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Voices of TodayThe Eureka Stockade SampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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The Eureka Stockade
By Raffaello Carboni
Narrated by Gregory Dwyer
A firsthand account of the 1854 Eureka Rebellion in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Carboni, an Italian revolutionary and participant in the uprising, wrote the book to document the miners’ struggle against the colonial authorities. The story captures the miners’ frustrations over oppressive mining licenses, police corruption, and lack of representation. It details the events leading up to the violent clash at the Eureka Stockade, where miners built a makeshift fort and confronted government troops. Although the rebellion was crus...
2025-06-1304 min
Voices of TodayManual of Buddhism_sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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A Manual of Buddhism
By Dudley Wright
Narrated by Oberon Michaels
Buddhism has a vast array of scriptures but a relatively small body of essential doctrines. In this short treatise, the author presents a systematic introduction to Buddhist teaching, commencing with a discussion of the Noble Eightfold Path. Other topics include the Buddhist views of God and enlightenment, and the practice of Buddhism in the world of today.
Dudley Wright (1868-1949) wrote extensively on a wide variety of religious subjects and was also active as an...
2025-06-0503 min
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The Real Jefferson Davis
By Landon Knight
Narrated by Ron Altman
Jefferson Davis (1808 - 1889) was an American politician who became president of the Confederate States during the Civil War. He took his seat in Congress as the representative for Mississippi in 1847. As a Democrat, Davis was an enthusiastic supporter of the expansion of slavery. In 1861 he resigned from the Senate when the state of Mississippi seceded. During the Civil War Davis acted as chief executive and commander in chief for the Confederacy. After the war...
2025-06-0303 min
Voices of TodayThe Complete Love Sonnets of Michael Drayton_sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Kobo.com:
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The Complete Love Sonnets of Michael Drayton
by Michael Drayton
Narrated by Evan Blackmore
As he himself said, Drayton’s sonnets are the most “sportive” of the great Elizabethan love poems, “ever in motion,” by turns “wild, madding, jocund, and irregular,” yet maintaining a universality and sturdy good sense that have spoken to the hearts of hearers and readers for four centuries. This recording includes in full not only his famous final collection, Idea (1619), but also the earlier Idea’s Mirror (1594), as well as the various love son...
2025-05-2201 min
Voices of TodayOn Our Section SampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com.
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On Our Selection
By Steele Rudd
Narrated by Gregory Dwyer
On Our Selection is a collection of humorous short stories by Australian author Steele Rudd. It follows the trials and tribulations of the Rudd family, pioneers carving out a living in the Australian bush. The book humorously depicts the struggles of farming life, the resilience of the settlers, and the quirks of rural Australian society.
2025-05-2104 min
Voices of TodayCynthia Wakeham's Money_sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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Cynthia Wakeham's Money
By Anna Katharine Green
Narrated by Bonnie Trost
This classic crime novel features the detective Ebenezer Grice, one of Anna Katherine Green's recurring characters.A young lawyer is summoned to draw up the will of an elderly and infirm woman. She directs that all her property be bequeathed to her sister. At the end of the consultation, the woman dies. When the heir goes missing, it is suspected that the woman's death was not due to natural causes. Further investigation reveals that the...
2025-05-1704 min
Voices of TodayMemory_sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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Memory:
How to Develop, Train and Use It
By William Walker Atkinson
Narrated by Denis Daly
Although the many works of New Thought author William Walker Atkinson (1862-1932) have generally been classified as self-help texts, their true focus tends to be self-development.
This book on memory is not a catalogue of mnemonic techniques but rather a survey of its whole structure and operation. In the first chapter, Atkinson writes: "We see that the cultivation of memory is far more than the cultivation and development of a...
2025-05-1604 min
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Dr Thorndyke Intervenes
By R. Austin Freeman
Narrated by Graham Scott
The great medical jurist Dr John Thorndyke must unravel three intricate cases, as a wealthy American attempts to prove a preposterous claim to an English earldom, based only upon a startlingly tall old family tale; a hundredweight of platinum, worth a fortune, is stolen; and, most bizarrely of all, a severed human head is discovered in a box in the left luggage office of London's Fenchurch Street Station...
2025-05-0904 min
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Sea Spray and Smoke Drift
By A.L. Gordon
Narrated by Gregory Dwyer
Sea Spray and Smoke Drift is a collection of poetry. The book showcases Gordon’s deep connection to nature, the sea, and the rugged Australian landscape. His verses explore themes of courage, adventure, and personal struggle, often reflecting his own turbulent life. The poems, characterized by their vivid imagery and rhythmic flow, capturing the spirit of colonial Australia. Notable pieces like “A Song of Autumn” and “The Swimmer” highlight his skill of lyrical storytelli...
2025-05-0603 min
Voices of TodayWhile The Billy Boils-sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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While the Billy Boils
By Henry Lawson
Narrated by Gregory Dwyer
While the Billy Boils (1896) is a collection of short stories by Australian writer Henry Lawson, portraying life in the Australian outback during the late 19th century. The stories, written with a real touch of dry humor, focus on the struggles of bush workers, swagmen, shearers, and settlers. Lawson captures the themes of rural life, of isolation, resilience, and mateship. It highlights the everyday hardships and quiet heroism of the ordinary Australians. The collection remains a...
2025-04-2904 min
Voices of TodayThe Girls_sampleThe complete audiobook can be purchased at Audible .com:
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The Girls
By Edna Ferber
Narrated by Martha H. Weller
The Girls is the story of three spinsters living in Chicago—an aunt, her niece, and her niece’s niece. The aunt has memories of the Civil War, and all three women have adjusted to the outbreak of the First World War. Generational changes, particularly in regard to romantic attachments, are a central feature of the book, which is also a fascinating portrait of the Chicago lifestyle of the time. The emerging political and social power of w...
2025-04-2904 min
Voices of TodaySea Garden_sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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Sea Garden
By H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
Read by Nancy Beard
Hilda Doolittle was an American poet and novelist who was one of the founders of the Imagist movement, which includes such poetic luminaries as Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington, with both of whom Doolittle had romantic relationships.
Sea Garden, a collection of 27 short poems, was published in 1916. The verse is characterized by an economy of expression and frequent allusions to Greek myths.
2025-04-2603 min
Voices of TodayThe Escaped Cock_SampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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The Escaped Cock
By D. H. Lawrence
Narrated by Patrick Barker
The Escaped Cock is Lawrence’s take on resurrection, the life-force, and sexuality. The man who has been crucified wakes up in the garden wounded and weakened. Disillusioned with his old companions and inspired by the zest for life of the escaped cock of the title, he decides to live anew. Journeying to the sea, he stumbles on a temple of Isis, where its priestess, who mistakes him for the lost Egyptian god Osiris, introduces hi...
2025-04-2204 min
Voices of TodayThe Land_sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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The Land
By Vita Sackville-West
Narrated by Patrick Barker
Vita Sackville-West’s book length poem celebrates the landscapes and produce of the Weald of Kent. Divided into four parts—Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn—it paints a vivid picture of the Kentish countryside across the year and the farming practices of the Kentish folk eking out a living on its unpredictable clayey soils. Published in 1926, the poem was a great success, winning the Hawthornden Prize for Literature and going through six print runs in three years.
2025-04-2203 min
Voices of TodayThe Jane Austen Omnibus_sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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The Jane Austen Omnibus
Narrated by Catherine Bilson, Terah Tucker, Sarah Jane Rose, Graham Scott, Denis Daly and Linda Barrans.
Jane Austen commenced writing in her adolescence and continued right up to her untimely death in 1817. Her novels are reflections of the socially constricted world in which she lived, and the plots are built around the search of one or more young women for a suitable spouse. Austen’s works are noted for the perceptive elegance of her prose and for vigor and detail of...
2025-04-1604 min
Voices of TodayThe Pageants_sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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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 many elements in common. An underlying theme is the necessity and glory of government by sovereign royalty. Each play is presented by a chorus, who defines the action and intent of the drama. Rather than a continuous narrative th...
2025-04-1604 min
Voices of TodayThe Dunciad_sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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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 satirical saga first published in a three book version in 1728. A variorium edition followed shortly afterwards in 1729. In 1742 Pope added a fourth book and a new complete edition was published in 1743.
The concept of...
2025-04-1604 min
Voices of TodayJonah_SampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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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 as a “streetarab” to rising successfully in the world of business with his own street smarts. The narrative reflects many social views of the time, some of which may be considered unacceptable today, but...
2025-04-0905 min
Voices of TodayMornings in Mexico_SampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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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 Mexico. In the last essay, Lawrence remembers Saint Catherine’s Day at the ranch in Taos from the vantage point of his new residence in Italy. All are written in an...
2025-04-0304 min
Voices of TodayPoems of Emily Dickinson - Series 2_sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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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 of Emily Dickinson’s poems has been read shows very clearly that all our alleged modern artificiality does not prevent a prompt appreciation of the qualities of directness and simplicity in approaching the greate...
2025-04-0201 min
Voices of TodayFor The Term Of His Natural life_SampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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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 not commit. The story also explores the harsh environment and the often inhumane treatment meted out to the convicts in the early penal settlements, some of whom were transported for mino...
2025-03-1904 min
Voices of TodayThe Velveteen Rabbit_sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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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. In this case, it is a toy rabbit that is brought to life by a fairy after supplying loving support to a sick child.
2025-03-1502 min
Voices of TodayThe Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth_sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com
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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 future in a book of speculations called Anticipations (1901).”
This novel is about a group of scientists that invent food that accelerates the growth...
2025-03-1204 min
Voices of TodayThe Magic Mountain sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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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 classic epic novels of the twentieth century.
Part surreal comedy, part grim tragedy, Mann’s story depicts a decaying European society on the eve of the First World War. Set in an isolated sanatorium high up i...
2025-03-0804 min
Voices of TodayThe Mystery of Cabin Island_sampleThe complete audibook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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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 remote island in Barmet Bay. But there seem to be others interested in the cabin, and a secret that it might hold. A sinister stranger orders...
2025-02-2604 min
Voices of TodayThe Continental Op Casebook Volume 1_sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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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 Agency. The stories are narrated in the first person. The “hardboiled detective” voice was later used by author Dashiell Hammett in The Maltese Falcon (Sam Spade) and the Thin Man series of stories.
2025-02-2504 min
Voices of TodayRobbery Under Arms sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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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 a barnstorming yarn, delivered in the first person by one Dick Marston, a vigorous and basically honourable young man, who is lured into crime due to unfavourable circumstances. One of th...
2025-02-2505 min
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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 risk their reputations when they take to poaching in the Highlands of Scotland in an effort to recover their zest for life. Finally, in The Dancing Floor, Sir Edward befriends a young man haunted by an annual...
2025-02-2004 min
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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 pictures of the days when horses and horse-drawn transport were intimately involved in daily life in both city and country.
1) “An Australian Roughriding Contest”
2) “Five Men’s Lives for One Horse”
3) “The Horse You Don’t See Now”
4) “Old T...
2025-02-2004 min
Voices of TodayYoga Philosophy sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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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 reveals a surprising depth of understanding as that of an adept, and manages to impart a lot of information, similar in that way that several more recent and more famous Yogis have shared their versions of shedding light on Yoga.
Depending on...
2025-02-1504 min
Voices of TodayEpigrams and Epitaphs_sampleEpigrams 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 poet gave to Prince George (later King George II).
This recording also includes an extensive commentary on Pope's Epitaphs by Samuel Johnson.
2025-02-1402 min
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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 with a fellow student, Paul.
Both of their families are struggling financially. Paul must support his widowed mother; he begins work immediately—and over the course of the novel proves to be a go...
2025-02-1404 min
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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. Nothing in (or out of) this world was unworthy of his curiosity; he pursued the study of botany, anatomy, engineering, military defense, flight, the behavior of water and light, astronomy … and more.
This book is an ex...
2025-02-1404 min
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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 compelled to pursue her. However, he quickly finds that he has a rival for the lady's affections, a man of great wealth and power. Miss Hurd takes flight, bu...
2025-02-1403 min
Voices of TodayHenry IV_sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com
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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 includes Part 1 and Part 2 of Shakespeare’s Henry IV.In 1598 appeared a Quarto with the following title:The History of Henrie the Fourth; With the Battell at Shrewsburie, betweene the King and Lord Henry Percy, surnamed Henrie Hotspur of the No...
2025-01-2104 min
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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, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, a philosopher and Tory politician.
Also included in this recording is Pope's Epistle to Mr (Joseph) Addison.
Contents
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Epistle 1 - to Sir Richard Temple, Lord Cobham (1734)
Epistle 2 - to a...
2025-01-1504 min
Voices of TodayThe Church and the People_sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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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 period was the papal encyclical Rerum Novarum, in which Leo XIII attempted to articulate a set of industrial principles that would counter the claims of socialism. Furthermore, the Catholic Church has consistently claimed to be a major...
2025-01-1504 min
Voices of TodayThree Lives_sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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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 Baltimore.
The Good Anna explores the life of strong-willed Anna Federner, a woman of “solid lower middle-class south German stock.” The story follows the relationships Anna develops with the women in the households in which...
2025-01-1504 min
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Echoes of the Divine
And Other Steampunk Stories
By Danielle Ackley-McPhail
Narrated by Jennifer Fournier
Welcome to a World of Invention.
To a mermaid watching airships as she dreams of the sky… to an orphan girl caught between innovation and tradition… From a desperate Lady turning to science to search for the rightful heir… The Age of Steam is full of potential—and peril—for those with the vision to wonder what if?
Includes the stories:
“Looking Back”
“To Reach for Distant Shores”
“Windows to the Soul”
“On the Wi...
2025-01-1003 min
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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 death toll, while also satirizing the jingoistic fervour of politicians and armchair strategists.
Sassoon's own war service fell into two distinct periods. The first was marked by a number of heroic actions on the battlefield which earned him...
2025-01-1001 min
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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 Make Much of Time, To Anthea Who May Command him Anything, To Daffodils, The Night-Piece to Julia, and many others.
2025-01-1001 min
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The Lyrical Poems of Alexander Pope
Narrated by Evan and Marie Blackmore
Alexander Pope was the most influential and most admired writer of his time, famous for satirical and reflective poems such as The Rape of the Lock and the Essay on Man.
His lyrical poems are tantalizingly few in number but predictably high in quality, with all the beauty of sound and incisiveness of sense familiar from his other works.
Contents:
01-02: Ode on Solitude
03-04: Ode on St. Cecilia's Day
05-08: Two...
2025-01-1002 min
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Marked Personal
By Anna Katharine Green
Narrated by Rebecca Stern
On the evening of July 13, 1863, two men, Samuel White from Washington and Lemuel Phillips from Buffalo, each received a mysterious letter marked 'personal', which he destroyed after reading. The letters are a summons to visit New York to attend to some unknown business. The two men, now living lives of privilege and respectability, are linked by a nefarious deed committed twelve years earlier when they were prospectors struggling to survive. Has the moment arrived when...
2025-01-1004 min
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Collected Verse of Louis Esson
Narrated by Denis Daly
Esson’s first collection of poems, Bells and Bees, was published in 1910; a second collection, Red Gums and Other Verses, in 1912. Although Esson published no further poetry collections, his verse continued to appear in magazines such as The Bulletin until the late 1920s.
Included in his verse are not only bush ballads such as Whaling up the Lachlan, but also sombre meditations such as The Travail of Nature, monologues like Silenus to a Young Satyr, and thundering pa...
2024-12-1903 min
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In the Days of the Comet
By H. G. Wells
Narrated by Gregory Dwyer
At the time of a passing comet in the sky, while the world is at a turning point and the industrialization of Victorian England is affecting lives. Willie Leadford is a young man facing personal crises of life. A breakdown in his employment, social beliefs, and relationship initially turns him towards a trail of vengeance against those he holds responsible. And then “The Change” occurs.
2024-12-1904 min
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Chips and Splinters
A Collection of Poems and Essays
By E. S. Sorenson
Narrated by Gregory Dwyer
A delightful selection of entertaining poems, short essays, and written conversations involving the people of 20th century rural Australia and some of their working animals.This collection includes “When Dad Drives Home From Town,” “When the Sailor Rode the Brumby,” “The Old Barn School,” and many more.
2024-12-1902 min
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Benjamin Franklin
By E. M. Tomkinson
Narrated by Ron Altman
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790) is today best known as one of the founding fathers of the United States. However, he was a true polymath, active as an author, philosopher, social reformer, scientist, inventor, diplomat and businessman. Franklin was also a man of principle, who, as the author of this engaging biography states: “He was one of the few people who can make plenty of good maxims and follow them.”
2024-12-1904 min
Voices of TodayThe Secret of the Caves_sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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The Secret of the Caves
By Franklin W. Dixon
Narrated by Gary D. MacFadden
The Secret of the Caves is the seventh novel in The Hardy Boys mystery stories series.
At their home in Bayport Frank and Joe and Fenton, receive a visitor who informs them that Professor Morgan Todd from Kenworthy College has disapperared. At the time Fenton is working on security for a coastal radar station, which is under construction. The boys visit the college and are informed that the professor is away...
2024-12-1904 min
Voices of TodaySam the Sudden_sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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Sam the Sudden
By P. G. Wodehouse
Narrated by Graham Scott
Exiled by his uncle to England, and a job with Lord Tilbury's Mammoth Publishing Company, spirited young American Sam Shotter resolves to pursue the girl of his dreams - who, unfortunately, he knows only from a single photograph, torn from a magazine and pinned by some unknown hand to the wall of a remote Canadian fishing cabin. A night of misadventures in London brings Sam to the very house - in the quiet suburb of...
2024-12-1904 min
Voices of TodayThe World Set Free _sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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The World Set Free
By H. G. Wells
Narrated by Roberta Jackson
Of this book, H. G. Wells wrote:“The World Set Free was written in 1913 and published early in 1914. It is the latest of a series of three fantasias of possibility, stories which all turn on the possible developments in the future of some contemporary force or group of forces. The World Set Free was written under the immediate shadow of the Great War. Every intelligent person in the world felt that disaster was impending an...
2024-12-1204 min
Voices of TodaySanditon_sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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Sanditon
Fragment of a Novel
By Jane Austen
Narrated by Catherine Bilson, Sarah Jane Rose, Graham Scott, Linda Barrans and Denis Daly
n January 1817 Jane Austen commenced work on a new novel, to which she never assigned a name. By mid-March, she had completed twelve chapters, at which time she ceased working due to illness. The unfinished work was eventually published in 1925 under its working title: Fragment of a Novel Written by Jane Austen, January–March 1817. It has since become known si...
2024-12-1004 min
Voices of TodayFrankie Dupont and the Lemon Festive Fiasco_sampleThe complete audio book is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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Frankie Dupont and the Lemon Festival Fiasco
A mystery for ages 8-12.
Written and read by Julie Anne Grasso
Hot off cracking his first official case, Frankie Dupont is on the scene when his new teacher takes ill. The pint-sized detective suspects a classic case of sour grapes, but the evidence leads him to the one place he wouldn’t mind avoiding for the rest of his natural life. Enderby Manor has a few more secrets up her sleeve, and as...
2024-12-1004 min
Voices of TodayArk in the Park_sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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Ark in the Park
Writtten and read by Wendy Orr
It was the biggest, the strangest, the most wonderful pet shop in the whole world. It was called The Noahs’ Ark, and it was built like a ship.
After all,” said Mrs Noah, “with a name like ours, what other kind of shop could we have?”
But instead of rocking on the deep blue sea, the ship sat in the middle of a wide green park.
On the other side of the park...
2024-12-1001 min
Voices of TodayBelle Starr - The Bandit Queen_sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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Belle Starr – The Bandit Queen
By William Yancey Shackelford
Narrated by Lee Ann Howlett
Legendary outlaw Belle Starr has been written about and portrayed in various media for well over one hundred years. Born Myra Maybelle Shirley in Missouri in 1848, Belle lived most of her life in Texas. She became notorious after living with and hanging out with members of the James and Younger gangs. Belle was a crack shot who rode side saddle while engaging in horse thievery, castle rustling, an...
2024-12-1004 min
Voices of TodayLavender and Old Lace_SampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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Lavender and Old Lace
By Myrtle Reed
Narrated by Martha H. Weller
In Lavender and Old Lace, we are presented with a poignant and humorous tale of four romances along with dashes of mystery and even a touch of the supernatural.
Ruth Thorne, a newspaper reporter in the city, comes to stay in the home of Jane Hathaway, an aunt whom she has never met. Aunt Jane is on a trip abroad but instructs Ruth via a letter to place...
2024-12-1004 min
Voices of TodayEight Shakespeare Comedies _sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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Eight Shakespeare Comedies
Presented by Voices of Today
The collection contains eight of Shakespeare's best loved comedies. They all exhibit the vigour, humour and brightness of the young master before he turned to the gloom and bitterness of the great tragedies.
Contents
A Midsummer Night's Dream
All's well That Ends Well
Twelfth Night
Much Ado About Nothing
The Comedy of Errors
As You Like It
Measure for Measure
The Merchant of Venice
Featuring the voices of Aisling Gray, Alan Weyman, Alexandra...
2024-12-1004 min
Voices of TodayThe Complete PC Lee_sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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The Complete P. C. Lee
By Edgar Wallace
Narrated by Graham Scott
A collection of 24 short stories from the prolific British writer Edgar Wallace, exploring the adventures of the astute and phlegmatic Police Constable Lee of the Metropolitan Police, as he performs his duties among the varied and colourful criminal characters inhabiting the Notting Dale Division.
2024-12-0803 min
Voices of TodayPeele Castle_sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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Peele Castle and Other Poems
By William Wordsworth
Introduction by Evan Blackmore
Narrated by Evan Blackmore
This project is a recording of 43 poems on themes of hardship and bereavement, which are commonly included in Wordsworth anthologies (Matthew Arnold, Palgrave, etc.)
The breadth and depth of Wordsworth's feelings went far beyond his own personal experience. When he looked back at other times—at the troubles of the Reformation or the religious persecutions under Charles II—he thought of the many different people who were affected and felt for...
2024-12-0803 min
Voices of TodayDark of the Moon_sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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Dark of the Moon
By Sara Teasdale
Read by Martha H. Weller
Dark of the Moon was first published in 1926. Its 92 poems are divided into 9 sections: There Will be Stars; Pictures of Autumn; Sand Drift; Portraits; Midsummer Nights; The Crystal Gazer; Berkshire Notes; Arcturus in Autumn; and The Flight.
Teasdale repeatedly expresses the joy, wonder and freedom she feels when she is immersed in nature. Yet nature is not sufficient. She yearns for love and the rapture of “Two Minds” who have “freed themselves from cautio...
2024-12-0403 min
Voices of TodaySuch is Life_sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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Such Is Life
Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins
By Tom Collins (Joseph Furphy)
Narrated by Gregory Dwyer
This work is a collection of fictional observations by the narrator as he travels around the countryside of southern New South Wales and Victoria in the 1880s. He presents the life of the various rural dwellers, including bullock drivers, squatters and itinerant travelers, and also attempts to convey the accents of Irish, Scottish and Chinese personalities he encounters.
This tale provides insight into the stories...
2024-12-0305 min
Voices of TodayA Child's Garden of Verses_SampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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A Child's Garden of Verses
By Robert Louis Stevenson
Read by Terah Tucker
This collection of 64 short poems has become a classic work of children’s literature. The poems are written from the point of view of a child. The author brilliantly recaptures the magical world of childhood innocence, in which the most mundane of experiences can become a source of wonder.
2024-12-0303 min
Voices of TodayTales of Space and Time_sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
Tales of Space and Time
By H. G. Wells
Narrated by Susan Iannucci
ales of Space and Time was published in 1899 as a collection of 5 short stories.
H. G. Wells (1866-1946) was fascinated with imagined realities, alien worlds that intersect with human life, and the human condition developing throughout generations. With his keen observation of human behavior, Wells imagines worlds vastly different than the one in which he was writing.
Stories include:
“The Crystal Egg”
“The Star”
“A Story of the Stone Age”
“A Story of the Days to Come”
“The Man Who Could
2024-11-2704 min
Voices of TodayA Defence of Detective Stories_sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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A Defence of Detective Stories
By G. K. Chesterton
Narrated by Sarah Bacaller
While some may argue that the detective story is an example of cheap, dispensable popular fiction, G. K. Chesterton begs to differ. He is, after all, the author of the Father Brown mysteries! Where else but in detective novels do we appreciate the romance of the city?
2024-11-2701 min
Voices of TodayA Defence of Humility_sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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A Defence of Humility
By G. K. Chesterton
Narrated by Sarah Bacaller
Humility gets a bad rap these days, especially when contrasted with philosophies of egoism and self-assertion. But can we see the world as it really is without losing ourselves for a moment to take up the perspective of another?
2024-11-2701 min
Voices of TodayA Defence of Nonsense_sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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A Defence of Nonsense
By G. K. Chesterton
Narrated by Sarah Bacaller
Nonsense, argues G. K. Chesterton, deserves more serious attention than we may initially assume. It is in nonsense that we regain a sense of wonder at the world–by appreciating the pure serendipitousness of the beauty that fills our lives.
2024-11-2701 min
Voices of TodayThe Lifestyle and Adventures of Ace McDice, Stretch Deed and Moonshine Melodies sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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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’s lifestyle and united bent as wild men of Australia’s west who set upon a plan to rob the Sugar and Tea Express. How the plan manifested and what...
2024-11-2404 min
Voices of TodaySonnets From the Portuguese_sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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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 notation "Portuguese" may refer to the poet's admiration for the work of the Portuguese poet, Luís Vaz de Camões.
2024-11-2201 min
Voices of TodayDoctor Izard_sampleThe complete audio book is available for sale at Audible.com:
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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 and secure future. However, the unexplained death of her birth mother and the subsequent disappearance of her father, continue to cast a shadow over Polly's life. When a murder occurs...
2024-11-2104 min
Voices of TodayThe Awakening of Mary Fenwick_sampleThe complete audio book is available for sale at Audible.com:
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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 who has been raised in a sheltered and isolated home by a grieving father. Mary, calm and responsible, is contrasted with her younger sister Cicely, whose birth resulted in the dea...
2024-11-2104 min
Voices of TodayLater Poems 1876-1889_sampleThe complete audio book is available for sale at Audible.com:
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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, sinister crannies within the human soul.
2024-11-1904 min
Voices of TodayLet Us Follow Him_sampleThe complete audio book is available for sale at Audible.com:
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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 that of the death of Christ. Antea, the wife of a Roman patrician, ill with terrible visions, is advised by a physician to seek the air of Jerusalem. There she and her...
2024-11-1901 min
Voices of TodayThe Rape of the Lock_sampleThe complete audio book is available for sale at Audible.com:
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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 advantage of his mastery of the classical style and also his waspish wit to compose a burlesque epic about the theft of a lock of hair. The incident that inspired Pope was...
2024-11-1904 min
Voices of TodayKeeper of the Archives_sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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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 in his crew of freaks, to kidnap people off the street. Most of them are never seen again, killed or driven mad by Kore’s experiments.
Eden manages to ge...
2024-11-1303 min
Voices of TodayTono-Bungay_sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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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 Tono-Bungay business. George devotes seven years of his life to doing so, despite believing that the whole operation is “a damned swindle”.
After breaking free in a new direction, however, George’s ties with his uncle continue...
2024-11-1304 min
Voices of TodayThe Psychology Of Jung SampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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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 students eventually broke with Freud to follow their own paths. Adler’s primary focus was on the theory of the will to power, a concept developed from Nietsche. In contrast, Jung’s focused on the classification of psyc...
2024-11-1204 min
Voices of TodayEpistle to Dr Arbuthnot_sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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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 very clever and highly-polished epistle to Dr Arbuthnot (also entitled the "Prologue to the Satires"), who was suffering from terminal illness, dates from 1734. Arbuthnot, from his deathbed, solemnly advised Pope to moderate...
2024-11-1203 min
Voices of TodayThe Rime Of The Ancient Mariner SampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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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 sea journey, the story of which he is compelled to relate.
2024-10-2904 min
Voices of TodayThe Last Chronicle of Barset sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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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 accusors of the curate, the latter group including one of Trollope's most memorable characters, the formidable Mrs Proudie. Despite being almost broken by the ordeal, Crawley eventually manages to prove his innocence. The...
2024-10-2304 min
Voices of TodayA Defence Of Skeletons SampleThe 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 wholly conventional beauty,” he writes, “we may assert that he is certainly not uglier than a bull-dog, whose popularity never wanes, and that he has a vastly more cheerful and ingratiating expression.”
This essay...
2024-10-1801 min
Voices of TodayA Defence Of Baby - Worship SampleThe 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 are invited to see the world anew through the eyes of children. Furthermore, argues G. K. C., an appreciation of our youngest humans “forces us actually to remodel our conduct in accordan...
2024-10-1800 min
Voices of TodayElegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady sampleThe conplete audiobook is available purchase at Audible.com:
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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 Johnson offers the following details, based on the content of the poem:
that the lady was distinguished by her rank, fortune, and beauty; that she was committed to the care of an...
2024-10-1701 min
Voices of TodayWindsor Forest sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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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 great Anna said,'Let discord cease!'
She said: the world obey'd; and all was peace."
The poem is a flattering tribute to the wise rule of Queen Anne, and contains...
2024-10-1602 min
Voices of TodayLord Peter Views The Body SampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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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 eccentric will causes family strife; two motorcyclists eagerly disclaim ownership of an item of luggage; a young wife is tragically murdered; Lord Peter's famous palate for wine is put to the test...
2024-10-1404 min
Voices of TodayThorndyke Novels 9 - 12 SampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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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 Thorndyke on the trail of a very calculated murder.
Then, in A Certain Dr Thorndyke, the detective investigates a theft that provoked a resolute young Englishman to flee the country, and soon discovers unexpected mysteries; while As...
2024-10-1104 min
Voices of TodayRags SampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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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 knife of his … very good.
Abby dubs him “Rags.”
But Rags isn’t done, not by a long shot. With her foster family under threat from the ruthless Bernards, who are determined to tear do...
2024-10-0903 min
Voices of TodayJapanese Fairy Tales SampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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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 righted, and kindness and bravery rewarded.
These ideas are recognized the world over.
What makes the stories different is partly the characters: the brave samurai, the evil wizards; the fantastical creatures–goblins, dr...
2024-10-0904 min
Voices of TodayAgatha Webb sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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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 complicit in the death, while others feel sympathy for her due to these tragic losses. Furthermore, a local man is being blackmailed by someone who believes that he is guilty of...
2024-10-0804 min
Voices of TodaySpirals And Stars SampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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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 Beth, she is swept up instead into the School Nerd Club.
Behind everything is a secret from Beth’s past, a secret so terrible it stays with her, every day...
2024-10-0204 min
Voices of TodayThe Loss Of The Wager SampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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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 into mutinous factionalism, theft, and murder. This account by young midshipman John Byron describes the events of the wreck and mutiny. It also narrates his journey home in company with Captain Cheap an...
2024-10-0204 min
Voices of TodayLife Among Hollywoods Extra Girls SampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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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 interviewed women who worked as “extras” in Hollywood, and was himself involved in the film business as a screenwriter and author. He describes here the hierarchy of those on set (in front of...
2024-10-0204 min
Voices of TodayEloisa to Abelard sampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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Eloisa to Abelard
By Alexander Pope
Read by Denis Daly
The romantic epistle was published in 1717 and aroused considerable interest because of its mildly suggestive content.
It portrays an incident in which Héloïse d'Argenteuil, now immured in a convent chances on a letter from her former lover and later, husband, the brilliant philosopher Peter Abelard. The two met when Abelard was engaged as tutor to the precious Héloïse. A passionate love affair ensured, as a result of which Héloïse gave b...
2024-09-2702 min
Voices of TodayCarmilla SampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audiible.com:
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Carmilla
By Sheridan Le Fanu
Narrated by Linda Barrans
When the tale begins, a strange and sudden malady is claiming the lives of the local peasants in Styria. Laura, an innocent girl of eighteen, lives a lonely life there with her loving father and two governesses.
Then a dramatic coach crash on Laura’s doorstep brings a mysterious, beautiful, but languorous young woman to stay with them. This is Carmilla.
Carmilla becomes deeply attached to Laura, and embarrasses her with her wild outbursts of affection. Laura is...
2024-09-1603 min
Voices of TodayThe Hardy Boys Mysteries SampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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The Hardy Boys Mysteries - Volume 1
By Franklin W. Dixon
Narrated by Gary D. MacFadden
Franklin W. Dixon was a pseudonym used by several authors writing series books for the Stratemeyer Syndicate, including The Hardy Boys and the Nancy Drew series.
This collection introduces The Hardy Boys, two teenage brothers who hope to follow in the footsteps of their father, a famous private detective. Frank and Joe live with their parents in Bayport, a small village on the east coast.
In The Tower Treasure, the boys...
2024-09-1204 min
Voices of TodayFairies And Fusiliers SampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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Fairies and Fusiliers
By Robert Graves
Narrated by Denis Daly
Poet, soldier, novelist, translator and critic Robert Graves (1895 - 1985) was deeply familiar with both war and death. Three times during his life Graves was considered to be on the point of death due to serious illness. One of these was after his participation in the Battle of the Somme, after which he had been actually pronounced dead due to severe wounding.
Graves enlisted as soon as the First World War was declared, and was rapidly...
2024-09-1102 min
Voices of TodayGrace The Amazing SampleThe complete audiobook is availble for purchase at Audible.com:
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Grace the Amazing
By Aleesah Darlison
Narrated by Sarah Bacaller and Rachel Mason
What would you do if you were about to lose your best friend … forever?
Grace Marshall is eleven years old. She’s curious and creative and dreams of becoming a magician called Grace the Amazing!
Grace’s only friend is her art teacher, Pamela. When she discovers that Pamela is ill, the fragile certainties Grace relies on threaten to slip away. On her mission to find a cure for Pamela using miraculous magic, Grace...
2024-09-0304 min
Voices of TodayKeith Murdhoch's Gallipoli Letter SampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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Keith Murdoch’s Gallipoli Letter
By Sir Keith Murdoch
Narrated by Sarah Bacaller
The National Library of Australia describe Keith Murdoch’s Gallipoli Letter in the following way:
“The Gallipoli letter is an 8000-word private report written by journalist Keith Arthur Murdoch, with the help of British war correspondent Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, after visiting the Gallipoli peninsula in September 1915. It describes the organisation and conditions of the Gallipoli campaign. It was sent to Andrew Fisher (then-Prime Minister of Australia) and Henry Herbert Asquith (then-Prime Minister of the UK...
2024-09-0302 min
Voices of TodayThe War In The Air SampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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The War in the Air
By H. G. Wells
Narrated by Gregory Dwyer
Bert Smallways, a “kind of bicycle engineer,” is creatively trying to avoid bankruptcy when he meets by chance a certain Mr. Butteridge—the inventor of a new form of aircraft. Butteridge, Bert discovers, has plans to sell his invention either to British Government—or to the Germans, if the British won’t have it.
When one of Butteridge’s aircrafts is shot down while Bert is aboard, Bert stumbles across a secret German plot to dest...
2024-09-0304 min
Voices of TodayPoems Of Emily Dickinson - Series 1 SampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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Poems of Emily Dickinson: Series 1
Edited by Thomas W. Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd.
Emily Dickinson was one of the most reclusive of all poets. She spent much of her life in seclusion in her father’s house in Amherst, and only a handful of her 1800 poems were published in her lifetime. Credit for the posthumous publication of her work must be given to her editor and friend Thomas W. Higginson, who reported that, in spite of the voluminous correspondence which passed between himself and Dickinson, he...
2024-09-0302 min
Voices of TodayThe House Of The Whispering Pines SampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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The House of the Whispering Pines
By Anna Katharine Green
Narrated by Martha H. Weller
This classic murder mystery uses elements that have since become very common in crime literature - an abandoned house, a fugitive figure fleeing from the scene and a dead body. In the house at Whispering Pines, which is supposed to be closed, the narrator discovers a dead body. On closer inspection, and much to his horror, he discovers that the corpse is that of his fiance. The...
2024-08-3004 min
Voices of TodayLady Susan SampleThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:
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Lady Susan
By Jane Austen
Narrated by Linda Barrans, Denis Daly, Catherine Bilson
This epistolary novel was probably written in 1794, but was not published until 1871.
Lady Susan Vernon, middle-aged and recently widowed, has retained her looks and appealing vivacity. She makes use of her bereavement and her loss of wealth by imposing herself on the hospitality of relatives, and by amusing herself in flirtation with the various men who fall under her spell.
Lady Susan has a daughter, Frederica, who is bashful...
2024-08-2804 min