Voices of Today

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/p8985 The Lifestyle and Adventures of Ace McDice, Stretch Deed and Moonshine Melody By Doug McPhillips Narrated by Denis Daly This is a tale of three devil-may-care wild men of the Australian Bush during the last days of the era of Bushrangers and the Gold rush at the end of the 19th Century. It tells of each character’...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/mvj4a Sonnets from the Portuguese By Elizabeth Barrett Browning Read by Nancy Beard This celebrated collection of 44 love sonnets was composed in 1845-1846, during the period of the poet's courtship with Robert Browning. Despite the title of the collection the poems are not translations but original compositions. The no...

The complete audio book is available for sale at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/fmcj5 The Awakening of Mary Fenwick By Beatrice Whitby Narrated by Martha H. Weller Writing a century later than Jane Austen, Whitby’s work examines many of the same themes: women and marriage, concepts of honor and pride, passion and love, and self-sacrifice. In The Awakening of Mary Fenwick, we find a naïve young woman w...

The complete audio book is available for sale at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/lbvxfa Doctor Izard By Anna Katharine Green Narrated by Lena Fizsman The two major characters in this crime novel are Doctor Izard, a reclusive and unconventional physician, and Polly Earle, a beautiful young woman who has been raised by her adoptive parents. Polly is engaged to be married and appears to be set for a happy...

The complete audio book is available for sale at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/7ksuw The Rape of the Lock A Heroi-comical poem By Alexander Pope Edited and with an introduction by Thomas W. Parrott Read by Denis Daly Alexander Pope was celebrated for his command of classical Greek and produced seminal translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Prior to the preparation of these translations, Pope took...

The complete audio book is available for sale at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/6jgpo Let Us Follow Him By Henryk Sienkiewicz, Jeremiah Curtain translator Narrated by Ron Altman Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846 - 1916) is best known today for his substantial historical novels, the most famous of which is "Quo Vadis," the idea for which came from the writing of "Let Us Follow Him." The period of the novella is...

The complete audio book is available for sale at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/rq02g Later Poems 1876-1889 By Robert Browning Narrated by Evan and Marie Blackmore Here are the best-loved poems from the final phase of Robert Browning's long and ever-productive career—sharp-eyed and quick-witted, brimming with zest and verve and sparkle, yet equally keen to probe the "bad dreams," the dim-seen, siniste...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/3bpji1 Tono-Bungay By H. G. Wells Narrated by Marty Krz “Tono-Bungay. Like Mountain Air in the Veins.” Tono-Bungay is a patented medicine that promises it all: health, beauty, and strength. George Ponderevo, the narrator of this story, is persuaded by the inventor of the medicine—his Uncle Edward—to help develop the Ton...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/mfwd6 Keeper of the Archives By Lynne Stringer Narrated by Aven Shore After their home in Sendirian City burns to cinders, Eden Fittell leaves school and gets a job to try and support her family and keep her alcoholic father away. But the city is being stalked by crime boss Kore Luddan, who is using Izrod, the strongest...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/l133x The Psychology of Jung By James Oppenheim Narrated by Oberon Michaels This pamphlet is an accessible introduction to the basic tenets of the psychological theories of Carl Gustav Jung. Alfred Adler and Carl Jung were the most prominent disciples of the founding father of psycho-analysis, Sigmund Freud. Both studen...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/p5lhm Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot Being the Prologue to the Satires By Alexander Pope Read by Denis Daly John Arbuthnot (1675-1735) was an eminent physician, scholar, satirist, and an intimate friend of Pope, John Gay, and Jonathan Swift. "He has more wit than we all have," said Swift; "and more humanity than wit." This ver...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/c1uto The Rime of the Ancient Mariner By Samuel Taylor Coleridge Narrated by Gregory Dwyer The longest major poem by renowned English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge tells of a wedding guest who is intercepted on his way to the ceremony by an old mariner. The mariner engages the guest with an incredible tale of a fateful s...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/i7ts0 The Last Chronicle of Barset By Anthony Trollope Narrated by Steve Gough In the last of the six novels in the Chronicles of Barsetshire series Trollope relates the story of the impecunious curate Josiah Crawley who is falsely accused of stealing a cheque. The community is divided between the supporters and the acc...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: A Defence of Skeletons By G. K. Chesterton Narrated by Sarah Bacaller Why do humans have a horror of skeletons? Is this aversion justified? What does it signify? Such are the animating questions of this essay by G. K. Chesterton, who acts as a witty defendant for humanity’s hidden form: “Without claiming for the human skeleton a whol...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: A Defence of Baby-Worship By G. K. Chesterton Narrated by Sarah Bacaller A Defence of Baby-Worship “The fascination of children lies in this: that with each of them all things are remade, and the universe is put again upon its trial.” With G. K. C.’s characteristic wit, he explores in this essay the virtues of baby-worship, as adults...

The conplete audiobook is available purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/aor5n Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady By Alexander Pope Edited by W. C. Armstrong Read by Denis Daly This short poem, first published in 1717, has become one of Pope's best-known verse works. The actual history of the lady appears to have been intentionally concealed by the poet under a mysterious veil. Dr Johnso...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/pn44y Windsor Forest By Alexander Pope Read by Denis Daly Although most of Windsor Forest was written as early as 1704, it was not published until 1713. The poem was completed after the promulgation of the first peace treaty of Utrecht, which is alluded to in terms of approbation in the body of the poem: "At length grea...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/zdfaa Lord Peter Views the Body By Dorothy L. Sayers Narrated by Graham Scott Twelve mysteries for Dorothy L. Sayers' aristocratic sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey. Including: a mystery man disturbs the peace of an actor at the home of a famous sculptor; Lord Peter's curiousity is piqued at the Gare St. Lazare; more than one e...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/4a6jk Thorndyke Novels 9-12 By R. Austin Freeman Narrated by Graham Scott A third collection of full-length adventures for R. Austen Freeman's great forensic detective, Dr John Thorndyke. First, in The D'Arblay Mystery, the body of Julius D'Arblay is found beneath the surface of a shallow woodland pond, putting Thorndyk...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/pp0k1 Rags By Ty Drago Narrated by Jennifer Fournier Atlantic City, 1982. One cold December night, sixteen-year-old Abby Lowell and her foster sister are rescued by a mysterious and deadly figure in rags and a large hood. Abby never learns his name and never sees his face, but he’s obviously good with that black-bladed...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/70x0eg Japanese Fairy Tales By Yei Theodora Ozaki Narrated by Linda Barrans Many of the stories in this book seem at the same time both familiar and strange. Their authors valued family, duty, patience and heroism. They longed for children in their old age, and rejoiced when they saw cruelty and envy punished, wrongs ri...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/o2w93z Agatha Webb By Anna Katharine Green Narrated by Lyndal Curran Doolan In a quiet seaside town in New England, the reclusive Agatha Webb and her servant are found dead. Agatha has had a number of children who died in infancy. Local residents are divided in their opinions of Agatha—some believe that she was complici...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/820njn Spirals & Stars By Kate Gordon Narrated by Sarah Bacaller It’s 1993. Beth McMaugh is eleven years old and about to start Year Six. Her best friend, Ashlee, assures Beth that it is going to be the best year ever, but then why is she sitting with the popular girls? When the new strange, nerdy kid, Jools, befriends...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/p6g01 Byron's Narrative of the Loss of the Wager By John Byron Narrated by Graham Scott Embarking from England as part of Commodore Anson’s expedition to the Pacific, HMS Wager was wrecked on a desert island to the southward of Chiloe. Following the wreck, the crew suffered dreadful privations from famine and descended...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/upj9o Life Among Hollywood’s ‘Extra’ Girls By Edgcumb Pinchon Narrated by Lee Ann Howlett The 1920s was a bustling time in Hollywood, as starry-eyed young women sought fame and fortune—only to discover that their dreams did not match the reality of the film industry. Edgcumb Pinchon was there to report on it all. He int...