The Shining Gateway
By James Allen
Narrated by Gregory Sheridan
In James Allen's view, the "Shining Gateway" to self-realization was meditation, which he defines as a process of transmutation of crass and limiting perceptions into higher and more refined states of awareness. As in his other wo...
Tara of Helium, daughter of John Carter, becomes lost in an unknown area of Mars when her single-seat flier is caught in a rare Martian hurricane. She is first captured by the bizarre and hideous Kaldanes, and then the brutal Manatorians, for whom she is the prize in a tournament of Martian chess, j...
This is the first of Tennyson's poems to be based on Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur.
The first draft was composed in 1834, and the finished work was published in Poems**(1842). Later Tennyson incorporated the poem into the Idylls of the King (1870) under the title of "The Passing of Arthur".
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1925, Germany:
As a mute, burly German peasant is helping British soldiers move a fallen tree, he's struck on the head. When he regains consciousness he calls out to the astonished Major Manning, using his nickname "Monkey"—in perfect English.
Ten years earlier in the days of the Great War, cous...
John Keats (1795-1821) was one of the foremost English Romantic poets. Despite his early death from tuberculosis at the age of 25, he had a considerable poetic output, the majority of his best-known works being written in the year 1819.
Lamia is a tragic narrative poem in two parts. It was written...
When electrical engineer and radio enthusiast Myles Cabot attempts to transport matter via radio wave, he finds himself transported from his home in Boston to the planet Venus, where he is captured by the Formians, a race of antlike creatures.
After learning of the Cupians, a human-like race that...
In my childhood the shunned house was vacant, with barren, gnarled and terrible old trees, long, queerly pale grass and nightmarishly misshapen weeds in the high terraced yard where birds never lingered. We boys used to overrun the place, and I can still recall my youthful terror not only at the mor...
Calidore by Thomas Love Peacock
Presented by Voices of Today
Featuring the voices of Graham Scott, Alan Weyman, Denis Daly, and Rachel May.
Calidore is a fragment of an unfinished romance and may be considered unique among Peacock's work. Composition probably commenced after the publication of...
Stories Reflecting the Challenges of Being Female at the Turn of the 20th Century
From The National Women’s History Alliance, by Bonnie Eisenberg and Mary Ruthsdotter, 1998:
“1998 marked the 150th Anniversary of a movement by women to achieve full civil rights in this country. Over the past seve...
Narrated by Mike Vendetti and Kathy Verduin, Cat in the Rain is not just about a cat. The cat can be taken at face value and surface-level as "just" a cat, and the events of the story as being a minor snapshot into one hour's events in the lives of an American couple living in 1920s Italy. But since...
Sour Grapes: A Book of Poems
By William Carlos Williams
Narrated by Ron Altman
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) was one of the most prominent members of the Imagist movement, a brief flowering of modernist poetry, in which Ezra Pound was also involved. Williams was also an accomplished pain...
The Generous Gambler
By Charles Baudelaire
Translated by Arthur Symons
Read by Martin Gooding
The devil always held a fascination for decadent poet Charles Baudelaire.
In this brief morality tale, the author sells his soul for good fortune, and, ironically, for relief from the crushing sen...
