W. Somerset Maugham
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 8 Sep
W. Somerset Maugham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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of the Fiend's Delight by Ambrose Beerce.
This Liebervox recording is in the public domain.
Recording by April six zero nine zero
Some fiction L
Early one evening in the autumn of sixty four, a pale girl stood singing Methodist hymns at the summit of Bush Street Hill.
She was attired, Spanish fashion, in a loose overcoat and slippers.
Suddenly she broke off her song.
A dark browed young soldier from the Presidio cautiously approached, and seizing her fondly in his arms, snatched away the overcoat.
Retreating with it to an auction house on Pacific Street.
where it may still be seen by the benighted traveller.
Just a going, for two and a half and never gone.
The poor maiden, after this misfortune, felt a bitter resentment swelling in her heart, and scorning to remain among her kind in that costume, took her way to the cliff house.
Where she arrived, worn and weary, about breakfast time.
The landlord received her kindly, and offered her a pair of his best trousers.
But she was of noble blood, and having been reared in luxury, respectfully declined to receive charity from a low born stranger.
All efforts to induce her to
To eat were equally unavailing.
She would stand for hours on the rocks where the road descends to the beach, and gaze at the playful seals in the surf below.
who rather seemed flattered by her attention, and would swim about singing their sweetest songs to her alone.
Passerbys were equally curious as to her.
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