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Babes in the Jungle - listen book free online

William Sydney Porter, better known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. O. Henry's stories frequently have surprise endings. In his day he was called the American answer to Guy de Maupassant. Actually, the reputation of O. Henry never accepted in serious literary criticism. But only he could write stories that could make people laugh as much as they do and feel speechl... Read More

A Service of Love - listen book free online

We grow up hearing the phrase ''Love conquers all.'' O. Henry's short story ''A Service of Love'' is a great example of how love drives two people to sacrifice their ambitions for the sake of each other. O. Henry wrote about this kind of sacrifices before. In his story "The Gifts of the Magi”, a tale about a young couple, who are short of money but desperately want to buy each other Christmas g... Read More

The Roads We Take - listen book free online

An American short story writer William Sydney Porter, better known by his pen name O. Henry, was born on September 11, 1862, in Greensboro, North Carolina. Porter used a number of pen names in the early part of his writing career. Nevertheless, the name "O. Henry" seemed to garner the most attention from editors and the public, and was used exclusively by Porter for his writing by about 1902. A... Read More

The Beautiful Suit - listen book free online

H. G. Wells' influence on the emerging field of science fiction is almost impossible to overstate. Wells's earliest specialised training was in biology, and his thinking on ethical matters took place in a specifically and fundamentally Darwinian context. In October 1879, Wells's mother arranged through a distant relative, Arthur Williams, for him to join the National School at Wookey in Somerse... Read More

The Red Room - listen book free online
Author: H. G. Wells
Reader: Virgil

H.G. Wells was a famous science fiction writer. The science fiction historian John Clute describes Wells as "the most important writer the genre has yet seen", and notes his work has been central to both British and American science fiction. Science fiction author and critic Algis Budrys said Wells "remains the outstanding expositor of both the hope, and the despair, which are embodied in the t... Read More

The Flowering of the Strange Orchid - listen book free online

Herbert George Wells was an English writer, who is now best remembered for his science fiction novels. In Britain, Wells's work was a key model for the British "Scientific Romance", and other writers in that mode, such as Olaf Stapledon, J. D. Beresford, S. Fowler Wright, and Naomi Mitchison, all drew on Wells's example. The Flowering of the Strange Orchid is a cautionary tale, the moral of whi... Read More

How The Whale Got His Throat - listen book free online

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book, Kim, and many short stories. He was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th-centuries. Kipling's subsequent reputation has changed according to the political and social climate of the... Read More

How The Camel Got His Hump - listen book free online

Rudyard Kipling, in full Joseph Rudyard Kipling, English short-story writer, poet, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, his tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 "in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable t... Read More

How The Rhinoceros Got His Skin - listen book free online

Rudyard Kipling, author and poet, is one of the most interesting and significant literary figures of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was not English but, in terms of the time, Anglo-Indian, being born in Bombay to English parents. He was taken to England to be educated when almost six, returning to India ten years later. He worked as a newspaper editor and journalist for the next sev... Read More

How The Leopard Got His Spots - listen book free online

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. In 1907, at the age of 41, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize and its youngest recipient to date. The size and speed of his success was an event in itself. He enjoyed profound popularity with the English-speaking public through th... Read More

The Elephant's Child - listen book free online

Rudyard Kipling, author and poet, is one of the most interesting and significant literary figures of the late 19th and early 20th-centuries. He was not English but, in terms of the time, Anglo-Indian, being born in Bombay to English parents. His use of the short story form, always technically sophisticated, showed sustained formal innovation during the 1900s. Kipling’s poems and stories were ex... Read More

The Sing-Song Of Old Man Kangaroo - listen book free online

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Various writers, such as Edmund Candler, were strongly influenced by Kipling's writing. Kipling's stories for adults remain in print and have garnered high praise from writers as different as Poul Anderson, Jorge Luis Borges, and Randall Jarrell who wrote that, "After you have read Kipling's fifty or seven... Read More

The Beginning Of The Armadillos - listen book free online

Rudyard Kipling is one of the best-known of the late Victorian poets and story-tellers. In his own lifetime, he was primarily regarded as a poet. Although he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907, his unpopular political views caused his work to be neglected shortly after his death. Critics, however, recognize the power of his work. "His unrelenting craftsmanship, his determination... Read More

The Crab That Played With The Sea - listen book free online

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book, Kim, and many short stories. He was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th-centuries. Kipling's subsequent reputation has changed according to the political and social climate of the... Read More

The Cat that Walked by Himself - listen book free online

Rudyard Kipling, in full Joseph Rudyard Kipling, English short-story writer, poet, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, his tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 "in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable t... Read More

The Butterfly That Stamped - listen book free online

Rudyard Kipling, author and poet, is one of the most interesting and significant literary figures of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was not English but, in terms of the time, Anglo-Indian, being born in Bombay to English parents. He was taken to England to be educated. While Joseph Rudyard Kipling is often remembered for his two Jungle Books and his poems, not many know that he also... Read More

The Jungle Book - listen book free online

The Jungle Book was published in 1894 and is actually a collection of seven short stories. The settings and characterizations are drawn from Kipling’s own experiences during his nineteenth-century travels around the British Empire and include locations like India, Afghanistan and the Bering Sea. The stories all feature talking animals, and though geared toward children, are set with themes that... Read More

The Second Jungle Book - listen book free online

The Second Jungle Book is a sequel to The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in India, most of which Kipling wrote while living in Vermont. From all accounts, Kipling loved the outdoors, not least of whose marvels in Vermont was the turning of the leaves each fall. He described this moment i... Read More

Plain Tales from the Hills - listen book free online

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. In 1907, at the age of 41, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize and its youngest recipient to date. The size and speed of his success was an event in itself. He enjoyed profound popularity with the English-speaking public through th... Read More

The Room in the Tower and Other Ghost Stories - listen book free online

A young woman marries an older man and arrives at his house, only to find that his dead wife is still there… A picture in a tower depicts a dangerous woman… A dead man walks through a house every night because sometimes the dead do come back… Stories about ghosts and suspense. What can be better? Especially when these stories come from Victorian writers and Rudyard Kipling himself. Kipling's bi... Read More