She’s bad at reading signals. He’s sent all the wrong ones.
Jenny… Of course, Noah would come back, and right when my life is a mess. I swear we had the best carpool friendship. Until he asked me out, then changed his mind, and then asked me out again, only to ghost me. I hate him so much. Almost...
Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum presented by The Online Stage.
While traveling to Australia with Uncle Henry, Dorothy is swept overboard. She is able to save herself by means of a floating chicken coop, complete with a Yellow Hen inside, who she names Billina. Dorothy and her new friend explore their...
By John Keats
Narrated by Denis Daly
Keats commenced writing his epic poem, Hyperion, in 1818 and ceased working on it in the spring of 1819. He said that he gave the project up for having "too many Miltonic inversions." The unfinished poem, which ceases in the middle of the third canto, was pub...
Whether intended as historical fiction or not, this tale of a California bandit in the early years of the Gold Rush by America's first Native American novelist was based on real occurrences. By early 1853, a certain "Joaquin" was being blamed for seemingly every murder and robbery in the young Golde...
It is London, 1914. Ignorant, enthusiastic young militants William Tully and Griselda Watkins fall in love, marry, and, leaving behind the comfortable confines of their 'war' for a honeymoon in the Ardennes, are pitchforked into the real thing.
First published in 1919, Cicely Hamilton's masterful...
This is the thirteenth of Charles Dickens fourteen novels .Only two of his works are fully in first- person narrative; the other being David Copperfield. Great Expectations is a "coming of age" story (Bildungsroman).
The protagonist, Pip, lives with his sister “Mrs Joe Gargery” and her husband, Jo...
A Dusty Tomes Audio Book
In Cooperation with Spoken Realms
A Major US Historian Series
The Sabbath in Puritan New England by Alice Morse Earle published by Charles Scribner’s Sons 1891.
Note—This book is ‘read as written'. It was published in 1891. It is in the public domain.
I. The New En...
By H. G. Wells
Narrated by Graham Scott, Andy Harrington, Denis Daly, and Lillian Rachel
First published in 1898, The War of the Worlds has become probably the most influential of Wells' science fiction novels. It has been adapted as a basis for several feature films, radio dramas, graphic novel...
Courtroom mysteries were rare in 1925 when Agatha Christie wrote "Witness for the Prosecution". But it was "The Bellamy Trial", published two years later, that was ultimately listed in the prestigious "Haycraft-Queen Cornerstones of Detective Fiction".
Sue Ives and Stephen Bellamy are charged with...
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle presented by The Online Stage
The Return of Sherlock Holmes picks up where the previous collection of Holmes stories left off: with the great detective's return from the dead in "The Empty House." This and the twelve other stories in the antholog...
There are many stories of the legendary Irish hero Finn MacCool, or Fionn mac Cumhaill. Liam Gerrard brings together some of the most well-known in this treasure-trove of Irish folk tales and short stories. Chief among them is the well-loved "Finn & The Scottish Giant", telling the tale of how the G...
