The Cricket on the Hearth, published in 1845, is the third in Charles Dickens' series of "Christmas Books," five novellas with strong social and moral messages that he published during the 1840s. It is preceded by A Christmas Carol (1843) and The Chimes (1845) and followed by The Battle of Life (184...
A governess employed at a remote estate finds herself in charge of two young children. As the story unfolds, it would appear that nothing is as it should be. The governess doubts her own sanity when the children see things, and it seems that the estate is haunted. Is the governess in danger from the...
A Dusty Tomes Audiobook
In Cooperation with Spoken Realms
Science Fiction Stories of the Future from the Past
Narrated by Joseph Tabler
The Mask of Anarchy
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Narrated by Denis Daly
On 16 August 1819, a crowd of about 60,000 people gather at Manchester in a peaceful demonstration to demand reform of the parliamentary electoral system.
The government of the day interpreted the gathering as an act of rebel...
A lovable but mischievous marionette hopes to become a real boy, but first must learn to work hard, overcome peer pressure, and stop telling lies before his wish is granted.
Pinocchio**has enraptured the hearts of children and adults alike since 1881. The tale revolutionized Italian children's lit...
Deputy Tom Jennings, a patrol officer for the Cottonwood County Sheriff’s Office, is a caring cop. He doesn’t understand the Old Order Amish. After being assigned to investigate the theft of soil from a county ditch, he meets Mrs. Rebecca Borntrager Yoder. Rebecca and Adam, her husband, help Jenning...
Youth
By Joseph Conrad
Narrated by Graham Scott
Marlow—the narrator of Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness—tells the story of his first voyage to the exotic, romantic East, as a 20-year-old second officer of the ancient barque Judea. It is a story of almost comical disaster—and of the resilience of...
A Dusty Tomes Audiobook
In Cooperation with Spoken Realms
Colonial Self-Government, 1652-1689 by Charles McLean Andrews, Ph.D., Professor of History in Bryn Mawr College
Narrated by Joseph Tabler
Volume 5 of 27 in The American Nation: A History published by Harper Brothers (1904-1918). Edite...
John Donne (1573-1631) is considered by many to be the finest poet of the Elizabeth Age after Shakespeare.
Ironically, poetry was not Donne's dominant preoccupation. In his own day, he was better known as a scholar, and, in later life, a clergyman. His verse was composed sporadically and in an off...
James Arthur Fradin, an eminent professor, and scientist, has a new theory about radio waves. He believes he has found that radio waves and power are transmitted through the fourth dimension. He is met with disbelief and disdain when presenting his unique and controversial view to a distinguished gr...
Award-winning narrator and producer Mike Vendetti reads Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem that is so well-known, the loop road leading close to Norman’s Woe from Route 127 is named Hesperus Ave. You will hear the wind blowing past the mast to which the captain has tied his daughter to keep her from...
This classic legend, rendered in verse and published in 1842 by the masterful British Victorian poet, Robert Browning (when only 30 years old), tells of what happens to the town of Hamelin when its burghers, desperate to rid the town of the rats that were overrunning it, engage a mysterious man dres...
