Crocodile (Version 2)-Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Short Science Fiction Collection 023.Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and scientific method, but are not facts of the author’s contemporary world. The stories often represent philosophical thought experiments presented in entertaining ways. Protagonists typically “think” rather than “shoot” their way out of problems, but the definition is flexible because there are no limits on an author’s imagination.Featured on The Gambler.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

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 ethical value of story-telling; to simplify some of its problems; to emphasize the true delight which the story-teller may share with her hearers; and to present fresh material which answers to the test of being good in substance as well as in literary form.Featured on The Gambler.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

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 chanced to read. In The Benefit of the Doubt , a crooked judge gets a lesson in justice. When The World Was Young is the story of Primitive Man and Civilized Man sharing the same body. And so on. Each story is unique and thought-provoking.Featured on The Gambler.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

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 adequate solution within sight. Others are the almost literal transcript of dreams which seemed to me to have a coherency, completeness, and symbolic significance sufficiently marked to justify me in setting them down. The rest are scenes from that simple life of Canadian backwoods and tide-country with which my earlier years made me familiar.Featured on The Gambler.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

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 that lands him as deck steward on the schooner Ella? Because once in open water, the booze flows too freely, old animosities resurface, and new ones form. And then someone starts behaving badly, so badly, in fact, that people are turning up dead. It becomes Leslie’s job to get the Ella, its crew and passengers, and the evidence back to port before the murderer strikes again.Featured on The Gambler.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

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 crocodile, and survives. What will life be like for him, inside the crocodile? How will his marriage with Elena Ivanovna fare?Featured on The Gambler.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

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, while the beautiful landlady came close... A tale of love, murder, and sorcery, The Landlady is one of a kind among Fyodor Dostoevsky's works. Written at the age of 26 before he was sent to Siberia, preceded only by The Double and Poor Folk, this novella draws inspiration from Russian folklore as well as stories by Pushkin and Gogol. It anticipates some of the writer's most important ideas to be developed in his later writings.Featured on The Gambler.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

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 have been a harrowing and harsh existence in Russia’s infamous prison for political and social prisoners, one would expect Dostoyevsky’s work to have been dark and bitter. Rather, Uncle’s Dream is a humorous and yet scathing commentary on Russian provincial high-society. The story of elderly Prince K. who comes to visit the town of Mordasoff, lorded over by the imperious Maria Alexandrovna, is one of love, hate, deceit and greed. Standing reluctantly at Maria Alexandrovna’s side is her haughty daughter, Zina, who has few friends of her own. The prince’s companion and distant relative is Paul Mosgliakoff, suitor to Zina.Featured on The Gambler.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

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 are brothers; Ivan questions the possibility of a personal, benevolent God and Alyosha is a novice monk. The Grand Inquisitor is an important part of the novel and one of the best-known passages in modern literature because of its ideas about human nature and freedom, and because of its fundamental ambiguity. In the tale, Christ comes back to earth in Seville at the time of the Inquisition. He performs a number of miracles (echoing miracles from the Gospels). The people recognize him and adore him, but he is arrested by Inquisition leaders and sentenced to be burnt to death the next day. The Grand Inquisitor visits him in his cell to tell him that the Church no longer needs him.Featured on The Gambler.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Notes From The Underground (version 2) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.Notes from Underground is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. The first part of the story is told in monologue form, or the underground man's diary, and attacks emerging Western philosophy, especially Nikolay Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done?.Featured on The Gambler.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.