Tony Addison

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Tragedy

543

Euripides - Bacchae

Euripides' Bacchae tells of Dionysus, the God, come to the city of Thebes, there to drive mad those who refuse participation in his ecstatic rites, sing and dance on the mountainside and worship him as God. A family...

Tony Addison 2 hours 14 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

553

Rudyard Kipling - Village That Voted The Earth Was Flat

Possibly as relevant today as it ever was, this story tells the tale of an English village, Huckley, that is beguiled into voting the Earth was flat. How? And why? That is what this beguiling tale of Kipling's sets...

Tony Addison 1 hour 55 minutes

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Satire

475

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crocodile

Ivan Matveich, the most ordinary person you might hope to meet, is swallowed alive by a crocodile at a sideshow. Finding life inside the belly of the beast quite comfortable, he makes a home for himself there. His...

Tony Addison 1 hour 59 minutes

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Science Fiction

486

Short Science Fiction Collection 056

Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative...

Tony Addison and 9 more 7 hours 34 minutes Short Science Fiction Collections

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Literary Fiction

465

Henry James - Beast in the Jungle (version 2)

One of James's last great stories, it is not actually a ghost story but has every claim to be considered such with its mysterious spectral essences surviving death and summoning the central character towards — well,...

Tony Addison 2 hours 19 minutes

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Comedy

458

William Shakespeare - Measure For Measure

Described as a «problem play» Measure for Measure is only as much a problem as life itself is- that is, are there any easy answers to questions aplenty? For example: when «mortality and mercy» live in one person's...

Tony Addison 3 hours 27 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

487

Henry James - Jolly Corner (Version 2)

«A miraculous masterpiece» it seemed to Henry James, who wrote it. What actually happens in this most remarkable story (though at one level, it is quite clear — a ghost appears) must ever remain unresolved. Stalked by...

Tony Addison 2 hours 7 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

487

Henry James - Way It Came

Best known under the title «The Friends Of The Friends» and chosen under that title for his classic fantasy anthology «Black Water» by Alberto Manguel as one of the best ghost stories ever written, this «ghost» story...

Tony Addison 1 hour 29 minutes

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Short Stories

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Short Story Collection Vol. 065

Librivox’s Short Story Collection 065: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

Winston Tharp and 10 more 8 hours 7 minutes Short Story Collections

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

501

Emily Dickinson - Troubled About Many Things

The verses of Emily Dickinson belong emphatically to what Emerson long since called «the Poetry of the Portfolio,»—something produced absolutely without the thought of publication, and solely by way of expression of...

Bruce Kachuk and 11 more 14 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

510

Rudyard Kipling - White Man's Burden

Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th...

3Dad and 10 more 31 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Short Ghost and Horror Collection 029

A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder....

Piotr Nater and 12 more 8 hours 38 minutes Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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