The Angel of the Revolution by George Griffith audiobook. Genre: scifi The Angel of the Revolution: A Tale of the Coming Terror (1893) is a science fiction novel by English writer George Griffith. It was his first published novel and remains his most famous work. It was first published in Pearson's Weekly and was prompted by the success of The Great War of 1892 in Black and White magazine, which was itself inspired by The Battle of Dorking. A lurid mix of Jules Verne's futuristic air warfare fan...
Oct 14, 2023•14 hr 12 min
The Crocodile by Fyodor Dostoyevsky audiobook. Genre: comedy In a glittering St Petersburg arcade, a minor civil servant named Ivan Matveich takes his ambitious young wife Elena and their friend to admire the modern wonders of commerce and foreign goods. The outing turns instantly grotesque when Ivan, showing off with smug curiosity, provokes a placid exhibition crocodile and is swallowed whole - not killed, but trapped alive inside the animal as it continues to sit on display. What follows is a...
Oct 13, 2023•1 hr 42 min
Early Greek Philosophy & Other Essays by Friedrich Nietzsche audiobook. Genre: philosophy In Early Greek Philosophy & Other Essays, Friedrich Nietzsche turns to the origins of Western thought, reading the earliest Greek thinkers not as dusty names in a timeline but as daring psychological types and cultural forces. Moving from the pre-Socratics through the atmosphere that produced Socrates and Plato, Nietzsche reconstructs a world where philosophy, poetry, religion, and politics were sti...
Oct 13, 2023•6 hr 52 min
The Landlady by Fyodor Dostoyevsky audiobook. Genre: drama In The Landlady, Fyodor Dostoyevsky draws listeners into the foggy courtyards and cramped rooms of St Petersburg, where a lonely young intellectual, Vasily Ordynov, searches for cheap lodging and a quiet place to work. He finds it in the home of a strange pair: Katerina, a beautiful and frightened young woman, and Murin, an aging, enigmatic man who seems to hold her in a grip that is part guardian, part jailer, and part something darker....
Oct 12, 2023•4 hr 21 min
Some American Storytellers by Frederic Taber Cooper audiobook. Genre: history In Some American Storytellers, editor and critic Frederic Taber Cooper offers a guided tour of American fiction at the turn of the twentieth century, introducing listeners to a vivid lineup of popular writers and the distinct narrative gifts that made them household names. Part literary portrait, part close reading, these essays trace how each author wins attention and trust - through voice, character, atmosphere, humo...
Oct 12, 2023•8 hr 3 min
Capital and Interest by Frederic Bastiat audiobook. Genre: business Frédéric Bastiat was an early 19th century French economist/statesman whose common sense essays tried to battle the rise of socialist ideology after the French revolution, where provisional governments were rivaling each other for power. Of central concern was who should control the money. How is wealth created? How should it be divided amongst the people? What services should government provide? Same questions we are asking now...
Oct 11, 2023•1 hr 31 min
Henry D. Thoreau by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn audiobook. Genre: biography Written by Concord reformer and firsthand acquaintance Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Henry D. Thoreau offers an intimate portrait of the man behind Walden and the era that shaped him. Drawing on personal memories, family testimony, and the literary circles of Emerson and the Transcendentalists, Sanborn follows Thoreau from his New England roots and youth through his emergence as a restless scholar, precise observer of nature,...
Oct 11, 2023•7 hr 6 min
The Mistress of Shenstone by Florence Louisa Barclay audiobook. Genre: romance When war draws Lord Ingleby away from Shenstone Park, his wife, Lady Myra, becomes the lonely guardian of a great country house that feels too vast for one heart, one small toy poodle, and a growing fear of what each telegram might bring. Florence L. Barclay sets Myra amid autumn terraces, shuttered rooms, and watchful servants who see more than they say, then sends her beyond the safety of her title and estate when d...
Oct 10, 2023•5 hr 54 min
Harry Dee; or Making it Out by Francis J. Finn audiobook. Genre: mystery Harry Dee has barely recovered from a nightmare of a childhood when he is sent to St. Maure's, the Catholic boarding school where Tom Playfair and Percy Wynn have learned, the hard way, what it means to grow up. Thin, jumpy, and prone to sleepwalking, Harry carries a burden no boy should bear: the shadow of his wealthy uncle's violent death, a scandal of missing money, and the uneasy sense that the truth is still loose in t...
Oct 10, 2023•9 hr 2 min
The Yellow Holly by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery In fogbound Bloomsbury, Madame Jersey runs a shabby-genteel boarding house in Amelia Square, a refuge for the respectable and the ruined alike. Her weekly Friday 'At Home' gathers a gallery of odd lodgers and faded acquaintances, until a newcomer arrives: Leonard Train, a self-styled novelist hunting 'Old-World types' for his next book. When Train's friend George Brendon drops in, he wears a rare sprig of yellow holly in his coat, and the...
Oct 09, 2023•10 hr 55 min
The Third Volume by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery A widely publicized and unsolved murder of five and twenty years is brought to the forefront in a best-selling novel entitled “A Whim of Fate'. While Spencer Tait is looking forward to reading it, his best friend Claude Larcher, learns of the tragic death of his father which mirrors every detail of the new book. Not believing it to be a coincidence the two friends resolve to discover what truly happened so many years ago and who committed...
Oct 09, 2023•9 hr 12 min
The Sealed Message by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery On a blazing summer afternoon in an English riverside village, friends Gerald Haskins and Tod Macandrew are fishing when their line snags something far stranger than a trout: a tin cylinder sealed tight against the water. Inside lies a phonograph record, and on it a clear, haunting voice - a young woman calling herself Mavis Durham - begs for help, hinting that she is being held in secret and waiting for a rescuer she calls her fairy pr...
Oct 07, 2023•8 hr 35 min
Bransford Of Rainbow Range by Eugene Manlove Rhodes audiobook. Genre: adventure A genuine cowboy who speaks a bit of Greek? Ditto a bit of The Litany? And more than a little verse, including (would you believe?) Alice In Wonderland. What kind of young man do we have here? And a young woman who matches him without effort? And a definitely literate narrator with his tongue firmly inserted in cheek. There’s a bank robbery and an attempted murder. A desperate ride across the desert and a warm welcom...
Oct 06, 2023•5 hr 44 min
The Hundredth Chance by Ethel M. Dell audiobook. Genre: romance In this prequel to 'Charles Rex'' by Ethel M. Dell you will meet the aristocratic blackguard Lord Saltash for whom our distressed heroine Maude Brian still holds deep feelings. Dedicated to the care of her younger crippled brother whom she adores, Maude eventually agrees to a marriage of convenience in order to escape from a home which has become unbearable after her mother marries a brutish hotel owner. Jake, an honest, strong and ...
Oct 06, 2023•16 hr 51 min
Charles Rex by Ethel M. Dell audiobook. Genre: romance Excerpt: 'Saltash was thoroughly cosmopolitan in his tastes; he liked amusement but he abhorred boredom. He was never really wicked unless he was bored. And then- que voulez vous? He did not guide the star of destiny.' On his last night in Valrosa, Saltash (Charles Rex) returns to his luxurious yacht to find a stowaway, a young woman disguised as a boy. She pleads to be kept by him in order to escape from her abuser. Although ill used by lif...
Oct 05, 2023•10 hr 25 min
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway audiobook. Genre: drama The Sun Also Rises (1926) was Hemingway's first novel to be published, though there is his novella The Torrents of Spring which was published earlier in the same year. The novel describes, expressed through the voice of Jake Barnes, a short period of social life that ranges from Paris to locations in Spain. One might say that the action occurs in Pamplona, Spain with the annual festival of San Fermin and its running of bulls and subs...
Oct 05, 2023•6 hr 56 min
Discourses of Epictetus by Epictetus audiobook. Genre: philosophy Born into slavery and later freed, Epictetus became one of the most influential teachers of Stoic philosophy in the Roman world. Discourses of Epictetus collects the lively, practical lessons recorded by his student Arrian, preserving the feel of a classroom where sharp questions meet sharper answers. Moving from everyday annoyances to life-altering setbacks, Epictetus challenges listeners to separate what is truly under their con...
Oct 04, 2023•14 hr 11 min
The Markets of Paris by Emile Zola audiobook. Genre: drama The Markets of Paris is a remarkable work, and is the one which Zola calls his very best novel, and of which he is far more proud than of any others in his Rougon-Marquart series – prouder than of L’Assommoir. It must have been in his early manhood, when poor and friendless, he lived among the people, that much of the information which makes these pages so startlingly vivid, was acquired. How many mornings, long before dawn, must he have...
Oct 03, 2023•7 hr 35 min
Nana by Emile Zola audiobook. Genre: tragedy In the glittering yet rotten heart of Paris under the Second Empire, Nana rises from the working-class streets to become the city's most notorious courtesan. Introduced amid the heat of the theater world, she is young, magnetic, and dangerous, a woman whose beauty turns desire into obsession and appetite into ruin. As financiers, aristocrats, politicians, and soldiers compete for her attention, Zola follows the ripple effect of Nana's presence through...
Oct 03, 2023•16 hr 14 min
My Flirtations by Ella Hepworth Dixon audiobook. Genre: comedy Many novels, most notably Hannah Webster's The Coquette, focused on how terrible it is for a woman to flirt before her marriage. 'I did not speak 20 sentences before sir Robert proposed to me', explained Lady Bidulph while teaching her daughter how to court properly in 'Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph'. A coquette must be a fool, wicked, and immoral. But Peggy is none of these. She sees things as they are, sometimes too much for her o...
Oct 02, 2023•2 hr 59 min
The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rugen by Elizabeth von Arnim audiobook. Genre: adventure In this semi-autobiographical travel comedy of manners, Elizabeth von Arnim sends her quick-witted alter ego, Elizabeth, off to the Baltic island of Rugen in the summer of 1901 with an unlikely expedition: a maid, a driver, a carriage stacked with luggage, and a woman friend who seems determined to knit through every surprise the road can offer. Elizabeth dreams of exploring the island on foot for the pure fr...
Oct 02, 2023•8 hr 34 min
The Women of the American Revolution Volume 1 by Elizabeth F. Ellet audiobook. Genre: history In The Women of the American Revolution, Volume 1, historian Elizabeth F. Ellet turns the spotlight from battlefields and legislatures to the households, roads, camps, and occupied towns where the struggle for independence was also fought. Drawing on letters, reminiscences, and early records, Ellet presents vivid biographical portraits of women whose courage and resourcefulness shaped the Revolution in ...
Sep 30, 2023•8 hr 7 min
The Adventures of an Ugly Girl by Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett audiobook. Genre: romance In late-Victorian England, Dora Courtenay has grown up in the shadow of her dazzling older sister, Belle, whose casual cruelty keeps Dora branded as the family 'ugly girl.' With only her brother Jerry offering steady kindness, Dora faces each day armored with sharp wit and a stubborn refusal to disappear. When their father brings home a new wife, the gentle and aristocratic Lady Elizabeth, Dora hopes for a fre...
Sep 29, 2023•7 hr 41 min
Perkins, the Fakeer - A Travesty on Reincarnation by Edward S. Van Zile audiobook. Genre: comedy Edward S. Van Zile's Perkins, the Fakeer is a trio of comic, uncanny case histories, each allegedly set in motion by Perkins, a Yankee-turned-India adept whose peculiar powers trigger baffling psychic transpositions. In When Reginald Was Caroline, respectable spouses Reginald and Caroline wake to an impossible predicament: their minds have exchanged bodies. As servants knock at the door and the day’s...
Sep 29, 2023•6 hr 15 min
The Girl From Hollywood by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: mystery Edgar Rice Burroughs steps away from jungle adventure into a hard-edged tale of America in the 1920s, where wide-open ranch country collides with the glitter and rot of the movie business. On a remote California spread, the Penningtons pride themselves on decency and hard work, but their son Custer is tested when his longtime friend Grace Evans dreams of leaving home to become an actress. In Hollywood, another young woman,...
Sep 28, 2023•8 hr 4 min
The Raven and The Philosophy Of Composition by Edgar Allan Poe audiobook. Genre: poetry Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven and The Philosophy of Composition pairs one of the most famous narrative poems in American literature with the provocative essay in which Poe claims to explain how he built it. In The Raven, a sleepless narrator, raw with grief and memory, tries to read away the night when an unexpected visitor arrives: a raven that perches above his door and answers every question with the same un...
Sep 28, 2023•46 min
A Thief in the Night by E. W. Hornung audiobook. Genre: mystery In Edward W. Hornung's A Thief in the Night, London's most charming criminal steps out of the gentlemen's clubs and onto moonlit streets where reputation is a mask and burglary is an art. A. J. Raffles is a celebrated sportsman by day, a master thief by night, and he never works alone for long: his devoted friend and reluctant accomplice Bunny Manders tells the tale with equal parts admiration and dread. Together they navigate drawi...
Sep 27, 2023•6 hr 21 min
The Suffragette - The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement by E. Sylvia Pankhurst audiobook. Genre: history This history of the Women's Suffrage agitation is written at a time when the question is in the very forefront of British politics. What the immediate future holds for those women who are most actively engaged in fighting for their political freedom no one can foretell, but one thing is certain: complete victory for their cause is not far distant. When the long struggle for th...
Sep 27, 2023•13 hr 30 min
The Evil Shepherd by E. Phillips Oppenheim audiobook. Genre: thriller Fresh from a dazzling courtroom victory, London barrister Francis Ledsam believes he has done his duty: his client, Oliver Hilditch, has been acquitted of stabbing his business partner to death. Then a woman steps out of the crowd and shatters the evening's triumph. She introduces herself as Margaret Hilditch, and what she tells Ledsam turns professional pride into a private nightmare: the man he saved is not merely suspect, b...
Sep 26, 2023•8 hr 40 min
The Black Box by E. Phillips Oppenheim audiobook. Genre: mystery Sanford Quest is not a policeman, and he is not a magician - yet New York's most baffling crimes have a way of landing on his desk. Celebrated as the world's greatest criminologist, Quest relies on a cool, scientific mind, experimental gadgets, and a gift for reading human weakness to unravel cases everyone else has abandoned. When a strange chain of violence begins with an uncanny exhibit and a murder that refuses to make sense, Q...
Sep 26, 2023•11 hr 39 min
