The Rosary by Florence L. Barclay audiobook. Genre: romance At Overdene, the country estate of the formidable and delightfully unpredictable Duchess of Meldrum, her niece Jane Champion has settled into a life of capable independence. Jane is thirty, practical, and quietly gifted, yet she has spent years watching others take the place she secretly longs for: to be chosen first, without reservation. When Garth Dalmain, a celebrated artist with a passionate devotion to beauty, suddenly singles Jane...
Jul 26, 2022•11 hr 20 min•Ep. 179
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook. Genre: drama F. Scott Fitzgerald's debut novel follows Amory Blaine, a sharp, restless Midwesterner who grows up believing his life will be extraordinary. From a privileged childhood through elite schools and the glittering social world of the early 20th century, Amory chases admiration, romance, and a sense of identity that always seems just out of reach. As he moves among ambitious classmates, magnetic friends, and women who challenge and...
Jul 26, 2022•9 hr 10 min•Ep. 178
Four Max Carrados Detective Stories by Ernest Bramah audiobook. Genre: mystery In Four Max Carrados Detective Stories, Ernest Bramah introduces a sleuth unlike any other in Edwardian England: Max Carrados, a gentleman investigator who is blind, yet uncannily alert to the details most people overlook. Narrated by his friend and occasional collaborator Louis Carlyle, these four cases open doors into London drawing rooms, private clubs, and shadowy back streets, where a missing object, an ingenious...
Jul 26, 2022•3 hr 44 min•Ep. 177
Dere Mable by Edward Streeter audiobook. Genre: comedy In Dere Mable: Love Letters of a Rookie, Edward Streeter turns World War I army life into a bright, side-splitting chain of letters from a brand-new private, Bill Smith, to his sweetheart back home, Mable. Writing in proudly mangled spelling and plainspoken slang, Bill reports on everything the Army throws at him: baffling rules, hard-nosed sergeants, endless drills, awkward inspections, lousy weather, and the strange new language of camp wh...
Jul 26, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 176
The Coming Race by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton audiobook. Genre: scifi Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803-1873) was an English novelist, poet, playright, and politician. Lord Lytton was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases as 'the great unwashed', 'pursuit of the almighty dollar', 'the pen is mightier than the sword', and the infamous incipit 'It was a dark and stormy night.' . The Coming Race drew heavily on his interest in the occult and co...
Jul 26, 2022•7 hr 9 min•Ep. 175
Acres of Diamonds by Russell H. Conwell audiobook. Genre: self help One of the most requested motivational lectures of all time. 'I say that you ought to get rich, and it is your duty to get rich ... The men who get rich may be the most honest men you find in the community. Let me say here clearly ... ninety-eight out of one hundred of the rich men of America are honest. That is why they are rich. That is why they are trusted with money. That is why they carry on great enterprises and find plent...
Jul 26, 2022•4 hr 39 min•Ep. 174
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling audiobook. Genre: adventure This classic children's book by Rudyard Kipling tells the story of Mowgli, a young boy raised by wolves: his escapades and adventures with his dear friends Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear, his capture by the Monkey-People, his attempt at reintegration into human society, and his ultimate triumph over the lame tiger Shere Khan. The account of Mowgli's adventures is followed by several short stories, including the tales of the ...
Jul 26, 2022•5 hr 9 min•Ep. 173
Just William by Richmal Crompton audiobook. Genre: comedy In Just William, Richmal Crompton introduces William Brown, an eleven-year-old whirlwind of confidence, mischief, and unstoppable logic, who lives in a quiet English village between the wars. To the adults around him, William is a constant problem to be managed: his well-meaning but exasperated parents, his dignified sister Ethel, and a parade of neighbors and visitors who underestimate him at their peril. To William, however, the world i...
Jul 26, 2022•6 hr 11 min•Ep. 172
The Enchanted Castle by Edith Nesbit audiobook. Genre: fantasy When three siblings - Jerry, Jimmy, and Kathy - escape their governess for a summer afternoon, they wander into the grounds of an old estate and discover a hidden passage into what seems to be a sleeping fairy tale: a neglected garden, a ruined castle, and the promise of real magic. Inside, they meet Mabel, a practical but lonely girl with an imagination as fierce as any spell, and together they stumble upon a ring that can make wish...
Jul 26, 2022•8 hr 46 min•Ep. 171
The Clue of the Twisted Candle by Edgar Wallace audiobook. Genre: mystery Edgar Wallace's The Clue of the Twisted Candle plunges celebrated mystery novelist John Lexman into a case far stranger than anything he has ever plotted on the page. Struggling with money worries, Lexman is pushed into the orbit of a glamorous, dangerous underworld figure, Remington Kara, and a relentless creditor whose threats turn one ugly confrontation into a catastrophe. Before Lexman can understand how completely he ...
Jul 26, 2022•6 hr 5 min•Ep. 170
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure After a mutiny strands English aristocrats John and Alice Clayton on the West African coast, they vanish into a world ruled by dense jungle, hungry predators, and the fierce great apes who call it home. Their infant son survives against impossible odds, raised among the tribe as an outsider who must learn to fight, hunt, and belong. He grows into a powerful, sharp-minded figure the apes name Tarzan, torn between the instincts...
Jul 26, 2022•9 hr 37 min•Ep. 169
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens audiobook. Genre: folklore E. M. Berens' Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome is a richly told guide to the stories that shaped the imagination of the classical world. Written as an accessible companion for curious readers, it gathers the great cycles of Greek and Roman mythology into a clear, engaging narrative: the rise of the Olympian gods, the tangled relationships of divine families, and the mortal heroes who struggle unde...
Jul 26, 2022•11 hr 38 min•Ep. 168
Queen Lucia by E. F. Benson audiobook. Genre: comedy E. F. Benson was born at Wellington College in Berkshire, where his father, who later went on to become the Archbishop of Canterbury, was the first Headmaster. He wrote 105 books in all. Queen Lucia (first published in 1920) was the first of Benson’s ‘Mapp and Lucia’ novels of which there were six. This first book is a comedy of manners based in the provincial village of Riseholme, where Emmeline Lucas (the Queen Lucia of the title) presides o...
Jul 26, 2022•8 hr 59 min•Ep. 167
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel DeFoe audiobook. Genre: adventure Daniel Defoe’s The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner (1719) is considered by many the first English novel. Based on the real-life experiences of the castaway Alexander Selkirk, the book has had a perennial appeal among readers of all ages-–especially the young adult reading public–-who continue to find inspiration in the inventive resourcefulness of its hero, sole survivor of a shipwreck who is m...
Jul 25, 2022•11 hr 36 min•Ep. 166
The Sayings of Confucius by Confucius audiobook. Genre: philosophy The Sayings of Confucius gathers the brief, vivid teachings of Kong Fuzi - known in the West as Confucius - as remembered and recorded by his students and later followers. Set against an age of political fragmentation and social uncertainty, these compact dialogues, aphorisms, and observations offer a practical path for restoring order from the inside out: through self-cultivation, disciplined study, and an unwavering commitment ...
Jul 25, 2022•3 hr 20 min•Ep. 165
Kathleen by Christopher Morley audiobook. Genre: comedy Eight Oxford undergraduates who call themselves the Scorpions pride themselves on wit, argument, and a talent for turning ordinary life into literature. When a stray letter from a young woman named Kathleen to a mysterious 'Joe' falls into their hands, it becomes the perfect spark for their next club challenge: write a serial story using real names and real places, and make it convincing enough to feel true. But the game quickly outgrows th...
Jul 25, 2022•2 hr 2 min•Ep. 164
Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson audiobook. Genre: philosophy Nature is a short essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson published anonymously in 1836. It is in this essay that the foundation of transcendentalism is put forth, a belief system that espouses a non-traditional appreciation of nature. Recent advances in zoology, botany, and geology confirmed Emerson's intuitions about the intricate relationships of Nature at large. The publication of Nature is usually taken to be the watershed moment at which tran...
Jul 25, 2022•1 hr 57 min•Ep. 163
Essays - First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson audiobook. Genre: philosophy Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays - First Series is a landmark collection of nine essays that distills the restless energy of American Transcendentalism into clear, provocative meditations on how to live. Speaking as both philosopher and practical moralist, Emerson challenges listeners to trust their own judgment, resist the pressure to conform, and cultivate a life guided by inner principle rather than public approval. Across ...
Jul 25, 2022•8 hr 38 min•Ep. 162
Laws by Plato audiobook. Genre: philosophy Plato's Laws is his longest and most practical dialogue, a searching conversation about what it takes to build a just city when human beings are imperfect. On a hot walk across Crete toward the cave of Zeus, three older men - an unnamed Athenian Stranger, the Cretan lawgiver-to-be Cleinias, and the Spartan Megillus - set themselves an ambitious task: to design the laws, institutions, and civic culture for a new colony they hope to found. Moving from bro...
Jul 25, 2022•17 hr 26 min•Ep. 161
Alcibiades 1 by Plato audiobook. Genre: philosophy As Jowett relates in his brilliant introduction, 95% of Plato's writing is certain and his reputation rests soundly on this foundation. The Alcibiades 1 appears to be a short work by Plato with only two characters: Socrates and Alcibiades. This dialogue has little dramatic verisimilitude but centres on the question of what knowledge one needs for political life. Like the early dialogues, the question is on whether the virtues needed by a statesm...
Jul 25, 2022•2 hr 20 min•Ep. 160
The Adventures of Sally by P. G. Wodehouse audiobook. Genre: comedy Sally Nicholas is young, broke, and irrepressibly cheerful, earning her keep in New York as a taxi dancer and living in a theatrical boarding house where everyone has big dreams and thin wallets. Then, on her twenty-first birthday, she inherits a tidy fortune and suddenly has the one thing her friends have always lacked: choices. Sally imagines a sensible new life and maybe even a trip abroad, but money has a way of attracting t...
Jul 25, 2022•8 hr 37 min•Ep. 159
My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse audiobook. Genre: comedy In My Man Jeeves, P. G. Wodehouse introduces the immaculate valet Jeeves and his well-meaning, easily flustered employer, Bertie Wooster, in a sparkling set of comic adventures among England's idle rich. Bertie drifts from country houses to London clubs with no plan beyond avoiding responsibility, until a string of social disasters threatens his comfort and reputation: awkward engagements, misunderstood romances, imprudent wagers, and rel...
Jul 25, 2022•5 hr 22 min•Ep. 158
Bill the Conqueror by P. G. Wodehouse audiobook. Genre: comedy Hailed as one of the funniest writers of the 20th century, P. G. Wodehouse cheerfully radiates humor that is both sophisticated and popular. In Bill the Conqueror, Wodehouse creates an array of entertaining characters who gallop around England and America in quest of love and money. Our far-from-perfect hero Bill is a dissipated American former football player and man of action, who tangles with odious relatives, bumbling gangsters, ...
Jul 24, 2022•12 hr 25 min•Ep. 157
A Gentleman of Leisure by P. G. Wodehouse audiobook. Genre: comedy When charming but chronically underfunded Jimmy Pitt lands in New York, he brings with him a problem no amount of good manners can solve: he is the newly minted heir to an English earldom, and the responsibilities (and expectations) that come with it. Unfortunately, Jimmy is also a practiced 'gentleman of leisure' - quick with a smile, short on steady income, and prone to drifting into schemes that sound harmless until they are n...
Jul 24, 2022•7 hr 51 min•Ep. 156
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde audiobook. Genre: horror In glittering fin-de-siecle London, young Dorian Gray sits for a portrait by the devoted artist Basil Hallward. When Basil introduces him to the witty, world-weary Lord Henry Wotton, Dorian is dazzled by Lord Henry's seductive philosophy: that youth and beauty are life's highest prizes, and that restraint is merely a social mask. As Dorian steps into fashionable society, he discovers how easily admiration can become a kind of pow...
Jul 24, 2022•9 hr 35 min•Ep. 155
The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde audiobook. Genre: comedy When the practical American Otis family buys England's ancient Canterville Chase, they are warned that the house comes with a resident spirit: Sir Simon de Canterville, a centuries-old ghost with a reputation for terror. The Otises, however, are not the sort to be frightened by clanking chains and midnight apparitions. Hiram B. Otis approaches every haunting with common sense and store-bought solutions, while his wife and children tre...
Jul 24, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 154
Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde audiobook. Genre: comedy In Victorian England, respectability is a performance, and Jack Worthing has perfected it - at least on paper. In the country, he is the reliable guardian of young Cecily Cardew; in the city, he escapes into a fabricated life under the name 'Ernest,' where pleasure comes without consequences. His friend Algernon Moncrieff, equally allergic to sincerity, discovers Jack's secret and decides to try on a false identity of his own. W...
Jul 24, 2022•2 hr 21 min•Ep. 153
The Adventures of Ulysses by Charles Lamb audiobook. Genre: folklore In The Adventures of Ulysses, Charles Lamb reshapes the ancient Greek epic of Odysseus into a swift, vivid tale of wandering, wit, and hard-won homecoming. After the fall of Troy, the warrior-king Ulysses sets sail for Ithaca, longing to return to his faithful wife, Penelope, and his young son, Telemachus. But the sea is ruled by unpredictable gods, and every league toward home seems to invite a new trial: storms that scatter h...
Jul 24, 2022•3 hr 52 min•Ep. 152
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens audiobook. Genre: drama Born into poverty and raised under the cold machinery of England's workhouse system, young orphan Oliver Twist begins life with little more than his name and a stubborn sense of decency. When a desperate plea for more food marks him as a troublemaker, Oliver is thrust from one harsh institution to another, until he escapes to London in search of something kinder. Instead, he stumbles into the orbit of a gang of child pickpockets led by the ...
Jul 23, 2022•17 hr 17 min•Ep. 151
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin by Charles Darwin audiobook. Genre: biography The Autobiography of Charles Darwin is the autobiography of the British naturalist Charles Darwin which was published in 1887, five years after his death. Darwin wrote the book, which he entitled Recollections of the Development of my Mind and Character, for his family. He states that he started writing it on about May 28, 1876 and had finished it by August 3. The book was edited by Charles Darwin's son Francis Dar...
Jul 23, 2022•2 hr 51 min•Ep. 150
