Classic Audiobooks Archive

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, pre. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to become a musketeer. Author: Alexandre Dumas Length: 24 hours 49 minutes Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction, Romance Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 05:58 - Chapter 2 45:18 - Chapter 3 01:12:...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com This story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns a Huron massacre (with passive French acquiescence) of from 500 to 1,500 unarmed Anglo-American troops, who had honorably surrendered at Fort William Henry, plus some women and servants; the kidnapping of two sisters, daughters of the British commander;...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The Odyssey is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems (the other being the Iliad), attributed to the poet Homer. The poem is commonly dated to between 800 and 600 BC. Author: Homer Length: 11 hours 18 minutes Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction, Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity), Nautical & Marine Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 23...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Sherry reads Jane Austen's sparkling comedy of manners with wit and vivacity, and brings the characters to life. Mr. Author: Jane Austen Length: 18 hours 2 minutes Genre: Humorous Fiction, Romance Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 21:37 - Chapter 2 33:31 - Chapter 3 46:18 - Chapter 4 01:08:08 - Chapter 5 01:21:00 - Chapter 6 01:39:30 - Chapter 7 01:55:20 - Ch...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Among the most "banned" books in the United States, Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is a novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe which treats slavery as a central theme. Stowe was a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Academy and an active abolitionist. Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe Length: 18 hours 6 minutes Genre: Histor...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly parts between March 1852 and September 1853. It is widely held to be one of Dickens' finest and most complete novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. Author: Charles Dickens Length: 43 hours 30 mi...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com <i>The Count of Monte Cristo</i> (French: <i>Le Comte de Monte-Cristo</i>) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, pre. It is often considered, along with <i>The Three Musketeers</i>, as Dumas's most popular work. Author: Alexandre Dumas Length: 49 hours 43 minutes Genre: Classic Revenge Classic Chapters: 00:00 - Ch...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Homilies 65 though 90 of St John Chrysostom's commentary on the Holy Gospel according to St Matthew, which include the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. - Summary by The Reader. Author: St. John Chrysostom Length: 12 hours 55 minutes Genre: Classic Spiritual Text Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 38:32 - Chapter 2 01:08:35 - Chapter 3 01:39:29...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com This recording contains two early biographies of Dante, both written by notable Florentine literati. Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 -1375) was an Italian poet, most famous for his monumental collection of tales, The Decameron. Author: Giovanni Boccaccio Length: 3 hours 52 minutes Genre: Biography & Autobiography Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 22:32 - Chapter...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com This is the story of Hemingway, who, after a hunting trip in Uganda, settles in Zanzibar for a while to live among the English-speaking expatriate community on that island. While keeping his true identity well to himself, he falls in love with Ms. This is Men of Zanzibar by Richard Harding Davis. Author: Richard Harding Davis Length: 1 hours 17 minutes...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The De Monarchia is one of the main works by Dante Alighieri. It is a treatise on secular and religious power, and more specifically on the relationship between secular authority (represented by the Holy Roman Emperor) and religious authority (represented by the Pope). This is Monarchia by Dante Alighieri. Author: Dante Alighieri Length: 3 hours 46 minu...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com "I hope that this book, based on letters shown me many years after they were written, will give a faint idea of the life of a Chinese lady. The story is told in two series of letters conceived to be written by Kwei-li, the wife of a very high Chinese official, [the first series were written] to her husband when he accompanied his master, Prince Chung, o...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The sequel to "Her Mother's Secret". A wedding between Le and Odalite is rudely interrupted by Angus Anglesea, coming to claim his bride, or at least to keep her from marrying another. Author: E.D.E.N. Southworth Length: 8 hours 29 minutes Genre: General Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 23:11 - Chapter 2 49:52 - Chapter 3 01:11:13 - Chapter 4 01:33:23 - Chap...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Briefly appearing in 1915, then banned and taken out of circulation for its adult treatment of sexuality, Lawrence's visionary novel <i>The Rainbow</i> attempts to situate the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family within the continuous social change marking the Victorian transformation of Britain. Farmer Tom and his Polish wife L...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Marion Fay (1882) offers a pair of romances, each involving a match between one titled personage and one commoner. The misalliances lead to the typical strains between parental desires and romantic wishes of the young. This is Marion Fay by Anthony Trollope. Author: Anthony Trollope Length: 24 hours 6 minutes Genre: Published 1800 -1900 Chapters: 00:00...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Christina is an ordinary girl who lives with her aunt and uncle. Life is normal until one day when her father appears and plans to take Christina away to live with him at a robber baron's castle. This is Dove in the Eagle's Nest by Charlotte Mary Yonge. Author: Charlotte Mary Yonge Length: 11 hours 21 minutes Genre: Historical Fiction, Romance Chapters:...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com A book about children who find magic in every day life. and discover that mermen and mermaids actually have a whole underwater kingdom with Kings and Queens and of course Princesses. Author: E. Nesbit Length: 5 hours 48 minutes Genre: Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 24:43 - Chapter 2 58:07 - Chapter 3 01:41:26 - Chapter 4 01...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Christie is all alone in the world after his mother dies. He lives in a boarding house and every night creeps up the attic stairs to hear an old barrel organ play. Author: Mrs. O. F. Walton Length: 2 hours 21 minutes Genre: Children's Fiction, Family, Christian Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 08:04 - Chapter 2 17:28 - Chapter 3 32:14 - Chapter 4 41:...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Mirandolina runs an inn in Florence alone with only the help of her loyal employee Fabricius, and all of her guests are in love with her. The wealthy but only newly aristocratic Count D'Albafiorita and the impoverished but noble Marquis di Forlipopoli vie for her affections while debating the respective value of wealth and nobility (and insulting each o...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Arthur Hugh Clough (kluf) was an English poet, an educationalist, and the devoted assistant to ground-breaking nurse Florence Nightingale. He was the brother of suffragist Anne Clough, who became principal of Newnham College, Cambridge. Author: Arthur Hugh Clough Length: 18 minutes Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry) Chapters: 00:00 - C...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Uncompleted at her death, Augusta Webster's posthumously published sonnet sequence Mother and Daughter celebrates the relationship between a mother and her only child. As well as reflecting on aging and mortality, the sonnets express joy and love. Author: Augusta Webster Length: 48 minutes Genre: Single author, Sonnets Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 01:32...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com LibriVox volunteers take us out on the prairie among the wind and blue stem with readings of In the Autumn Grass by Hamlin Garland. This is the fortnightly poem for November 8, 2015. Author: Hamlin Garland Length: 19 minutes Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry) Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 01:10 - Chapter 2 02:37 - Chapter 3 03:48 - Chapt...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com This, the third of 5 volumes containing Poe's works, contains 6 of his short stories as well as Poe's only complete novel, <i>The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym</i>. This is Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 3 by Edgar Allan Poe. Author: Edgar Allan Poe Length: 11 hours 30 minutes Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Nautical...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com This is a recording of seven immortal and delightful fairy tales written by Hans Christian Andersen. The Little Match Girl is of course the first, followed by The Swineherd, The Real Princess, The Leap Frog, The Elderbush, The Bell and finally, The Old House. This is Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen. Author: Hans Christian Andersen Length: 1...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Rich and beautiful American girls heading to England to find themselves noble titles through marriage, and using their New World wealth to prop up the waning strength of the aristocracy, was almost a staple of late Victorian literature. "The Buccaneers," Edith Wharton called them, and their day is not over yet (think of Downton Abbey's Earl of Grantham,...