The Gambler

Art of Story-Telling, with nearly half a hundred stories by Julia Darrow Cowles.In preparing this book the author has sought to awaken a keener perception and a higher appreciation of the artistic and...

12 Nov 5h 14min

Night-Born by Jack London.Ten short stories on various themes and subjects, all more or less bizarre. The Night-Born is about a woman who draws inspiration to change her life from an article she chanc...

11 Nov 5h 24min

Earth's Enigmas by Charles G. D. Roberts.Most of the stories in this collection attempt to present one or another of those problems of life or nature to which, as it appears to many of us, there is no...

10 Nov 4h 22min

After House by Mary Roberts Rinehart.Ralph Leslie, a brand-new MD, realizes that a life of adventure holds more appeal than hospital rounds and daily clinics. Is it good luck, bad luck, or just fate t...

9 Nov 5h 44min

Crocodile (Version 2) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.Fyodor Dostoevesky's "The Crocodile," first published in 1865 in the magazine "Epoch," is the story of Ivan Matveitch, a young man who gets swallowed by a c...

8 Nov 1h 37min

Landlady by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.Everything changed when Ordynov, a secluded young thinker, stepped out of his old lodgings in search of another corner. The ailing landlord watched from a distance, whil...

7 Nov 4h 14min

Uncle's Dream by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.Uncle’s Dream by Fyodor Dostoyevsky was written following his five year exile to Siberia where he was sent to serve in a hard labor camp. Following what could only ...

6 Nov 6h 4min

Grand Inquisitor (dramatic reading) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.The Grand Inquisitor is a parable told by Ivan to Alyosha in Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880). Ivan and Alyosha ar...

5 Nov 1h 17min