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The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/oind6 The Pageants By William Shakespeare Comprising multicast performances of Henry V and Henry VIII Shakespeare’s history plays fall into two categories: political dramas and propagandistic pageants. The second category is comprised of the two plays in this presentation, Henry V and Henry VIII. These two plays have ma...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/ohdqkm The Dunciad In Four Books Edited by George Gilfillan By Alexander Pope Read by Denis Daly Alexander Pope was fiercely critical of writers whom he considered to have little talent and whom he liked to nominate as dunces. His most encyclopedic examination of these apostles of dullness is the Dunciad, a long satiric...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/qjs3vd Jonah By Louis Stone Narrated by Gregory Dwyer A wonderful character-filled novel of Larrikin life in the poorer areas of early Sydney. Johah describes the social atmosphere of many of the working class, and in particular traces the change in the main character of Jonah, a hunchback, from his beginnings in life a...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/0dwpd Mornings in Mexico By D. H. Lawrence Narrated by Patrick Barker D. H. Lawrence’s homage to his travels in Mexico and the American southwest. The first four essays are products of a short visit to Oaxaca in Mexico. The following three, which include Lawrence’s classic account of the Hopi snake dance, are set in New...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/k626f Few of Emily Dickinson’s poems were published in her lifetime. Her posthumous fame is largely due to the efforts of her editors and supporters Thomas W. Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd. In the foreword to this second collection, published in 1891, Mabel Loomis Todd wrote: “The eagerness with which the first volume...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/2ecoy For the Term of His Natural Life His Natural Life By Marcus Clarke Narrated by Gregory Dwyer For the Term of His Natural Life can be described as a “ripping yarn.” While it relies on slightly unrealistic coincidences, the story follows the (mis)fortunes of Rufus Dawes, a young man transported for a murder he did n...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0F1GS32HW The Velveteen Rabbit By Margery Williams Bianco Read by Bria Sterling This classic children's story was first published in Harper's Bazaar in 1921.The story is an ingenious retelling of a popular myth in which an inanimate image of a creature becomes alive through the ardent desire of its owner....

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com https://n9.cl/sltdb7 The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth By H. G. Wells Narrated by Martha H. Weller H. G. Wells first published The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth in 1904. He called it “a fantasia on the change of scale in human affairs… I had hit upon [the idea] while working out the possibilities of the near fu...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/1yc5t The Magic Mountain By Thomas Mann Translated by Helen Lowe-Porter A new immersive edition for Audible Read by Steve Gough Sound design by Stephen Earley Original Music by Laurene Hope and Stephen Williamson Thomas Mann’s vivid, dramatic, and thought-provoking The Magic Mountain is firmly established as one of the...

The complete audibook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/kfkee The Mystery of Cabin Island The Hardy Boys Series By Franklin W. D Dixon Narrated by Gary D. MacFadden Frank and Joe are two teenage brothers who hope to follow in the footsteps of their father, a famous private detective. The Hardy Boys are joined by two friends, Chet and Biff, for a winter campout in a cabin on a...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/pt8lv The Continental Op Casebook, Vol. 1 Book 1 in the Continental Op Stories Series By Dashiell Hammett Narrated by Gary D. MacFadden This collection contains nine early stories featuring the Continental Op, an un-named middle-aged detective working for the San Francisco branch of the fictional Continental Detective A...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/jxdl6 Robbery Under Arms A Story of Life and Adventure in the Bush and in the Goldfields of Australia By Rolf Boldrewood Narrated by Gregory Dwyer Robbery Under Arms, together with Marcus Clarke’s For the Term of His Natural Life, is considered to be one of the seminal Australian novels of the nineteenth century. It is...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/t174z Horses and Riders A Collection By Rolf Boldrewood Narrated by Denis Daly Horses and horse racing have been staple themes in classic Australian fiction, and feature prominently in the works of iconic authors like Henry Lawson and “Banjo” Paterson. In this collection of six stories, Rolf Boldrewood provides vivid pi...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/67wja Edward Leithen 3 Adventures By John Buchan Narrated by Graham Scott In The Power-House, Leithen’s quiet life is disrupted when he is pitted against the murderous forces of an international network of anarchists, and its chilling leader. Then, adopting the nom de guerre of “John Macnab,” Leithen and two friends ris...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/umiag Yoga Philosophy An Outline of the Secret Hindu Teachings By Hereward Carrington Narrated by Lori Nadeau Richardson Carrington presents a fairly deeply detailed look at understanding the 8 limbs of Yoga. Originally published in 1923 as a Westerner’s perspective and understanding of the practice Yoga, Carrington rev...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/6a54k Miss Hurd—An Enigma By Anna Katharine Green Narrated by Roberta Jackson An artist, Mr Ruxton, is seeking an ideal model for a planned sculpture of Antigone. He travels to the Beech Grove estate in search of his model and encounters Miss Hurd, who is employed at the house. He is overwhelmed by her beauty and feels...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/gemm3 Leonardo da Vinci Pathfinder of Science By Henry S. Gillette Narrated by Margaret Wakeley Leonardo da Vinci is best known for his art, including the portrait of Mona Lisa, but there was so much more to this man. His genius extended into his greatest passions: scientific discovery, experimentation, and design. Noth...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/x7se0n Diverging Roads By Rose Wilder Lane Narrated by Martha H. Weller Diverging Roads, set sometime between 1912 and 1919, is one of Lane’s earliest published novels (1919). It is somewhat autobiographical and depicts the life of Helen Davies. We meet Helen when she is about to graduate from high school and is in love...

Epigrams and Epitaphs By Alexander Pope Edited by W. C. Armstrong Read by Denis Daly Pope's mastery of the heroic couplet and his perceptive wit are apparent in the many epigrams and epitaphs that he composed. The subjects of these snippets of verse are widely varied, ranging from encomiums to great celebrities like Sir Isaac Newton to witty soupçons, like that attached to the collar of a dog that...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com https://n9.cl/67o08 Henry IV, Part 1 & Part 2 By William Shakespeare Narrated by Laura E. Richcreek, Blaise Doran, Alan Weyman, Rory Barnett, Tim Dehn, Graham Scott, Geraint Pickard, Noni Lewis, Roberta Jackson, Denis Daly, Christopher Dukes, Sarah Jane Rose, Josh Innerst, Gregory Dwyer and Shane Emmett This full cast presentation inc...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/m2jys Three Lives By Gertrude Stein Narrated by Martha H. Weller Three Lives was written in 1905/06 and published in 1909 at the author’s expense. The work consists of three independent novellas: The Good Anna, Melanctha, and The Gentle Lena. Each of the titular characters lives in Bridgepoint, a fictional town based on...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/q0xhy The Church and the People By Joseph McCabe Narrated by Oberon Michaels As socialism became an increasingly powerful movement in the later nineteenth century, the Catholic Church sought to assure workers that organized Christianity had always been their friend. One of the most notable documentary icons of the perio...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/8wt7i Moral Essays Or Epistles to Several Persons By Alexander Pope Edited by W. C. Armstrong Narrated by Denis Daly These four poems, which deal with ethical issues, were collated and published in 1751 by William Warburton, seven years after Pope's death. The poems were inspired by Pope's admiration for Henry St John,...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/wtk33 The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon Read by Denis Daly Unlike his more famous fellow war poets, Wilfred Owen and Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon survived the First World War. In this collection of 64 poems, first published in 1920, Sassoon portrays the dehumanizing horror of modern warfare with its staggering deat...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/wmx033 Poems by Robert Herrick By Robert Herrick Evan Blackmore - introduction Narrated by Evan Blackmore This collection contains 201 lively little poems by the most playful of English Golden Age writers, Robert Herrick. All his favorite pieces are here: Delight in Disorder, Corinna's Going A-Maying, To the Virgins to...