E-books and Audio Books

SPOZZ Books

Your direct connection to authors and classics.

SPOZZ Books

Your book advisor

Search books

897 books

E-Book · Free to read · English

The trey of spades

W. C. Tuttle

Hashknife Hartley and Sleepy Stevens are introduced riding together across the Thunder rangeland, a broad cattle country cut by the Bitter River and framed by the Thunder Mountains. As they survey the land, Hashknife sees it as the kind of open range they have long wanted, while Sleepy is more skeptical but willing to follow. The two talk about settling down, building a small home and brand, and trying to leave other people’s troubles alone as they head into the country below.

E-Book · Free to read · English

Helped by a horse doctor

W. C. Tuttle

A Western short story set in Piperock, Montana, follows Ike Harper as he watches his partner Magpie Simpkins in a tense encounter with a fat stranger who appears to be using hypnotism. Ike interrupts the scene, later gets injured, and consults the horse doctor Doc Milliken, who gives his own comic explanation of the incident. The story then moves through Piperock talk of vigilance, secret societies, and the Loyal Legion of Lizards, with Ike, Magpie, Dirty Shirt Jones, and Judge Steele trading boasts and arguments.

E-Book · Free to read · English

The three wise men

Ernest Haycox

Set in the dwindling desert town of Calent, the story centers on the marshal, mayor, and judge as they gather to play poker in the room above the old bar. Their banter over cards and liquor reveals how loosely the town’s power is exercised, even as they speak about law enforcement, public works, and a former woman of the town, Peg Nell, whose change in circumstances has become a subject of suspicion. The scene suggests a comic but sharp look at local politics, vice, and authority among the town’s self-styled leaders.

E-Book · Free to read · English

Magpie's night-bear

W. C. Tuttle

This western short story follows a prospector narrator and his partner Magpie Peters on Plenty Stone Creek in Montana, where they live in a cramped cabin furnished with leftover pieces and a phonograph. After a night of music and sleep, a huge bear enters the cabin and gets tangled in the furniture, the bed, and Magpie’s blankets while the narrator looks for something to use against it.

E-Book · Free to read · English

Bertha's engagement

Ann S. Stephens

Ann S. Stephens’s novel centers on Bertha Canfield, Egbert Fletcher, and a riding excursion that turns tense when Bertha refuses Fletcher’s renewed declaration of love. Their exchange is interrupted by two schoolgirl riders, and the party soon realizes that heavy rain has swollen the Naugatuck and made the ford and bridge dangerous. The story places romance beside an immediate flood threat and the concern of getting home before dark.

E-Book · Free to read · English

Sure-dart

F. H. Costello

Set in the late Cretaceous, the book imagines human boys living among prehistoric landscapes and creatures in Colorado. It follows their tense movement through ridges and lake country as they keep watch for enemies and prepare with flint darts and a stone axe. The narrator also frames the story as a blend of fiction and science, explaining the liberties taken with early humans and the animals and birds of the period.

E-Book · Free to read · English

The judgment of Johan Coull

Frederick Sleath

A salvage company is working to raise the wreck of the Warpindi on a North Sea shallows when divers discover five undamaged German submarines lying close beneath it. The crew also finds a damaged freighter named the Artic nearby, and the unexplained presence of the vessels becomes the focus of their discussion and suspicion. As evening falls aboard the Seabird, the men debate how such ships came to rest together on the seabed and whether the submarines should be raised.

E-Book · Free to read · English

Two ways of facing life

Florence E. Burch

The novel follows Joseph Adams, a young carpenter’s apprentice returning home through a country town after work. In the market square, he comes upon a group of boys mocking and attacking an elderly man known for collecting rubbish, and he steps in to defend him. The opening establishes Joseph’s strength, music-loving nature, and readiness to stand up for the helpless.

E-Book · Free to read · English

Adventures in Patagonia

Titus Coan

This book presents the life and travels of Titus Coan, an American missionary whose early training, strength, and religious conviction prepared him for foreign service. It describes his selection for an exploratory mission to Patagonia after reports of a possible field there, his brief experience in that region, and his return to the United States before later missionary work in the Hawaiian Islands. The narrative also sketches his quick mastery of language, his practical care for the people he served, and the long course of his service among them.

E-Book · Free to read · English

50 years at ringside

Nat Fleischer

Nat Fleischer’s autobiography looks back on five decades of sports reporting, with boxing at its center. It gathers eyewitness accounts, behind-the-scenes stories, and reflections on champions, promoters, managers, and the changing eras of the sport. The book presents boxing as a world of controversy, hero worship, color, and human interest drawn from a long career at ringside.

E-Book · Free to read · English

Personal reminiscences of a great crusade

Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler

Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler’s memoir reflects on her long campaign against a social system connected with prostitution and the legal control of women and girls in Britain and beyond. It also presents her family background, early life in Northumberland, and the formative influence of her parents, especially her father’s opposition to oppression and injustice. The book is framed as a remembrance of a public struggle whose principles, it says, still need defending.

E-Book · Free to read · English

A whizzer on Willer Crick

W. C. Tuttle

A Western mystery told by Sleepy Stevens centers on his work with Hashknife Hartley for the Triangle A outfit and on a newspaper notice about a silver-mounted saddle. The story also sketches the rough reputations of the two riders and then turns to a round-up show in Pemberton, where they enter a bucking contest and face fierce outlaw broncs while trying to secure the saddle prize.

E-Book · Free to read · English

My days and dreams

Edward Carpenter

Edward Carpenter’s memoir traces his life in distinct periods, beginning with an uncomfortable childhood in Brighton amid strict social conventions and a sense of alienation at home and school. He also reflects on his early attraction to religion and his intention to take Orders, then outlines later phases spent at Cambridge, in extension lecturing in northern England, and among working people while engaged in manual labour. The book is presented as autobiographical notes written over time, with occasional dates added to clarify chronology.

E-Book · Free to read · English

Cows is cows

W. C. Tuttle

Set in the Montana cattle country of Piperock and Yellow Rock County, this western centers on sheriff Magpie Simpkins and his associate Ike Harper as they deal with repeated cattle thefts. A self-styled preacher known as Obadiah Ezekiel Moses, or the Bringer of Light, arrives in town, and his arrival overlaps with talk of rustlers, missing cows, and the county’s need for help. The story also brings in Scenery Sims, one of the cattlemen involved in seeking a detective to track the thieves.

E-Book · Free to read · English

The tide

Mildred Cram

After her father’s funeral, Lilah Norris returns to his New York apartment and takes stock of the life he left behind. She reflects on their difficult bond, his love of books, and the fact that he has left her without money, even as she feels newly free and intent on shaping her own future. The opening centers on her self-awareness, grief, and restless sense of possibility in 1920s New York society.

← Show more books

Read classics for free

Public-domain e-books are free to read. Sign in after the preview. Paid author books require a valid book licence.

Try audiobooks

15-minute preview. Then 1 credit per content minute with your consent. SPOZZ productions are included for SPOZZ Members.