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Paper Radio: FM (fiction): feedJoin Now to Follow
FM is our fiction channel. In it, we showcase antipodean storytelling — flights of fancy, the unreal/surreal, and wilful misinterpretations of the past, present and future.
By Paper Radio (paperradio.net)
Science Fiction Book Review Podcast » Podcast FeedJoin Now to Follow
Luke Burrage reads a science fiction novel and reviews it when he's done. Then he reads another.
By Luke Burrage
Librivox: Short Story Collection Vol. 030 by VariousJoin Now to Follow
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 030: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.
By LibriVox
Librivox: Short Story Collection Vol. 022 by VariousJoin Now to Follow
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 022: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.
By LibriVox
Short Story Collection Vol. 045 by VARIOUSJoin Now to Follow
<br>LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 045: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.<br><br>
By LibriVox
Librivox: Paradise Lost by Milton, JohnJoin Now to Follow
Paradise Lost is the first epic of English literature written in the classical style. John Milton saw himself as the intellectual heir of Homer, Virgil, and Dante, and sought to create a work of art which fully represented the most basic tenets of the Protestant faith. His work, which was dictated from memory and transcribed by his daughter, remains as one of the most powerful English poems.
By LibriVox
Librivox: Swiss Family Robinson, The by Wyss, Johann DavidJoin Now to Follow
The Swiss Family Robinson has delighted generations of readers with its exciting tale of a family which, though shipwrecked, displays “the right stuff” and builds a charming colony that later, they do not want to leave. Cut off from the comforts and companionship of other humans, they use a familiarity with natural history and biology to find the resources and build the tools to construct a canoe, weave cloth, irrigate a garden, and turn an immense hollow tree into a lofty house with a spiral staircase. They domesticate buffaloes, wild asses, and monkeys. They establish farms and plantations. And finally, they have a terrifying encounter with natives from a nearby island. Johann David Wyss, the author, did not live to complete his tale. Storytellers over the years have injected so many episodes into the various versions that probably none closely match the original. (Indeed, the Baroness de Montholieu expanded the book from two volumes into five when she translated it into French.) This effort was re-translated into English in 1849 by W.H.G. Kingston, abridging the edition severely. It follows the British sensibilities of the period in terms of sentence structure and emphasis. (Summary by Mark F. Smith)
By LibriVox
Librivox: Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The by Twain, MarkJoin Now to Follow
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (published 1876) is a very well-known and popular story concerning American youth. Mark Twain's lively tale of the scrapes and adventures of boyhood is set in St. Petersburg, Missouri, where Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn have the kinds of adventures many boys can imagine: racing bugs during class, impressing girls, especially Becky Thatcher, with fights and stunts in the schoolyard, getting lost in a cave, and playing pirates on the Mississippi River. One of the most famous incidents in the book describes how Tom persuades his friends to do a boring, hateful chore for him: whitewashing (i.e., painting) a fence. This was the first novel to be written on a typewriter. (Summary from Wikipedia)
By LibriVox
Librivox: Aesop's Fables, Volume 01 (Fables 1-25) by AesopJoin Now to Follow
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Though almost nothing is known of Aesop himself, and some scholars question whether he existed at all, these stories stand as timeless classics known in almost every culture in the world. This is volume 1 of 12. (Summary by Chip)
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