Marked Personal
By Anna Katharine Green
Narrated by Rebecca Stern
On the evening of July 13, 1863, two men, Samuel White from Washington and Lemuel Phillips from Buffalo, each received a mysterious letter marked 'personal', which he destroyed after reading. The letters are a summons to visit N...
Welcome to the Fiction on the Web audiobook series, featuring a collection of short stories with a different theme for each volume. Lovingly curated by the owner of Fiction on the Web, Charlie Fish. Come and share in the joy and power of short stories.
The theme of this volume is Sexual Appetites....
“The following Tales are meant to be submitted to the young reader as an introduction to the study of Shakespeare, for which purpose his words are used whenever it seemed possible to bring them in; and in whatever has been added to give them the regular form of a connected story, diligent care has b...
Set against the glamorous backdrop of 1924 New York City, Patricia's marriage is a mirror of the era—fast-paced, boozy and free of restrictions that bound previous generations. But when her husband, Peter, fresh off his own one-night stand, demands a divorce due to her behavior, Patricia is left ree...
A Woman’s Burden: A Novel by Fergus Hume is a work of fiction likely written in 1901. The novel opens with a dramatic scene on Waterloo Bridge, where various characters are thrust into a dark and gritty narrative marked by themes of poverty, desperation, and crime. The central character introduced i...
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In Cooperation with Spoken Realms
SELECTIONS BY WOOLLCOTT FROM VANITY FAIR 1923-1924 By Alexander Woollcott.
Narrated by Joseph Tabler
Alexander Humphreys Woollcott (January 19, 1887 - January 23, 1943) was an American drama critic and commentator for The New Yorker m...
Step into the dark and intriguing world of Ambrose Bierce with "A Diagnosis of Death". Known for his masterful storytelling and biting wit, Bierce weaves a tale that explores the fine line between life and death, sanity and madness.
In this chilling short story, Bierce takes you on a psychological...
Moral Essays
Or Epistles to Several Persons
By Alexander Pope
Edited by W. C. Armstrong
Read by Denis Daly
These four poems, which deal with ethical issues, were collated and published in 1751 by William Warburton, seven years after Pope's death.
The poems were inspired by Pope's admirat...
It’s 1925. Crunched between the Victorian age, WWI, and the Great Depression, women have new freedoms in the Roaring 20s, but do they? Patricia’s husband wants a divorce. She’s still in love with him, but the relationship has turned toxic. Separated from Peter, she’s free to explore her new identity...
The Lyrical Poems of Alexander Pope
Narrated by Evan and Marie Blackmore
Alexander Pope was the most influential and most admired writer of his time, famous for satirical and reflective poems such as The Rape of the Lock and the Essay on Man.
His lyrical poems are tantalizingly few in number b...
When retired Navy Commander George Praddle vanishes without a trace, his wife turns to private investigator Cole Harper for help. With a sharp wit and a knack for uncovering hidden truths, Harper dives into a labyrinth of lies, betrayal, and dangerous motives. Set in 1947, against the gritty backdro...
The bustling city-state of Marchen borders the seats of the Three Queens, represented by the spindle, the slipper and the apple.
But it’s been a hundred years since the rule of the Three Queens. The time of the godmothers has passed. If you want access to magic you either have to be one of the few...
