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Ike Swift travels to New York's Chinatown where he describes the rise and fall of "The Queen of Chinatown".

A beautiful girl of the street sits in jail awaiting her sentencing for the murder of an abusive boyfriend.

Ike Swift and award-winning narrator and audiobook producer Mike Vendetti takes us to San Francisco, where a beautiful woman becomes a star.

"I'd rather be lucky than good". Mark Twain relates the story of a decorated British general who throughout his career moved through the ranks by luck. According to Twain's informant, this guy is a total nincompoop, but lucky.

A businessman from the Midwest in the big city with a big wad of money meets a lonely woman on the street who sweetly relieves him of his big wad of money, his watch, and his pin.

From Sketches of Gotham by Ike Swift, this is the story of a very progressive young woman and a rather gullible man at the turn of the last century.

Although best known for his short stories, H.P. Lovecraft considered himself a poet. These are five short poems by Lovecraft narrated by award-winning narrator and producer Mike Vendetti.

Vietnam vet and award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti reads Stephen Crane's "An Episode of War". Wars consist of many episodes large and small. This is a small episode that forever changes a man's life.

Two men bury a comrade during the Civil War. The story is told with little emotion. That is until the last shovel full of dirt Is dropped upon the dead comrade's face.

Eric Branson has fought his way across half a continent in search of his daughter. But with no idea he was coming for her, Megan has done what she must to survive. Now in the heart of a mountain wilderness with winter coming quickly, Eric is on Megan's trail, but will he find her alive at the other end? He knows he's not the only one in pursuit, and that Megan's fate may well hang on whoever finds her first.

Written in the fifth century BCE, by Sun Tzu and Wu Tzu, it remains one of the most celebrated works on war in the literature of China. While the chariot is gone and weapons have changed, these ancient masters have held their own. Since they deal chiefly with the fundamental principles of war, with the influence of politics and human nature on military operations, they show most strikingly how unchanging these principles are.

Award-winning narrator and audiobook producer, Mike Vendetti reads The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the experiences of a sailor who has returned from a long sea voyage. The mariner stops a man who is on his way to a wedding ceremony and begins to narrate a story. The wedding guest's reaction turns from bemusement to impatience to fear to fascination as the mariner's story progresses.

As applicable today as it was in 1796, no Senate tradition has been more steadfastly maintained than the annual reading of President George Washington's 1796 Farewell Address. In this letter to "Friends and Citizens," Washington warned that the forces of geographical sectionalism, political factionalism, and interference by foreign powers in the nation's domestic affairs threatened the stability of the Republic. He urged Americans to subordinate sectional jealousies to common national interests. Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti reads this address.

George Washington, the first president of the United States makes his inaugural address. Narrated by Mike Vendetti.

Award-winning narrator and producer Mike Vendetti reads Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem that is so well-known, the loop road leading close to Norman’s Woe from Route 127 is named Hesperus Ave. You will hear the wind blowing past the mast to which the captain has tied his daughter to keep her from being blown overboard.

The 55 minutes you spend listening to this audiobook can be magical. Some of these stories and ponderings will be understood clearly, while others may elude you, but not to worry, you will want to listen several times, and the meaning will come to you. Like all great writing, these stories will remain with you.

As with most stories by Poe, there are far deeper meanings as the narrator takes us through his madness. Pluto his cat becomes a symbol of what is wrong in his, the narrator's, life. He tortures Pluto in a drunken stupor by cutting out his eye. He feels guilt for hurting a creature he once loved that also once loved him. The narrator continues to spiral into his web of self-destruction until he is penning his story the night before he will meet the same fate he imposed upon Pluto.

Masterfully read by award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti, travel to the town of Hamelin suffering from a rat infestation, when a piper dressed in multicolored ("pied") clothing appeared, claiming to be a rat-catcher. He promised the mayor a solution to their problem with the rats. The mayor, in turn, promised to pay him for the removal of the rats (according to some versions of the story, the promised sum was 1,000 guilders). The piper accepted and played his pipe to lure the rats into the Weser River, where they all drowned. The rest is a legend enjoyed for centuries.

Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti reads 11 lovely love poems. Poems of young love, mature love, lost love, lustful love ,and more. What a way to start a wonderful evening with your lover!

"Ode To Autumn" is a poem by English Romantic poet John Keats. The work was composed on 19 September, 1819 and published in 1820 in a volume of Keats's poetry that included "Lamia" and "The Eve of St. Agnes". "To Autumn" is the final work in a group of poems known as Keats's "1819 odes".