Mysterious Stranger-Mark Twain

Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain.Mark Twain wrote this fairytale style story about 3 boys who meet Satan's cousin and they experience many things during this time. Mark Twain ends the story expressing the idea that will blow you away. Ideas that can be traced back thousands of years in many religions. What is existence really ... to quote that well known song by Eliphalet Oram Lyte ... Row, row, row your boat Gently down the stream, Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, Life is but a dream .... so dream on.Featured on The Alchemist.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Crimson Gardenia And Other Tales Of Adventure by Rex Beach.Published in 1916, this book collects eleven stories originally published in several different magazines. Beach’s adventure stories were immensely popular throughout the early 1900s.Featured on The Alchemist.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Adventures of Maya the Bee by Waldemar Bonsels.The Adventures of Maya the Bee is an exciting tale for children of all ages. Themes of growth and development of courage and wisdom are found, as well as the extreme joy and satisfaction that Maya experiences in the beauty of creation and all creatures. Her ultimate and innate loyalty to her Nation of Bees is acted out in the final heroic scenes. This story gives us the delightful sense of having seen a small segment of the world through a Bee's eyes.Featured on The Alchemist.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Love of Life and Other Stories by Jack London."Love Of Life" (1906) is a collection of stories set in the Yukon of men, women and animals fighting for survival over the elements and over others. Greed, love, revenge -- all that is bad and good in humanity.Featured on The Alchemist.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Story of The Treasure Seekers (version 2) by E. Nesbit.The 6 Bastable children are great at thinking up ways to restore a fallen family fortune, they soon find they had more fun and problems with the fun than finance.Featured on The Alchemist.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Volpone, or, The Fox by Ben Jonson.Volpone is a comedy by Ben Jonson first produced in 1606, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast fable. A merciless satire of greed and lust, it remains Jonson's most-performed play, and it is among the finest Jacobean Era comedies. Volpone is a Venetian gentleman who pretends to be on his deathbed, after a long illness, in order to dupe Voltore, Corbaccio, and Corvino, three men who aspire to inherit his fortune. In their turns, each man arrives to Volpone’s house bearing a luxurious gift, intent upon having his name inscribed to the will of Volpone, as his heir. Mosca, Volpone’s parasite servant, encourages each man, Voltore, Corbaccio, and Corvino, to believe that he has been named heir to Volpone’s fortune; in the course of which, Mosca persuades Corbaccio to disinherit his own son in favour of Volpone.Featured on The Alchemist.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson.An inferior devil, Pug, asks Satan to send him to Earth to tempt men to Evil. But when Pug arrives in 1616 London and sets himself at the Squire Fabian Fitzdottrel, he finds Fabian currently beset by con men, cheats, connivers, thieves, villains, and seductresses - a delightful mix of cunning criminality in a world that already has far more vice in it than anything Pug is prepared to offer.Featured on The Alchemist.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Cynthia's Revels, or The Fountain of Self-Love by Ben Jonson.Featured on The Alchemist.This episode includes AI-generated content.

Every Man In His Humour by Ben Jonson.This episode includes AI-generated content.

Every Man Out of His Humour by Ben Jonson.This episode includes AI-generated content.