The Black Candle by Emily Murphy audiobook. Genre: history First published in 1922, The Black Candle is Emily F. Murphy's hard-hitting and highly influential exposé on narcotics in early 20th-century Canada. Writing from the vantage point of a public magistrate (and drawing on earlier journalism under her pen name, Janey Canuck), Murphy assembles courtroom anecdotes, police accounts, medical claims, and sensational reportage to argue that opium, cocaine, morphine and heroin, and the then-new spe...
Jul 10, 2023•13 hr 45 min
File No. 113 by Emile Gaboriau audiobook. Genre: mystery As the story opens the impregnable safe of the Fauvel bank is robbed of 350,000 francs. As the only keyholders are Andre Fauvel the owner and his trusted head cashier it stands to reason that one of the two must be guilty. Both adamantly refute the charge. Enter the celebrated detective, and master of disguise, Monsieur Le coq who is determined to prove the accused Prosper Bertomy innocent and why he was framed. Believing the crimes linked...
Jul 10, 2023•15 hr 53 min
The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche audiobook. Genre: philosophy In The Birth of Tragedy, a young Friedrich Nietzsche sets out to explain how the greatest achievements of ancient Greek art emerged - and why modern culture so often feels artistically and spiritually exhausted. Moving from myth and music to drama and philosophy, Nietzsche argues that Greek tragedy was born from a volatile tension between two forces: the Apollonian impulse toward form, clarity, and luminous images, and the ...
Jul 08, 2023•7 hr 22 min
The Soul or Rational Psychology by Emanuel Swedenborg audiobook. Genre: philosophy In The Soul, or Rational Psychology, Emanuel Swedenborg brings the mind of an 18th-century scientist to one of humanity's oldest questions: what is the soul, and how does it work within a living person? Writing before his later visionary theological works, Swedenborg sets out to build a rational account of the soul's nature, its relationship to the body, and the inner machinery of human life - sensation, imaginati...
Jul 08, 2023•15 hr 29 min
Settlers of the Marsh by Frederick Philip Grove audiobook. Genre: tragedy In the Big Grassy Marsh country of northern Manitoba in the early twentieth century, Swedish immigrant Niels Lindstedt stakes everything on a simple, burning vision: clear the bush, break the stubborn soil, and build a home that proves he belongs in this new land. Through backbreaking work and fierce self-discipline, he begins to turn raw wilderness into a prosperous farm - and he fixes his hopes on Ellen Amundsen, the cap...
Jul 07, 2023•10 hr 16 min
Animal Ghosts by Elliott ODonnell audiobook. Genre: folklore In Animal Ghosts, noted ghost-hunter and storyteller Elliott O'Donnell turns his attention from haunted houses to the creatures that shared them, asking a provocative question: if human beings may survive death, why not animals? Framed by an impassioned preface arguing for animal souls and a just hereafter, the book unfolds as a casebook of eerie reports, letters, and traditional tales gathered from witnesses and old sources. O'Donnell...
Jul 07, 2023•7 hr 27 min
The Heart of the New Thought by Ella Wheeler Wilcox audiobook. Genre: self help In The Heart of the New Thought, bestselling poet and essayist Ella Wheeler Wilcox offers a clear, warmly persuasive introduction to the spiritual philosophy that helped shape early self-improvement movements in America. Speaking directly to the listener, Wilcox argues that the most decisive battles are fought in the unseen world of thought: fear versus faith, resentment versus forgiveness, and passive wishing versus...
Jul 07, 2023•2 hr 45 min
The Story of a Modern Woman by Ella Hepworth Dixon audiobook. Genre: drama Set in late-Victorian London at the height of the 'New Woman' debate, The Story of a Modern Woman follows Mary Erle, a bright, ambitious young writer trying to build a life on her own terms. When her family circumstances shift, Mary is forced to exchange genteel expectations for paid work, navigating the precarious world of journalism, publishing, and social connections where a woman's reputation can be made or broken by ...
Jul 06, 2023•7 hr 30 min
Wired Love - A Romance of Dots and Dashes by Ella Cheever Thayer audiobook. Genre: romance In the bustling, wire-laced world of late 19th-century America, Nattie Rogers lives by a strict code: keep your private life private, keep your feelings in check, and never mix romance with the telegraph key. A skilled operator known on the line by a crisp, professional handle, Nattie spends her days translating human urgency into dots and dashes and her nights guarding her independence in a society eager ...
Jul 06, 2023•5 hr 15 min
The Autobiography of a Newspaper Girl by Elizabeth L. Banks audiobook. Genre: comedy Elizabeth Banks was an American journalist and author. She grew up in Wisconsin, then lived in England the last forty years of her life. She became a regular contributor to English publications such as The Daily News, Punch, St James' Gazette, and London Illustrated. She created a sensation by recording her observations on the plight of the lower classes, which she researched posing as a housemaid, street sweepe...
Jul 06, 2023•9 hr 39 min
The Cave Girl by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure Blueblooded mama's boy Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones is swept overboard during a south seas voyage for his lifelong ill health. He finds himself on a jungle island. His bookish education has not prepared him to cope with these surroundings, and he is a coward. He is terrified when he encounters primitive, violent men, ape-like throwbacks in mankind's evolutionary history. He runs from them, but when he reaches a dead end, he successfu...
Jul 05, 2023•8 hr 39 min
The Book of All Power by Edgar Wallace audiobook. Genre: thriller The Book of All Power by Edgar Wallace is set in London at the beginning, and then the action moves to Russia. The story covers the period from 1910 to 1919 during which the Russian Revolution takes place and this results in drastic changes to Russian society. This book could be described as a romantic adventure story and the main characters are a weird assortment - Malcolm Hay, a young Englishman, a beautiful Grand Duchess of the...
Jul 05, 2023•5 hr 38 min
Secresy, or, the Ruin on the Rock by Eliza Fenwick audiobook. Genre: romance Told through an intimate web of letters, Eliza Fenwick's Secresy, or, the Ruin on the Rock draws listeners into a remote coastal estate where affection, reputation, and power collide. Caroline Ashburn, thoughtful and clear-eyed, writes with growing alarm about her friend Sibella Valmont, a young heiress kept under the stern rule of her uncle, Mr. Valmont. Behind the castle walls and the constant roar of the sea, Sibella...
Jul 05, 2023•12 hr 10 min
A Voyage to the Moon by Cyrano de Bergerac audiobook. Genre: scifi In A Voyage to the Moon, Cyrano de Bergerac launches a bold, mischievous tale that blends adventure with razor-edged satire. The narrator, a quick-witted skeptic with an appetite for daring theories, becomes obsessed with the possibility of life beyond Earth and devises a series of improbable schemes to reach the Moon. When his experiments finally hurl him into the heavens, he arrives in a world that is unmistakably alien yet unc...
Jul 04, 2023•3 hr 24 min
The Calico Cat by Charles Miner Thompson audiobook. Genre: comedy In a quiet village where reputation is everything, Solomon Peaslee is determined to be taken seriously. He has his eye on public respectability, and he is especially pleased with the prospect of serving on the grand jury, a role that feels like proof he has finally arrived. But the one thing that reliably unmans him is a bold, trespassing calico cat that treats his property as its personal kingdom. One impulsive night, Solomon dec...
Jul 04, 2023•2 hr 37 min
The Adopting of Rosa Marie by Carroll Watson Rankin audiobook. Genre: family Back at their beloved, tumble-down Dandelion Cottage in Lakeville, four inseparable friends - practical Jean Mapes, dramatic Marjory Vale, tenderhearted Mabel Bennett, and small but spirited Bettie Tucker - are determined to stretch the last warm days of the season into one more round of make-believe housekeeping. Then Mabel wanders too far from their usual haunts and comes home with an unexpected 'foundling': a quiet, ...
Jul 03, 2023•4 hr 39 min
The Mystery of the Sycamore by Carolyn Wells audiobook. Genre: mystery When Curtis Keefe, trusted secretary to former Massachusetts governor Samuel Appleby, accompanies his employer to a tense weekend at Sycamore Ridge, he expects political bargaining, not bloodshed. Appleby has come to the Connecticut estate of Daniel Wheeler, an old rival living under the shadow of a humiliating past and a punishing, conditional pardon that keeps his family balanced on the edge of ruin. Appleby wants Wheeler's...
Jul 03, 2023•7 hr 35 min
Crime, Its Causes and Remedies by Cesare Lombroso audiobook. Genre: science In Crime, Its Causes and Remedies, pioneering Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso lays out a sweeping, controversial attempt to explain why people commit crimes and how societies should respond. Writing at the crossroads of medicine, psychology, and emerging social science, Lombroso examines the criminal not only as a legal subject but as a human being shaped by heredity, environment, education, poverty, addiction, and...
Jul 03, 2023•15 hr 11 min
The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet by Burton Egbert Stevenson audiobook. Genre: mystery When a shipping mistake delivers an extraordinary Boule cabinet to the New York home of wealthy collector Philip Vantine, the windfall feels too dazzling to surrender. Vantine summons his friend and attorney, Lester, to help him untangle ownership and negotiate a price, but the cabinet arrives with a shadow: a stranger turns up dead inside Vantine's house, and the circumstances make no simple sense. Soon more m...
Jul 03, 2023•7 hr 13 min
Cocoa and Chocolate by Arthur W. Knapp audiobook. Genre: history As that heavenly bit of chocolate melts in our mouths, we give little thought as to where it came from, the arduous work that went in to its creation, and the complex process of its maturation from a bean to the delicacy we all enjoy. This 'little book' details everything you have ever wanted to know (and some things you never knew you wanted to know) about cocoa and chocolate from how the trees are planted and sustained to which c...
Jul 01, 2023•4 hr 53 min
George Muller of Bristol by Arthur T. Pierson audiobook. Genre: biography George Muller was a great hero of faith. His greatest aim was to demonstrate that God answers prayer and can be trusted for every minute detail of life. Spending countless hours asking God to provide his needs, he only relied upon God. God called him to care for orphans and he conducted his orphanage in the same way, on faith alone. When a certain need was apparent, they would immediately go to God in prayer. In this dynam...
Jul 01, 2023•12 hr 34 min
Alias Miss Sherlock by Arthur Lewis Tubbs audiobook. Genre: mystery When Dick Brewster is suddenly implicated in a murder, he vanishes to the one place he believes he can still trust: his aunt's quiet farm. But hiding is only a temporary refuge. As rumors tighten into accusation and the threat of arrest grows, Aunt Sarah refuses to let her nephew be sacrificed to circumstantial evidence. Practical, sharp-eyed, and far more fearless than anyone expects, she pushes the family to leave the countrys...
Jun 30, 2023•3 hr 3 min
Economics by Aristotle audiobook. Genre: philosophy In Economics, a short but influential treatise traditionally attributed to Aristotle, the listener enters the practical world of oikonomia - the art of running a household and managing property with intelligence, restraint, and purpose. Moving from the intimate sphere of family life to the wider concerns of cities and states, the work asks what it means to govern resources well: how to secure necessities, organize labor, oversee land and livest...
Jun 30, 2023•1 hr 3 min
The Clouds by Aristophanes audiobook. Genre: comedy In Aristophanes' sharp and playful comedy The Clouds, Athens is buzzing with new ideas, clever talkers, and fashionable philosophies - and one desperate man hopes to use them to save his skin. Strepsiades, a harried farmer buried under debts from his son Pheidippides' expensive tastes, hears of a strange school run by the infamous thinker Socrates. At this 'Thinkery,' students learn how to argue any side of any question, turning words into weap...
Jun 30, 2023•1 hr 42 min
The Real Mother Goose by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: folklore The Real Mother Goose is a beloved collection of traditional nursery rhymes and jingles passed down through generations, gathered under the timeless name 'Mother Goose.' Anonymous in authorship but unmistakable in cultural impact, this anthology invites listeners into a playful world of kings and cobblers, clever cats, mysterious maidens, bustling markets, and moonlit mischief. Each short verse stands on its own, yet together they cre...
Jun 29, 2023•2 hr 1 min
An Introduction to Yoga by Annie Besant audiobook. Genre: philosophy First delivered as four public lectures in Benares in 1907, Annie Besant's An Introduction to Yoga invites the listener into yoga not as a set of gymnastic poses, but as a disciplined science of consciousness. Speaking as a leading figure in the Theosophical movement, Besant sets out to make India's spiritual psychology intelligible to Western readers while remaining rooted in the classical tradition of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras....
Jun 29, 2023•3 hr 58 min
Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth by Anne Robert Jacques Turgot audiobook. Genre: business Written by French statesman and economist Anne Robert Jacques Turgot in the eighteenth century, Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth is a compact but far-reaching guide to how societies create prosperity and how that prosperity moves through different hands. Speaking to readers who want more than slogans about markets or inequality, Turgot builds from everyday reali...
Jun 29, 2023•2 hr 52 min
Cynthia Wakeham's Money by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery When ambitious young New York lawyer Frank Etheridge is abruptly summoned to Flatbush to draft the last will of the dying Cynthia Wakeham, he expects an unpleasant errand and a quick fee. Instead, he finds a once-grand house stripped to the bone, a terrified woman clinging to her final choices, and a hungry relative, Hiram Huckins, hovering for an inheritance. Cynthia's papers point to a missing sister, Harriet Smith, and ...
Jun 29, 2023•8 hr 59 min
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos audiobook. Genre: comedy A witty, sparkling satire of money, romance, and American ambition, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes follows Lorelei Lee, a charming young woman with a sharp eye for diamonds and an even sharper sense of how the world works. Told through Lorelei's breezy diary entries, the story tracks her whirlwind travels from New York to Europe alongside her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, whose independent streak and quick tongue make her both Lorelei's part...
Jun 28, 2023•3 hr 39 min
The Gospel of Wealth by Andrew Carnegie audiobook. Genre: business What is the proper mode of administering great wealth? It is to address this question that steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie's famous essay 'Wealth', or more commonly known as 'The Gospel of Wealth' was written (in 1889). His answer – Philanthropy. Not just any philanthropy, but specifically, projects funded and overseen during the life of the magnate, for things that benefit the community and engage the public in maintaining long aft...
Jun 28, 2023•1 hr 19 min
