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Title: Love of Life [Russian Edition]

Author: Jack London

Narrator: Ilya Bobylev

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-10-14

Publisher: IDDK

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Severnye rasskazy byli pervymi proizvedenijami molodogo Dzheka Londona, imevshimi bol'shoj uspeh u chitatelej. Jeti rasskazy risujut iskljuchitel'no jarkij, svoeobraznyj mir, polnyj dejstvija, jenergii, chelovecheskoj aktivnosti. Mnozhestvo ljudej raznyh harakterov, vozrastov, nacional'nostej, veroispovedanij vystupaet v nih. Zolotoiskateli, ohotniki, pogonshhiki sobak, provodniki, avantjuristy, brodjagi. "Ljubov' k zhizni" - odin iz samyh izvestnyh rasskazov Dzheka Londona. Glavnyj geroj (ne nazvannyj v rasskaze), posle togo kak ego predal i brosil tovarishh, napravljaetsja po kanadskoj tundre na jug, gde rastut vysokie moshhnye derev'ja i gde skol'ko hochesh' edy. V hode svoego puteshestvija glavnyj geroj poluchaet travmu nogi, iznashivaet svoju odezhdu, terjaet ruzh'e i shapku, v kotoroj za podkladkoj byli sprjatany spichki, vstupaet v edinoborstvo s volkom. Sobrav vse sily v komok, glavnyj geroj ne pokorjaetsja bezmolvnoj prirode i dobiraetsja do ljudej. Soderzhanie: "Ljubov' k zhizni", "Buryj volk", "Vstrecha v hizhine", "Put' belogo cheloveka", "Istorija Kisha", "Neozhidannoe", "Put' lozhnyh solnc", "Trus Negor".

Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

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Title: The Cruise of the Snark [Russian Edition]

Author: Jack London

Narrator: Ilya Bobylev

Format: Abridged

Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-10-14

Publisher: IDDK

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

"Puteshestvie na Snarke" (angl. The Cruise of the Snark) avtobiograficheskaja povest' Dzheka Londona, vpervye izdannaja v 1911 godu, v kotoroj opisyvaetsja ego puteshestvie po juzhnoj chasti Tihogo okeana na keche Snark. V jetom puteshestvii Londona soprovozhdaet ego zhena Charmian i nebol'shoj jekipazh. London opisyvaet mnogochislennye trudnosti v stroitel'stve Snarka, svojo obuchenie morskoj navigacii, priobretenie opyta vrachevanija vdali ot civilizacii i drugie detali jetoj avantjury. On poseshhaet jekzoticheskie mesta, v tom chisle Gavaji i Solomonovy ostrova, i sdelannye im fotografii dajut predstavlenie ob jetih udalennyh ugolkah Tihogo okeana na nachalo XX veka.

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Title: The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut

Author: Mark Twain

Narrator: Richard Henzel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-28-14

Publisher: Richard Henzel

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

In this unabridged recording of one of Mark Twain's lesser-known short stories, the "campaign of crime" referred to was a rash of robberies, arson, racketeering, and murders in Connecticut, where the author was living at that time. Alternatively funny, disturbing, and self-revelatory, an abridged performance of this piece has been part of Richard Henzel's Jefferson Award nominated stage show Mark Twain In Person since 1979, and was later broadcast on public television in a special produced by WTTW-TV in Chicago, winning the Chicago Emmy for Original Adaptation.

Narrator Richard Henzel has been performing and interpreting Mark Twain since 1967, and has narrated more than a score of Mark Twain titles for The Mark Twain In Person Audiobook Library.

Members Reviews:

A Tasty Freebie Find

If you don't feel like sitting down with Huck or Tom, and if you just can't read about that celebrated jumping frog again, this is a short, amusing, totally Twainish treat that you can store with your other Kindle freebies and call up when the mood strikes.

The Twain character narrator is enjoying a quiet moment when he is visited by a most unpleasant character - the twisted, gnomeish living manifestation of his bad conscience. He and his conscience trade barbs and insults until the rather manic ending. This setup allows for Twain to display all of his signature humor, wit, self deprecation, and edgy honesty. There is some broad humor and some fairly cutting commentary, but it's basically a short one-act that will remind you why Twain remains so important to American readers.

A nice freebie find and a happy diversion.

Masterpiece

This is by far Twains most hilarious short story. A scenario we all face at some time in our most personal lives. It allowed me to find a way to deal with my own cruel conscience. I'll be forever grateful.

It's Mark Twain through and through

I doubt seriously that there is anything that I can say that has not been said by someone before. Certainly my words will never be remembered no matter how excellent my evaluation could be. Without seeing the cover page, a person would recognize this piece as one of Twain's. I have read a few of his short stories recently, but I think this was my pick of them all.

Five Stars

I laughed out loud numerous times while reading this. It is a quick read and so clever!

The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut

This review is biased becasue this reviewer loves the writings of Mark Twain, a writer so far ahead of his time, and so entertaining.......I wish the man were still with us today.

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Title: Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice

Author: Victor Appleton

Narrator: Patrick Treadway

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-17-14

Publisher: Books in Motion

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

This time Tom Swift is off to Alaska to hunt for the valley of gold. His friend Abe Abercrombie, an old miner, claims to know approximately where it lies: "up where the icebergs and caves of ice are." But he needs Tom and his airplane to help him locate the exact spot. Unknown to Tom, his chief rival, Andy Foger, gets wind of the project and vows to beat Tom to the prize. Unknown to both are the Alaskan natives who will kill to protect their gold...

Members Reviews:

Tom Swift, Treasure Hunter... Again

I have seen a slow but unfortunate decline in quality and creativity in the last few books and sadly the may be the weakest. Where Tom Swift used to create marvelous vehicles now he has become more of a treasure hunter who just randomly stumbles across fabulous wealth; diamond in the previous book and now gold. It's not even like he shows much interest in wealth he just happily searches for it to assist others. His main nemesis this time is the detestable Andy Foger who is generally more of a side character rather than the primary villain. There are characters you love to hate and characters that you just hate. For me Foger is a later. He's also generally established as a worthless buffoon so he is certainly lacking as a foil for Tom Swift.

Tom, along with Ned Newton. Wakefield Damon, Mr. Parker and an old prospector named Abe head to Alaska in the RED CLOUD to search for a valley of gold. God knows why Tom keeps the annoying Mr. Parker around and Mr. Damon isn't a whole lot better. Ned and Abe are generally fine and Tom Swift is your prototypical good guy who stays calm even in face of danger such as the titular "Wreck of the Airship".

I guess it's not too shocking that the quality of the stories are suspect as the author was literally cranking out 5 books a year. This book was published in 1911, an age where according to this book if you spotted an Indian you'd best have a gun handy.This is also the first appearance of Tom Swift's Electric Rifle. Little known fact, Taser is actually an acronym for Thomas A Swift's Electric Rifle.

The series had got into a definite routine with Tom Swift inventing some vehicle and some group trying to steal the plans. Now things have gotten much more ridiculous. Mr. Parker, a scientist, has now predicted some kind of rare geological upheaval, a sort of geological Deus Ex Machina and three times it has occurred. We've also had two stories in a row where they've gone treasure hunting only to have a natural disaster render the treasure inaccessible. I'm giving this story just three stars. The writing is good, particularly for a book cranked out this quickly but the storylines are growing monotonous. I'm also tired of the Foger's. Several times in the past Andy Foger's actions have nearly cost Tom Swift his life and this time Andy and his father appear to be trying to get Tom and all his crew slaughtered and yet once again Tom lets it go. Tom, you had the Foley's alone in the Alaskan wilderness. Kill them. They are seriously trying to kill you.

Like the Hardy boys or Rick Brant stories

First you have to remember that this book is dated. It is meant as an adventure story for young boys of the 1950's. Like the Hardy boys or Rick Brant stories. Tom Swift is an independent clever inventor, who is not against making a profit and sharing with his friends.

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Title: Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout

Author: Victor Appleton

Narrator: Patrick Treadway

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-14

Publisher: Books in Motion

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Here's another light-hearted adventure in this popular series of entertaining stories about Tom Swift and his latest inventions. This time it's an electric car. Tom is intent on building an electric car capable of beating all other electrics currently in production. But primarily, he has a personal goal and challenge. He wants to race his chief rival, Andy Foger, and beat him badly. Herein lies an exciting account of how automobile races were conducted in the early 1900s....

Members Reviews:

Tom Swift

Excellent! It was so good I think I'll read another one, okay? I didn't really like all that blessing stuff.

Good Book

Its a good book, though all this series is written for a younger audience, but, a good read nevertheless.

Yes, an electric car...

Once again, we find Tom ahead of the curve in various technologies and racing about in an electric car! This is an interesting piece of techno-history in that electric cars were actually considered viable long before decent storage batteries were available.

Five Stars

Good book

That Damn Andy Foger

Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat was the Swift familyâs biggest adventure yet as father and son built a fully functioning submarine and sailed halfway across an ocean and several miles under the sea. Itâs hard to top that and the author doesnât try. In Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout Tom builds a car. But this isnât just any car itâs an all electric car meant to compete for speed with the fastest combustion (and apparently steam) engine cars. It may seem impossible to imagine that in 1910, at the dawn of the automobile, that an author could be writing about an electric car but there was actual considerations given to going the full electric car route rather than combustion engine over 100 years ago. In fact in the competition Tomâs isnât even the only electric car being designed.

The challenges that Tom faces are the exact challenges faced by electrical car manufacturers today. How do you create a battery capable of storing enough power to give a car suitable speed and driving distance? The writer was also savvy enough to recognize that an electric drives nearly silently. Of all his creations the car might have had the most issues during development but most of those came from a nearly endless string of sabotages. Even complete strangers seemed intent on sabotaging the young inventorâs creation.

There is one aspect of the Tom Swift series that has consistently bothered me and that would be Andy Foger. Andy Foger is a typical red headed bully but hereâs something to note. Tom is not a child and neither is Andy. Both are arguably adults and Fogerâs âbullyingâ is often way over the line. In two previous books Foger has come very close to killing Tom Swift with his pranks and in this book Foger manages to get several dozen boys/men to kidnap Tom, tie him to a tree with apparent aims of torturing him. And yet every single time Tom Swift refuses to call the authorities vowing to take care of Foger and his pals himself. Fogerâs attempts at revenge are relentless in this book and Tom is starting to look extremely foolish for allowing Foger to continually threaten his life.

There is something somewhat sad about the Tom Swift series. Tom Swift lived in an exciting time near the birth of aviation, motorcars and technological advances like submarines.

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Title: The Other Gods

Author: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrator: Mike Vendetti

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-15-13

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Some mountains are best left unscaled. Particularly Mount Hatheg-Kla. Two men go up, but only one comes back.

Members Reviews:

I love this book

I love this book! It was delivered to my Kindle instantly after buying. I would buy from this merchant again.

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Title: Caesar Rodney's Ride

Subtitle: Eighty Miles for Freedom

Author: Jan Cheripko

Narrator: Richard Poe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-29-13

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

On July 1, 1776, battling bad weather and physical handicaps, the great patriot Caesar Rodney embarked on his historical ride to Philadelphia, where he would cast his vote for independence and help ensure the birth of the United States.

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Title: Poe Boys: A Baker's Dozen

Subtitle: 13 Poems and Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

Author: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrator: Richard B Panzer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-13

Publisher: Gravelvoice

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

This audiobook gives various voices to Poe's writings. These voices are suggested by the identities of the narrator and other characters within each piece. When it seems that Poe is the narrator, we attempt to use a voice that may be similar to that of himself.

Edgar Allan Poe had a transatlantic upbringing. He was born in Boston and attended primary school in Scotland and England. At age eleven, he moved to Richmond, Virginia, where his education continued through high school and one year at the University Of Virginia, where he excelled in his studies of French and Latin.

We earnestly hope that Mr. Poe would not disapprove of our use of artistic license in this audiobook production of his writings; but, being quite dead, he is in no position to express his opinion about this rendering of his work, or is he? We hope you enjoy listening. Cheers!

Members Reviews:

The Horror of Creepy Times

Some people rave about Hitchcock, but for true suspense I can't get enough of Poe, and this audio collection is a great addition because I imagined it was Poe himself reading these spooky stories. And they are creepy, but then what's not to like about the best of macabre and dark humor? My favorite among these is the Tell-Tale Heart--a creepy tale about a man who tries to prove he isn't mad. A very, very creepy reading. Poe is great at creating suspense all the way to the end of each of these tales and these audio versions bring the stories to life.

Fine recording of Poe stories and poems, reviewed by Justitia

This is a recording of several short stories, and a couple of poem-stories, by Edgar Allen Poe. Excellent reader, with a fine range of voices and a real feel for the material. Poe was ahead of his times in many ways; people will find the stories interesting and entertaining.

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Title: Brown Wolf and Other Stories

Subtitle: Brown Wolf, Just Meat, A Day's Lodging, and Amateur Night

Author: Jack London

Narrator: Full Cast Performance

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-30-13

Publisher: Alcazar AudioWorks

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Western writer and historian Dale L. Walker writes, "London's true métier was the short storyLondon's true genius lay in the short form, 7,500 words and under, where the flood of images in his teeming brain and the innate power of his narrative gift were at once constrained and freed. His stories that run longer than the magic 7,500 generally - but certainly not always - could have benefited from self-editing." London's "strength of utterance" is at its height in his stories, and they are painstakingly well-constructed. Brown Wolf and Other Stories includes four of Jack London's most fascinating tales.

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Title: Message Found in a Bottle and The Oblong Box

Subtitle: Edgar Allan Poe Audiobook Collection, Volume 6

Author: Edgar Allan Poe, Christopher Aruffo

Narrator: Christopher Aruffo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-13-13

Publisher: Acoustic Learning Inc

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

"Message Found in a Bottle": The sole survivor of a sudden storm is trapped on a phantom freighter, doomed to an unknown destiny.

"The Oblong Box": An ordinary voyage is cursed by its strange and mysterious cargo.

Also includes: "The Light-House" and "The Oval Portrait".

Total runtime 69 minutes.