Fantasy
The New Swiss Family Robinson
Read by David Wales
Owen Wister
A parody of its famous predecessor, this short piece was written by Owen Wister for the Harvard Lampoon (Summary by David Wales)
A House-Boat on the Styx
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John Kendrick Bangs
The premise of the book is that everyone who has ever died (up until the time in which the book is set, which seems to be about the time of …
Orlando Furioso
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Ludovico Ariosto
Charlemagne's nephew Orlando (AKA Roland) is driven insane by the infidelity of his beloved Angelica. Angelica's relationship with him and o…
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Lagerlöf was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, receiving the Nobel-Pr…
Gulliver's Travels in Lilliput and Brobdingnag, Told to the Children
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Jonathan Swift
This is a children's version of Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels, from the Told to the Children Series (published in 1910). The chi…
Nina Kimberly the Merciless (Remastered)
Read by Christiana Ellis
Christiana Ellis
She's on a mission to kill the man who loves her. Why? Because he's an idiot. Ten years ago, Nina Kimberly the Merciless was cheated out of …
The Shadows
Read by Catharine Eastman
George MacDonald
"Old Ralph Rinkelmann made his living by comic sketches, and all but lost it again by tragic poems. So he was just the man to be chosen…
The Firelight Fairy Book
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Henry Beston
One pleasant summer day, as the fairy-tale lover sat reading a book beneath the low spreading branches of an oak tree, he heard a hum of win…
The Ice-Maiden: and Other Tales
Read by ElleyKat
Hans Christian Andersen
Short-stories/fairy tales by H. C. Anderson, includes The Ice-maiden -- The Butterfly -- The Psyche -- The Snail and the Rose-treeThe Ice-Ma…
The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz
Read by KirksVoice
Anonymoustranslated Bye. Foxcroft, William James Mcglothlin and Anonymoustranslated By E. Foxcroft
The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz was edited in 1616 in Strasbourg (annexed by France in 1681). It is the third of the original …
The Royal Book of Oz
Read by Mark F. Smith
Ruth Plumly Thompson
The Royal Book of Oz (1921) is the fifteenth in the series of Oz books, and the first to be written by Ruth Plumly Thompson after L. Frank B…
Short Science Fiction Collection 059
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Various
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…
The Guild of the Cowry Catchers, Book 3 Ashes
Read by Abigail Hilton
Abigail Hilton
They lost everything that defined them. Except each other. Gerard Holovar, Captain of the Temple Police, was only trying to do the right t…
The Frozen Pirate
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William Clark Russell
Sailing adventure with storms, icebergs, shipwrecks, treasure, and the reawakening of a pirate frozen in suspended animation for nearly fift…
Short Science Fiction Collection 053
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Various
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…
Zanoni
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Zanoni, a timeless Rosicrucian brother, cannot fall in love without losing his power of immortality; but he does fall in love with Viola Pis…
Short Science Fiction Collection 052
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Various
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…
Journey to the Underhill Gates
Read by P.J. Owen
P.J. Owen
Journey to the Underhill Gates is the first book in the Seeking Daylight episodic fantasy series, written for the young and the young at hea…
The Prophet of Panamindorah, Book II Wolflings and Wizards
Read by Abigail Hilton
Abigail Hilton
Things have gone horribly wrong for the fauns at the spring festival of Lupricasia. A princess has been kidnapped, and visiting feline digni…
Herland
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society comprised entirel…