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The Soul of a Bishop
- By: H. G. Wells
- Narrated by: Peter Silverleaf
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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He is known, along with Jules Verne, as one of the 19th-century fathers of logical, rational science fiction, but in this 1917 novel, H. G. Wells weaves a more intuitive tale, about a bishop haunted by strange dreams and visions that challenge his faith. Lyrical, poetic, and verging on stream-of-consciousness in places, this little-read work of one of the most enduringly popular writers of modern literature is like found treasure, offering a captivating and unexpected insight into Wells' psyche.
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The Soul of a Bishop
- Narrated by: Peter Silverleaf
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 17-05-23
- Language: English
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The Truth About Pyecraft
- By: H. G. Wells
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 24 mins
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Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games. THE TRUTH ABOUT PYECRAFT: He sits not a dozen yards away. If I glance over my shoulder I can see him. And if I catch his eye - and usually I catch his eye - it meets me with an expression.
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The Truth About Pyecraft
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 24 mins
- Release date: 16-05-23
- Language: English
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The Temptation of Harringay
- By: H. G. Wells
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 15 mins
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Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games. THE TEMPTATION OF HARRINGAY: It is quite impossible to say whether this thing really happened. It depends entirely on the word of R.M. Harringay, who is an artist.
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The Temptation of Harringay
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 15 mins
- Release date: 16-05-23
- Language: English
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Through a Window
- By: H. G. Wells
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 22 mins
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Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games. THROUGH A WINDOW: After his legs were set, they carried Bailey into the study and put him on a couch before the open window. There he lay, alive - even a feverish man down to the loins, and below that a double-barrelled mummy swathed in white wrappings.
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Through a Window
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 22 mins
- Release date: 16-05-23
- Language: English
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The Valley of Spiders
- By: H. G. Wells
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 27 mins
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Towards mid-day the three pursuers came abruptly round a bend in the torrent bed upon the sight of a very broad and spacious valley. The difficult and winding trench of pebbles along which they had tracked the fugitives for so long, expanded to a broad slope, and with a common impulse the three men left the trail, and rode to a little eminence set with olive-dun trees, and there halted, the two others, as became them, a little behind the man with the silver-studded bridle.
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The Valley of Spiders
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 27 mins
- Release date: 16-05-23
- Language: English
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The Treasure in the Forest
- By: H. G. Wells
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 21 mins
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The canoe was now approaching the land. The bay opened out, and a gap in the white surf of the reef marked where the little river ran out to the sea; the thicker and deeper green of the virgin forest showed its course down the distant hill slope. The forest here came close to the beach. Far beyond, dim and almost cloudlike in texture, rose the mountains, like suddenly frozen waves. The sea was still save for an almost imperceptible swell. The sky blazed.
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The Treasure in the Forest
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 21 mins
- Release date: 16-05-23
- Language: English
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The Triumphs of a Taxidermist
- By: H. G. Wells
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 11 mins
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Bellows visits a friend, the taxidermist of the title, in the latter's home. Like much of Wells' fiction, the Taxidermist remains unnamed and the story is a concealed assault on the English culture of the time of its writing. The Taxidermist proudly tells the younger man of his accomplishments both grotesque and fraudulent.
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The Triumphs of a Taxidermist
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 11 mins
- Release date: 16-05-23
- Language: English
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The Stolen Bacillus
- By: H. G. Wells
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 18 mins
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The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents is a collection of fifteen fantasy and science fiction short stories written by the English author H. G. Wells between 1893 and 1895. It was first published by Methuen & Co. in 1895 and was Wells's first book of short stories. All of the stories had first been published in various weekly and monthly periodicals.
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The Stolen Bacillus
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 18 mins
- Release date: 15-05-23
- Language: English
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The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost
- By: H. G. Wells
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 30 mins
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Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. THE STORY OF THE INEXPERIENCED GHOST: The scene amidst which Clayton told his last story comes back very vividly to my mind. There he sat, for the greater part of the time, in the corner of the authentic settle by the spacious open fire, and Sanderson sat beside him smoking the Broseley clay that bore his name.
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The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 30 mins
- Release date: 15-05-23
- Language: English
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Aepyornis Island
- By: H. G. Wells
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 31 mins
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"Æpyornis Island", or "Aepyornis Island", is a short story by H. G. Wells, first published in 1894 in the Pall Mall Budget. It was included in The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents, the first collection of short stories by Wells, first published in 1895. In the story, a man looking for eggs of Aepyornis, an extinct flightless bird, passes two years alone on a small island with an Aepyornis that has hatched.
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Aepyornis Island
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 31 mins
- Release date: 15-05-23
- Language: English
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The Stolen Body
- By: H. G. Wells
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 43 mins
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A pair of casual paranormal researchers are experimenting with the idea of astral projection. One night, one of them inadvertently succeeds in projecting his spirit from his body, which is then taken possession of by a malevolent entity in his absence.
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The Stolen Body
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 43 mins
- Release date: 15-05-23
- Language: English
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The Schoolmaster and the Empire
- By: H. G. Wells
- Narrated by: Peter Silverleaf
- Length: 21 mins
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Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games. THE SCHOOLMASTER AND THE EMPIRE: "If Youth but Knew" is the title of a book published some years ago, but still with a quite living interest, by "Kappa"; it is the bitter complaint of a distressed senior against our educational system.
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The Schoolmaster and the Empire
- Narrated by: Peter Silverleaf
- Length: 21 mins
- Release date: 15-05-23
- Language: English
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The Philosopher's Public Library
- By: H. G. Wells
- Narrated by: Peter Silverleaf
- Length: 9 mins
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Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946) was an English writer. THE PHILOSOPHER'S PUBLIC LIBRARY: Suppose a philosopher had a great deal of money to spend - though this is not in accordance with experience, it is not inherently impossible - and suppose he thought, as any philosopher does think, that the British public ought to read much more and better books than they do, and that founding public libraries was the way to induce them to do so, what sort of public libraries would he found? That, I submit, is a suitable topic for a disinterested speculator.
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The Philosopher's Public Library
- Narrated by: Peter Silverleaf
- Length: 9 mins
- Release date: 15-05-23
- Language: English
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The Lord of the Dynamos
- By: H. G. Wells
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 24 mins
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Azuma-zi came to London from the dark jungles of Asia. Nearly penniless, he secures a job and is constantly bombarded with verbal and physical abuse. But to Azuma-zi, each beating holds a hidden justification. For he alone has uncovered the secret of the Lord of the Dynamos.
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The Lord of the Dynamos
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 24 mins
- Release date: 15-05-23
- Language: English
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The Possible Collapse of Civilisation
- By: H. G. Wells
- Narrated by: Peter Silverleaf
- Length: 10 mins
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Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games. THE POSSIBLE COLLAPSE OF CIVILISATION: (New Year, 1909.) The Editor of the New York World has asked me to guess the general trend of events in the next thirty years or so with especial reference to the outlook for the State and City of New York.
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The Possible Collapse of Civilisation
- Narrated by: Peter Silverleaf
- Length: 10 mins
- Release date: 15-05-23
- Language: English
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The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes
- By: H. G. Wells
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 27 mins
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The transitory mental aberration of Sidney Davidson, remarkable enough in itself, is still more remarkable if Wade's explanation is to be credited. It sets one dreaming of the oddest possibilities of intercommunication in the future, of spending an intercalary five minutes on the other side of the world, or being watched in our most secret operations by unsuspected eyes. It happened that I was the immediate witness of Davidson's seizure, and so it falls naturally to me to put the story upon paper.
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The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 27 mins
- Release date: 15-05-23
- Language: English
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The Passionate Friends
- By: H. G. Wells
- Narrated by: Gary Williams
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. We have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high-quality modern editions that are true to the original work.
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The Passionate Friends
- Narrated by: Gary Williams
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 15-05-23
- Language: English
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The Endowment of Motherhood
- By: H. G. Wells
- Narrated by: Peter Silverleaf
- Length: 10 mins
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Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games. THE ENDOWMENT OF MOTHERHOOD: Some few years ago the Fabian Society, which has been so efficient in keeping English Socialism to the lines of "artfulness and the 'eighties," refused to have anything to do with the Endowment of Motherhood.
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The Endowment of Motherhood
- Narrated by: Peter Silverleaf
- Length: 10 mins
- Release date: 15-05-23
- Language: English
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The Normal Social Life
- By: H. G. Wells
- Narrated by: Peter Silverleaf
- Length: 1 min
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Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games. THE NORMAL SOCIAL LIFE: Produces an increasing surplus of energy and opportunity, more particularly under modern conditions of scientific organisation and power production; and this through the operation of rent and of usury tends to.
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The Normal Social Life
- Narrated by: Peter Silverleaf
- Length: 1 min
- Release date: 15-05-23
- Language: English
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The New Accelerator
- By: H. G. Wells
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 36 mins
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The New Accelerator features a fascinating depiction of the invention of what sounds a lot like an amphetamine (though technically they had already been invented a dozen years earlier). It will also remind Star Trek fans of the episode called Wink of an Eye.
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The New Accelerator
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 36 mins
- Release date: 15-05-23
- Language: English
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