(Volume 6) Arabian Nights - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: folklore This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found, but several versions date the collection’s genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together under the device o...
Aug 30, 2023•12 hr 59 min
(Volume 5) Arabian Nights - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: folklore This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found, but several versions date the collection’s genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together under the device o...
Aug 29, 2023•17 hr 57 min
(Volume 4) Arabian Nights - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: folklore This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found for the collection, but several versions date the collection's genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together...
Aug 29, 2023•13 hr
(Volume 3) Arabian Nights - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: folklore This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found for the collection, but several versions date the collection's genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together ...
Aug 28, 2023•15 hr 14 min
(Volume 2) Arabian Nights - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: folklore This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found for the collection, but several versions date the collection's genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together ...
Aug 28, 2023•16 hr 1 min
(Volume 1) Arabian Nights - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: folklore The main frame story concerns a king and his new bride. The king, Shahryar, upon discovering his ex-wife's infidelity executes her and then declares all women to be unfaithful. He begins to marry a succession of virgins only to execute each one the next morning. Scheherazade agrees to marry him and each night, beginning on the night of their marriage, she tells the king a tale but does...
Aug 26, 2023•13 hr 51 min
A Texas Matchmaker by Andy Adams audiobook. Genre: romance On the brush-country ranch of Las Palomas in southern Texas, young Tom Quirk thinks he has signed on for honest work with cattle, horses, and open range. Instead, he finds himself apprenticed to a legend: Lance 'Uncle Lance' Lovelace, a tough, sixty-something ranchero, old pioneer, and three-time husband who has made it his personal business to steer lonely men toward marriage as surely as he steers a herd across unforgiving country. As ...
Aug 25, 2023•10 hr 4 min
The Border Riflemen by Albert W. Aiken audiobook. Genre: adventure Set on the raw edge of the American frontier during the Black Hawk War, The Border Riflemen follows Sadie Wescott, a spirited young settler trying to keep her family's riverside cabin safe as rumor and violence spread through the timber. When the dangerous woodsman William 'Black Will' Jackwood corners her with threats he intends to make good on, Sadie's unlikely champion appears in the form of Cooney Joe Bent, a brawling scout w...
Aug 25, 2023•3 hr 40 min
Songs of Love and Life by Zora Cross audiobook. Genre: poetry First published in Australia in 1917, Songs of Love and Life is the collection that made poet and journalist Zora Cross a national sensation. Built largely around a sequence of love sonnets, it speaks in an intimate first-person voice that refuses to treat desire as something shameful or silent. Across these tightly wrought poems, Cross traces the exhilaration and ache of passionate attachment, the pull between private longing and pub...
Aug 25, 2023•2 hr 50 min
Brain and Personality, or the Physical Relations of the Brain to the Mind by William Hanna Thomson audiobook. Genre: science In Brain and Personality, or the Physical Relations of the Brain to the Mind, physician and thinker William Hanna Thomson explores one of the most enduring questions in human self-understanding: how the material brain relates to the immaterial experiences we call thought, character, will, and consciousness. Writing for curious readers as well as students of medicine and ph...
Aug 24, 2023•6 hr 33 min
Gloves Past and Present by Willard M. Smith audiobook. Genre: history In Gloves Past and Present, Willard M. Smith turns an everyday accessory into a surprising lens on power, faith, fashion, and work. Drawing on decades in the glove trade, Smith sets out to explain why gloves once carried the weight of ceremony and status: as emblems of royal authority, symbols in religious ritual, and tokens used to seal pledges, issue challenges, or confer honor. Moving across centuries, he traces how hand co...
Aug 24, 2023•3 hr 48 min
Hans of Iceland by Victor Hugo audiobook. Genre: tragedy Hans of Iceland was written in 1821 and is the very first novel written by young Victor, years before he became the great Hugo. It has all the ingredients of a gothic novel: dreadful murders by the hand of a human monster, a young hero in love with the destitute heroine, royal court-intrigues and rebellious uprising, all set in dungeons, dark towers and the untamed nature of Norway. This audio-book has been recorded as Dramatic Reading wit...
Aug 24, 2023•13 hr 5 min
The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver by Thornton W. Burgess audiobook. Genre: adventure In The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver, Thornton W. Burgess returns to the Green Forest and Smiling Pool to follow one of its most determined builders. When Paddy arrives with his big teeth, clever paws, and a plan to make a home of his own, the woods quickly learn that a beaver does not do anything halfway. As Paddy gathers branches, gnaws down trees, and shapes the water to suit his needs, his work changes the...
Aug 23, 2023•1 hr 47 min
Centuries of Meditations by Thomas Traherne audiobook. Genre: religion Centuries of Meditations gathers the luminous spiritual reflections of Thomas Traherne, a 17th-century Anglican priest and metaphysical writer whose voice feels both intimate and expansive. Written as a sequence of brief, numbered meditations arranged in groups of one hundred, these prose passages move like sparks: each one turns an ordinary fact of life into a doorway toward wonder. Traherne returns again and again to a cent...
Aug 23, 2023•8 hr 9 min
Bashan And I by Thomas Mann audiobook. Genre: biography Written in the shadow of World War I, Bashan and I is Thomas Mann's intimate, clear-eyed portrait of life with his dog, a spirited German shorthaired pointer named Bashan. In a Munich landscape of gardens, paths, and wild edges, the narrator builds his days around small rituals: the moment he steps outside, the eager arrival of his companion, and the long walks that turn ordinary mornings into excursions of discovery. Mann watches Bashan wi...
Aug 23, 2023•4 hr 22 min
Eleven years a drunkard by Thomas Doner audiobook. Genre: biography He tells of the shame, misery and pain which alcohol brought on him, and will bring to anyone whosoever be tempted by the pleasant feeling it produces at the time of drinking. It doesn't bring one home to shelter but drives them away. It leads one to forget the evil it brings and tempts one to pursue more for the pleasant feeling it produces. This 'pleasant feeling' produces many murderers in our land. It doesn't push the suffer...
Aug 22, 2023•1 hr 33 min
The Crook in the Lot by Thomas Boston audiobook. Genre: religion In The Crook in the Lot, Scottish Presbyterian pastor Thomas Boston turns a single piercing question from Ecclesiastes 7:13 into a steady guide for anyone living with burdens they cannot simply fix: if God has made something crooked in your life, who can make it straight? Boston calls the unchosen trials of daily life the 'crook' and the overall shape of a person's circumstances the 'lot.' With the directness of a preacher and the ...
Aug 22, 2023•5 hr 36 min
Elizabethan Demonology by Thomas Alfred Spalding audiobook. Genre: history Written as a scholarly essay, Elizabethan Demonology investigates what educated and ordinary people in England believed about devils, witches, possession, and unseen spiritual forces during the Reformation and the decades that followed. Thomas Alfred Spalding argues that to read Elizabethan drama clearly, especially the plays of William Shakespeare, modern readers must recover the religious assumptions and folk ideas that...
Aug 22, 2023•4 hr 25 min
The Characters Of Theophrastus by Theophrastus audiobook. Genre: philosophy Written in the lively streets and marketplaces of classical Athens, The Characters offers a gallery of sharply observed human types that still feel familiar today. Attributed to Theophrastus, successor to Aristotle, this compact classic presents a sequence of brief sketches, each one isolating a single vice, folly, or social habit and then showing how it plays out in daily life. You will meet the Flatterer who lives by b...
Aug 21, 2023•1 hr 36 min
The Brothers by Terence audiobook. Genre: comedy In The Brothers (Adelphoe), Terence sets a sharply observed domestic comedy in Athens where two very different men try to raise the next generation. Demea is severe, hardworking, and convinced that discipline is the only path to virtue. His brother Micio is relaxed, affluent, and proud of the trust-based freedom he gives his adopted son, Aeschinus. When a scandal erupts in the city and Aeschinus is blamed for behavior that looks reckless and cruel...
Aug 21, 2023•1 hr 49 min
The Actress in High Life - An Episode in Winter Quarters by Susan Petigru King-Bowen audiobook. Genre: romance Portugal, 1812: while the Peninsular War grinds on, a British brigade settles into winter quarters at Elvas, where officers and their families try to turn boredom, uncertainty, and old-world etiquette into something like a season. Into this charged half-peacetime steps Lady Mabel Stewart, newly arrived from Scotland at her father Lord Strathern's summons. Young, observant, and suddenly ...
Aug 21, 2023•9 hr 36 min
Above the French Lines by Stuart Walcott audiobook. Genre: history Above the French Lines presents World War I through the intimate, immediate voice of Stuart Walcott, a young American who crosses the Atlantic in 1917 to learn to fly and serve with the French aviation forces. Told as a sequence of letters written between July 4 and December 8, 1917, the book traces his transformation from eager trainee to combat-ready pilot, capturing the routines and hazards of early airfields: punishing instru...
Aug 19, 2023•1 hr 40 min
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane audiobook. Genre: history In Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, a young farm boy named Henry Fleming leaves home to enlist in the Union Army, convinced that battle will reveal the heroic version of himself he has always imagined. But when his regiment is suddenly thrown into combat, Henry discovers that courage is not a simple, shining certainty - it is a shifting struggle of fear, pride, shame, and survival. As smoke, noise, and confusion swallow...
Aug 18, 2023•4 hr 57 min
English Men of Science - Their Nature and Nurture by Sir Francis Galton audiobook. Genre: science In English Men of Science - Their Nature and Nurture, Sir Francis Galton turns his trademark appetite for measurement toward a bold question that still echoes today: what makes a scientist? Writing in Victorian Britain, Galton gathers firsthand testimony from prominent men of science and uses it to probe the relative roles of inherited ability and personal environment in shaping intellectual achieve...
Aug 18, 2023•4 hr 42 min
The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: mystery In The Valley of Fear, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle returns to Victorian London with one of Sherlock Holmes' most perilous cases. A mysterious cipher and a chilling warning reach Baker Street, drawing Holmes and Dr. Watson into the investigation of a country-house murder that seems at once straightforward and impossible. As Holmes pieces together the victim's hidden connections, the trail widens beyond drawing rooms and railway tim...
Aug 18, 2023•6 hr 19 min
The Trail of the Hawk by Sinclair Lewis audiobook. Genre: comedy Trail of the Hawk, narrated by Mike Vendetti aka Miketheauctioneer, is Sinclair Lewis’ second novel published under his own name. It was not at the time of release a smashing success as his later works, Babbitt, Elmer Gantry, and others, but his style and immense talent are certainly evident. We travel with The Hawk, or Carl Ericson, son of Norwegian immigrants, born at the end of the 19th century through the first three adventurou...
Aug 17, 2023•13 hr 48 min
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis audiobook. Genre: comedy In the booming Midwestern city of Zenith, George F. Babbitt seems to have everything a successful American businessman should want: a solid home, a respectable family, a wide circle of civic-minded friends, and a thriving career selling real estate. He prides himself on being practical, optimistic, and up to date, repeating the slogans of prosperity and progress that surround him. But beneath the confident talk and the carefully maintained routi...
Aug 17, 2023•13 hr 39 min
Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis audiobook. Genre: drama Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith follows Martin Arrowsmith, a restless young man from the American Midwest who is determined to become the kind of doctor who serves truth before comfort. From medical school lectures and small town practice to big city hospitals and elite research laboratories, Martin keeps running into the same question: is medicine a calling, a business, or a science? Guided and challenged by mentors, colleagues, and rivals - inclu...
Aug 17, 2023•19 hr 2 min
A Daughter of Today by Sara Jeannette Duncan audiobook. Genre: drama In late-Victorian London and Paris, Elfrida Bell is determined to become more than a well-bred ornament. Brilliant, restless, and fiercely self-aware, she styles herself a modern woman of letters and art, chasing recognition in magazines, salons, and studios while measuring herself against the people who seem effortlessly at home in the world she wants to conquer. As Elfrida forms intense friendships and rivalries with writers,...
Aug 16, 2023•10 hr 31 min
Prayers and Meditations by Samuel Johnson audiobook. Genre: religion Prayers and Meditations offers an intimate look into the private spiritual life of Samuel Johnson, the towering English writer and moralist best known for his essays, criticism, and dictionary. Drawn from his personal papers, these entries trace years of self-examination as Johnson faces recurring illness, grief, temptation, loneliness, and the relentless pressure of time. In plain yet powerful language, he records prayers for ...
Aug 16, 2023•3 hr 34 min
