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Automobile Girls at Newport

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Action & Adventure Fiction, Family Life, Humorous Fiction, Romance, Travel Fiction
Chapter: 24 | Listen: 9

Published in 1910, the young sisters, Barbara and Mollie Thurston, are being invited by their skilled friend, Ruth Stuart, to go on a real-life adventure in a motor car, for Ruth is a girl who actually can drive a motor car, to Newport with a chaperone, Aunt Sallie, and friend Grace Carter. Horse shenanigans come into play as well as protecting themselves from a burglary. Many hopes arise in their revels as well as wondering if or when women shall get “the vote”. Much culminates in the upcoming tennis tournament taking place at their destination and the danger of a jewel thief amidst them, which carries the girls into further excitement. (Summary by Daryl Wor) [chương_files]

Inca Lands

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Exploration, Memoirs
Chapter: 28 | Listen: 1

Prof. Hiram Bingham of Yale Makes the Greatest Archaeological Discovery of the Age by Locating and Excavating Ruins of Machu Picchu on a Peak in the Andes of Peru. There is nothing new under the sun, they say. That is only relatively true. Just now, when we thought there was practically no portion of the earth’s surface still unknown, when the discovery of a single lake or mountain, or the charting of a remote strip of coast line was enough to give a man fame as an explorer, one member of the daredevil explorers’ craft has “struck it rich.” Struck it so dazzlingly rich, indeed, that all his confrères may be pardoned if they gnash their teeth in chagrin and turn green with envy. The lucky man is Prof. Hiram Bingham of Yale, he whose hobby is South America. He has just announced that he has had the superb good fortune to discover an entire city, two thousand years old, a place of splendid palaces and temples and grim encircling walls, hidden away so thoroughly on the top of a well-nigh inaccessible mountain peak of the Peruvian Andes that the Spanish invaders of four hundred years ago never set eyes upon it. He calls it Machu Picchu. (From New York Times, June 15, 1913) One hundred years ago in the summer of 1911, Bingham discovered Machu Picchu, returning in the summer of 1912 to excavate under the auspices of Yale and The National Geographic Society, and coming home to great […]

Mengelilingi Doenia Dalam 80 Hari

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Action & Adventure Fiction, Travel Fiction
Chapter: 37 | Listen: 2

Mengelilingi Doenia dalam 80 Hari mengisahkan seorang pria berkebangsaan Inggris bernama Phileas Fogg bertaruh uang sebesar £20.000 dengan teman-temannya di Reform Club. Pertaruhan ini adalah sebuah tantangan untuk mengelilingi dunia hanya dalam tempo 80 hari. Bersama pelayan barunya, Jean Passepartout, mereka mencoba mengelilingi dunia dalam waktu yang telah ditentukan. (“Around the World in 80 Days” tells the story of an Englishman named Phileas Fogg betting £20,000 with his friends at the Reform Club. This gamble is a challenge to circumnavigate the globe in just 80 days. Together with his new man-servant, Jean Passepartout, they try to circumnavigate the world in a predetermined time.) – Summary by tarabatubara [chương_files]

Rustlers Beware

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Action & Adventure Fiction, Westerns
Chapter: 10 | Listen: 5

Cattle rustling had gotten out of control in northern Wyoming, so Asa Swingley is tasked with assembling a host of men to tend to the matter using whatever means necessary. He selects Milt Bertram to be one of his lead assistants, but Bertram becomes sidelined during the trip from Texas, which causes him to grow suspicious of the true nature of this expedition. What ensues leads Bertram to better understand his possible conflict of interest and what he must do to set matters straight. – Summary by Roger Melin [chương_files]

Cuentos del continente oscuro

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Action & Adventure Fiction, Travel Fiction
Chapter: 12 | Listen: 2

Exóticas aventuras protagonizadas por dos gentleman con el revólver siempre preparado en su cintura: Julio y Federico, junto a su aguerrido e intrépido guía árabe: Hassan. Viajarán por multitud de paisajes de África y Asia, atravesando desiertos, lagos, mares embravecidos, frondosas selvas, fastuosos templos, abarrotados bazares y ricos palacios mientras se cruzan con temibles fieras salvajes, princesas indígenas, fanáticos religiosos, tribus traucioneras y tantas otras sorpresas arriesgadas. Cuentos autoconclusivos de temática exótica y de aventuras con un fuerte acento colonial. Traducidos directamente del Strand Magazine y publicados en España en distintos números de la revista ‘La patria de Cervantes’. (Introducción por Epachuko) [chương_files]

Woman’s Journey Round the World

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Exploration
Chapter: 42 | Listen: 11

Ida Laura Pfeiffer was an Austrian traveler and travel book author, one of the first female explorers, whose popular books were translated into several languages. “The Woman’s Journey Around the World, from Vienna to Brazil, Chili, Tahiti, China, Hindostan, Persia, and Asia Minor” is the travel diary of the first of her two trips “around the world”, following her successful trips to the Holy Land and to Iceland. (Summary by Leni) [chương_files]

Tom Swift and the Visitor From Planet X

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Action & Adventure
Chapter: 20 | Listen: 8

Tom Swift Jr. and his associates at Swift Enterprises wait breathlessly for what may well be the most important scientific event in history—the arrival of the visitor from Planet X—a visitor in the form of energy. But there are factions at work determined to snatch the energy, which Tom has named Exman, from the young scientist-inventor’s grasp. First, a series of unexplainable, devastating earthquakes threaten to destroy a good portion of the earth, and Tom suspects the Brungarian rebels who obviously would like to capture Exman and use the space visitor to further their own evil purposes. With the security of Enterprises and Exman at stake, Tom creates two of his greatest inventions—a Quakelizor to counteract the simulated earth tremors, and a container or “body” to house the energy from outer space. If the earthquakes cannot be stopped, the entire world will be threatened by destruction, and the Brungarian forces will conquer the earth. How Tom utilizes all his scientific knowledge to produce swift-action results and outwit the Brungarians makes one of the most exciting Tom Swift adventures to date. (original book jacket from Gutenberg text)

Red One

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Action & Adventure Fiction, Science Fiction
Chapter: 4 | Listen: 6

Famous American author Jack London brings us four more tales of adventure. “The Red One” is the story of an explorer who tangles with cannibals to discover a mysterious artifact of possible otherworldly origins, “The Hussy” and “Like Argus of Ancient Times” are both adventurous stories of quests for gold, and “The Princess” is a rousing tale of adventure on the high seas. (Summary by Ben Tucker) [chương_files]

Freedom, Truth and Beauty

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Sonnets
Chapter: 97 | Listen: 6

A collection of sonnets that celebrates patriotism and nationalism loosely arranged in a chronological order based on world conflicts. While many of the pieces evoke a sincerity for the sacrifices made by those who participated in the conflicts, several speak to the seemingly unexplainable behavior of world leaders of the time. (Summary by KHand) [chương_files]

Will and No Will or a Bone for the Lawyers

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Play, Satire
Chapter: 3 | Listen: 4

This “Afterpiece” – a short play to follow a main production – was first produced in 1746. It was based on Regnard’s five-act comedy le Legetaire Universel (1707), which is itself a composite of Italian comedy with echoes of Molière, moving from scene to scene with little effort at logical consistency or structure but treating each scene autonomously for its own comic value. The rather long Prologue to A WILL AND NO WILL (11 pages of manuscript) makes fun of the convention of the eighteenth century prologues by the familiar dodge of having actors chatting as though they were in the Pit waiting for the actors in the preceding main play to dress for the afterpiece. [chương_files]