey of self-realization. The story centers upon Wilhelm's attempt to escape …

G.K. Chesterton in The Open Road

Read by Larry Wilson


G. K. Chesterton


A collection of 2 book reviews written by G.K. Chesterton in "The Open Road", both from 1911. (Summary by Maria Therese)

Last Post

Read by Peter Dann


Ford Madox Ford


This is the last novel in Ford Madox Ford's "Parade's End" tetralogy. Its predecessors "Some Do Not", "No More Para…

The Improvement of Human Reason

Read by Peter Tucker


Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Malik Ibn Tufail and Muhammad Ibn 'Abd Al-Malik Ibn Tufail


The story revolves around Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān, a little boy who grew up on an island in the Indies under the equator, isolated from the people, …

Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest

Read by Peter Dann


George Borrow


This unusual narrative by eccentric self-taught English linguist, traveller and one-time bible salesman George Borrow combines elements of a…

Haiti: Its Dawn of Progress after Years in a Night of Revolution

Read by Larry Wilson


John Dryden Kuser


This book is part history and part travelogue, an account of a brief visit by a wealthy, white U.S. politician during a lamentable time in H…

G.K. Chesterton in The Bibliophile Magazine

Read by Larry Wilson


G. K. Chesterton


Two essays/articles by G.K. Chesterton, published in 'The Bibliophile' magazine in 1908. (Summary by Maria Therese)

The Boy Travellers in Australasia

Read by Adrian Wilson


Thomas Wallace Knox


ADVENTURES OF TWO YOUTHS IN A JOURNEY TO THE SANDWICH, MARQUESAS, SOCIETY, SAMOAN, AND FEEJEE ISLANDS, AND THROUGH THE COLONIES OF NEW ZEALA…

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