William - The Fourth by Richmal Crompton audiobook. Genre: comedy In William - The Fourth, Richmal Crompton returns to the riotous world of eleven-year-old William Brown, self-appointed leader of the Outlaws and constant thorn in the side of respectable village life. William means well, in his own way, but his fierce sense of justice and unstoppable imagination turn every ordinary afternoon into a campaign. After overhearing grown-up talk about politics and equality, William decides it is time f...
Dec 08, 2023•5 hr 58 min
Anne of Geierstein, Volume 2 by Sir Walter Scott audiobook. Genre: adventure In Anne of Geierstein, Volume 2, Sir Walter Scott deepens his tale of perilous travel and political intrigue as the young Englishman Arthur Philipson and his wary companion, Sir Archibald of Ardennes, press onward through a Europe on the brink of upheaval. Guided and challenged by the proud Swiss maiden Anne of Geierstein and the fierce independence of her Alpine countrymen, Arthur is drawn into the sharpening conflict ...
Dec 07, 2023•12 hr 52 min
The Interrupted Kiss by Richard Marsh audiobook. Genre: mystery In a quiet household where propriety is meant to keep life orderly, Clare is jolted awake in the dead of night by a nameless unease. Her husband, Rupert, is not beside her, and when she searches the shadowed rooms she collides with her cousin Elsie, who has heard Rupert cry out in fear. Clare returns to find a baffling, unsettling sight: Rupert feeding papers into the fire, as if desperate to erase evidence before dawn. By morning, ...
Dec 07, 2023•7 hr 29 min
Judith Lee - Pages From Her Life by Richard Marsh audiobook. Genre: mystery In Judith Lee - Pages From Her Life, Richard Marsh introduces an unconventional sleuth whose sharp eye for human nature is matched only by her refusal to be underestimated. Judith Lee, a young woman of independent means and restless intelligence, keeps careful notes on the odd incidents and private dramas that cross her path - and those pages soon become a record of mysteries no one else can quite explain. From chance en...
Dec 07, 2023•3 hr 54 min
Ancient Tales and Folklore of Japan by Richard Gordon Smith audiobook. Genre: folklore Collected and retold by British traveler and naturalist Richard Gordon Smith, Ancient Tales and Folklore of Japan gathers 57 legends, ghost stories, and local traditions recorded during his years journeying through Japan and listening to fishermen, farmers, priests, and townspeople. Rather than drifting in a vague fairy-tale past, most of these narratives are anchored to specific provinces, temples, lakes, and...
Dec 06, 2023•11 hr 47 min
The Crimson Gardenia And Other Tales Of Adventure by Rex Beach audiobook. Genre: adventure First published in 1916, The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure gathers eleven fast-moving stories from Rex Beach at the height of his popularity. The title novella drops blasé New York society man Roland Van Dam into the riotous color of Mardi Gras in New Orleans, where a simple costume and a white flower pinned to his chest turn him into the wrong man at the wrong moment. A masked young woman ...
Dec 06, 2023•8 hr 48 min
John Thorndyke's Cases by R. Austin Freeman audiobook. Genre: mystery In John Thorndyke's Cases, R. Austin Freeman introduces a different kind of detective story - one in which crimes are solved not by hunches or theatrics, but by patient observation and the cool logic of science. Dr. John Evelyn Thorndyke is a barrister and physician whose specialty is the shadowy borderland where medicine, physical evidence, and the law collide. When puzzling deaths, disputed wills, and apparently impossible t...
Dec 05, 2023•9 hr 3 min
Eryxias by Plato audiobook. Genre: philosophy In Eryxias, a short Socratic dialogue traditionally transmitted under Plato's name (though often considered spurious), Socrates steps into the Stoa of Zeus Eleutherios and is drawn into a sharp public argument about money and the good life. Eryxias is confident that material prosperity is plainly beneficial: with enough silver, he insists, a person can secure comfort, influence, and freedom from want. Critias, less impressed, counters that wealth can...
Dec 05, 2023•40 min
Charmides by Plato audiobook. Genre: philosophy In Charmides, Plato stages a tense, witty conversation about what it really means to be temperate - and why the answer matters for how a person should live. Returning to Athens after military service, Socrates meets the striking young Charmides and the influential guardian Critias. What begins as a seemingly simple request to define sophrosyne (often translated as temperance, moderation, or self-control) quickly becomes a searching investigation of...
Dec 04, 2023•1 hr 8 min
Anno Domini 2071 by Pieter Harting audiobook. Genre: scifi Curious to see how the world was imagined to be 50 years from now? Harting, under the pseudonym Dr. Dioscorides, originally published his steampunk utopian novelette in 1865 under the title Anno 2065, but soon had to publish new editions because of all the changes happening at the time. We have in the catalogue the 1870 edition 'Anno 2070' recorded in Dutch. This is the English translation of that edition, published in 1871, and naturall...
Dec 04, 2023•2 hr 16 min
The Barber of Seville by Pierre Beaumarchais audiobook. Genre: comedy In a sunlit corner of Seville, a young nobleman, Count Almaviva, arrives with one urgent goal: to win the heart of Rosine, a clever young woman kept under the watchful control of her guardian, Dr. Bartolo. Bartolo intends to marry her himself, and he guards his household with contracts, locks, and suspicion. To break through those defenses, Almaviva turns to the citys most resourceful operator, Figaro, a former servant turned ...
Dec 02, 2023•2 hr 20 min
The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin audiobook. Genre: philosophy Written at the turn of the 20th century, Peter Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread is a passionate, practical argument for a society organized around human needs rather than profit. Kropotkin challenges the idea that poverty and scarcity are inevitable, tracing how wealth is produced collectively yet controlled by a few, and asking what would happen if communities directly managed land, factories, housing, and distribution. Movi...
Dec 01, 2023•6 hr 15 min
Clever Hans (The Horse of Mr. Von Osten) by Oskar Pfungst audiobook. Genre: science In Clever Hans (The Horse of Mr. Von Osten), psychologist Oskar Pfungst reconstructs one of the most famous puzzles in the history of animal intelligence: a horse in early 1900s Germany that appeared able to solve arithmetic, tell time, and answer questions by tapping its hoof. As crowds gather and skeptics argue, Pfungst steps in to test what is really happening - not with ridicule, but with careful observation,...
Dec 01, 2023•8 hr 38 min
Beauty's Hour by Olivia Shakespear audiobook. Genre: fantasy In late-Victorian London, Mary Gower is clever, observant, and quietly funny, the sort of woman whose conversation lingers in a room long after she has left it. But in a society that rewards faces more than minds, Mary is dismissed as too plain to be truly seen, especially by Gerald Harman, the charming man she cannot help watching from the edges of fashionable life. Then, in a moment of uncanny discovery at her dressing-table mirror, ...
Nov 30, 2023•1 hr 38 min
The Crime of the French Cafe and Other Stories by Nicholas Carter audiobook. Genre: mystery In this classic trio of Nick Carter mysteries, the famous detective is pulled from routine surveillance into a string of baffling cases where appearances are carefully staged and every witness seems to know only part of the truth. The collection opens in New York's Tenderloin, when Carter notices a waiter bolt from a fashionable French restaurant and senses something far more serious than petty theft. Ins...
Nov 30, 2023•5 hr 43 min
Master of the Vineyard by Myrtle Reed audiobook. Genre: romance In a quiet river valley hemmed in by hills and vineyards, Rosemary Starr has spent twenty-five years living for other people. Orphaned young and bound to the constant demands of her stern grandmother and exacting aunt, she steals her only moments of freedom on solitary walks to the hill she calls the Hill of the Muses, where she can imagine a life beyond duty and small-town scrutiny. Below her, the Marsh vineyard spreads across the ...
Nov 29, 2023•8 hr 23 min
A Weaver of Dreams by Myrtle Reed audiobook. Genre: romance In this tender Edwardian romance, Judith Sylvester has grown up in the hushed comforts of a large house shaped by illness, duty, and the quiet authority of her wealthy invalid aunt. When Judith becomes engaged to the ambitious Dr. Carter Keith, she believes she is stepping at last into an ordinary, radiant future. But after she introduces Carter to Margery Gordon, a young woman from another guarded household, small shifts in attention b...
Nov 29, 2023•8 hr 13 min
Behind the Green Door by Mildred A. Wirt-Benson audiobook. Genre: mystery Penny Parker is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysteries. The only daughter of widower Anthony Parker, publisher of the 'Riverview Star,' Penny has been raised to be self-sufficient, outspoken, innovative, and extraordinarily tenacious. Her cheerful, chatty manner belies a shrewd and keenly observant mind. Penny was the creation of Mildred...
Nov 28, 2023•4 hr 48 min
The Clue of the Silken Ladder by Mildred A. Wirt Benson audiobook. Genre: mystery In 'the clue of the silken ladder', Penny investigates multiple mysteries. What is the purpose of the singular silken ladder made by the secretive and somewhat sinister old Japanese curio shop owner? How can the 'Riverview Star' obtain evidence that a popular troupe of spiritualists really are heartless con artists? Last, who is perpetrating the gravity-defying burglaries that have rocked the town ? Meanwhile, the ...
Nov 28, 2023•4 hr 34 min
And Even Now by Max Beerbohm audiobook. Genre: comedy This is a diverse collection of essays by English writer Max Beerbohm, whose circle included such notables as Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound, and Somerset Maugham. Much of Beerbohm's work was humorous, including parodies of various aspects of the upper class life into which he was born. Some of these pieces are humorous, some philosophical, and some even sad. They include, for instance: a frankly self-critical piece on the pompo...
Nov 27, 2023•8 hr 9 min
The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc audiobook. Genre: mystery When rumors spread through Paris of a new master thief who steals with impeccable manners and a smile, society is equal parts outraged and fascinated. He is Arsene Lupin: a brilliant gentleman-burglar who can slip into a drawing room as easily as he can empty a safe, leaving behind taunting calling cards and impossible riddles. Told through a string of cleverly linked adventures, the stor...
Nov 27, 2023•6 hr 10 min
Vindication Of The Rights Of Men by Mary Wollstonecraft audiobook. Genre: philosophy Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) attacks aristocracy and advocates republicanism. It was published in response to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), which was a defence of constitutional monarchy, aristocracy, and the Church of England, and an attack on Wollstonecraft's friend, the Rev Richard Price. Hers was the first response in a pamphlet war that subseque...
Nov 25, 2023•2 hr 58 min
The Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart audiobook. Genre: mystery On a wild, storm-lashed night, independent society matron Cornelia Van Gorder settles into an eerie rented country house that seems determined to empty itself: servants quit, lights falter, and rumors swarm about a masked criminal prowling the area, a master thief and killer the newspapers have nicknamed 'The Bat.' Cornelia is not easily rattled, but the house comes with too many secrets to ignore. Its owner, a powerful banker, has recen...
Nov 24, 2023•7 hr 33 min
A Poor Wise Man by Mary Roberts Rinehart audiobook. Genre: thriller In a smoke-laden American steel city still reeling from the Great War, Lily Cardew returns home with new eyes. After a year of hard, unglamorous service among soldiers and vulnerable young women, the sheltered rituals of the Cardew mansion feel unreal - and the iron-willed patriarch Anthony Cardew feels more like a judge than a grandfather. Below their hilltop world, the mills grind on, immigrants pour through the station, and t...
Nov 24, 2023•12 hr 43 min
Rose Mather - A Tale by Mary Jane Holmes audiobook. Genre: romance Set in the Northern village of Rockland as the news of Fort Sumter ignites the Civil War, Rose Mather: A Tale follows a community suddenly forced to measure its ideals against its losses. Rose Mather is young, fashionable, and newly married to wealthy William Mather, and she arrives at the first war meeting with the careless confidence of someone certain the conflict will touch other people first. Around her, the stakes are immed...
Nov 23, 2023•11 hr 41 min
Maggie Miller by Mary Jane Holmes audiobook. Genre: romance In the shadowy New England hills, the decaying Old House by the Mill shelters a proud exile, Madam Conway, and the servant who has served her family for years: Hagar Warren, sharp-eyed, resentful of poverty, and fiercely devoted to her daughter, Hester. When tragedy strikes and Madam Conway's grieving daughter, Margaret Miller, returns home, two babies are born within days of each other - and Hagar makes a reckless choice that binds all...
Nov 23, 2023•8 hr 7 min
Lena Rivers by Mary Jane Holmes audiobook. Genre: romance If you're a fan of mid-19th Century melodramas with many twists and turns you will love this book. Acclaimed as Holmes greatest commercial success the charming heroine of this tale is Lena Rivers whose mother died when she was a baby. The father is unknown, and she is brought up by her grandparents in the New England mountains. When the grandfather dies, she and her grandmother are uprooted to live with her uncle in Kentucky. His wealthy ...
Nov 22, 2023•11 hr 43 min
Gretchen by Mary Jane Holmes audiobook. Genre: romance When wealthy, fastidious Arthur Tracy returns to Tracy Park after years abroad, his homecoming should restore order to the grand estate and the quiet town of Shannondale. Instead, Arthur arrives shaken and mentally unsteady, speaking obsessively of a woman named Gretchen and insisting she was with him on the journey, though no one can find her. His brother Frank, who has grown comfortable managing Arthur's fortune and hosting glittering soci...
Nov 22, 2023•15 hr 36 min
Cousin Maude by Mary Jane Holmes audiobook. Genre: family When Matilda's husband James dies, she marries rich Dr. Kennedy thinking he will provide a good home for her daughter Maude. However, the doctor is a miser and assumes that Matty will be his housekeeper. They have a little boy who is crippled and the doctor ignores him. Maude is totally devoted to him and on her mother's deathbed promises to look after him always. The story then evolves with Maude meeting her stepsister Nellie's cousins J...
Nov 21, 2023•5 hr 46 min
Bessie's Fortune by Mary Jane Holmes audiobook. Genre: mystery In Boston and quiet Allington, New England, the polished Jerrold household is built on ambition, appearances, and a carefully guarded past. When an aging patriarch on a lonely farm insists on making a final confession, old wounds reopen and whispers of a long-buried crime begin to circle through the family - along with rumors of money that vanished the same night. Across the Atlantic, another branch of this tangled history is taking ...
Nov 21, 2023•15 hr 30 min
