Green Mansions by William Henry Hudson audiobook. Genre: romance 'Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest' is a narration of his life story by Abel, a Venezuelan, to a comrade. Once a wealthy young man, he meddled in politics to the extent of provoking a revolution... which failed. Escaping into the tropical forests of Guyana Abel takes up gold hunting, then journal-writing, and fails at both. Now with no aim for his life, he drifts until he takes up residence with a remote Indian tribe...
Oct 03, 2022•9 hr 38 min•Ep. 417
The Three Midshipmen by William Henry Giles Kingston audiobook. Genre: adventure In The Three Midshipmen, W.H.G. Kingston drops listeners onto the gun decks and quarterdecks of the Royal Navy, where three teenage midshipmen begin their lives at sea with more courage than experience. Bound together by friendship and rivalry, they must learn the hard rules of discipline, seamanship, and leadership while serving under demanding officers and facing enemies who do not forgive mistakes. From crowded p...
Oct 03, 2022•17 hr 28 min•Ep. 416
The Mutiny of the Bounty and other narratives by William Bligh audiobook. Genre: history Written by Captain William Bligh, The Mutiny of the Bounty and other narratives presents a first-hand, seafaring account of one of the most famous uprisings in naval history and the perilous journeys that followed. Bligh sets the stage aboard His Majesty's Ship Bounty, sent across the Pacific on a high-stakes mission tied to empire, commerce, and the transport of breadfruit. As months at sea strain supplies,...
Oct 03, 2022•3 hr 40 min•Ep. 415
The Two Destinies by Wilkie Collins audiobook. Genre: mystery In The Two Destinies, Wilkie Collins blends domestic drama with eerie mystery to follow a love story tested by distance, illness, and the unsettling sense that unseen forces may be at work. The novel centers on George Germaine, a devoted young man whose life becomes bound to the fate of Mary Dermody, the woman he loves. Their hope of a stable future is complicated by separation and by the fragile health of those around them, and Georg...
Sep 30, 2022•10 hr 21 min•Ep. 414
The Queen of Hearts by Wilkie Collins audiobook. Genre: mystery In a lonely corner of South Wales, three aging brothers have settled into a quiet, rule-bound life at the bleak old Glen Tower - until a visit from their young ward, Jessie Yelverton, turns their household upside down. Spirited, curious, and impossible to ignore, Jessie soon earns (and embraces) her nickname: the Queen of Hearts. But her stay is set to be brief, and the brothers have a private reason to keep her under their roof a l...
Sep 30, 2022•15 hr 58 min•Ep. 413
A Rogue’s Life by Wilkie Collins audiobook. Genre: adventure 'The story offers the faithful reflection of a very happy time in my past life. It was written at Paris, when I had Charles Dickens for a near neighbor and a daily companion, and when my leisure hours were joyously passed with many other friends, all associated with literature and art, of whom the admirable comedian, Regnier, is now the only survivor. The revising of these pages has been to me a melancholy task. I can only hope that th...
Sep 30, 2022•5 hr 19 min•Ep. 412
Society as I Have Found It by Ward McAllister audiobook. Genre: biography Mark Twain illustrator Dan Beard recalled discussing McAllister’s book with Twain. “It was before Webster & Company failed that Ward McAllister’s book (Society as I have Found It) appeared, and when he (Twain) sauntered into my studio one day, I said: ‘Mr. Clemens, have you read Ward McAllister’s book?’ ‘Yes; have you?’ he replied. ‘Indeed, I have. I have read it through several times, and intend to read it again. It i...
Sep 30, 2022•6 hr 28 min•Ep. 411
Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo audiobook. Genre: adventure Set on the rugged Channel Islands in the early 1800s, Victor Hugo's Toilers of the Sea follows Gilliatt, a solitary, fiercely capable fisherman and handyman whose quiet life is marked by rumor, suspicion, and an unspoken longing to belong. When a revolutionary steamship is wrecked on the treacherous reefs off Guernsey, the disaster becomes more than a financial blow to the island community: it turns into a test of will, ingenuity, and...
Sep 30, 2022•17 hr 17 min•Ep. 410
Tom Swift and His War Tank by Victor Appleton audiobook. Genre: scifi Tom Swift, that prolific youthful inventor, is engaged in trying to help the Allies win WWI. After reading newspaper accounts of the British tanks, Tom takes a sheet of paper and sets out to design a better one from scratch. And fortunately, he can throw the whole family business behind his venture. He has two problems: First, his friends and acquaintances are questioning his patriotism because he hasn't enlisted as a rifleman...
Sep 30, 2022•4 hr 47 min•Ep. 409
Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung by Victor Appleton audiobook. Genre: scifi The US Government is very smartly letting Tom Swift Jr. handle the recovery of its probe to Jupiter. But a mystery missile suddenly intercepts the probe and splashes it in the South Atlantic. Faced with a huge search task to find the probe on the ocean bottom, Tom soon realizes that the same shadowy group that attacked the probe is competing to find it, and no holds are barred: kidnap, coercion, and lethal force ar...
Sep 30, 2022•3 hr 55 min•Ep. 408
The Ordeal of Mark Twain by Van Wyck Brooks audiobook. Genre: biography In The Ordeal of Mark Twain, literary critic Van Wyck Brooks reexamines the life and work of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, tracing how a riverboat pilot from the Mississippi became the most recognizable American voice of his age - and how that fame carried a private cost. Brooks follows Twain from the shaping forces of boyhood and the frontier to the whirlwind of lectures, publishing triumphs, and celebrity, reading the books al...
Sep 30, 2022•11 hr 15 min•Ep. 407
The Burial of the Guns by Thomas Nelson Page audiobook. Genre: history Set in the stunned quiet after Appomattox, The Burial of the Guns follows an aging Confederate artillery commander, known simply as the old Colonel, and the remnants of his veteran battery as they hold a Virginia mountain pass they have defended for years. The war has finally turned, but the battery is still in position, hungry, ragged, and fiercely disciplined, bound not only to one another but to the six beloved cannon they...
Sep 28, 2022•6 hr 4 min•Ep. 406
Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock audiobook. Genre: comedy Deep in the fens of the British coast sits the gloomy mansion that goes by the name Nightmare Abbey. It is inhabited by persons of very low opinion of the human race, and in fact they pride themselves in the depths of their detestation. Others of its denizens believe the ultimate exercise and product of the human mind ought to be chaos. Now let the young master of the house get snared by the wiles of a beautiful young lady. And for ...
Sep 28, 2022•3 hr 32 min•Ep. 405
The Strenuous Life by Theodore Roosevelt audiobook. Genre: speeches In The Strenuous Life, Theodore Roosevelt sets out a bracing vision of character, citizenship, and national purpose through a collection of speeches and essays from the late 1890s. Speaking as a public figure on the rise, Roosevelt argues that a healthy republic depends on citizens who embrace effort over ease, responsibility over comfort, and service over self-indulgence. He ranges from the duties of the individual to the oblig...
Sep 28, 2022•7 hr 36 min•Ep. 404
What Katy Did at School by Susan Coolidge audiobook. Genre: family In What Katy Did at School, spirited Katy Carr is back - older, wiser, and still determined to meet life head-on. After the hard lessons that changed her outlook at home, Katy heads away to a girls' boarding school, where new friendships, unfamiliar rules, and the everyday trials of growing up test her patience and her pride. Surrounded by classmates with very different temperaments and backgrounds, Katy tries to balance her earn...
Sep 28, 2022•4 hr 30 min•Ep. 403
What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge audiobook. Genre: family In a quiet New England town, high-spirited Katy Carr is certain she was born for something bigger than everyday life. The eldest of six siblings in a lively household, she throws herself into plans to improve herself and her family, even as her impatience and quick temper get her into trouble. Katy's world changes abruptly after a serious accident leaves her confined and facing a future she never imagined. As the days stretch on, the same ...
Sep 28, 2022•4 hr 45 min•Ep. 402
War Is a Racket by Smedley Butler audiobook. Genre: history War Is a Racket is Smedley D. Butler's blunt, fast-moving indictment of modern warfare as a business enterprise disguised as patriotism. Drawing on his career as a decorated U.S. Marine Corps major general, Butler speaks as an insider who has seen interventions and campaigns up close, and he argues that the true winners of war are rarely the soldiers who fight it. In vivid, plain language, he traces how bankers, arms makers, and major i...
Sep 28, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 401
Through the Magic Door by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: biography In Through the Magic Door, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle invites you to step past an ordinary doorway and into the private kingdom that shaped his mind: his library. Framed as a warm, witty tour of his own bookshelves, this reflective memoir follows Doyle as he traces the reading life that carried him from curious boyhood through medical training and into the demanding work of a writer. Each shelf becomes a portal to the voice...
Sep 28, 2022•4 hr 59 min•Ep. 400
The Poison Belt by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: scifi Three years after the events that took place in The Lost World , Professor Challenger urgently summons his fellow explorers (Professor Summerlee, Lord John Roxton, and reporter E.D. Malone) to a meeting. Oddly, he requires each to bring an oxygen cylinder with him. What he soon informs them is that from astronomical data and just-received telegraphs of strange accidents on the other side of the world, he has deduced that the Earth...
Sep 28, 2022•3 hr 25 min•Ep. 399
The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: adventure In The Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle launches readers into a high-stakes expedition where science, pride, and raw survival collide. When the loud, brilliant, and stubborn Professor George Edward Challenger claims he has discovered a remote South American plateau where prehistoric creatures still live, London laughs him out of respectable circles. Determined to prove his case and silence his critics, Challenger assembles a ...
Sep 28, 2022•8 hr 36 min•Ep. 398
The Royal Book of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson audiobook. Genre: fantasy In The Royal Book of Oz, the Emerald City is bustling with celebrations, but the peace of Oz is shaken by rumors of a mysterious figure who claims a startling right to the throne. Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion, Princess Ozma, and their friends are drawn into a tangle of royal questions, secret histories, and far-flung journeys across the many odd and wonderful countries that surround the Emerald C...
Sep 28, 2022•5 hr 18 min•Ep. 397
The Nature and Authority of Conscience by Rufus Jones audiobook. Genre: religion In this 1920 Swarthmore Lecture, Quaker thinker and philosopher Rufus M. Jones tackles a question at the crossroads of ethics and faith: what is conscience, and why should it command our allegiance when custom, church, and state all claim authority? Beginning with familiar moral tensions, Jones widens the lens to consider the idea of a moral universe and the place of the individual within it. He argues that conscien...
Sep 28, 2022•1 hr 50 min•Ep. 396
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling audiobook. Genre: adventure Real men don't take guff from snotty kids. Neither does Disko Troop, skipper of the 'We're Here', a fishing schooner out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, when his crew fishes Harvey Cheyne out of the Atlantic. There's no place on the Grand Banks for bystanders, so Harvey is press-ganged into service as a replacement for a man lost overboard and drowned. Harvey is heir to a vast fortune, but his rescuers believe none of what he tells...
Sep 28, 2022•6 hr 8 min•Ep. 395
The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson audiobook. Genre: adventure In the unsettled years of England's War of the Roses, where a man stood on the issue of kingship could make his fortune... or end his life. Dick Shelton, a nobly-born lad, is on the cusp of manhood, and he is thrust bodily into this stew where allegiances shift under one's feet. Circumstances cause him to fall in with a gentlemaiden in boy's disguise. Until he learns of the deception, Dick is unaware that the young lady is an ...
Sep 27, 2022•8 hr 31 min•Ep. 394
Amusement Only by Richard Marsh audiobook. Genre: mystery Amusement Only is a spirited Edwardian collection of twelve tales by Richard Marsh, each built to entertain while keeping a faint edge of danger just out of sight. In The Lost Duchess, London society is jolted when the Duke of Datchet learns his wife has seemingly vanished from a sealed carriage, and a brazen ransom demand turns a glittering dinner engagement into a race against time. In The Strange Occurrences in Canterstone Jail, a rout...
Sep 27, 2022•8 hr 35 min•Ep. 393
Vagabond Adventures by Ralph Keeler audiobook. Genre: biography First published in 1870, Vagabond Adventures is Ralph Keeler's fast-moving memoir of how an orphaned, restless American boy turns himself into a wanderer long before he is old enough to understand the price of freedom. At eleven, Keeler flees an unhappy life in Buffalo and plunges into the rough schooling of docks, cabins, and lake steamers, where quick wits matter as much as hard work and luck. Just as he begins to find his footing...
Sep 27, 2022•5 hr 32 min•Ep. 392
Phaedo by Plato audiobook. Genre: philosophy Plato's Phaedo is one of the great dialogues of his middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium. The Phaedo, which depicts the death of Socrates, is also Plato's seventh and last dialogue to detail the philosopher's final days (the first six being Theaetetus, Euthyphro, Sophist, Statesman, Apology, and Crito). In the dialogue, Socrates discusses the nature of the afterlife on his last day before being executed by drinking hemlock. Socrate...
Sep 27, 2022•3 hr 10 min•Ep. 391
Ten From Infinity by Paul W. Fairman audiobook. Genre: scifi It began when a pedestrian got hit by a cab in New York City. No doubt it was the only motor mishap in the history of creation that reached out among the stars—for far out in space a signal was registered: Something has gone wrong.... And something had gone wrong, for the doctors discovered their accident patient had two hearts. It was the beginning of the discovery that the Earth had been invaded by 10 such creatures from Outer Space....
Sep 27, 2022•4 hr 6 min•Ep. 390
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death by Patrick Henry audiobook. Genre: speeches Set on the eve of the American Revolution, Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death captures Patrick Henry's electrifying address to the Second Virginia Convention in March 1775, when the colonies were still divided over whether reconciliation with Britain remained possible. As delegates weigh petitions, boycotts, and patience against the rising pressure of royal power, Henry steps forward with a fierce, urgent argument: the ti...
Sep 27, 2022•11 min•Ep. 389
The First Battle of Bull Run by P. G. T. Beauregard audiobook. Genre: history In this first-person military narrative, Confederate General P. G. T. Beauregard reconstructs the tense weeks that led to the Civil War's first great clash at Manassas, known in the North as the First Battle of Bull Run. Beginning with the aftermath of Fort Sumter and his sudden call to defend the rail junction at Manassas, Beauregard explains why the ground mattered, what his army lacked, and how geography, rail lines...
Sep 26, 2022•1 hr 46 min•Ep. 388
