Great Audiobooks

Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous people, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving lives contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired, single lives. Plutarch was not concerned with writing histories, as such, but in exploring the inf...

Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous people, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving lives contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired, single lives. Plutarch was not concerned with writing histories, as such, but in exploring the inf...

Burmese Commisioner Nayland Smith and his faithful friend Dr. Petrie continue their fight against the evil genius of Dr. Fu-Manchu when they seek to save the good doctor's lost love and protect the British Empire from disaster when their enemy returns to England. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Burmese Commisioner Nayland Smith and his faithful friend Dr. Petrie continue their fight against the evil genius of Dr. Fu-Manchu when they seek to save the good doctor's lost love and protect the British Empire from disaster when their enemy returns to England. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Burmese Commisioner Nayland Smith and his faithful friend Dr. Petrie continue their fight against the evil genius of Dr. Fu-Manchu when they seek to save the good doctor's lost love and protect the British Empire from disaster when their enemy returns to England. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Burmese Commisioner Nayland Smith and his faithful friend Dr. Petrie continue their fight against the evil genius of Dr. Fu-Manchu when they seek to save the good doctor's lost love and protect the British Empire from disaster when their enemy returns to England. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Burmese Commisioner Nayland Smith and his faithful friend Dr. Petrie continue their fight against the evil genius of Dr. Fu-Manchu when they seek to save the good doctor's lost love and protect the British Empire from disaster when their enemy returns to England. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Burmese Commisioner Nayland Smith and his faithful friend Dr. Petrie continue their fight against the evil genius of Dr. Fu-Manchu when they seek to save the good doctor's lost love and protect the British Empire from disaster when their enemy returns to England. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Burmese Commisioner Nayland Smith and his faithful friend Dr. Petrie continue their fight against the evil genius of Dr. Fu-Manchu when they seek to save the good doctor's lost love and protect the British Empire from disaster when their enemy returns to England. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

“ The Philosophy of Style ,” explored a growing trend of formalist approaches to writing. Highly focused on the proper placement and ordering of the parts of an English sentence, [Spencer] created a guide for effective composition.  Spencer’s aim was to free prose writing from as much "friction and inertia" as possible, so that the reader would not be slowed by strenuous deliberations conc...

“ The Philosophy of Style ,” explored a growing trend of formalist approaches to writing. Highly focused on the proper placement and ordering of the parts of an English sentence, [Spencer] created a guide for effective composition.  Spencer’s aim was to free prose writing from as much "friction and inertia" as possible, so that the reader would not be slowed by strenuous deliberations conc...

There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels desirous of informing himself of the leading outlines of their history, that he may know, in brief, what it was in their characters or their doings which has given them so widely-extended a fame.  Consequently, great historical names alone are selected; and i...

There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels desirous of informing himself of the leading outlines of their history, that he may know, in brief, what it was in their characters or their doings which has given them so widely-extended a fame.  Consequently, great historical names alone are selected; and i...

There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels desirous of informing himself of the leading outlines of their history, that he may know, in brief, what it was in their characters or their doings which has given them so widely-extended a fame.  Consequently, great historical names alone are selected; and i...

There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels desirous of informing himself of the leading outlines of their history, that he may know, in brief, what it was in their characters or their doings which has given them so widely-extended a fame.  Consequently, great historical names alone are selected; and i...

There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels desirous of informing himself of the leading outlines of their history, that he may know, in brief, what it was in their characters or their doings which has given them so widely-extended a fame.  Consequently, great historical names alone are selected; and i...

There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels desirous of informing himself of the leading outlines of their history, that he may know, in brief, what it was in their characters or their doings which has given them so widely-extended a fame.  Consequently, great historical names alone are selected; and i...

The House of the Vampire is a 1907 novella that is a very unusual vampire story. A young writer comes under the powerful influence of a mysterious older master, who seems to have left a trail of ruined proteges in his wake.  The story is as much about the nature of artistic creation as it is a chilling vampire tale. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://red...

The House of the Vampire is a 1907 novella that is a very unusual vampire story. A young writer comes under the powerful influence of a mysterious older master, who seems to have left a trail of ruined proteges in his wake.  The story is as much about the nature of artistic creation as it is a chilling vampire tale. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://red...

The House of the Vampire is a 1907 novella that is a very unusual vampire story. A young writer comes under the powerful influence of a mysterious older master, who seems to have left a trail of ruined proteges in his wake.  The story is as much about the nature of artistic creation as it is a chilling vampire tale. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://red...

Lady Windermere's Fan , A Play About a Good Woman is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first produced 22 February 1892 at the St James's Theatre in London. The play was first published in 1893. Like many of Wilde's comedies, it bitingly satirizes the morals of Victorian society, particularly marriage. The story concerns Lady Windermere, who discovers that her husband may be having an a...

Lady Windermere's Fan , A Play About a Good Woman is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first produced 22 February 1892 at the St James's Theatre in London. The play was first published in 1893. Like many of Wilde's comedies, it bitingly satirizes the morals of Victorian society, particularly marriage. The story concerns Lady Windermere, who discovers that her husband may be having an a...

A selection of Shakespeare's poems from The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. 01 Silvia 02 The Blossom 03 Spring and Winter i 04 Spring and Winter ii 05 Fairy Land i 06 Fairy Land ii 07 Fairy Land iii 08 Fairy Land iv 09 Fairy Land v 10 Love 11 Sweet-and-Twenty 12 Dirge 13 Under the Greenwood Tree 14 Blow, blow, thou Winter Wind 15 It was a Lover and his Lass 16 Take, O take those Lips...

Nicholas Nickleby is a young Devonshire man of nineteen, handsome and hot headed, devoted to his sister Kate and his parents. Following the death of Nicholas’s father, they find themselves penniless, and travel to London to seek help from his uncle, Ralph Nickleby, a heartless, cunning rogue. He grudgingly finds employment for Nicholas in Dotheby Hall, a school in Yorkshire run by the brutal Mr. a...

Nicholas Nickleby is a young Devonshire man of nineteen, handsome and hot headed, devoted to his sister Kate and his parents. Following the death of Nicholas’s father, they find themselves penniless, and travel to London to seek help from his uncle, Ralph Nickleby, a heartless, cunning rogue. He grudgingly finds employment for Nicholas in Dotheby Hall, a school in Yorkshire run by the brutal Mr. a...