The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/zx94t Dark of the Moon By Sara Teasdale Read by Martha H. Weller Dark of the Moon was first published in 1926. Its 92 poems are divided into 9 sections: There Will be Stars; Pictures of Autumn; Sand Drift; Portraits; Midsummer Nights; The Crystal Gazer; Berkshire Notes; Arcturus in Autumn; and The Flight. Teasdale repeatedly expresses the joy, wonder and freedom she feels when she is immersed in nature. Yet nature is ...
Dec 04, 2024•4 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/pc828 Such Is Life Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins By Tom Collins (Joseph Furphy) Narrated by Gregory Dwyer This work is a collection of fictional observations by the narrator as he travels around the countryside of southern New South Wales and Victoria in the 1880s. He presents the life of the various rural dwellers, including bullock drivers, squatters and itinerant travelers, and also attempts ...
Dec 03, 2024•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/4ip3s A Child's Garden of Verses By Robert Louis Stevenson Read by Terah Tucker This collection of 64 short poems has become a classic work of children’s literature. The poems are written from the point of view of a child. The author brilliantly recaptures the magical world of childhood innocence, in which the most mundane of experiences can become a source of wonder.
Dec 03, 2024•4 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: Tales of Space and Time By H. G. Wells Narrated by Susan Iannucci ales of Space and Time was published in 1899 as a collection of 5 short stories. H. G. Wells (1866-1946) was fascinated with imagined realities, alien worlds that intersect with human life, and the human condition developing throughout generations. With his keen observation of human behavior, Wells imagines worlds vastly different than the one in which he was writing...
Nov 27, 2024•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/udtyz A Defence of Detective Stories By G. K. Chesterton Narrated by Sarah Bacaller While some may argue that the detective story is an example of cheap, dispensable popular fiction, G. K. Chesterton begs to differ. He is, after all, the author of the Father Brown mysteries! Where else but in detective novels do we appreciate the romance of the city?
Nov 27, 2024•2 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/g6w8g A Defence of Humility By G. K. Chesterton Narrated by Sarah Bacaller Humility gets a bad rap these days, especially when contrasted with philosophies of egoism and self-assertion. But can we see the world as it really is without losing ourselves for a moment to take up the perspective of another?
Nov 27, 2024•1 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/0gxyyk A Defence of Nonsense By G. K. Chesterton Narrated by Sarah Bacaller Nonsense, argues G. K. Chesterton, deserves more serious attention than we may initially assume. It is in nonsense that we regain a sense of wonder at the world–by appreciating the pure serendipitousness of the beauty that fills our lives.
Nov 27, 2024•2 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/p8985 The Lifestyle and Adventures of Ace McDice, Stretch Deed and Moonshine Melody By Doug McPhillips Narrated by Denis Daly This is a tale of three devil-may-care wild men of the Australian Bush during the last days of the era of Bushrangers and the Gold rush at the end of the 19th Century. It tells of each character’s lifestyle and united bent as wild men of Australia’s west who set upon a plan to rob the Sugar and...
Nov 24, 2024•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/mvj4a Sonnets from the Portuguese By Elizabeth Barrett Browning Read by Nancy Beard This celebrated collection of 44 love sonnets was composed in 1845-1846, during the period of the poet's courtship with Robert Browning. Despite the title of the collection the poems are not translations but original compositions. The notation "Portuguese" may refer to the poet's admiration for the work of the Portuguese poet, Luís Vaz...
Nov 22, 2024•1 min
The complete audio book is available for sale at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/lbvxfa Doctor Izard By Anna Katharine Green Narrated by Lena Fizsman The two major characters in this crime novel are Doctor Izard, a reclusive and unconventional physician, and Polly Earle, a beautiful young woman who has been raised by her adoptive parents. Polly is engaged to be married and appears to be set for a happy and secure future. However, the unexplained death of her birth mother and the subsequent disappeara...
Nov 21, 2024•5 min
The complete audio book is available for sale at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/fmcj5 The Awakening of Mary Fenwick By Beatrice Whitby Narrated by Martha H. Weller Writing a century later than Jane Austen, Whitby’s work examines many of the same themes: women and marriage, concepts of honor and pride, passion and love, and self-sacrifice. In The Awakening of Mary Fenwick, we find a naïve young woman who has been raised in a sheltered and isolated home by a grieving father. Mary, calm and responsible...
Nov 21, 2024•4 min
The complete audio book is available for sale at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/rq02g Later Poems 1876-1889 By Robert Browning Narrated by Evan and Marie Blackmore Here are the best-loved poems from the final phase of Robert Browning's long and ever-productive career—sharp-eyed and quick-witted, brimming with zest and verve and sparkle, yet equally keen to probe the "bad dreams," the dim-seen, sinister crannies within the human soul.
Nov 19, 2024•5 min
The complete audio book is available for sale at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/6jgpo Let Us Follow Him By Henryk Sienkiewicz, Jeremiah Curtain translator Narrated by Ron Altman Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846 - 1916) is best known today for his substantial historical novels, the most famous of which is "Quo Vadis," the idea for which came from the writing of "Let Us Follow Him." The period of the novella is that of the death of Christ. Antea, the wife of a Roman patrician, ill with terrible visions, is ad...
Nov 19, 2024•1 min
The complete audio book is available for sale at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/7ksuw The Rape of the Lock A Heroi-comical poem By Alexander Pope Edited and with an introduction by Thomas W. Parrott Read by Denis Daly Alexander Pope was celebrated for his command of classical Greek and produced seminal translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Prior to the preparation of these translations, Pope took advantage of his mastery of the classical style and also his waspish wit to compose a burlesque epi...
Nov 19, 2024•4 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/mfwd6 Keeper of the Archives By Lynne Stringer Narrated by Aven Shore After their home in Sendirian City burns to cinders, Eden Fittell leaves school and gets a job to try and support her family and keep her alcoholic father away. But the city is being stalked by crime boss Kore Luddan, who is using Izrod, the strongest in his crew of freaks, to kidnap people off the street. Most of them are never seen again, killed o...
Nov 13, 2024•4 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/3bpji1 Tono-Bungay By H. G. Wells Narrated by Marty Krz “Tono-Bungay. Like Mountain Air in the Veins.” Tono-Bungay is a patented medicine that promises it all: health, beauty, and strength. George Ponderevo, the narrator of this story, is persuaded by the inventor of the medicine—his Uncle Edward—to help develop the Tono-Bungay business. George devotes seven years of his life to doing so, despite believing that the wh...
Nov 13, 2024•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/l133x The Psychology of Jung By James Oppenheim Narrated by Oberon Michaels This pamphlet is an accessible introduction to the basic tenets of the psychological theories of Carl Gustav Jung. Alfred Adler and Carl Jung were the most prominent disciples of the founding father of psycho-analysis, Sigmund Freud. Both students eventually broke with Freud to follow their own paths. Adler’s primary focus was on the theory of...
Nov 12, 2024•4 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/p5lhm Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot Being the Prologue to the Satires By Alexander Pope Read by Denis Daly John Arbuthnot (1675-1735) was an eminent physician, scholar, satirist, and an intimate friend of Pope, John Gay, and Jonathan Swift. "He has more wit than we all have," said Swift; "and more humanity than wit." This very clever and highly-polished epistle to Dr Arbuthnot (also entitled the "Prologue to the Satires"), ...
Nov 12, 2024•3 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/c1uto The Rime of the Ancient Mariner By Samuel Taylor Coleridge Narrated by Gregory Dwyer The longest major poem by renowned English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge tells of a wedding guest who is intercepted on his way to the ceremony by an old mariner. The mariner engages the guest with an incredible tale of a fateful sea journey, the story of which he is compelled to relate.
Oct 28, 2024•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/i7ts0 The Last Chronicle of Barset By Anthony Trollope Narrated by Steve Gough In the last of the six novels in the Chronicles of Barsetshire series Trollope relates the story of the impecunious curate Josiah Crawley who is falsely accused of stealing a cheque. The community is divided between the supporters and the accusors of the curate, the latter group including one of Trollope's most memorable characters, the for...
Oct 23, 2024•4 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: A Defence of Skeletons By G. K. Chesterton Narrated by Sarah Bacaller Why do humans have a horror of skeletons? Is this aversion justified? What does it signify? Such are the animating questions of this essay by G. K. Chesterton, who acts as a witty defendant for humanity’s hidden form: “Without claiming for the human skeleton a wholly conventional beauty,” he writes, “we may assert that he is certainly not uglier than a bull-dog, ...
Oct 17, 2024•1 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: A Defence of Baby-Worship By G. K. Chesterton Narrated by Sarah Bacaller A Defence of Baby-Worship “The fascination of children lies in this: that with each of them all things are remade, and the universe is put again upon its trial.” With G. K. C.’s characteristic wit, he explores in this essay the virtues of baby-worship, as adults are invited to see the world anew through the eyes of children. Furthermore, argues G. K. C., an ap...
Oct 17, 2024•57 sec
The conplete audiobook is available purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/aor5n Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady By Alexander Pope Edited by W. C. Armstrong Read by Denis Daly This short poem, first published in 1717, has become one of Pope's best-known verse works. The actual history of the lady appears to have been intentionally concealed by the poet under a mysterious veil. Dr Johnson offers the following details, based on the content of the poem: that the lady was distinguished by...
Oct 16, 2024•1 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/pn44y Windsor Forest By Alexander Pope Read by Denis Daly Although most of Windsor Forest was written as early as 1704, it was not published until 1713. The poem was completed after the promulgation of the first peace treaty of Utrecht, which is alluded to in terms of approbation in the body of the poem: "At length great Anna said,'Let discord cease!' She said: the world obey'd; and all was peace." The poem is a flatt...
Oct 15, 2024•2 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/zdfaa Lord Peter Views the Body By Dorothy L. Sayers Narrated by Graham Scott Twelve mysteries for Dorothy L. Sayers' aristocratic sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey. Including: a mystery man disturbs the peace of an actor at the home of a famous sculptor; Lord Peter's curiousity is piqued at the Gare St. Lazare; more than one eccentric will causes family strife; two motorcyclists eagerly disclaim ownership of an item of lugga...
Oct 13, 2024•4 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/4a6jk Thorndyke Novels 9-12 By R. Austin Freeman Narrated by Graham Scott A third collection of full-length adventures for R. Austen Freeman's great forensic detective, Dr John Thorndyke. First, in The D'Arblay Mystery, the body of Julius D'Arblay is found beneath the surface of a shallow woodland pond, putting Thorndyke on the trail of a very calculated murder. Then, in A Certain Dr Thorndyke, the detective investiga...
Oct 11, 2024•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/pp0k1 Rags By Ty Drago Narrated by Jennifer Fournier Atlantic City, 1982. One cold December night, sixteen-year-old Abby Lowell and her foster sister are rescued by a mysterious and deadly figure in rags and a large hood. Abby never learns his name and never sees his face, but he’s obviously good with that black-bladed knife of his … very good. Abby dubs him “Rags.” But Rags isn’t done, not by a long shot. With her fo...
Oct 09, 2024•3 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/70x0eg Japanese Fairy Tales By Yei Theodora Ozaki Narrated by Linda Barrans Many of the stories in this book seem at the same time both familiar and strange. Their authors valued family, duty, patience and heroism. They longed for children in their old age, and rejoiced when they saw cruelty and envy punished, wrongs righted, and kindness and bravery rewarded. These ideas are recognized the world over. What makes the ...
Oct 09, 2024•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/o2w93z Agatha Webb By Anna Katharine Green Narrated by Lyndal Curran Doolan In a quiet seaside town in New England, the reclusive Agatha Webb and her servant are found dead. Agatha has had a number of children who died in infancy. Local residents are divided in their opinions of Agatha—some believe that she was complicit in the death, while others feel sympathy for her due to these tragic losses. Furthermore, a local ...
Oct 08, 2024•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/820njn Spirals & Stars By Kate Gordon Narrated by Sarah Bacaller It’s 1993. Beth McMaugh is eleven years old and about to start Year Six. Her best friend, Ashlee, assures Beth that it is going to be the best year ever, but then why is she sitting with the popular girls? When the new strange, nerdy kid, Jools, befriends Beth, she is swept up instead into the School Nerd Club. Behind everything is a secret from Beth...
Oct 02, 2024•4 min
