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The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/mask The Mask of Anarchy By Percy Bysshe Shelley Narrated by Denis Daly On 16 August 1819, a crowd of about 60,000 people gather at Manchester in a peaceful demonstration to demand reform of the parliamentary electoral system. The government of the day interpreted the gathering as an act of rebellion and ordered the...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/med A History of the Medieval Christian Church By Vance Randolph Narrated by Denis Daly Vance Randolph (1892 - 1980) is best known today as an expert of Ozark folklore. He spent most of his adult life in the Ozarks, and made a living by writing on sports and other issues. This brief and lively pamphlet on the histor...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/zan Zanzibar Tales By George W. Bateman Narrated by Alan Weyman Talking animals, cunning ruses, come-uppances (or escapes from them), good and bad fortune and a degree of ruthless cruelty are the stuff of folktales everywhere. No less so in these ten tales collected by George W Bateman in East Africa towards the end...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/gmau The Entire Original Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant By Guy de Maupassant Narrated by Cate Barratt Guy de Maupassant is widely regarded as the father of the modern short story. As his thirteen volumes of short stories attest, he was a prolific writer of this form. He had a simple, efficient style of writing a...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/cal Calidore By Thomas Love Peacock Presented by Voices of Today Featuring the voices of Graham Scott, Alan Weyman, Denis Daly and Rachel May. Calidore is a fragment of an unfinished romance, and may be considered unique among Peacock’s work. Composition probably commenced after the publication of Peacock's largest...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/witch The Witch of Atlas By Percy Bysshe Shelley Narrated by Denis Daly and Linda Barrans The Witch of Atlas is a poetic narrative, written in 1820 and published posthumously in 1824. The Witch is the daughter of the Pleiades, the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione. The plot is built around her adventures, during...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/tlpmisc A Thomas Love Peacock Miscellany By Richard Garnett, Edward Strachey and Thomas Love Peacock. Narrated by Graham Scott, Alan Weyman, Denis Daly and Rachel May. Thomas Love Peacock is today remembered as the author of seven satirical novels which many regard merely as literary curiosities. However, he was als...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/cjd C. J. Dennis Collection Narrated by Sarah Bacaller and Denis Daly Between 1915 and 1921 C. J. Dennis published seven verse novels and two collections of poetry. The first of these was The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, which features Dennis' characteristic use of a distinctive Australian argot and which became a...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/bof The Bridge of Fire By James Elroy Flecker Narrated by Denis Daly The Bridge of Fire, which appeared in 1907, was Flecker's first published collection of poetry. It contains 35 poems, a number of which were revised and republished in later collections, 36 poems (1910), and 42 Poems (1911). Flecker's verses are us...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/sand The Secret of the Sandhills By Arthur Gask Narrated by Susan Iannucci Down and out John Stratton, recently robbed by two elderly gentlemen on the train to Adelaide, has one shilling left for his next meal. He is loitering near the post office when a large, sleek car pulls up with a beautiful girl and older man....

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/fleck Selected Poems By James Elroy Flecker Narrated by Denis Daly James Elroy Flecker, linguist, scholar, critic, poet and diplomat, like his illustrious poetic peers, Wilfred Owen and Rupert Brooke, did not survive the First World War. All three died young : Owen and Brooke in the line of battle, Flecker, who neve...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/mcur The Mind Cure By Christian D. Larson Narrated by Denis Daly A prominent focus of the works of New Thought author Christian Larson (1874– 1954) was the cultivation of positive mental states for the attainment of success and happiness. In this short treatise he analyses some common mental maladies and gives sugge...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://voicesoftoday.net/aen The Descent to Hell From the Aeneid - Book 6 Translated by James Elroy Flecker Narrated by Denis Daly Among his many other attributes, James Elroy Flecker was a skilled linguist and an expert translator of Latin poetry. In 1913 he planned to write a book to be entitled "An interpretation in blank verse o...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/dog The Loaded Dog By Henry Lawson Narrated by Denis Daly This quirky tale is one of the most popular works of Australian poet and short story writer, Henry Lawson (1867 - 1922). A resourceful miner devises an ingenious scheme to expedite his fishing, but it does not quite go as planned.

The complete audiobook is available form purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/uly Ulysses and Columbus By Alfred, Lord Tennyson Edited by H. Clement Notcutt Narrated by Denis Daly Much of Tennyson's poetry is elegaic in nature, featuring characters who have been disempowered by isolation, age or lack of opportunity. One of the most famous example of this in the dramatic soliloquy, Ulysses, i...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/div Death in Venice By Thomas Mann Translated by Kenneth Burke Narrated by Alan Weyman In Thomas Mann's novella Death in Venice, a distinguished writer's holiday from the burdens of his work turns out very differently from what he expected. By means of the story, Mann explores the relationships between disciplined i...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/hep The Heptameron By Marguerite de Navarre Translated by Walter Keating Kelly Queen Marguerite de Navarre (April 11, 1491-December 21, 1549) was one of the most powerful women of her age, having helped to negotiate the Treaty of Cambrai, known as the Ladies' Peace. She was the wife of both Charles IV, duke of Alenç...

The Filigree Ball An Account of the Solution of the Mystery Concerning the Jeffrey-Moore Affair By Anna Katharine Green Narrated by Susan Iannucci The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/fbakg Newly married Mrs. Jeffrey is found in the library of the old family mansion dead with a pistol tied to her wrist, and everyone is suspect. The library in the famil...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/mort Morte d’Arthur By Alfred, Lord Tennyson Narrated by Denis Daly This is the first of Tennyson's poems to be based on Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur. The first draft was composed in 1834, and the finished work was published in Poems (1842). Later Tennyson incorporated the poem into the Idylls of the King (187...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/gwcdl The Great Within By Christian D. Larson Narrated by Denis Daly In this short treatise New Thought author Christian Larson discusses the power of the subconscious mind and the importance of establishing a working relationship with it. In the words of the author: "What is produced in the within will invariably c...

O Yearning Heart: An Edgar Allan Poe Rhapsody A collection of performances by rhapsodes of Rhapsodize Audio that traces hope through the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe. “Oh, Yearning Heart”: Tracing Hope through the Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe Known predominantly for his short stories focused on the darker elements in humanity or even for contributing to the birth of the modern detective story, Edgar All...

O Yearning Heart: An Edgar Allan Poe Rhapsody A collection of performances by rhapsodes of Rhapsodize Audio that traces hope through the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe. “Oh, Yearning Heart”: Tracing Hope through the Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe Known predominantly for his short stories focused on the darker elements in humanity or even for contributing to the birth of the modern detective story, Edgar All...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/712d5cd1d 7 to 12 - A Detective Story And One Hour More By Anna Katharine Green Narrated by Erin Grassie These two novellas by seminal crime novelist Anna Katharine Green were first published in 1887. In 7 to 12 the theft of a valuable diamond necklace is reported to the police. Investigation reveals that the circum...

The Last Generation By James Elroy Flecker Read by Phil Benson This futuristic novella by poet James Elroy Flecker (1884 - 1915) sketches out a familiar scenario: due to technological and social developments. mankind no longer has the need to work. The resulting lack of direction and urgency in daily life is a prelude to the demise of civilization. This recording was first published by Librivox on...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/A-Girl-of-the-Limberlost-Audiobook/B09RYQVZ9F A Girl of the Limberlost By Gene Stratton-Porter Presented by Voices of Today First published in 1909, A Girl of the Limberlost, is a novel by American writer and naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter. This classic of Indiana literature is a sequel to Stratton-Porter'...