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Mrs. Bathurst

In Movies and Hollywood Short Story Collection, Volume 1

Read by Cliff Thompson


Rudyard Kipling


Fiction about (or involving) motion pictures started appearing in the late nineteenth-century, when writers first became aware of early kine…

Grimms' Fairy Tales (Version 3)

Read by Cliff Stone


Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


Grimms' Fairy Tales, originally known as the Children's and Household Tales, is a German collection of fairy tales or folk lore by the Grimm…

The War of the Worlds (Version 5)

Read by Cliff Stone


H. G. Wells


An original masterpiece of alien invasion, The War of the Worlds (1898) conjures a terrifying race of Martians who devastate the Earth and f…

The Thirty-nine Steps (Version 3)

Read by Cliff Stone


John Buchan


The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure spy novel by John Buchan written in 1914. Told from the first-person point of view, it relates the adv…

The Time Machine (Version 7)

Read by Cliff Stone


H. G. Wells


The story follows a Victorian scientist, who claims that he has invented a device that enables him to travel through time, and has visited t…

The First Men in the Moon (Version 2)

Read by Cliff Stone


H. G. Wells


The novel tells the story of a journey to the Moon undertaken by the two protagonists: a businessman narrator, Mr. Bedford; and an eccentric…

Stories of the Wars of the Jews

Read by Cliff Stone


Charlotte Maria Tucker


Stories of the Wars of the Jews from the Babylonish captivity, to the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus is a historical narrative spanning J…

Greenmantle (Version 3)

Read by Cliff Stone


John Buchan


Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to m…

The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border

Read by Christopher Thompson


Gerald Breckenridge


When Bob and Frank get in touch with their friend Jack in New Mexico via radio telephony, a desperate cry for help sends the Radio Boys on a…

Wild Animals I Have Known

Read by Ernest Thompson Seton


Ernest Thompson Seton


A BOOK THAT CHANGED AMERICA... Ernest Thompson Seton was an influential naturalist, and a sometime professional hunter and trapper. Much of…

Biography of a Grizzly

Read by Ernest Thompson Seton


Ernest Thompson Seton


"The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end," as Ernest Thompson Seton said. This is the story of Metitsi Wahb, born a pl…

MONARCH: the Big Bear of Tallac

Read by Ernest Thompson Seton


Ernest Thompson Seton


Ernest Thompson Seton's book, "Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac." Published in 1919, it tells the story of a tiny Grizzly cub who g…

Turing in the History of Software

In Alan Turing: Centenary Lectures

Read by Cliff jones


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