(Volume 11) Arabian Nights - The Book of the ...

Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy by Stephen Leacock audiobook. Genre: comedy Stephen Leacock's Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy is a sparkling collection of comic sketches, mock essays, and playful stories that turns everyday modern life into a field of absurd adventure. With a s ...  Show more

Literary Lapses by Stephen Leacock audiobook. Genre: comedy Literary Lapses is a sparkling collection of comic sketches and short pieces by Stephen Leacock, one of the great humorists of the early twentieth century. Rather than following a single hero, the book introduces a livel ...  Show more

The Thousand and One Nights is an ‘infinite text’: it has no fixed shape or length, no known author and is transformed with each new translation. In this first episode of Fiction and the Fantastic, Marina Warner and Anna Della Subin explore two particularly mysterious stories in ...  Show more

Relax with a gentle retelling of the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the oldest stories ever told. Follow the mighty king of Uruk on a journey of friendship, loss, and the search for meaning. Including the stories of Enkidu, Cedar Forest, Humbada, Ishtar, Bull of Heaven, eternal life, ...  Show more

Italo Calvino’s novella Invisible Cities is a hypnagogic reimagining of Marco Polo’s time in the court of Kublai Khan. Polo describes 55 impossible places – cities made of plumbing, free-floating, overwhelmed by rubbish, buried underground – that reveal something true about every ...  Show more

Fairytales and Short Stories - Hans Christian Andersen - Volume 1 - Book 3

Title: Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 1, 1835 to 1842

Overview: Hans Christian Andersen (April 2, 1805 - August 4, 1875) was a Danish author. Although a proli ...