Tarzan 's First
Love
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Another great adventure from Tarzan's Jungle Tales. Read by Marcus Alexander.
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The
Oysters by Anton Chekov.
This story is in the voice of a young boy whose father is unemployed and reduced to begging.
Father and son stand on the street outside a restaurant, which sports a placard that says, "Oysters."
While the father screws up his courage to ask some passers by for money, the son asks him, "Papa,
what does 'oysters' mean?" He answers vaguely, "It is an animal that lives in the sea." But the son
asks progressively more specific questions about oysters, ultimately envisioning the creature as a
frog with large jaws that lives between two shells. Read by David Grey. AU$1.80
The Haunted
House by Charles Dickens.
Another of Dickens famous Christmas
Ghost stories.
Under none of the accredited ghostly circumstances, and
with none of the conventional ghostly surroundings, did I first make acquaintance with the house which is the subject of this Christmas piece. I saw it in the daylight, with the sun upon it. There was no wind, no rain, no lightning, no thunder, no awful or unwanted circumstance, of any kind, to heighten its effect. Read
by Marion Brown.
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A Christmas Carol (originally, A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas) is a novel by English author
Charles Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) about a curmudgeon and his secular conversion and redemption after being visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve. The book was first published on 19 December 1843 with illustrations by John Leech, and quickly met with commercial success and critical acclaim. The tale has been credited with returning the holiday to one of merriment and festivity in Britain and America after a period of sobriety and sombreness. A Christmas Carol remains popular,
and has never been out of print . Read
by James Johnston AU$1.80
The Adventure of the Dancing Men
Sherlock Holmes
What would most people make of some childish-looking scrawl:
a piece of useless junk drawn by a primary school pupil? Or is it actually a secret code?
Mr. Hilton Cubitt of Ridling Thorp Manor in Norfolk submits this very question.
The little dancing men are at the heart of a mystery which seems to be driving his young wife Elsie to distraction. He married her about a year ago, and until recently, everything was well. She is American, and before the wedding, she asked her husband-to-be to promise her never to ask about her past, as she had had some “very disagreeable associations” in her life, although she said that there was nothing that she was personally ashamed of. Mr. Cubitt swore the promise and, being an honourable English
gentleman, insists on living by it, which is one of the things causing difficulty at Ridling Thorpe Manor.
The trouble began when Elsie received a letter from the United States, which evidently disturbed her, and she threw the letter on the fire. Then the dancing men appeared, sometimes on a piece of paper left on the sundial overnight, sometimes scrawled in chalk on a wall or door, even a windowsill. Each
time, their appearance has an obvious, terrifying effect on Elsie, but she will not tell her husband what is going on.
The Adventure of the Dancing Men mp3 recording FREE digital delivery Read by
Howard Morgan. AU$1.80
Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of The Empty House. Read by
Howard Morgan. Holmes is expecting an attempt on his life that very night, well aware as he is that Moriarty's men know that he is back in London. The police, unknown to Watson at this time, are nearby, having been told that they will be needed. As usual, Holmes has deduced everything correctly, but with one almost disastrous exception.
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The
Adventure of The Solitary Cyclist.
Holmes is contacted by Miss Violet Smith of Farnham, Surrey about an unusual turn in her and her mother’s lives. Violet’s father has recently died, and left his wife and daughter rather poor. However, a notice appeared in the newspaper not much later inquiring as to their whereabouts. Answering it, they met Mr. Carruthers and Mr. Woodley, the former a pleasant enough man, but the latter a churl and a bully. They had come from South Africa where they had known Violet’s uncle Ralph, who had now also died in poverty and apparently wanted to see that his relatives were provided for. This struck Violet as odd, since she and her family had not heard a word from Uncle Ralph since he went to South Africa 25 years ago. Carruthers and Woodley explained that before dying, Ralph had heard of his brother’s death and felt responsible for his survivors’ welfare.The specific thing that has brought Violet to seek Holmes’s services, however, is the strange man who follows her on his bicycle as she cycles to and from the railway station for her weekend visits to her mother. The strange man always follows about 200 yards (~183 m) behind her, stops when she does, speeds up when she does, and disappears without a trace, never letting her near him, and always along the same lonely stretch of road. Violet does not recognize him, but he has a black beard.
Read by Howard Morgan. AU$1.80
The Adventure
of The Norwood Builder. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are visited by "the unhappy John Hector McFarlane", a young lawyer from Blackheath who has been accused of murdering one of his clients, a builder called Jonas Oldacre. McFarlane explains to Holmes that Oldacre had come to his office only the day before and asked him to draw up his will in legal language. McFarlane saw to his surprise that Oldacre was making him the sole beneficiary, and heir to a considerable bequest at that. McFarlane could not imagine why.
Read by Howard Morgan. AU$1.80
Adventure
of the Dying Detective. Dr. Watson is called to 221B Baker Street to tend Holmes, who is apparently dying of a rare Asian disease contracted while he was on a case at Rotherhithe. Watson is shocked, having heard nothing about his friend’s illness. Mrs. Hudson says that he has neither eaten nor drunk in three days.
Upon arriving, Watson finds Holmes in his bed looking very ill and gaunt indeed, and Holmes proceeds to make several odd demands of Watson. He is not to come near Holmes, for the illness is highly contagious. He will seek no help save from the man whom Holmes names. He will wait until six o’clock before Holmes names him. When Watson objects and tries to leave for help, Holmes musters enough strength to leap out of bed, and lock the door, taking the key. So, Watson is forced to wait. Holmes seems delirious at times.
Read by Zach Brewster. AU$1.80
The Man Who Would Be King (1888) is a story by Rudyard Kipling.
It is about two British adventurers in British India, who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan. The story was inspired by the travels of American adventurer Josiah Harlan, who was granted the title Prince of Ghor in perpetuity, for himself and his descendants.
The two central characters in the book are Daniel Dravot and Peachey Carnehan who plan to find a king or chief, help him defeat his enemies, then take over for themselves. They
ask the narrator for the use of any books or maps of the area—as a favour, because
they are fellow Freemasons.
Two years later, on a scorching hot summer night, Peachey Carnehan creeps into the
narrator's office. He is a broken man, a crippled beggar clad in rags, and he
tells an amazing story. Dravot and Carnehan had succeeded in becoming kings.
Their schemes were dashed when Dravot decided to marry a Kafir girl.
Terrified at marrying a god, the girl bit Dravot when he tried to kiss her.
Seeing him bleed, the priests cried that he was "Not god, not devil, but a
man!"
Dravot, wearing his crown, stood on a rope bridge over a gorge while the
Kafirs cut the ropes, and fell to his death. Carnehan was crucified between
two pine trees. When he survived for a day, the Kafirs considered it a miracle
and let him go, and he begged his way back to India. He shows the narrator Dravot's head, still with the crown, as proof of his story.
This book was made into a wonderful movie with Sean Connery and Michael Caine. And an excellent biography of Josiah Harlan can be found at usedbooks-online.com. This audio mp3 Read by Phillida Taylor. A riveting story.
This Audio mp3 for free digital download.
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Henry Lawson's
The Loaded Dog
Lawson's The Loaded Dog FREE digital download
AUDIO MP3 file Read by favourite reader Michael Smith. One of Lawson's most favourite and enduring humorous stories. Link will be emailed after purchase so please record email address in checkout.
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The Leopard Man by Jack London Read by Sandra Klett
- a saddened leopard trainer who
bore visible scars on his arms and
whose personality diametrically
opposed his daring profession, tells
a tale of a "lion-tamer who was
hated by another man" to the
narrator. The unnamed man, who hated
the lion-tamer, attended every
performance in hopes of watching the
lion crunch down on his tamer during
his "big play", sticking his head in
the lion's mouth. Finally, one day
he witnessed it. FREE digital delivery on this great story. AU$1.80
The Mask of The Red Death
by Edgar Allan Poe
This story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by hiding in his abbey. During a masquerade ball a stranger enters and is confronted by Prospero. Read by Alan Drake.
An mp3 recording with FREE digital delivery
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The Importance of Being Earnest by
Oscar Wilde
Set in England during the late Victorian era, the play's humour derives in part from characters maintaining fictitious identities to escape unwelcome social obligations. It is replete with witty dialogue and satirises some of the foibles and hypocrisy of late Victorian society. It has proved Wilde's most enduringly popular play.
This edition is read as a play with the list of performers introduced at beginning of the recording. mp3 recording FREE digital delivery
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The Time Machine by H.G. Wells The Time Machine by H.G. Wells first published in 1895, later made into two films of the same title. This novel is generally credited with the popularisation of the concept of time travel using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposefully and selectively. Considered by many to be one of the greatest Sci Fi novels of all time. In Well's famous story the main character is never named, and is simply known as the time traveller. He invents his machine and travels to the year AD 802,701 and chronicles the evolution of his surroundings as he travels in this fourth dimension. He meets the Eloi and the terrible predatory cannibals the Morlocks that resemble human spiders. He returns to his friends and recounts his adventures, he collects his knapsack and camera, and promises the narrator he will return in half an hour. Read by Roy Adamson AU$1.80
The
Oysters by Anton Chekov.
This story is in the voice of a young boy whose father is unemployed and reduced to begging.
Father and son stand on the street outside a restaurant, which sports a placard that says, "Oysters."
While the father screws up his courage to ask some passers by for money, the son asks him, "Papa,
what does 'oysters' mean?" He answers vaguely, "It is an animal that lives in the sea." But the son
asks progressively more specific questions about oysters, ultimately envisioning the creature as a
frog with large jaws that lives between two shells. Read by David Grey. AU$1.80
The Haunted
House by Charles Dickens.
Another of Dickens famous Christmas
Ghost stories.
Under none of the accredited ghostly circumstances, and
with none of the conventional ghostly surroundings, did I first make acquaintance with the house which is the subject of this Christmas piece. I saw it in the daylight, with the sun upon it. There was no wind, no rain, no lightning, no thunder, no awful or unwanted circumstance, of any kind, to heighten its effect. Read
by Marion Brown.
AU$1.80
A Christmas Carol (originally, A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas) is a novel by English author
Charles Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) about a curmudgeon and his secular conversion and redemption after being visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve. The book was first published on 19 December 1843 with illustrations by John Leech, and quickly met with commercial success and critical acclaim. The tale has been credited with returning the holiday to one of merriment and festivity in Britain and America after a period of sobriety and sombreness. A Christmas Carol remains popular,
and has never been out of print . Read
by James Johnston AU$1.80
The Strange Case of
Benjamin Button
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Strange Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald audio MP3 for digital delivery. Read by Michael Scott Running time is approx: 1 hour-
FREE digital delivery on this audio Book in windows zip file format please include your email address in checkout as link will be emailed after purchase. Java script needs to be enabled to download the files.
The story is about Benjamin Button, a man born in New Orleans, and is already in his eighties, and proceeds to live his life aging in reverse. Benjamin is rejected by his father and placed on the doorstep of an old folks' home in New Orleans. There he's taken in and raised among the elderly residents and he first meets the girl who later becomes the love of his life. As time passes, his appearance ameliorates somewhat, and he becomes an attractive young man.
Now a major movie starring Brad Pitt. Compilation copyright to Librotechstudios 2007©
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The Adventure of the Dancing Men
Sherlock Holmes
What would most people make of some childish-looking scrawl:
a piece of useless junk drawn by a primary school pupil? Or is it actually a secret code?
Mr. Hilton Cubitt of Ridling Thorp Manor in Norfolk submits this very question.
The little dancing men are at the heart of a mystery which seems to be driving his young wife Elsie to distraction. He married her about a year ago, and until recently, everything was well. She is American, and before the wedding, she asked her husband-to-be to promise her never to ask about her past, as she had had some “very disagreeable associations” in her life, although she said that there was nothing that she was personally ashamed of. Mr. Cubitt swore the promise and, being an honourable English
gentleman, insists on living by it, which is one of the things causing difficulty at Ridling Thorpe Manor.
The trouble began when Elsie received a letter from the United States, which evidently disturbed her, and she threw the letter on the fire. Then the dancing men appeared, sometimes on a piece of paper left on the sundial overnight, sometimes scrawled in chalk on a wall or door, even a windowsill. Each
time, their appearance has an obvious, terrifying effect on Elsie, but she will not tell her husband what is going on.
The Adventure of the Dancing Men mp3 recording FREE digital delivery Read by
Howard Morgan. AU$1.80
Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of The Empty House. Read by
Howard Morgan. Holmes is expecting an attempt on his life that very night, well aware as he is that Moriarty's men know that he is back in London. The police, unknown to Watson at this time, are nearby, having been told that they will be needed. As usual, Holmes has deduced everything correctly, but with one almost disastrous exception.
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The
Adventure of The Solitary Cyclist.
Holmes is contacted by Miss Violet Smith of Farnham, Surrey about an unusual turn in her and her mother’s lives. Violet’s father has recently died, and left his wife and daughter rather poor. However, a notice appeared in the newspaper not much later inquiring as to their whereabouts. Answering it, they met Mr. Carruthers and Mr. Woodley, the former a pleasant enough man, but the latter a churl and a bully. They had come from South Africa where they had known Violet’s uncle Ralph, who had now also died in poverty and apparently wanted to see that his relatives were provided for. This struck Violet as odd, since she and her family had not heard a word from Uncle Ralph since he went to South Africa 25 years ago. Carruthers and Woodley explained that before dying, Ralph had heard of his brother’s death and felt responsible for his survivors’ welfare.The specific thing that has brought Violet to seek Holmes’s services, however, is the strange man who follows her on his bicycle as she cycles to and from the railway station for her weekend visits to her mother. The strange man always follows about 200 yards (~183 m) behind her, stops when she does, speeds up when she does, and disappears without a trace, never letting her near him, and always along the same lonely stretch of road. Violet does not recognize him, but he has a black beard.
Read by Howard Morgan. AU$1.80
The Adventure
of The Norwood Builder. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are visited by "the unhappy John Hector McFarlane", a young lawyer from Blackheath who has been accused of murdering one of his clients, a builder called Jonas Oldacre. McFarlane explains to Holmes that Oldacre had come to his office only the day before and asked him to draw up his will in legal language. McFarlane saw to his surprise that Oldacre was making him the sole beneficiary, and heir to a considerable bequest at that. McFarlane could not imagine why.
Read by Howard Morgan. AU$1.80
Adventure
of the Dying Detective. Dr. Watson is called to 221B Baker Street to tend Holmes, who is apparently dying of a rare Asian disease contracted while he was on a case at Rotherhithe. Watson is shocked, having heard nothing about his friend’s illness. Mrs. Hudson says that he has neither eaten nor drunk in three days.
Upon arriving, Watson finds Holmes in his bed looking very ill and gaunt indeed, and Holmes proceeds to make several odd demands of Watson. He is not to come near Holmes, for the illness is highly contagious. He will seek no help save from the man whom Holmes names. He will wait until six o’clock before Holmes names him. When Watson objects and tries to leave for help, Holmes musters enough strength to leap out of bed, and lock the door, taking the key. So, Watson is forced to wait. Holmes seems delirious at times.
Read by Zach Brewster. AU$1.80
The Man Who Would Be King (1888) is a story by Rudyard Kipling.
It is about two British adventurers in British India, who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan. The story was inspired by the travels of American adventurer Josiah Harlan, who was granted the title Prince of Ghor in perpetuity, for himself and his descendants.
The two central characters in the book are Daniel Dravot and Peachey Carnehan who plan to find a king or chief, help him defeat his enemies, then take over for themselves. They
ask the narrator for the use of any books or maps of the area—as a favour, because
they are fellow Freemasons.
Two years later, on a scorching hot summer night, Peachey Carnehan creeps into the
narrator's office. He is a broken man, a crippled beggar clad in rags, and he
tells an amazing story. Dravot and Carnehan had succeeded in becoming kings.
Their schemes were dashed when Dravot decided to marry a Kafir girl.
Terrified at marrying a god, the girl bit Dravot when he tried to kiss her.
Seeing him bleed, the priests cried that he was "Not god, not devil, but a
man!"
Dravot, wearing his crown, stood on a rope bridge over a gorge while the
Kafirs cut the ropes, and fell to his death. Carnehan was crucified between
two pine trees. When he survived for a day, the Kafirs considered it a miracle
and let him go, and he begged his way back to India. He shows the narrator Dravot's head, still with the crown, as proof of his story.
This book was made into a wonderful movie with Sean Connery and Michael Caine. And an excellent biography of Josiah Harlan can be found at usedbooks-online.com. This audio mp3 Read by Phillida Taylor. A riveting story.
This Audio mp3 for free digital download.
AU$1.80
The Leopard Man by Jack London Read by Sandra Klett
- a saddened leopard trainer who
bore visible scars on his arms and
whose personality diametrically
opposed his daring profession, tells
a tale of a "lion-tamer who was
hated by another man" to the
narrator. The unnamed man, who hated
the lion-tamer, attended every
performance in hopes of watching the
lion crunch down on his tamer during
his "big play", sticking his head in
the lion's mouth. Finally, one day
he witnessed it. FREE digital delivery on this great story. AU$1.80
The Mask of The Red Death
by Edgar Allan Poe
This story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by hiding in his abbey. During a masquerade ball a stranger enters and is confronted by Prospero. Read by Alan Drake.
An mp3 recording with FREE digital delivery
AU$1.80
The Importance of Being Earnest by
Oscar Wilde
Set in England during the late Victorian era, the play's humour derives in part from characters maintaining fictitious identities to escape unwelcome social obligations. It is replete with witty dialogue and satirises some of the foibles and hypocrisy of late Victorian society. It has proved Wilde's most enduringly popular play.
This edition is read as a play with the list of performers introduced at beginning of the recording. mp3 recording FREE digital delivery
AU$1.80
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells The Time Machine by H.G. Wells first published in 1895, later made into two films of the same title. This novel is generally credited with the popularisation of the concept of time travel using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposefully and selectively. Considered by many to be one of the greatest Sci Fi novels of all time. In Well's famous story the main character is never named, and is simply known as the time traveller. He invents his machine and travels to the year AD 802,701 and chronicles the evolution of his surroundings as he travels in this fourth dimension. He meets the Eloi and the terrible predatory cannibals the Morlocks that resemble human spiders. He returns to his friends and recounts his adventures, he collects his knapsack and camera, and promises the narrator he will return in half an hour. Read by Roy Adamson AU$1.80