Greylorn by Keith Laumer audiobook. Genre: scifi Commander Greylorn has a problem. No, actually he has two of them. It's not enough that the remaining residents of Earth have pinned their last hope of salvation on him and his mission. He has to find a colony that presumedly was established at an unknown star two centuries before and beg their help. But first, he has the small matter of a mutiny on board his starship, and people are trying to kill him! Written in an era when radios used vacuum tu...
Sep 14, 2022•2 hr 19 min•Ep. 357
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran audiobook. Genre: philosophy The prophet Al Mustafa, before leaving the city where he has been living twelve years, stops to address the people. They call out for his words of wisdom on many sides of the human condition, and he addresses them in terms of love and care. He has much to offer from his observations of the people, and he illustrates with images they can relate to. The author, Gibran, was influenced by the Maronites, the Sufis, and the Baha’i. His philosop...
Sep 14, 2022•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 356
The Master of the World by Jules Verne audiobook. Genre: scifi Chief Inspector Strock gets the tough cases. When a volcano suddenly appears to threaten mountain towns of North Carolina amid the non-volcanic Blue Ridge Mountains, Strock is posted to determine the danger. When an automobile race in Wisconsin is interrupted by the unexpected appearance of a vehicle traveling at multiples of the top speed of the entrants, Strock is consulted. When an odd-shaped boat is sighted moving at impossible s...
Sep 14, 2022•5 hr 5 min•Ep. 355
The Blockade Runners by Jules Verne audiobook. Genre: adventure Writing at the end of the American Civil War, Verne weaves this story of a Scottish merchant who, in desperation at the interruption of the flow of Southern cotton due to the Union blockade, determines to build his own fast ship and run guns to the Confederates in exchange for the cotton piling up unsold on their wharves. His simple plan becomes complicated by two passengers who board his new ship under false pretenses in order to c...
Sep 14, 2022•2 hr 9 min•Ep. 354
The Point of Honor by Joseph Conrad audiobook. Genre: drama Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this story features two French Hussar officers, D'Hubert and Feraud. Their quarrel over an initially minor incident turns into a bitter, long-drawn out struggle over the following fifteen years, interwoven with the larger conflict that provides its backdrop. At the beginning, Feraud is the one who jealously guards his honor and repeatedly demands satisfaction anew when a duelling encounter ends inconclusi...
Sep 13, 2022•3 hr 35 min•Ep. 353
New Discoveries at Jamestown by John L. Cotter audiobook. Genre: history Chances are, you are reading this because you are aware that Jamestown, Virginia, celebrated its 400th birthday in 2007. It was the first 'successful' English settlement in America. Although the colonists eventually moved upriver to be quit of the hard luck and difficult conditions on the small island, they left behind a trove of possessions - used, worn out, or forgotten. Did you ever stop to consider just how many differe...
Sep 13, 2022•2 hr 12 min•Ep. 352
Nights With Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris audiobook. Genre: folklore That the little boy loved Uncle Remus and his stories was so obvious that the tale-spinning sessions began drawing additional listeners. Daddy Jack, an old 'Africa man' visiting from down-state; Sis Tempy, the strong chief of the mansion's servants; and Tildy, a young and pretty servant-girl - all found their way to Uncle Remus' rude cabin when their duties or interests permitted, to sit around the hearth and hear the won...
Sep 12, 2022•12 hr 54 min•Ep. 351
The Diary of a Country Parson by James Woodforde audiobook. Genre: biography The Revd. James Woodforde was an English clergyman, best known for his vivid account of parish life in the 18th century. His diary, edited by John Beresford, remained unpublished until the 20th century. The diary provides a wonderfully full account of the small community in which the diarist lived — of the births and deaths, comings and goings, illnesses, and annual celebrations, along with many other details of daily l...
Sep 12, 2022•11 hr 26 min•Ep. 350
The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper audiobook. Genre: adventure Natty Bumppo goes by many names: La Longue Carabine, Hawk Eye, Leatherstocking, and in this tale, The Pathfinder. Guide, scout, hunter, and when put to it, soldier, he also fills a lot of roles in pre-Revolution upstate New York. An old friend, Sergeant Dunham of the 55th Regiment of Foot, asks him to guide his daughter through the wilderness to the fort at Oswego where Dunham serves. With the French engaging native Indian allie...
Sep 10, 2022•18 hr 59 min•Ep. 349
The Call of the Wild by Jack London audiobook. Genre: adventure When Buck, a powerful and pampered dog living an easy life in California, is stolen and sold into the brutal world of the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush, everything he knows is stripped away. Thrown onto the frozen trails as a sled dog, Buck must quickly learn the law of club and fang - a ruthless code ruled by violence, hierarchy, and survival. Passed from one owner to the next, he encounters cruelty and kindness in equal meas...
Sep 10, 2022•3 hr 30 min•Ep. 348
The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville audiobook. Genre: adventure A collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville, published in May 1856. Except for the newly written title story, 'The Piazza,' all of the stories had appeared in Putnam's Monthly between 1853 and 1855. The collection includes what has long been regarded as three of Melville's most important achievements in the genre of short fiction, 'Bartleby, the Scrivener', 'Benito Cereno', and 'The Encantadas', his sketches...
Sep 10, 2022•9 hr 59 min•Ep. 347
Bartleby, The Scrivener by Herman Melville audiobook. Genre: drama Set in the cramped offices of Wall Street, Herman Melville's Bartleby, the Scrivener follows a cautious, self-satisfied lawyer who prides himself on running an orderly business with minimal disturbance. To keep up with an increasing workload, he hires a new copyist, Bartleby, a pale, quiet man whose diligence at the desk initially seems like a blessing. But when asked to perform even the smallest task beyond copying, Bartleby ans...
Sep 10, 2022•2 hr•Ep. 346
The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells audiobook. Genre: scifi Britain won the Moon Race! Decades before Neal Armstrong took his 'giant leap for mankind' two intrepid adventurers from Lympne, England, journeyed there using not a rocket, but an antigravity coating. Mr. Bedford, who narrates the tale, tells of how he fell in with eccentric inventor Mr. Cavor, grew to believe in his researches, helped him build a sphere for traveling in space, and then partnered with him in an expedition to the M...
Sep 10, 2022•8 hr 17 min•Ep. 345
Little Wars by H. G. Wells audiobook. Genre: family A Game for Boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books. With an Appendix on Kriegspiel Miniature wargaming got its start with the publication in 1913 of this thoroughly entertaining little account of how H.G. Wells, with certain of his friends, took their childhood toys and turned play into acceptable middle-aged sport by subjecting the exercise to the civiliz...
Sep 09, 2022•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 344
Floor Games by H. G. Wells audiobook. Genre: family H.G. Wells had so much fun playing with his children on the floor of their playroom, he decided to write a jovial little book to inspire other parents in their pursuit of quality time with the kids. While the raw materials available from hobby stores of his day were woefully short of the variety and quality of what can be bought easily now, he and his sons created their own worlds to rule. This short work describes two games of imagination play...
Sep 09, 2022•47 min•Ep. 343
The Perfect Wagnerite by George Bernard Shaw audiobook. Genre: philosophy The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring (originally published London, 1898) is a philosophical commentary on Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, by the Irish writer George Bernard Shaw. Shaw offered it to those enthusiastic admirers of Wagner who 'were unable to follow his ideas, and do not in the least understand the dilemma of Wotan.' He interprets the Ring in Marxian terms as an allegory of the c...
Sep 09, 2022•4 hr 32 min•Ep. 342
Wulf the Saxon by George Alfred Henty audiobook. Genre: adventure Wulf the Saxon is a classic George Henty tale of nobility, loyalty and courage set in 11th century Britain. It relates the adventures of Wulf, a young, but extremely capable Saxon Thane. Wulf with his friends and servitors devote their lives to the service of Harold Godwinson, both before and after he becomes king of England. They are directly involved in capturing castles, rescuing shipwreck survivors, foiling assassination attem...
Sep 05, 2022•12 hr 27 min•Ep. 341
The Big Time by Fritz Leiber audiobook. Genre: scifi In The Big Time, Fritz Leiber drops you into a war that cannot be mapped on any battlefield: the Change War, fought across centuries by two shadowy factions known as the Snakes and the Spiders. Far outside ordinary time sits a cramped, worn, strangely cozy way station called the Place - part barracks, part backstage, part refuge - where wounded agents are patched up, debriefed, and sent back into history. Greta, the station's sharp-tongued, bi...
Sep 05, 2022•3 hr 53 min•Ep. 340
Socialism - Utopian and Scientific by Friedrich Engels audiobook. Genre: philosophy In Socialism - Utopian and Scientific, Friedrich Engels offers a brisk, combative guide to how modern socialism emerged, what it claims to explain, and why it insists it is more than a moral wish list. Writing for readers who may know the slogans but not the underlying arguments, Engels contrasts early, 'utopian' reformers who imagined ideal communities with a later 'scientific' approach grounded in a materialist...
Sep 05, 2022•2 hr 53 min•Ep. 339
The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey audiobook. Genre: adventure Buck Duane, son of a famous gunfighter, falls prey to the old problem - called out by a cowboy who wants to make trouble, Duane kills him and then must ride off to the lawless country near the Neuces River to escape being arrested and perhaps, hanged. His brief encounter with deadly gun-play has ignited a deep urging to repeat the adrenaline rush but is tempered by ghosts that haunt his sleep. He only dares to release his inner demon ...
Sep 05, 2022•11 hr 23 min•Ep. 338
Beasts, Men and Gods by Ferdinand Ossendowski audiobook. Genre: adventure “Beasts, Men and Gods” is an account of an epic journey, filled with perils and narrow escapes, in the mold of “The Lord of the Rings.” The difference is: it’s all true. Ferdinand Ossendowski was a Pole who found himself in Siberia and on the losing side during the Bolshevik Revolution. To escape being rounded up and shot, he set out with a friend to reach the Pacific, there to take ship back to Europe. During his journey ...
Sep 05, 2022•9 hr 6 min•Ep. 337
Mark Twain and the Happy Island by Elizabeth Wallace audiobook. Genre: biography This Mark Twain Memoir by Elizabeth Wallace paints an idyllic portrait of his time in Bermuda, not long before his death in 1910. Wallace and Twain met in Bermuda in 1908, became fast friends, and shared time together on the island and regular correspondence until 6 weeks before Twain's death. According to one academician, 'Wallace’s deep affection for Twain is evident in her writings, so she also may have wished to...
Sep 05, 2022•2 hr 30 min•Ep. 336
Anecdotes of Dogs by Edward Jesse audiobook. Genre: science 'Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.' The character, sensibilities, and intellectual faculties of animals have always been a favourite study, and they are, perhaps, more strongly developed in the dog than in any other quadruped, from the circumstance of his being the constant companion of man. I am aware how much has been written on this subject, but having accumulated many original and interesti...
Sep 05, 2022•13 hr 43 min•Ep. 335
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton audiobook. Genre: tragedy In a stark New England town locked in winter for much of the year, Ethan Frome lives a narrowed life of duty and quiet desperation. Once a young man with ambitions beyond the hills of Starkfield, Ethan now struggles to keep a failing farm and a small sawmill going while caring for his sickly, controlling wife, Zeena. When Zeena's cousin, Mattie Silver, comes to stay as a hired companion, her warmth and simple liveliness bring light into the ...
Sep 05, 2022•4 hr 8 min•Ep. 334
Crucial Instances by Edith Wharton audiobook. Genre: drama Crucial Instances is a keenly observed collection of short fiction in which Edith Wharton turns ordinary social rituals into high-stakes tests of character. Across a range of settings - drawing rooms, country estates, and the quietly charged spaces between husbands and wives - Wharton follows men and women caught at the exact moment when a single choice can reshape a life. A wife confronts the cost of loyalty and self-respect, an ambitio...
Sep 05, 2022•5 hr 15 min•Ep. 333
Master Flea by E. T. A. Hoffmann audiobook. Genre: fantasy Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (1776 – 1822), better known by his pen name E.T.A. Hoffmann (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann), was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. Hoffmann's stories were very influential during the 19th century, and he is one of the major authors of the Romantic movement. He is the subject and hero of Jacques Offenbach's famous but fictional oper...
Sep 05, 2022•5 hr 35 min•Ep. 332
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence audiobook. Genre: family This intimate portrait of a coal-miner's family fastens on each member in turn: Walter Morel, the collier; Gertrude, his wife; and the children: William, Annie, Arthur, and Paul. When Mrs. Morel begins to be estranged from her husband because of his poor financial sense and his drinking habits, she comes to inhabit the lives of her children - most particularly, her sons. She is determined that they will grow to be something more than men...
Sep 05, 2022•19 hr 2 min•Ep. 331
The Fortunes of Glencore by Charles James Lever audiobook. Genre: comedy Viscount Glencore has retreated to live alone with his son in Glencore castle after his wife deserted him claiming she did not love him. He wishes to exact revenge on her by denouncing the marriage and therefore proclaiming his son to be illegitimate. This consequently robs the child of his birthright and upon his father telling him his intentions, the boy runs away and refuses to return home. Glencore asks his old friend U...
Sep 05, 2022•17 hr 26 min•Ep. 330
Henrietta Temple by Benjamin Disraeli audiobook. Genre: romance The Armine family, in particular the young Ferdinand Armine, is in great financial difficulties. Ferdinand's grandfather has burdened the family estate with large debts, which his father did not manage to diminish. Ferdinand himself is not disposed to live with his small income alone, and during his time in Malta with his regiment, he incurs debts of his own. The only thing that can easily pay for his debts and restore the house of ...
Sep 04, 2022•17 hr 44 min•Ep. 329
The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness E. Orczy audiobook. Genre: adventure In Revolutionary France, the guillotine falls fast and suspicion spreads faster. Into this terror moves a whisper of hope - a daring English rescuer known only as the Scarlet Pimpernel, who smuggles doomed aristocrats to safety under the noses of the Republic's most ruthless agents. In The Elusive Pimpernel, the struggle intensifies as the clever and relentless Chauvelin, a master of traps and disguises, closes in on the secr...
Sep 03, 2022•7 hr 45 min•Ep. 328
