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Tales From The Web is a daily storytelling podcast hosted by Avery Reed, pulling fascinating, funny, unsettling, and surprisingly human stories from across the internet.Each episode takes one standout Reddit story or thread and turns it into a polished, host-led conversation: part narration, part commentary, part “wait, what would I do in that situation?” From Malicious Compliance Mondays to No Sleep Saturdays, Avery walks through the setup, the turning points, the fallout, and the bigger lesson hiding inside the thread.New episodes publish daily, featuring themed dives into malicious ...

Step into the mind of Andrew Carnegie, one of history's wealthiest entrepreneurs and philanthropists, through this captivating collection of his essays. Originally published in 1902, 'Empire of Business' showcases Carnegie's sharp insights on the economic landscape of America at the dawn of the 20th century. Explore the dynamics of the steel, oil, coal, and rail industries as Carnegie shares his thoughts on the balance between capital and labor. He tackles the pressing issues of individualism versus socialism and offers a candid perspective on the role of public and private interests in ...

Discover the charm of Charles Dickens storytelling through this captivating collection of 20 short plays, inspired by beloved novels like Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Bleak House, and Our Mutual Friend. These adaptations are perfect for amateur and school dramatic societies, bringing to life the wit and wisdom of Dickens in a lively and engaging format. Join us as ToddHW guides you through an array of characters and scenarios that showcase the timeless appeal of Dickens work.

Bloomsbury presents Notes from a Working-Class Playwright, written and read by Leo Butler Award-winning British playwright, Leo Butler looks back over 25 of writing for the stage and his extensive experience teaching and mentoring emerging playwrights through the Royal Court Young Writers'...

As printed, this book contains an extensive listing of Mark Twain's work. Rather than repeating that listing, this recording simply reflects the bibliographer's entertaining analysis of Twain's books, speeches, letters, anecdotes, and notes. - Summary by John Greenman

Bedtime stories for adults, told as letters from a man who's just moved to a small village called Hollowmere. He writes home each week — the inn, the square, the gentle strangenesses of a place he doesn't yet understand. Slow stories, one warm British voice, about an hour. No jump scares, no music that builds — made to be drifted through. Best with headphones, lamps low. If you fall asleep before he signs off, that's the idea. Narration created with ElevenLabs voice synthesis. Words written by a human.

I could not let these random notes of a delightful experience go forth into the world without expressing in some way my deep appreciation of the valued services rendered me in my ten years of platform work by my friends of the Lyceum Bureaus. In office and in the field they have labored strenuously, often affectionately, and always loyally, on my behalf. But for their interest some of the most cherished experiences of my life would have been beyond my reach. If sometimes in their zeal to keep me busy they have booked me in Winnipeg on Monday night, in New Orleans on Tuesday night, with little ...

William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. His father, John Shakespeare, was a store owner and a farmer, and at one point, also served as the town's mayor. William was the third of eight children. He was married to Anne Hathaway who was eight years older than himself. They had three children Susanna (1583), and twins - Hamnet and Judith (1585). Shakespeare wrote 36 plays, 154 Sonnets and two narrative poems. He died on April 23, 1616 and was buried at Trinity Church in Stratford, England.

By the time Mark Twain worked as a roving reporter for the Sacramento Union, he had held positions with other newspapers in Nevada and California. However, his assignment in 1866 to visit and report on the Sandwich Islands, changed his life. These 25 "letters" from Hawaii gave him an international "scoop" and opened the door for a lifetime of speaking engagements. “I went to Maui to stay a week and remained five. I had a jolly time. I would not have fooled away any of it writing letters under any consideration whatever.” –Mark Twain - Summary by John Greenman and Wikipedia

Twenty stories originally published in the Christmas editions of the magazines “Household Words” and “All The Year Round”. Some of the stories have little holiday sentiment and exhibit much of the indignation Dickens felt at the social and economic injustices of his day. Some of the stories were written in collaboration with other authors. The editor of this volume chose to omit those other chapters and include only Dickens' work. The result is that some of the stories are a bit choppy, not to say confusing. (summary by david wales)

This is a collection of essays (1899) on English village life in the late nineteenth century. The essay “My Rector” was the focus of some controversy when published. Alfred Pretor was an English Cambridge don and classicist, author, and translator. - Summary by David Wales

Traces the origins of the abolitionist movement in the North American colonies of the British Empire through the American Revolution, to the abolitionists' successful campaign to end the slave trade. - Summary by progressingamerica

The Girl From Scotland Yard by Edgar Wallace. This is another of the fine detective mysteries written by Edgar Wallace during the early part of the twentieth century. This particular story revolves around the adventures of one Leslie Maughn who is employed as an advisor to New Scotland Yard in the days before women could become actual police officers. Supervised by her boss, Inspector Coldwell, she unravels a complex plot created by the Druze family. The other main character in the story is Peter Dawlish, a recently released prisoner from Dartmoor Prison who naturally becomes the first ...

"Tales of Fun & Fancy" is the subtitle of this story book and it well describes the contents which are written with a great deal of fun and fancy indeed. I have chosen 15 of these imaginative and delightful stories for us to record in this project. Some are short, some are longer but all will capture your fancy as you listen to them. - Summary by Phil chenevert

Echos from the Static is a sci-fi horror radio drama anthology. Every episode is a brand new story — new characters, new worlds, new horrors — transmitted from forbidden frequencies where science meets myth, the familiar turns strange, and something listens from the dark. Underground signal labs. Cities being rewritten by forces beyond comprehension. Structures that shouldn't exist. The moments when the static clears and something answers back. Keep your heart rate irregular. If you sync up, you disappear. New transmissions released regularly. Echos from the Static — the signal was ...

Melissa Acronin was in her junior year of high school, with only two weeks left before summer vacation when the outbreak started. Her family had left for an early vacation a month prior, leaving her behind per her request, which leaves Melissa all alone with just her and her pets for the first three years of the outbreak.Then, she finds a small group of survivors after those three years with no human interaction—three guys, and one girl. She saves them, and after some persuasion, she allows them to stay with her. But of course, rule number one in a zombie apocalypse is that it’s not the ...

A science fiction/horror audio drama anthology series that tells stories about humankind's explorations into the depths below our planet's surface and the vast space around it.

In the hollows of the Ozarks, a crumbling white clapboard meeting hall stands at the end of a gravel road. Luna steps up to the pulpit, dust motes spinning in the bare bulb light, and opens a hymnal whose pages are yellowed and warped, as if soaked through by something other than rain. Each episode of this anthology is a self-contained story drawn from the hymnal's entries — accounts of congregations that held too many closed-door sessions, of hymns that echoed through empty woods long after the last singer left. A deacon's wife who began speaking in languages that predate the church. A ...

Luna reads from a cache of letters discovered in the lantern room of a storm-battered lighthouse. Each episode unfolds a single letter — written by a lighthouse keeper who served a century ago — and the events that ripple into the present. The keeper's voice grows more desperate with each dispatch: his logbooks record a ship that appears on the horizon every night but never arrives, a fog that whispers, and a second lighthouse that flickers where none should be. Luna's narration is hushed, as if the lighthouse walls might be listening. This is a serialized descent into maritime isolation, ...

A collection of poetic folk tales from all over the world.