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The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 01

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Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton


This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythol…

The Hound of the Baskervilles (version 5 dramatic reading)

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of four crime novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originall…

Nature

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Ralph Waldo Emerson


Nature is a short essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson published anonymously in 1836. It is in this essay that the foundation of transcendentalism i…

Mansfield Park (dramatic reading)

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Jane Austen


Mansfield Park is Jane Austen's 1814 novel focusing on Fanny Price, the daughter of a poor Portsmouth family, who is taken to live with her …

Northanger Abbey

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Jane Austen


Northanger Abbey is a hilarious parody of 18th century gothic novels. The heroine, 17-year old Catherine, has been reading far too many “hor…

The Social Contract

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau


The Social Contract outlines Rousseau's views on political justice, explaining how a just and legitimate state is to be founded, organized a…

Edison, His Life and Inventions

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Frank Lewis Dyer


A detailed biography of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of such things as the telephone, the microphone, the electric motor, the storage batter…

The Dhammapada

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Unknowntranslated Byf. Max Müller and Translated Byf. Max Müller


The Dhammapada is is a Buddhist scripture, containing 423 verses in 26 categories. According to tradition, these are verses spoken by the Bu…

Mary Queen of Scots

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Jacob Abbott


There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels…

Anne's House of Dreams

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Lucy Maud Montgomery


Anne's House of Dreams is book five in the series, and chronicles Anne's early married life, as she and her childhood sweetheart Gilbert Bly…

The Taming of the Shrew

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William Shakespeare


The Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeare's earliest comedies, and was inspired by classical Roman comedy and the Italian commedia dell'…

The Alchemist

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Ben Jonson


An outbreak of plague in London forces a gentleman, Lovewit, to flee temporarily to the country, leaving his house under the sole charge of …

Jane Eyre (version 3 dramatic reading)

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Charlotte Brontë


Primarily of the bildungsroman genre, Jane Eyre follows the emotions and experiences of eponymous Jane Eyre, her growth to adulthood, and he…

Wuthering Heights (version 3 dramatic reading)

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Emily Brontë


The story centers on the all-encompassing, passionate, but ultimately doomed love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, and how this un…

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. I

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Edward Gibbon


The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was writ…

The Burgess Animal Book for Children

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Thornton W. Burgess


Peter Rabbit goes to school, with Mother Nature as his teacher. In this zoology book for children, Thornton W. Burgess describes the mammals…

Les Liaisons dangereuses

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Choderlos De Laclos and Pierre Choderlos De Laclos


D'amants qu'ils étaient, le Vicomte de Valmont et la Marquise de Merteuil sont restés complices dans leurs projets de liaisons…

The Book of Ghosts

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Sabine Baring-Gould


Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) was an English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar. During his life, he publis…

Hints for Lovers

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Arnold Haultain


"Hints for Lovers" is a thorough analysis of relationships between men and women, about everything that lovers should know, and de…

A Christmas Carol (version 08 dramatic reading)

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Charles Dickens


A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Chapman & Hall on 17 December 1843. The story tells …

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