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Title: The Return of Tarzan (Tarzan: Narrated by William Martin 2)

Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrator: William Martin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-03-18

Publisher: Audioliterature

Genres: Classics, World Literature

Publisher's Summary:

"The Return of Tarzan" is the second "Tarzan" novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Tarzan is 22 years old. The ape man, feeling rootless in the wake of his noble sacrifice of his prospects of wedding Jane Porter, leaves America for Europe to visit his friend Paul d'Arnot. On the ship, he becomes involved in the affairs of Countess Olga de Coude, her husband, Count Raoul de Coude, and two shady characters attempting to prey on them, Nikolas Rokoff and his henchman Alexis Paulvitch. Rokoff, it turns out, is the countess' brother. Tarzan thwarts the villains' scheme, making them his deadly enemies.

After a couple of twists - joining the French intelligence service, swimming for his life in the sea - Tarzan ends up in his "home" jungle, has several adventures - being captured and almost sacrificed, finding treasures, etc. - until he has to save Jane from a local tribe. She broke her engagement earlier, so Tarzan can marry her.

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) was an American writer best known for his creations of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter, although he produced works in many genres.

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Title: The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Author: Daniel Defoe

Narrator: James Winston

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-31-17

Publisher: Audioliterature

Genres: Classics, World Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe. The audiobook starts with the statement about Crusoe's marriage in England. He bought a little farm in Bedford and had three children. He suffered a distemper and a desire to see "his island." When Providence unhinged him with the loss of his wife, he sets to sail and returns to his island.

Crusoe takes various steps to consolidate leadership on the island and assure the civility of the inhabitants, including leaving a quantity of needed supplies, setting up a sort of rule of law under an honour system and ensuring cohabitating couples are married. After that Friday dies, and Crusoe goes to Brazil, then Madagascar. After visiting Cambodia and Cochinchina he anchored at Taiwan, and then traveled on a canal until Peking. Via Siberia Crusoe returns to England after 10 years and 9 months of travelling.

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Members Reviews:

Classic story, well worth rereading

The last time I read this book was close to 60 years ago, while still in high school, where it was assigned, as one of the required books for the term, in our Freshman English class. That was way back, when schools actually required students to read at least 4 books, each semester of every year, just for their English course. While the syntax and language are, at times, arcane, the story is a classic one, to which I recommend all readers.

Good man found his way

I read this book , when I was 10or 12 years old.

I was amazed how I saw Robinson Crusoe and Friday this time. I saw a man doing penance for some wrong dealings , and earning his way back to society.

A classic

I tried to read this book when I was a teenager and I was put off by the language and writing style. This time I stayed with it and was glad I did. The writing style is quite a bit different than today's. Some of the sentences in this book were three pages long. I viewed it on a Kindle and was glad to have the dictionary available to look up some of the terms used. Overall a very good book. It dragged in some spots, especially when he spends forty pages discussing why the settlers should marry the women they've lived with. The scanning was haphazard - there was no editing after it was scanned, so page numbers and odd notations are scattered randomly throughout. It was free, so I can't complain too much.

Perfect for someone who still enjoys picking up a book!

Purchased as a gift for a family member. This was not a new copy and I did not want a new one. The condition was exactly as stated in the description. Classic story and the great feel of an old book. Quite a combination.

Good read!

How do you get as old as me and not have read Robinson Crusoe? I don't know the answer to that question. My grandson suggested that I read it, and I did. I thoroughly enjoyed it!

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Title: God's Fool

Author: Maarten Maartens

Narrator: Caroline Collins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-25-17

Publisher: Audioliterature

Genres: Classics, World Literature

Publisher's Summary:

"God's Fool" (1892) is a novel by Maarten Maartens, set in a fictional Dutch town. The novel's "hero", Elias Lossell, becomes deaf and blind from an accident when he is nine years old. The people around him can communicate with him by writing letters with a finger on the palm of his hand. Although communication is possible, mentally he always remains a boy of nine.

Thanks to a somewhat thoughtless testament, Elias becomes the rightful owner of a tea-merchant firm. His half-brothers, the twins Hendrik and Hubert, manage the firm on his behalf. Elias lives in a house of his own at the outskirts of the town, looked after by his old nurse, and occupies himself by growing flowers and helping the needy. A quarrel between the twins in Elias's house escalates into a murder, and the novel has an open ending after a twist.

The title is based on 1 Corinthians 3:19: "For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God." Elias Lossell, the principal person, may be a fool, but he has God's wisdom.

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Title: The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale

Author: Frank L. Packard

Narrator: Caroline Collins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-24-17

Publisher: Audioliterature

Genres: Classics, World Literature

Publisher's Summary:

"The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale" is a novel by Frank L. Packard. Jimmie Dale is a wealthy playboy by day, but at night he puts on unremarkable clothes and becomes "The Gray Seal", who enters businesses or homes and cracks safes, always leaving a diamond shaped, gray paper "seal" behind to mark his conquest, but never taking anything. He was just doing it for "the sheer deviltry of it" at first, but when a woman known only as Tocsin catches him, she blackmails him to war on certain crime organizations...

He also appeared in a movie serial, "Jimmie Dale Alias the Gray Seal". Frank L. Packard (1877-1942) was a Canadian novelist. His experiences working on the railroad led to his writing many railroad stories, then to a series of mystery novels.

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Members Reviews:

Too predictable and not credible

Rather predictable with multiple episodes of the same thing with pretty much just a change of cast. One miraculous escape aand not credible escape after another. Sheer adventure with no pretensions of great depth.

The Stories are dated, but a lot of fun.

The Adventures of Jimmy Dale by Frank L. Packard (468 Pages), in two Parts: Part One â The Man In The Case (eleven novelettes); Part Two â The Woman In The Case (sixteen short stories).

Part One: #1) The Gray Seal, in which we learn all about Jimmie Dale and The Gray Seal, plus, it appears that a young man has stolen money from his boss that should have been put in the safe. Itâs up to Jimmie to make the theft look like the work of The Gray Seal, for the boyâs wife lies ill, in need of medications. 2) The Proxy, in which a police official claims to have found a murder victim of The Gray Seal, and will turn over the murderer shortly for the huge reward the newspapers have offered. #3) The Mother Lode, an old miner down on his luck, a crooked financier, and a diamond necklace worth a quarter million dollars, if real. Itâs up to the Gray Seal to put things right. 4) The Counterfeit Five, has Secret Service Kline after the gang of counterfeiters. Theyâve stolen a cracked printing plate from the government, which was supposed to be destroyed, and blaming a young man from the Mint, the gang started printing out counterfeit fives. The Gray Seal had to catch the real culprit with the goods in order to clear the young man, and escape the clutches of the greatest secret service agent in the government. 5) The Affair of The Pushcart Man is an odd affair. Jimmie is still hiding in his sanctum, with Secret Service agents watching the area. They think The Gray Seal may still be in the house, for thatâs where he disappeared in the last story. Unable to go home as Jimmy Dale, he goes as Larry the Bat to burgle his Riverside mansion and obtain money to live off of while disguised as the Bat. Plus, there is another letter from the mysterious woman, ordering him on another job. Known as the Pushcart Man, the fellow has a string of diamonds worth fifteen thousand dollars hidden under his pillow, and the Skeeter gang learned of this and plan to rob and kill the old man. The Gray Seal must steal the diamonds in front of eyewitnesses, to insure the gang believes the diamonds are now gone, and will leave the old man alone. 6) Devilâs Work has The Gray Seal first chasing two pickpockets.

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Title: Bartleby, the Scrivener

Author: Herman Melville

Narrator: George Doyle

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-24-17

Publisher: Audioliterature

Genres: Classics, World Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The narrator, an elderly, unnamed Manhattan lawyer, already employs two scriveners to copy legal documents by hand. An increase in business leads him to hire a third: the forlorn-looking Bartleby. At first, Bartleby produces a large volume of high-quality work. But one day, when asked to proofread, Bartleby answers with what soon becomes his perpetual response to every request: "I would prefer not to."

From that point Bartleby onward, performs fewer and fewer tasks and eventually none. The narrator makes several futile attempts to reason with him and to learn something about him, and one Sunday morning, he discovers that Bartleby has started living in the office. The lawyer cannot bring himself to remove Bartleby from his premises, and moves his office instead, but the new proprietor removes Bartleby to prison, where he perishes...

Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. His best-known works are "Typee" about his Polynesian life, and his whaling novel "Moby-Dick".

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Title: The Man in Lower Ten

Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart

Narrator: Ella Porter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-21-17

Publisher: Audioliterature

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, World Literature

Publisher's Summary:

"The Man in Lower Ten" is a mystery by Mary Roberts Rinehart.

Excerpt from the book:

McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business. I never liked it, and since the strange case of the man in lower ten, I have been a bit squeamish. Given a case like that, where you can build up a network of clues that absolutely incriminate three entirely different people, only one of whom can be guilty, and your faith in circumstantial evidence dies of overcrowding. McKnight could tell the story a great deal better than I, although he cannot spell three consecutive words correctly. But, while he has imagination and humor, he is lazy. "It didnt happen to me, anyhow," he protested, when I put it up to him. "Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and Im no hand for that. Im a lawyer." So am I, although that has been disputed. I am unmarried, fond of outdoors, and completely ruled and frequently routed by my housekeeper, an elderly widow.

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Members Reviews:

Dangerous Train Travel

I understand from other reviews that this is an early Mary Rinehart mystery which may explain the confusing plot. I did enjoy the main characters, and I loved the 1906 setting. Cars were so rare that their owners named them, and trains were a vital part of American life--a great place for a murder. Worth the read.

Caveat: Rinehart uses terms for African-Americans that are clearly offensive, and she portrays black servants as little more than children in adult bodies. It can be jarring in 2016.

Too many coincidences!

Novels of certain eras really love to have all of their characters impossibly connected, and this is one of them. It's just one unrealistic coincidence after another. For me, a few ridiculous connections in a novel are quaint, this many were annoying. Every character (including minor ones like a maid) have connections to multiple characters.

For instance, the maid mentioned works for one of the suspects but also has an aunt working for the family of our hero's love interest. If that sounds confusing, it's because it is. It's like piecing together an incestuous family tree ("so he is the uncle, but also the brother?"). And why did Rinehart even feel the need to include such minute and silly details?

It isn't just social and familial coincidences, though, the plot is full of them too. The murder is somehow simultaneous with two frauds (one related to the murder and one not), crimes of passion (again one related and one not), a silly musical chairs-type confluence of events, improbable actions by the criminals, AND a literal train wreck. ....SPOILER ALERT..... (((Then the ONLY survivors are ALL the people involved in the crime! Ugh.......))))

I didn't care for the love story, again because of too many silly coincidences, but also because there is a bit of damsel in distress to it, and because I don't really care for the girl. She has information in a murder investigation that could help keep the hero out of jail and hides it because it's a little embarrassing.

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Title: The Oval Portrait

Author: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrator: Michael Troy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-12-17

Publisher: Michael Troy Audiobooks

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, World Literature

Publisher's Summary:

"The Oval Portrait" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe involving the disturbing circumstances surrounding a portrait in a chateau. It is one of his shortest stories, filling only two pages in its initial publication in 1842.

Plot summary:

The tale begins with an injured narrator (the story offers no further explanation of his or her impairment) seeking refuge in an abandoned mansion in the Apennines. The narrator spends his or her time admiring the paintings that decorate the strangely shaped room and perusing a volume, found upon a pillow, that describes them.

Upon moving the candle closer to the book, the narrator immediately discovers a before-unnoticed painting depicting the head and shoulders of a young girl. The picture inexplicably enthralls the narrator "for an hour perhaps". After steady reflection, he or she realizes that the painting's "absolute life-likeliness" of expression is the captivating feature. The narrator eagerly consults the book for an explanation of the picture. The remainder of the story henceforth is a quote from this book - a story within a story.

The book describes a tragic story involving a young maiden of "the rarest beauty". She loved and wedded an eccentric painter who cared more about his work than anything else in the world, including his wife. The painter eventually asked his wife to sit for him, and she obediently consented, sitting "meekly for many weeks" in his turret chamber. The painter worked so diligently at his task that he did not recognize his wife's fading health, as she, being a loving wife, continually "smiled on and still on, uncomplainingly". As the painter neared the end of his work, he let no one enter the turret chamber and rarely took his eyes off the canvas, even to watch his wife. After "many weeks had passed," he finally finished his work. As he looked on the completed image, however, he felt appalled, as he exclaimed, "This is indeed Life itself!" Thereafter, he turned suddenly to regard his bride and discovered that she had died.

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Members Reviews:

It's short, just print it yourself!

A bit too much extra framing in this story, with a man exploring an abandoned castle and finding a journal that tells the story itself. The story itself would have been fine.

At the time it was written, this was probably top-notch horror but it's been covered so much by now that I wasn't very impressed. An artist grows obsessed with painting a woman, not noticing her wasting away as he works, until he finishes and she dies. A trope copied many times since, and with better writing (and without the weird framing, as said).

This story is in the public domain and can be obtained free from sources like Librivox and Project Gutenberg. I listened to the free audio production from Librivox.

Is Beauty better alive, or preserved in paint?

A man becomes sick while hiking through the mountains. He finds refuge in a decaying castle. His valet (you know you can never go hiking w/out your valet, right?)sets him up in the smallest bedroom, complete with decaying tapestries, adorned with lovely pictures.

The most beautiful picture has a strange story behind it.

Gothic Checklist:

Ruined building - check. Delightfully creepy place for a sick man to recuperate.

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Title: The Watson (Golden Deer Classics)

Author: Jane Austen

Narrator: Sinead Gallen

Format: Abridged

Length: 1 hr and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-24-17

Publisher: Oregan Publishing

Genres: Classics, World Literature

Publisher's Summary:

This fragment of a novel was written by Jane Austen in 1804 and remained untitled and unpublished until her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh printed it in his "A Memoir of Jane Austen" in 1871. The title is from him.

Mr Watson is a widowed clergyman with two sons and four daughters. The youngest daughter, Emma, has been brought up by a wealthy aunt and is consequently better educated and more refined than her sisters. But when her aunt contracts a foolish second marriage, Emma is obliged to return to her father's house. There she is chagrined by the crude and reckless husband-hunting of two of her twenty-something sisters.

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Title: - [Resurrection]

Author: Leo Tolstoy

Narrator: - - Cheng Zaiqun

Format: Unabridged

Length: 24 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-07-17

Publisher: BOVCM

Genres: Classics, World Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Please note: This audiobook is in Mandarin.

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Titolo: Don Chisciotte della Mancia

Autore: Miguel Cervantes

Narratore: Claudio Carini

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 40 hrs and 5 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 10-24-17

Editore: Recitar Leggendo Audiolibri

Categoria: Classics, World Literature

Riepilogo Editore:

Alonso Quijiana, esaltato dalla lettura dei romanzi cavallereschi, si fa cavaliere errante e decide di percorrere in cerca di avventure le strade della Spagna insieme col suo improvvisato scudiero, Sancio Panza.

Miguel de Cervantes crea un personaggio unico, antieroe per eccellenza, che ha attraversato i secoli reclamando il proprio diritto a sognare. In continuo equilibrio tra realtà e fantasia, l'opera non è altro che un incredibile viaggio che si sviluppa come in un eterno gioco di specchi tra letteratura e vita.

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