The Club of Queer Trades by G.K.Chesterton Narrated by Graham Scott Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. Chesterton is best known for his fictional priest-detective Fath...
At the end of the 19th century, Jewish writers began writing in Yiddish and creating for the first time popular literature that brought alive the small dramas, struggles, and joys of ordinary life. Sholem Aleichem was one of the very few modern writers who spoke for an entire people. This collection...
The Unexplored Ibsen
Two plays by Henrik Ibsen. Translated by K.G.Cross. Norma; or a Politician's Love and St. John's Night are two of Ibsen's least-known plays. Norma is a satirical opera published anonymously in the literary magazine Andhrimner in 1851. The play was designed as a dramatic parody...
Six of Edgar Allan Poe’s most chilling tales: "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Black Cat", "The Raven", "The Pit and the Pendulum", "Shadow," and "The Cask of Amontillado". In each of these tales, the author takes us to the brink of madness with his uncanny ability to paint a macabre picture with words....
George E. Walsh was an American author, known particularly for his large number of children's books for different age groups. Bumper the White Rabbit and His Friends is part of the Twilight Animal Series, a collection of stories for children aged four-10, featuring such characters as Buster the Brow...
An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope and narrated by Denis Daly First published in 1711, An Essay on Criticism was one of Pope's earliest major poems. As the title suggests, it is an exploration of what Pope considered to be the essential aspects of good critical writing. As he says: A perfect ju...
A compelling tale of a Native American raised and educated in the world of the "White Man" from age five for 18 years returning to the land and people of his birth in the early 20th century. Nophai, an extremely intelligent and talented "Indian with the mind of a white man" attempts to reacclimate i...
The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran. Narrated by Denis Daly.
This universalist spiritual treatise is the best known work by the Lebanese-born poet and artist Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931). The central figure of the narrative is a fictional prophet, Al Mustafa, who is about to set off on a journey back to hi...
Androcles and the Lion By George Bernard Shaw Presented by The Online Stage George Bernard Shaw based his "religious pantomime" Androcles and the Lion on the ancient fable of the runaway slave who pulls a painful thorn from a lion's paw, thereby making a lifelong friend. Shaw explained that his play...
The Soldier and Death: A Russian Folk Tale told in English
By Arthur Ransome Narrated by Gregory Sheridan In 1913, Arthur Ransome traveled to Russia to explore Russian folklore. The result of his studies was the publication of retellings (rather than translations) of a number of stories, including...
Beloved Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery, famous for the Anne of Green Gables series, was also a prolific writer of short stories, poems, and essays.
This collection is part of Montgomery's wider portfolio of 500 stories spanning 20 years. Listeners will be captivated by this richly detailed c...
