Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook. Genre: drama Step into the bright, restless world of the early 1920s with Flappers and Philosophers, F. Scott Fitzgerald's sparkling first story collection. Across eight tales of youth, money, and sudden desire, Fitzgerald follows dreamers and social climbers as they chase romance, status, and the newest thrills of the Jazz Age. In the title story, a young man tries to map love with logic only to discover that emotions refuse to obey ti...
Dec 27, 2022•6 hr 59 min•Ep. 627
Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook. Genre: drama In this sharp, witty story of youth and status, Bernice, a shy girl from the East, arrives for a summer visit with her dazzling cousin Marjorie at a small-town country club in Minnesota. Surrounded by dances, tennis, porch gossip, and a social scene ruled by quick tongues and quicker judgments, Bernice feels invisible next to Marjorie's effortless charm. Marjorie offers to remake her - coaching her on conversation, confidence, ...
Dec 27, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 626
Man Overboard! by F. Marion Crawford audiobook. Genre: horror A storm howls across the sea as the schooner Helen B. Jackson fights to stay afloat, and in the chaos a cry rings out: man overboard. When the crew counts heads after the gale, one of the Benton twins is missing - Jim or Jack, so alike that even shipmates hesitate to swear which brother was swept away. The loss should be the end of it, another hard truth of life before the mast, yet strange details begin to accumulate: an extra place ...
Dec 27, 2022•1 hr 51 min•Ep. 625
Sentry of the Sky by Evelyn E. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifi Clarey is a low-ranking Sub-Archivist in a rigid future society where your job classification can define your entire life, and his private dream of becoming a musician feels more impossible every year. Then, during what he expects to be yet another disappointing visit to the Classification Center, Clarey is abruptly reassigned - not to the artistic post he imagined, but to something far more dangerous: an intelligence assignment off-wo...
Dec 26, 2022•2 hr 31 min•Ep. 624
The Biography of a Grizzly by Ernest Thompson Seton audiobook. Genre: biography In The Biography of a Grizzly, Ernest Thompson Seton tells the life story of a wild bear with the attention and dignity usually reserved for human heroes. From his first uncertain steps in the mountain forests to his rise as a powerful, wary survivor, the grizzly (often known as Wahb) learns the hard rules of a world shaped by hunger, weather, territory, and relentless danger. Guided by instinct and hard-won experien...
Dec 26, 2022•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 623
The Jack-Knife Man by Ellis Parker Butler audiobook. Genre: family Ellis Parker Butler's The Jack-Knife Man is a warm, quietly comic story of unlikely family and hard-won belonging along the Mississippi River. Peter Lane is an aging drifter who lives alone on a battered houseboat, passing his days with a jack-knife in hand, whittling small wooden figures and keeping to himself. But on a stormy night, a desperate woman arrives at his door with her young son, Buddy - and by morning Peter finds him...
Dec 26, 2022•5 hr 59 min•Ep. 622
The Confessions of a Daddy by Ellis Parker Butler audiobook. Genre: comedy The wry humor of Ellis Parker Butler, who gave us the classic Pigs Is Pigs, takes us into his own married life where Marthy and Hiram live quietly in their Colorado town. They don't have trouble with anyone of their neighbors. Why should they, as they don't have any kids that could cause the neighbors trouble? And oh, luckily they don't have kids because how could Hiram otherwise afford to give his wife, Marthy a new silk...
Dec 26, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 621
The Master-Knot of Human Fate by Ellis Meredith audiobook. Genre: fantasy When a spring hike along a rugged Rocky Mountain trail turns into the unthinkable, two strangers are cut off from everything they ever knew. Adam, a capable, reflective man, and Robin, a sharp-witted woman with a fierce moral imagination, watch the world below them vanish in a sudden, overwhelming cataclysm. With no city lights to return to and no voices answering their calls, they take shelter in an isolated cabin and beg...
Dec 26, 2022•4 hr 29 min•Ep. 620
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook. Genre: family If you like Jane Austen, you will probably like this book! Mrs. Gaskell, as she was often referred to, is considered one of the greatest British novelists of the Victorian era. She was one of the earliest novelists ever to use dialect in her works, finding often that no word but the vernacular would suffice to convey the meaning she wanted to achieve. She was the author of The Life of Charlotte Brontë, a much-acclaimed an...
Dec 23, 2022•25 hr 32 min•Ep. 619
Ruth by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook. Genre: drama The book is a social novel, dealing with Victorian views about sin and illegitimacy. It is a surprisingly compassionate portrayal of a 'fallen woman', a type of person normally outcast from respectable society. The title of the novel refers to the main character Ruth Hilton, an orphaned young seamstress who is seduced and then abandoned by gentleman Henry Bellingham. Ruth, pregnant and alone, is taken in by a minister and his sister. The...
Dec 23, 2022•18 hr 55 min•Ep. 618
Round the Sofa by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook. Genre: family Round the Sofa (1859), is a book of stories by the lady that Charles Dickens called his “dear Scheherazade” due to her skill as a story teller. That Lady was Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell (North and South, Wives and Daughters, Cranford etc.). Mrs. Gaskell begins with Round the Sofa, a short story which she uses as a device to stitch together six previously published stories into a single work. It introduces us to a set of characters ...
Dec 23, 2022•16 hr 29 min•Ep. 617
North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook. Genre: drama Set in Victorian England, North and South is the story of Margaret Hale, a young woman whose life is turned upside down when her family relocates to northern England. As an outsider from the agricultural south, Margaret is initially shocked by the aggressive northerners of the dirty, smoky industrial town of Milton. But as she adapts to her new home, she defies social conventions with her ready sympathy and defense of the work...
Dec 22, 2022•19 hr 16 min•Ep. 616
Mr. Harrison’s Confessions by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook. Genre: comedy It is asserted that the inspiration for Elizabeth Gaskell's marvellous stories of Cranford was her childhood home of Knutsford, a small town in Cheshire and to where she returned for a while as a young woman. This assertion is born out by an essay she wrote in 1849 entitled The Last Generation in England, in which she writes about 'The town in which I once resided ...'. There can be little doubt when reading this t...
Dec 22, 2022•3 hr 33 min•Ep. 615
Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook. Genre: comedy Cranford is the best-known novel of the 19th century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published in 1851 as a serial in the magazine Household Words, which was edited by Charles Dickens. The fictional town of Cranford is closely modelled on Knutsford in Cheshire, which Mrs Gaskell knew well. The book has little in the way of plot and is more a series of episodes in the lives of Mary Smith and her friends, Miss Matty and...
Dec 22, 2022•6 hr 17 min•Ep. 614
Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook. Genre: drama In a quiet corner of rural England, young Paul Manning begins his first job on a new railway line, commuting between the noise of industry and the calm of his relatives' farm. There he meets Cousin Phillis Holman, a gifted, well-read minister's daughter whose life is shaped by hard work, faith, and the close-knit rhythms of family. Phillis is intelligent and passionate, yet sheltered, and Paul quickly finds himself drawn into t...
Dec 22, 2022•3 hr 53 min•Ep. 613
Peace on Earth, Good Will to Dogs by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott audiobook. Genre: romance If you don't like Christmas stories, don't read this one! And if you don't like dogs, I don't know just what to advise you to do! For I warn you perfectly frankly that I am distinctly pro-dog and distinctly pro-Christmas, and would like to bring to this little story whatever whiff of fir-balsam I can cajole from the make-believe forest in my typewriter, and every glitter of tinsel, smudge of toy candle, crack...
Dec 22, 2022•2 hr 8 min•Ep. 612
Pollyanna Grows Up by Eleanor H. Porter audiobook. Genre: family Pollyanna, now cured of her crippling spinal injury, and able to walk again, goes to live in Boston with Mrs. Carew, a heart-broken woman searching for her lost nephew. Her Aunt Polly goes abroad with her new Uncle, Dr. Chilton. While in Boston, Pollyanna meets new friends and has several interesting adventures... A startling change in Aunt Polly's and Pollyanna's circumstances require Pollyanna to come up with a workable solution....
Dec 22, 2022•9 hr 12 min•Ep. 611
Just David by Eleanor H. Porter audiobook. Genre: family After the death of his beloved father, a gentle, wide-eyed boy named David is sent from a lonely mountain home to live with relatives he has never met. He arrives with little more than a violin, a few simple habits shaped by hardship, and a disarming way of seeing the best in everyone. In the small New England town of Bethel, David is taken in by his stern, reclusive uncle, Eben Holly, whose years of bitterness have walled off his heart fr...
Dec 21, 2022•6 hr 52 min•Ep. 610
The Steam Man of the Prairies by Edward S. Ellis audiobook. Genre: adventure When the vast American frontier still feels unmapped and unforgiving, teenage adventurers Johnny Brainerd and his friend Kit discover a startling invention that seems torn from a dream: a towering, human-shaped machine powered by steam and built to stride across the open prairie. Guided by its brilliant young creator, the boys are swept into a high-speed journey where ingenuity becomes their greatest weapon and the wild...
Dec 21, 2022•3 hr 12 min•Ep. 609
Nonsense Verses by Edward Lear audiobook. Genre: poetry This is a collection of some of the delightful nonsense verses and stories by Edward Lear. A lot of them are also my favorites. The Jumblies, The Owl and the Pussy-cat; the Broom, the Shovel, The Poker and the Tongs; The Duck and the Kangaroo; The Cummerbund; The Dong with the Luminous Nose; The New Vestments; Calico Pie; The courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo and Incidents in the Life of My Uncle Arly. Also included at no extra cost are two...
Dec 21, 2022•46 min•Ep. 608
A Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear audiobook. Genre: poetry Edward Lear's A Book of Nonsense is a mischievous classic of comic verse that invites listeners into a world where logic takes a holiday and language becomes a toy. First published in the Victorian era and best known for its sparkling limericks, this collection parades an unforgettable cast: the Old Person of Peru, the Old Man with a beard, the Old Person of Phil-a-delphia, and dozens more eccentrics whose odd habits, wild inventions, an...
Dec 21, 2022•31 min•Ep. 607
Masters of Space by Edward E. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifi In Masters of Space, classic pulp-era science fiction expands from a hard-nosed naval expedition into a mystery about vanished powers that once ruled the galaxy. Jarvis Hilton, a young but driven leader, is put in charge of Project Theta Orionis: a handpicked team of scientists and officers aboard the warship Perseus, sent far from Earth to secure vital radioactive fuel ore and prove that humanity can push into deeper space. Tensions ab...
Dec 21, 2022•6 hr 54 min•Ep. 606
A Short History of the US by Edward Channing audiobook. Genre: history Written for students and general readers, Edward Channing's A Short History of the United States distills the long sweep of American development into a clear, tightly organized narrative. Beginning with early voyages, exploration, and the first European footholds, Channing traces the hard work of colonization, the growth of regional societies, and the steady pressures that pushed separate colonies toward cooperation and confl...
Dec 21, 2022•8 hr 33 min•Ep. 605
The Dancing Girls by Edna Ferber audiobook. Genre: drama In The Dancing Girls, Edna Ferber gathers four sharp, warmhearted stories about ordinary people pushed to their limits by class, family obligation, and war. In the title tale, Chippewa, Wisconsin, is split cleanly by money and by the railroad tracks. Floyd 'Chug' Scaritt, a talented young garage owner and irresistible dance partner, knows exactly where he stands - until a late-night accident and the sudden demands of World War I briefly sc...
Dec 21, 2022•2 hr 48 min•Ep. 604
Roast Beef, Medium by Edna Ferber audiobook. Genre: drama This book follows the adventures of Emma McChesney, a smart and savvy divorced mother who travels the Midwest as a sales representative for a large skirt and petticoat manufacturer. Her many adventures with people, (including predatory salesmen and hotel clerks), are funny and poignant. She is hardworking and able to outsell the slickest of the men salesmen. She has learned to focus on her work and her seventeen-year-old son, Jock. Experi...
Dec 21, 2022•4 hr 58 min•Ep. 603
Personality Plus by Edna Ferber audiobook. Genre: drama Set in bustling early 1900s New York, Personality Plus follows Emma McChesney, a stylish, sharp-witted divorced mother who has fought her way up from life on the road to a coveted seat in the office as partner in the T. A. Buck Featherloom Petticoat Company. With a real home at last and a new level of responsibility, Emma expects challenges - but not necessarily from the person she loves most. Her son, Jock, is twenty-one and determined to ...
Dec 21, 2022•2 hr 51 min•Ep. 602
One Basket by Edna Ferber audiobook. Genre: drama One Basket gathers Edna Ferber's most memorable short fiction into a single, wide-ranging portrait of American life, chosen and introduced by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author herself. Spanning decades and shifting from small-town streets to city apartments, from cramped kitchens to prosperous parlors, these stories follow people caught between what they want and what their communities will allow. Women stand at the center: a notorious beauty try...
Dec 21, 2022•5 hr 14 min•Ep. 601
The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton audiobook. Genre: history Set in late 18th-century Italy on the eve of the French Revolution, Edith Wharton's debut novel follows Odo Valsecca, a sensitive boy raised among peasants who learns that his blood ties him to a ruling house. When a sudden turn of fortune draws him into aristocratic life and positions him to inherit the dukedom of Pianura, Odo arrives with a reformer's hopes shaped by Enlightenment ideas and by the hardships he has witnessed at t...
Dec 21, 2022•17 hr 5 min•Ep. 600
The Touchstone by Edith Wharton audiobook. Genre: drama In turn-of-the-century New York, Stephen Glennard is a promising but faltering man of letters with one urgent desire: to marry Alexa Trent, the gracious woman he loves. But with his career slipping and money running out, Stephen finds himself trapped between respectability and desperation. A tempting opportunity appears when he realizes he still possesses a cache of intensely personal letters written to him by Margaret Aubyn, a celebrated a...
Dec 21, 2022•2 hr 47 min•Ep. 599
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton audiobook. Genre: drama Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth follows Lily Bart, a beautiful, intelligent young woman trying to secure her place in New York's glittering Gilded Age society. With little money of her own and mounting debts, Lily must navigate a world where status is currency and marriage is often treated as a transaction. Moving between lavish drawing rooms, country weekends, and whispered gossip, she balances her desire for comfort and independenc...
Dec 21, 2022•12 hr 47 min•Ep. 598
