The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/jjcm Chamber Music by James Joyce Narrated by Denis Daly This collection of 36 short poems was published in 1907. The title is alleged to be an ironic pun referring cryptically to the sound of urine striking the sides of a chamber pot. However, the poems have no touch of vulgarity or bawdiness. The collection received favorable critical comments from Ezra Pound and W. B. Yeats. Joyce later commented on the poems: ...
Jul 25, 2024•2 min
The complete audiobook is availbale for purchase at Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/Wet-Magic-Audiobook/B0D7QQWDFS Wet Magic By Edith Nesbit Narrated by Mai Ling Turner When four siblings journey to the seashore for a holiday, one of them unwittingly summons the sister of a mermaid who is captured by a circus, and the children set out to save the imprisoned being. After a daring midnight rescue, the children’s reward is an incredible journey beneath the waves and into the hidden kingdom of t...
Jul 23, 2024•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/THM A Theory of Human Motivation By Abraham H. Maslow Narrated by Gary D. MacFadden American psychologist Abraham H. Maslow (1908-1970) first proposed his “hierarchy of needs” theory in 1943. This theory outlines a classification system of universal human needs that individuals feel driven to fulfill in a prioritized manner, culminating in self-actualization. Maslow structured the hierarchy to indicate that, befor...
Jul 18, 2024•3 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/banjo A Banjo Paterson Collection Narrated by Denis Daly Andrew Barton 'Banjo" Paterson (1864 - 1941) may be considered the unofficial poet laureate of Australia. After training as a solicitor he began contributing verse to the Sydney "Bulletin" under the pseudonym of "The Banjo", taken from the name of a horse. His first collection, "The Man from Snowy River", was published in 1895. Two further collections follow...
Jul 12, 2024•4 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/jac A James Allen Collection Narrated by Gregory Sheridan James Allen (1864 - 1912) was one of the most celebrated exponents of New Thought philosophy, a synthesis of universalist spiritual principles, which has since become the basis of many of the theories promulgated by the vast self-improvement industry of the present day. Allen's basic thesis was that thought is the ultimate creative force in the universe and...
Jul 12, 2024•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/104 A. E. Housman - 104 Poems By A. E. Housman Narrated by Graham Scott. Over one hundred poems by A. E. Housman, including the full text of both 'A Shropshire Lad', one of the best-loved collections in English poetry, and of 'Last Poems', the second volume of his verse to be published in the poet's lifetime. In simple, gently accessible language, the poet explores universal themes of life, death, love, and loss....
Jul 10, 2024•2 min
The complete audiobook is available at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/Lincoln Abraham Lincoln By Ernest Foster Narrated by Ron Altman Even to this day Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) remains the most loved and respected of all American presidents. In this heartfelt biography, Ernest Foster reprises the ever-inspiring story of the man who traveled from a log cabin to the White House and presided over one of the momentous periods of change in the nation's history.
Jul 06, 2024•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/browning Dramatic Romances By Robert Browning With introduction and notes by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke Narrated by Denis Daly The dramatic romance was a poetic form particularly favored by Robert Browning. This collection of 25 poems includes many of the poet's most celebrated efforts in this genre. Each of these poems is essentially a monologue or imagined conversation by a character recalling a life-c...
Jul 06, 2024•4 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/duck A Duck Called Brian By Al Murphy Narrated by Sarah Bacaller All out of Duck Nuts, fresh out of milk, and his best friend, Gregory, is nowhere to be found! Only a miracle can save Brian—and this day—from disaster!
Jul 02, 2024•1 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/songs Songs of Innocence and of Experience By William Blake This collection arguably contains some of the most charming lyrics ever written in English. The childlike simplicity and trust of these artless verses are unique. Blake’s poems can be enjoyed, not only for their historical importance in an age which was fiercely proud of its genius and its traditions, but also for their simple and beautiful expression of ...
Jul 02, 2024•3 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/kindly The Kindly One and Other Horrific Tales By Danielle Ackley-McPhail Narrated by Jennifer Fournier Guilt, the venom running through humanity’s veins, The cancer eating mankind’s soul. Death, both courted and earned, well-fed upon denial. Balanced on the delicate edge between madness and damnation, clarity comes to us all. There is one thing more terrifying than the darkness at the edge of your vision staring ...
Jul 02, 2024•1 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/dawn Dawn's a New Day and Other Futuristic Tales By Danielle Ackley-McPhail Narrated by Jennifer Fournier Seven tales of conflict set among the stars, driven by the very roots of humankind’s Earth-bound strife. Yet even in the face of the vast void of space, these brave souls fight to hold on to their humanity. This audiobook includes the following stories: “Dawns a New Day”—A seemingly innocuous artifact all but ...
Jul 02, 2024•2 min
The complete audiobook is availble for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/merchant Written between 1596 and 1598 and published in 1600, The Merchant of Venice most notably touches on the troubling subject of antisemitism. While critical debate rages about Shakespeare’s actual attitudes toward Jewish culture, it is difficult to deny that the eventual fate of Shylock is not in accord with today’s view of social justice. Antonio, a wealthy and popular merchant, finds himself in financial di...
Jun 26, 2024•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/fortune5 Mr Fortune Explains By H. C. Bailey Narrated by Graham Scott HC Bailey's sixth collection of eight golden-age mysteries for the eclectic surgeon-detective Mr Reginald Fortune. Including: a child kidnapped from a picnic; a milliner's assistant vanished from home without a word to her friends; a strange visit, followed by a violent attack on Mr Fortune himself; a raid on a jeweller's shop and the theft of a...
Jun 25, 2024•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/Raleigh Poems of Sir Walter Raleigh Narrated by Denis Daly Sir Walter Raleigh (1552 - 1618) was one of the most prominent political figures in the Elizabethan era. He was also a soldier, explorer, and prolific author. Although, like John Donne, Raleigh did not primarily consider himself as a poet, he left a small collection of verse, notable for its pithiness and mordant wit. This collection includes 21 of the mos...
Jun 25, 2024•3 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/ck4 The Evolution Of Christian Doctrine By Joseph McCabe Narrated by Oberon Michaels In the opinion of secular scholar Joseph McCabe, the teaching of Jesus was “almost entirely ethical.” He contends that the dogmatic pillars of organizational Christianity, such as original sin, the atonement and the divinity of Christ, were not part of Jesus’ message and originated with Paul. He also discusses the interminable and...
Jun 12, 2024•2 min
The complete auduiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/mfm Measure for Measure By William Shakespeare Narrated by Gary MacFadden, David Shears, Graham Scott, Josh Innerst, Kendra Murray, Blaise Doran, Simon Paxton, Roberta Jackson, Alexandra Lee Smith, Alan Weyman and Denis Daly Measure for Measure is one of darkest of Shakespeare’s comedies. Written in about 1603 and first performed in 1604, it immediately preceded the composition of the major tragedies Othello, Kin...
Jun 04, 2024•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/wild Wildly Weird But Totally True: Australia Fun Facts, True Stories and Trivia By Seana Smith Narrated by Gregory Dwyer Your kids will love hearing the weird and wonderful facts about Australia in this brand new book! Check out this hilarious Australian kids book, chock full of amazing facts, trivia, and stories. Learn about Australia in this amusing and entertaining children’s book, which will appeal to adults ...
Jun 04, 2024•3 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/watsons The Watsons A Fragment by Jane Austen and Concluded by L. Oulton By Jane Austen & L. Oulton Narrated by Catherine Bilson, Sarah Jane Rose, Graham Scott, Linda Barrans and Denis Daly Jane Austen probably commenced writing The Watsons in 1803 and discontinued it after her father’s death in 1805. The original text contains no chapter divisions. It was first published in 1871 as an appendix to A Memoir of ...
Jun 04, 2024•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/pension In a German Pension By Katherine Mansfield Narrated by Susannah Fullerton, Lisa Giles, Erin White, Naomi Barton, Amy Soakes, Kylie Elliott, Sarah Bacaller, Lyndal Curran Doolan In a German Pension (1911) was Katherine Mansfield’s first published collection of short stories. Many of these works had been previously published in the British weekly magazine, The New Age, which also featured work by figures inc...
Jun 01, 2024•4 min
The complete audiobook is available at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/eyre Jane Eyre By Charlotte Brontë Narrated by Robin Siegerman, Blaise Doran, Graham Scott, Mai Ling Turner, Denis Daly, Alexandra Lee Smith and Jen Smith First published in 1847, Jane Eyre was the last and most popular of the novels composed by the Brontë sisters. The narrative bristles with energy and passionate conviction, and is one of the first novels written from the perspective of a child. Jane is an orphan, raised in t...
May 29, 2024•5 min
The complete audiobook is available at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/mansfield Mansfield Park and Lovers’ Vows By Jane Austen, August Kotzebue and Elizabeth Inchbald Narrated by Catherine Bilson, Graham Scott, Sarah Jane Rose, Denis Daly, Linda Barrans The unlikely heroine of the novel is the bashful and unadventurous Fanny Price, who occupies a Cinderella-like position in the residence of her wealthy cousins, the Bertrams, at Mansfield Park. Fanny is the butt of ridicule by the young Bertram s...
May 29, 2024•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0D51TZQCT Three Poems on Age By T. S. Eliot Narrated by Gregory Sheridan 1) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 2) Portrait of a Lady 3) Gerontion The first two poems in this collection were published in 1917 and the third in 1920. These poems are Eliot's most large scale poetic productions before the composition of The Wasteland, which appeared in 1922. Despite Eliot's comparative youth at the time (he ...
May 24, 2024•3 min
The complete audiobook is availble form purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/bliss Bliss and Other Stories By Katherine Mansfield Narrated by Naomi Barton, Sarah Bacaller, Kylie Elliott, Lisa Giles, Amy Soakes, Erin Marie White, and Susannah Fullerton. This collection of short stories, by celebrated New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield, was first published in 1920. Many of Mansfield’s short stories explore New Zealand landscapes and identity, and her work has been a shaping force in the ...
May 21, 2024•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0D4FPDZN7 The Kybalion A study of the hermetic philosophy of ancient Egypt and Greece By Three Initiates Narrated by Denis Daly The Kybalion purports to be an exposition of the teaching of the mysterious Hermes Trismegistus, a legendary figure, whose origin is buried in Egyptian mythology. A considerable body of literature that expounds theories and practices attributed to him is extant and has been cate...
May 18, 2024•4 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/mrf1 Mr Fortune Speaking By H. C. Bailey Narrated by Graham Scott A fifth collection of eight golden-age detective mysteries for HC Bailey's eclectic scientific detective Mr Reginald Fortune. Including: a stock market bubble and a sudden death; a wealthy businessman threatened by a mystery man; a mountaineering accident in the shadow of the Jungfrau; a curious archaeological discovery; a series of crimes in a quie...
May 18, 2024•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Kobo.com: Three Plucky Heroines by Patricia Wentworth Narrated by Graham Scott This collection offers three novels of adventure and suspense from Patricia Wentworth, each with its own plucky and independent young heroine. First, Jane Smith is incognito at stately Luttrell Marches, in the middle of a mystery of secret formulae, political plots, and secret passages. Then, Sally Meredith is entrusted with the red lacquer case containing the formul...
May 15, 2024•4 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/dove The Doves' Nest and Other Stories By Katherine Mansfield Narrated by Susannah Fullerton, Lisa Giles, Erin White, Naomi Barton, Amy Soakes, Kylie Elliott, Sarah Bacaller, Lyndal Curran Doolan. The Dove’s Nest and Other Stories is a collection of both finished and unfinished short stories written by Katherine Mansfield. The collection was published posthumously, not long after Mansfield’s death in 1923, by her ...
May 14, 2024•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for pruchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/macnab John Macnab By John Buchan Narrated by Graham Scott Three gentlemen not wholly useless to their country – a lawyer, a banker, and a cabinet minister – have suddenly fallen into a state of profound ennui. Each seeks to rediscover the comfort of their lives through 'the tonic of difficulty': adopting the nom de guerre of 'John Macnab', they take to poaching in the Highlands of Scotland, issuing challenges to ...
May 14, 2024•4 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/flight The Flight of the Duchess By Robert Browning Narrated by Denis Daly This dramatic romance, first published in 1845, ostensibly relates the story of the escape of a love-lorn young woman from the rigours of life with a stern and uncaring husband. Several commentators have seen the poem as an oblique reference to Browning's own current life situation, in which he enabled his future wife, Elizabeth Barrett, to...
May 11, 2024•4 min
