The Greater Inclination by Edith Wharton audiobook. Genre: drama First published in 1899, The Greater Inclination introduces Edith Wharton at the start of her career with a collection of short stories that cut through the polite surface of late-19th-century society. Across drawing rooms, country estates, and chance encounters abroad, Wharton follows men and women who discover that a single choice can tilt an entire life: a young person torn between comfort and integrity, an artist or dreamer for...
Dec 21, 2022•5 hr 17 min•Ep. 597
The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton audiobook. Genre: drama Edith Wharton's The Glimpses of the Moon follows Susy Branch and Nick Lansing, two charming, cash-strapped members of New York's glittering social orbit who decide to marry for love while trying to outmaneuver the realities of money. Their plan is to live lightly, borrowing the luxuries of their wealthy friends and drifting from one borrowed house party, yacht trip, and country weekend to the next. But the thin line between freedo...
Dec 21, 2022•8 hr 2 min•Ep. 596
The Fruit of the Tree by Edith Wharton audiobook. Genre: drama In early 20th-century New England, young social worker Justine Brent arrives in the hill town of Hanaford determined to make herself useful, only to find that good intentions can collide with privilege, tradition, and the messy realities of care. Drawn into the orbit of the wealthy Amherst family, Justine becomes companion and confidante to the restless, idealistic John Amherst and his ailing wife, Bessy, whose chronic pain and fragi...
Dec 19, 2022•15 hr 50 min•Ep. 595
Tales of Men and Ghosts by Edith Wharton audiobook. Genre: horror Tales of Men and Ghosts was published as a collection in 1910, though the first eight of the stories had earlier appeared in Scribner's and the last two in the Century Magazine. Despite the title, the men outnumber the ghosts, since only 'The Eyes' and 'Afterward' actually call on the supernatural. In only two of the stories are women the central characters, though elsewhere they play important roles. Wharton enjoys subjecting her...
Dec 19, 2022•9 hr 48 min•Ep. 594
Summer by Edith Wharton audiobook. Genre: drama In a secluded New England village called North Dormer, Charity Royall has grown up feeling both restless and trapped, raised by the stern, older lawyer who rescued her from the impoverished Mountain community nearby. When Lucius Harney, a young architect from the city, arrives to study local houses, his curiosity about the town and his easy confidence awaken Charity's longing for a larger life and a different future. Drawn into a summer of walks, t...
Dec 19, 2022•5 hr 54 min•Ep. 593
Sanctuary by Edith Wharton audiobook. Genre: drama In Edith Wharton's psychological novel Sanctuary, young Kate Orme believes she has found perfect happiness in her engagement to Denis Peyton, a charming man of wealth and position. But just as wedding plans settle into place, Kate discovers that Denis has been hiding a devastating truth about his past, and the revelation forces her to weigh love against conscience in a world where reputation and family honor carry enormous weight. After marriage...
Dec 16, 2022•3 hr 14 min•Ep. 592
Old New York by Edith Wharton audiobook. Genre: drama In Old New York, Edith Wharton turns her sharp, compassionate eye on the drawing rooms, parlor staircases, and carefully guarded reputations of nineteenth-century Manhattan. This quartet of novellas follows four separate circles of family and friends as they navigate the rigid codes of 'Old New York' society, where taste is policed, marriages are negotiated like treaties, and a single indiscretion can echo for decades. In one story, a well-me...
Dec 16, 2022•9 hr 17 min•Ep. 591
Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton audiobook. Genre: drama In a quiet, down-at-the-heels corner of turn-of-the-century New York, sisters Ann Eliza and Evelina Bunner scrape together a living by running a tiny notions shop. Their days are measured in pennies, thread spools, and careful routines, and their world feels small but safe - until a seemingly simple decision pulls them into the broader city and the risky hopes it offers. When they befriend the gentle, struggling clock repairman Herman Ramy,...
Dec 16, 2022•3 hr 32 min•Ep. 590
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster audiobook. Genre: drama In this sharply observed early novel by E. M. Forster, a well-meaning English family tries to manage a scandal that has carried one of their own far beyond the safe boundaries of Edwardian respectability. After the spirited young widow Lilia Herriton marries an Italian much younger than herself, the Herritons are determined to contain the embarrassment and restore control, sending emissaries abroad to retrieve her and repair the...
Dec 16, 2022•4 hr 53 min•Ep. 589
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster audiobook. Genre: drama E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India (1924) is widely acclaimed as one of the hundred best literary works of 20th century. Time magazine rates it among the top 100 English-language novels of all time. A Passage to India is set at the moment when the lasting supremacy of the British Raj could no longer be taken for granted. Imperial power had been effectively supported by old and deep-seated religious and cultural conflicts between India’s...
Dec 16, 2022•13 hr 57 min•Ep. 588
Villette by Charlotte Bronte audiobook. Genre: drama In Villette, Charlotte Bronte follows Lucy Snowe, a quiet, keenly observant young Englishwoman who, after personal loss and dwindling prospects, leaves home to build a life on her own in the foreign city of Villette. She finds work at a girls' school run by the formidable Madame Beck, where every corridor seems to conceal a secret and every kindness carries a calculation. Far from the comforts of familiarity, Lucy must navigate a new language,...
Dec 16, 2022•24 hr 24 min•Ep. 587
Tarzan and the Ant Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure In Tarzan and the Ant Men, Edgar Rice Burroughs hurls Tarzan into one of the strangest corners of his African world, where rival hidden civilizations wage war with weapons and sciences unknown to the outside. When an expedition goes awry, Tarzan is drawn into a clash between the Minuni and the Minutoli - peoples separated not only by politics and cruelty, but by a startling difference in scale. Caught between ambitious ru...
Dec 14, 2022•7 hr 58 min•Ep. 586
Tarzan and the Golden Lion by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure Tarzan book 9. Tarzan's amazing ability to establish kinship with some of the most dangerous animals in the jungle serves him well in this exciting story of his adventures with the Golden Lion, Jad-bal-ja, when the great and lordly animal becomes his ally and protector. Tarzan learns from the High Priestess, La, of a country north of Opar which is held in dread by the Oparians. It is peopled by a strange race of goril...
Dec 14, 2022•7 hr 32 min•Ep. 585
Tarzan the Terrible by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure Tarzan book 8. In the previous novel, during the early days of World War I, Tarzan discovered that his wife Jane was not killed in a fire set by German troops, but was in fact alive. In this novel two months have gone by and Tarzan is continuing to search for Jane. He has tracked her to a hidden valley called Pal-ul-don, which means 'Land of Men.' In Pal-ul-don Tarzan finds a real Jurassic Park filled with dinosaurs, notably...
Dec 14, 2022•9 hr 23 min•Ep. 584
Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure Tarzan the Untamed plunges Edgar Rice Burroughs' legendary jungle lord into a world at war, where the law of the wild collides with the brutality of modern conflict. When violence from far beyond Africa's borders shatters Tarzan's fragile peace, he is driven to track the perpetrators across steaming forests, river country, and hostile outposts. Along the way, Tarzan moves between two worlds: the primal realm where he is maste...
Dec 14, 2022•11 hr 18 min•Ep. 583
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure In the depths of equatorial Africa, Tarzan of the Apes is drawn back to the jungle not only by duty, but by a perilous promise of lost wealth and darker mysteries. When a desperate expedition sets its sights on Opar, a hidden and ancient city rumored to hold unthinkable treasure, Tarzan is forced to navigate a landscape where nature is only the first danger. Ruthless outsiders, shifting alliances, and the unforgivi...
Dec 14, 2022•7 hr 2 min•Ep. 582
Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure Edgar Rice Burroughs returns to the jungle legend with Son of Tarzan, a fast-paced adventure that follows the unexpected heir to the world's most famous ape-man. Raised in comfort and safety in England, young Jack Clayton knows little of his parents' extraordinary past-until a violent encounter and a trail of secrets draw him toward the darkest corners of his own identity. When Jack becomes entangled with a ruthless band of crimin...
Dec 14, 2022•10 hr 5 min•Ep. 581
The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure In The Beasts of Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs plunges listeners back into the wild as John Clayton - Lord Greystoke, known to the world as Tarzan - is forced into a desperate fight to protect his family and his name. After trying to live a civilized life, Tarzan finds himself targeted by ruthless enemies who use deceit and kidnapping to drag him into a dangerous chase that stretches from Europe to the African jungle. Separa...
Dec 14, 2022•5 hr 32 min•Ep. 580
The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure Lord John Clayton, better known as Tarzan of the Apes, has tried to live as an English gentleman, but the call of the jungle refuses to fade. When danger threatens those he loves and old enemies resurface, Tarzan is drawn back toward the wild country that made him. His journey takes him from drawing rooms and city streets to the dense African interior, where rival adventurers, ruthless hunters, and shadowy plots collide ove...
Dec 14, 2022•9 hr 25 min•Ep. 579
A House to Let by Charles Dickens audiobook. Genre: mystery A House to Let is a short story originally published in 1858 in the Christmas edition of Dickens' Household Words magazine. Each of the contributors wrote a chapter (stories within a story, or, in the case of Adelaide Anne Procter, poetry) and the story was edited by Dickens, who also wrote the first and last chapters with Wilkie Collins. The plot concerns an elderly woman, Sophonisba, who notices signs of life in a supposedly empty dil...
Dec 14, 2022•4 hr 19 min•Ep. 578
The Woman in the Alcove by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery At a glittering New York ball, plain, practical Rita Van Arsdale is stunned when Anson Durand, the man she has quietly admired, proposes marriage. Moments later the night turns sinister: the celebrated beauty Mrs. Fairbrother is discovered murdered in a curtained recess known as the alcove, and the spectacular diamond that drew every eye has vanished. Whispers race through the mansion, the guests become suspects, and the p...
Dec 14, 2022•7 hr 33 min•Ep. 577
The Thief by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery In Anna Katharine Green's classic short mystery The Thief, an elegant dinner party is interrupted by a small disaster with big consequences: a valuable coin, passed from hand to hand for everyone to admire, suddenly vanishes. With polite society teetering on the edge of scandal, the host tries to restore order by proposing a simple, seemingly fair test - each gentleman will empty his pockets to prove his innocence. The plan works at onc...
Dec 14, 2022•55 min•Ep. 576
The Sword of Damocles by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery In gilded Gilded Age New York, Bertram Mandeville has talent, charm, and a rising reputation as a concert pianist - yet love makes him restless. Convinced that art alone cannot win the woman he adores, Bertram turns from the keyboard to the ruthless promises of Wall Street, placing his future in the hands of his powerful relative, Mr. Sylvester. Then a strange summons arrives, carried through the city by a shadowy messenger,...
Dec 14, 2022•16 hr 53 min•Ep. 575
The Staircase at the Heart’s Delight by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery In turn-of-the-century New York, veteran police detective Ebenezer Gryce is unsettled by a pattern of deaths that look like simple accidents: prominent, well-to-do men pulled from the water, drowned under circumstances that never quite add up. With no obvious suspect and only the city's whispers to guide him, Gryce's attention sharpens when a shaken young man arrives with a disturbing story: a crooked pawnbrok...
Dec 14, 2022•58 min•Ep. 574
The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery It is the noon hour at a museum in New York City. The date: May 23, 1913. The weekday, attendance is light; the attendees are scattered between two floors. Suddenly a cry rings out from the second floor. Scrambling to Section II, the museum director discovers a teenage girl dead with an arrow through her heart. An older woman hovers over her whispering incoherent phrases in the girl's ear and offering incomprehensib...
Dec 14, 2022•11 hr 3 min•Ep. 573
The Millionaire Baby by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery When six-year-old Gwendolen Ocumpaugh vanishes from her wealthy family's estate, New York is jolted by a chilling headline and an even more startling offer: a five-thousand-dollar reward for information leading to the child's recovery, alive or dead. The announcement is irresistible to Mr. Trevitt, a private detective whose recent failures have left his reputation frayed and his finances desperate. He knows the Ocumpaugh name...
Dec 14, 2022•7 hr 44 min•Ep. 572
The Mill Mystery by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery In a quiet New England village, an abandoned mill becomes the scene of a scandal that the town cannot stop talking about. The Reverend Mr. Barrows, admired for his gentleness and moral certainty, is discovered dead in the mill's shadowy interior, and the simplest explanations spread fast: a tragic accident, or a despairing suicide. But the facts do not sit easily with Ada Reynolds, the young woman bound to him by a secret engagem...
Dec 14, 2022•7 hr 58 min•Ep. 571
The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery When a wealthy New York banker is found murdered in his own home, the crime threatens to shatter a powerful family and ignite a public scandal. The victim's household is full of secrets: anxious relatives, wary servants, and visitors whose alibis crumble under scrutiny. Into this uneasy maze steps detective Ebenezer Gryce, a methodical investigator whose quiet persistence and sharp eye for detail make him uniquely suited to u...
Dec 14, 2022•10 hr 48 min•Ep. 570
The House of the Whispering Pines by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery In a snowbound corner of New York society, the seasonal clubhouse known as The Whispering Pines has been shut and locked for the winter - or so Elwood Ranelagh believes. Then, only a day after the closing, he spots smoke curling from its chimney. Uneasy, he forces his way inside and catches a startling glimpse in the gloom: Carmel Cumberland, his fiancee's sister - the woman he cannot stop thinking about - fleein...
Dec 14, 2022•13 hr 10 min•Ep. 569
The House in the Mist by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery It was a night to drive any man indoors. Not only was the darkness impenetrable, but the raw mist enveloping hill and valley made the open road anything but desirable to a belated wayfarer like myself. Being young, untrammeled, and naturally indifferent to danger, I was not averse to adventure; and having my fortune to make, was always on the lookout for El Dorado, which, to ardent souls, lies ever beyond the next turning. C...
Dec 13, 2022•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 568
