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On the Road to Wockensutter, by John Crowe Ransom (d. 1974)

In Poetry Of 'The Double Dealer', January-December 1922

Read by Kevin Stewart


John Crowe Ransom


117 poems from the January - December 1922 issues of New Orleans-based literary magazine, The Double Dealer, edited by Julius Weis Friend. S…

Alexander the Great in India, by Plutarch

In The World’s Story Volume II: India, Persia, Mesopotamia and Palestine

Read by Kevin Stewart


Eva March Tappan


This is the second volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March T…

Moby Dick, or the Whale

Read by Stewart Wills


Herman Melville


Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique — but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel …

Lord Jim

Read by Stewart Wills


Joseph Conrad


A classic of early literary modernism, Lord Jim tells the story of a young "simple and sensitive character" who loses his honor in…

The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth, Mountaineer, Scout, and Pioneer…

Read by Claude Stewart


T. D. Bonner


James P. Beckworth, born in Virginia at the dawn of our Nation, moved with his family to eastern Missouri settling a few miles below what is…

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

Read by Claude Stewart


James Hogg


The author calls this a religious parable and it is called an allegory in the book itself. A young, 18th century Scottish boy is converted t…

The Magnificent Adventure (Version 2)

Read by Claude Stewart


Emerson Hough


In The Magnificent Adventure-Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman, by Emerson Hou…

Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches: An Autobiography

Read by Claude Stewart


Edwin Eastman


Best described as a fictional autobiography, Clark Johnson authored the following adventure to promote the sale of his brand of Homeopathic …

A Wodehouse Miscellany

Read by Kevin McAsh


P. G. Wodehouse


Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was an English comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. Best known toda…

Gorgias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


This dialogue brings Socrates face to face with the famous sophist Gorgias and his followers. It is a work likely completed around the time …

Empire

Read by Kevin Green


Clifford D. Simak


In a future time, the solar system is powered by one energy source, controlled by one huge organisation, which has plans to use this control…

Critias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


This is an incomplete dialogue from the late period of Plato's life. Plato most likely created it after Republic and it contains the famous …

The Talleyrand Maxim

Read by Kevin Green


J. S. Fletcher


John Mallathorpe, a wealthy Yorkshire industrialist and land owner dies in an accident, apparently without making a will. His estate goes t…