Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw audiobook. Genre: drama Pygmalion (1913) is a play by George Bernard Shaw based on the Greek myth of the same name. It tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics (based on phonetician Henry Sweet), who makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can successfully pass off a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, as a refined society lady by teaching her how to speak with an upper class accent and training her in etiquette. In the process, ...
Jan 17, 2023•2 hr 48 min•Ep. 687
Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw audiobook. Genre: drama In Mrs. Warren's Profession, George Bernard Shaw turns a drawing-room visit into a razor-sharp confrontation with the economics of respectability. Vivie Warren is young, brilliant, and determined to build an independent life through hard work and clear thinking. But when she finally spends time with her mother, Kitty Warren, the polished story of success that has always hovered at the edge of their relationship begins to cra...
Jan 13, 2023•2 hr 56 min•Ep. 686
Arms and The Man by George Bernard Shaw audiobook. Genre: comedy Arms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw that takes place in 1885, during the Serbo-Bulgarian War. Raina Petkoff is engaged to the gallant Sergius Saranoff, hero of the recent Bulgarian victory over the Serbs. But she is distracted by the abrupt arrival of Captain Bluntschli, a Swiss mercenary who fought for the Serbian army. He takes refuge in her bedroom after the battle and although he is initially threatening, reveal...
Jan 13, 2023•2 hr 55 min•Ep. 685
A Columbus of Space by Garrett P. Serviss audiobook. Genre: scifi Edmund Stonewall is a quiet, brilliant eccentric whose true obsession is not wealth or fame, but the outer limits of human possibility. When he finally invites a few friends from his New York club circle - including the bold, joking Jack Ashton and the sharper-edged Henry Darton - into his private workshop, he unveils an astonishing vehicle: a compact air-and-space car driven by controlled inter-atomic power. What begins as a demo...
Jan 13, 2023•7 hr 37 min•Ep. 684
The Sign of the Broken Sword by G. K. Chesterton audiobook. Genre: mystery In the freezing English countryside, Father Brown leads Flambeau to the many monuments and shrines of the great General St. Claire. 'Sacred to the Memory of General Sir Arthur St. Clare, Hero and Martyr, who Always Vanquished his Enemies and Always Spared Them, and Was Treacherously Slain by Them At Last. May God in Whom he Trusted both Reward and Revenge him.' is the inscription that they read on each of them. Flambeau k...
Jan 13, 2023•52 min•Ep. 683
St. Francis of Assisi by G. K. Chesterton audiobook. Genre: biography For Chesterton, Francis of Assisi is a great paradoxical figure, a man who loved women but vowed himself to chastity; an artist who loved the pleasures of the natural world as few have loved them, but vowed himself to the most austere poverty, stripping himself naked in the public square so all could see that he had renounced his worldly goods; a clown who stood on his head in order to see the world aright. Chesterton gives us...
Jan 13, 2023•5 hr•Ep. 682
Heretics by G. K. Chesterton audiobook. Genre: religion The Author Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere 'rollicking journalist,' he was actually a prolific and gifted writer in virtually every area of literature. A man of strong opinions and enormously talented at defending them, his exuberant personality nevertheless allowed him to maintain warm friendships with people--such as George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells--wit...
Jan 12, 2023•7 hr 22 min•Ep. 681
The Cat of Bubastes by G. A. Henty audiobook. Genre: adventure G.A. Henty’s “tale of ancient Egypt” tells the story of Amuba, prince of the Rebu, who is taken captive when his people are conquered by the Egyptians, and then becomes the servant and companion of Chebron, son of the high priest of Osiris. A mystery unfolds as the lads find evidence of a murderous conspiracy within the ranks of the priesthood; but they must then flee for their lives when they unintentionally kill the cat selected as...
Jan 12, 2023•11 hr•Ep. 680
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky audiobook. Genre: drama In the stifling heat and grinding poverty of St. Petersburg, former student Rodion Raskolnikov is barely surviving - hungry, isolated, and consumed by a private theory that certain extraordinary people can step beyond moral law. When desperation and pride drive him toward a reckless act, he finds that the real punishment is not only legal consequence but the crushing weight of conscience. As he tries to outthink suspicion and jus...
Jan 12, 2023•22 hr 10 min•Ep. 679
The Night of the Long Knives by Fritz Leiber audiobook. Genre: fantasy 'I was one hundred miles from Nowhere—and I mean that literally—when I spotted this girl out of the corner of my eye. I'd been keeping an extra lookout because I still expected the other undead bugger left over from the murder party at Nowhere to be stalking me.' In a Post apocalyptic world, the few people left must be strong. And must not hesitate to kill. Of course, killing another Deathlander was one of the chief pleasures...
Jan 12, 2023•3 hr 27 min•Ep. 678
The Creature from Cleveland Depths by Fritz Leiber audiobook. Genre: scifi In a near-future America where the Cold War has turned catastrophically hot, most citizens have retreated underground into vast, self-contained cities beneath places like Cleveland. Up on the scarred surface live the holdouts: independent-minded eccentrics who refuse the safety-and-control bargain of the depths. Gusterson, a sharp-tongued writer who stays topside with his wife Fay, is one of the last people the undergroun...
Jan 11, 2023•2 hr 14 min•Ep. 677
The 64-Square Madhouse by Fritz Leiber audiobook. Genre: scifi At an international Grand Master chess tournament, a newcomer arrives that does not eat, sleep, or feel nerves: a humming, ozone-scented machine built to play chess at the highest level. Reporter Sandra Lea Grayling has come to cover the event, expecting colorful egos and quiet battles across the board. Instead, she finds herself at the center of a contest that feels like a preview of the future. As the machine is paired against cele...
Jan 11, 2023•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 676
No Great Magic by Fritz Leiber audiobook. Genre: scifi Greta has nowhere to go and no past she can remember. Agoraphobic, amnesiac, and living like a backstage orphan, she has been taken in by a scrappy Shakespeare repertory troupe that performs in Central Park. From the safety of the dressing room and its wonderland of costumes and props, she stitches hems, fetches wigs, and watches strong personalities collide - especially Sid Lessingham, a grandstanding actor-manager with a taste for theatric...
Jan 11, 2023•1 hr 58 min•Ep. 675
Nice Girl With 5 Husbands by Fritz Leiber audiobook. Genre: scifi Tom Dorset arrives at a secluded artists' retreat in the desert hoping the quiet will cure his creative drought. Instead, he meets Lois Wolver, a bright, disarming young woman who casually introduces a complication that stops Tom cold: she has five husbands. Before Tom can decide whether he has stumbled onto a joke, a cult, or a scandal, Lois invites him into the orbit of the Wolvers' tight-knit household - a deliberate experiment...
Jan 11, 2023•2 hr 2 min•Ep. 674
The Tunnel Under the World by Frederik Pohl audiobook. Genre: scifi Guy Burckhardt wakes to the bright familiarity of Tingly, Ohio, with its tidy lawns, friendly neighbors, and the promise of another ordinary day. Yet small glitches keep snagging his attention: a billboard that seems to speak directly to him, conversations that loop back on themselves, and a creeping sense that the town's cheerful routines are too perfectly timed. When Guy begins comparing notes with his wife, Dianne, and watchi...
Jan 11, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 673
The Knights of Arthur by Frederik Pohl audiobook. Genre: scifi After the Third World War, New York City is a hollowed-out ruin of scavengers, broken factions, and improvised rules. Into this wreckage come three unlikely partners: Sam Dunlap and Vern Engdahl, sailors trying to stay alive one day at a time, and Arthur - a compact machine intelligence with a brain built for command, logistics, and survival. Arthur is valuable in a way food and bullets cannot match: he can organize people, run syste...
Jan 11, 2023•1 hr 49 min•Ep. 672
Search the Sky by Frederik Pohl audiobook. Genre: scifi Ross was a junior trader on Halsey's Planet, and had great prospects but was not happy at all. Everything smelled of decay. The whole planet seemed to be slowly disappearing, the population dwindling month by month and year by year and yet no one seemd to care or even notice. Something was very, very wrong. When the first interstellar transport in 30 years arrived on Halsey's Planet, it brought things to a head. The ship had touched on six ...
Jan 11, 2023•7 hr 1 min•Ep. 671
Over Prairie Trails by Frederick Philip Grove audiobook. Genre: drama When Frederick Philip Grove settled in a remote area of Manitoba in the early years of the 20th century, he found work teaching in a school over 30 miles from his home. He commuted by horse-and-wagon or horse-and-sleigh each weekend, and seven of those long and challenging journeys are recorded in “Over Prairie Trails,” published in 1922. Grove has a sharp eye for details of nature that were of life-and-death importance to the...
Jan 10, 2023•6 hr 1 min•Ep. 670
The Web of the Golden Spider by Frederick Orin Bartlett audiobook. Genre: mystery The Web of the Golden Spider is a tale of mystery, intrigue and adventure that begins in the city, progresses to a mutinous open sea voyage, eventually leading to the remotest areas on the slopes of the Andes of South America. Wilson, our hero, finds himself in the midst of a battle between a deposed queen and revolutionists who have banded together in an effort to bring their country together as a republic. Wilson...
Jan 10, 2023•10 hr 49 min•Ep. 669
The Mystery of the Ravenspurs by Fred M. White audiobook. Genre: mystery Ravenspur Castle, crouched above the North Sea, should be a monument to centuries of English pride. Instead it has become a fortress of dread. For five years the great Ravenspur family has been thinning in a chain of deaths so strange they look like accidents, yet too perfectly timed to be chance - poison, falls, drownings, disappearances - and Scotland Yard can find no clue. citeturn2view0 With only a handful of Ravensp...
Jan 10, 2023•12 hr 13 min•Ep. 668
The Harbor of Doubt by Frank Williams audiobook. Genre: mystery When young fishing captain Code Schofield staggers home as the sole survivor of a wreck at sea, he expects grief and hard work, not whispers. Six months after the schooner May Schofield goes down in an Atlantic gale near the rocky islands off Grande Mignon, the tight-knit communities of Freekirk Head and the surrounding coast begin to turn on him. Old friends avert their eyes, dockside gossip hardens into accusation, and the facts t...
Jan 10, 2023•8 hr 25 min•Ep. 667
Buccaneers and the Pirates of Our Coast by Frank Richard Stockton audiobook. Genre: history In Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts, Frank Richard Stockton turns a boyhood fascination with sea rovers into a brisk, story-driven history of piracy in the Caribbean and along the American shoreline. Stockton begins by tracing how the first buccaneers emerged from rough frontier life and escalating conflict with Spanish power, then follows piracy as it becomes a trade, a temptation, and finally a scou...
Jan 05, 2023•7 hr 15 min•Ep. 666
3 Science Fiction Stories by Frank Herbert audiobook. Genre: scifi In 3 Science Fiction Stories, Frank Herbert showcases the sharp, unsettling imagination that would later make him famous, through three compact tales from the late 1950s. In Missing Link, junior Interstellar Agency fieldman Lewis Orne lands on the jungle world of Gienah III to investigate a vanished human ship, only to find that the planet's inhabitants may now hold technology they were never meant to touch, and that a single mis...
Jan 05, 2023•2 hr 9 min•Ep. 665
Concerning Genealogies by Frank Allaben audiobook. Genre: history In Concerning Genealogies (1904), Frank Allaben - a New York publisher and professional compiler of family histories - invites ordinary readers into the surprisingly gripping world of ancestry hunting, while warning them away from the easy mistakes that make so many pedigrees unreliable. Part practical handbook and part spirited essay, the book follows the genealogist from the first questions asked at home to the deeper chase thro...
Jan 05, 2023•2 hr 1 min•Ep. 664
The Tragic Bride by Francis Brett Young audiobook. Genre: tragedy In remote Connemara, Ireland, Gabrielle Hewish grows up as the solitary heir to Roscarna, a fading Anglo-Irish estate held together by stubborn tradition and the unreliable charm of her widowed father, Sir Jocelyn Hewish. With only servants and the harsh beauty of the countryside for company, Gabrielle learns early how silence can shape a life - and how easily affection can be mistaken for rescue. A rare journey beyond Roscarna br...
Jan 05, 2023•6 hr 11 min•Ep. 663
Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett audiobook. Genre: family In Little Lord Fauntleroy, Frances Hodgson Burnett introduces Cedric Errol, a warm-hearted American boy raised in modest comfort by his devoted mother in New York City. Cedric's life changes overnight when word arrives from England: his stern, wealthy grandfather - the Earl of Dorincourt - has no other heirs, and Cedric is summoned across the Atlantic to become the future lord of an ancient estate. Thrust into a world of ...
Jan 05, 2023•6 hr 36 min•Ep. 662
The Lone Ranger Rides by Fran Striker audiobook. Genre: adventure In a remote Texas basin ruled by the ruthless Cavendish clan, the law is something powerful men bend to their will. When a small band of Texas Rangers rides into the territory to investigate trouble in Bryant's Gap, they are met with sudden violence and betrayal, leaving one badly wounded survivor with little more than grit and a badge that suddenly feels like a burden. As he fights to stay alive and understand who set the trap, f...
Jan 05, 2023•8 hr 8 min•Ep. 661
Twilight in Italy by D. H. Lawrence audiobook. Genre: history In Twilight in Italy, D. H. Lawrence turns travel into a fiercely attentive way of seeing. Moving through northern Italian lakes and hill towns, he writes as an outsider who is both enchanted and unsettled, recording the physical textures of place - stone streets, cold mountain air, sudden gardens - and the human drama that gathers in kitchens, churches, and crowded public squares. Along the way he meets innkeepers, laborers, priests,...
Jan 05, 2023•5 hr 45 min•Ep. 660
The White Peacock by D. H. Lawrence audiobook. Genre: drama Set in the English countryside at the turn of the 20th century, The White Peacock follows two young friends, Cyril Beardsall and George Saxton, as they drift from boyhood ease into the complicated moral weather of adulthood. Cyril, sensitive and observant, records the rhythms of farms, lanes, and village gatherings with a poet's eye, but his quiet perspective is tested when he becomes entangled in the desires and disappointments of the ...
Jan 04, 2023•13 hr 2 min•Ep. 659
The Trespasser by D. H. Lawrence audiobook. Genre: tragedy Brief Encounter meets Tristan und Isolde - on the Isle of Wight, under a vast sky florid with stars. The consequence is tragic indeed for one of the parties, Siegmund, when he sacrifices family life for a few days’ transcendent rapture. His lover, the self-contained Helena, is strong enough to bear a return to the scruffy suburbs. Redemption of a kind is granted to the deserted wife, Beatrice. But between these robust Lawrentian women Si...
Jan 04, 2023•10 hr 55 min•Ep. 658
