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ID: 427653

Title: Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrator: Roger Melin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:21:56

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

Tales of the White Mountains. An engaging and satisfying collection of four short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, revolving around the mountains of New Hampshire, from 1850 when the Old Man of the Mountain still stood. Contains the following stories: 'The Great Stone Face', 'The Ambitious Guest', 'The Great Carbuncle', and 'Sketches From Memory'.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was an American novelist and short story writer, associated with dark romanticism. His major works include 'The Scarlet Letter' (1850) and 'The House of the Seven Gables'(1851).

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ID: 427725

Title: At The Sign of The Jack O'Lantern

Author: Myrtle Reed

Narrator: Daryl Wor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:08:34

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

Newlyweds Harlan and Dorothy Carr have no idea what they're getting into when they inherit an old house from a distant relation and decide to spend a summer there to escape the city. Because even though Uncle Ebeneezer is dead and gone, he still has plans for the slightly creepy house, that quickly fills with more and more unsavory guests. Myrtle Reeds 'At The Sign of The Jack OLantern' is filled with colorful characters and biting wit. Set in New York at the turn of the twentieth century, it's a treat for lovers of historical fiction, mystery, and romance!

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Myrtle Reed (1874-1911) was an American author, poet and journalist. A best-selling romance novelist and Chicago socialite, she was one of Americas best-known authors in the first decade of the 20th century. Her most famous works include 'Lavender and Old Lace' (1902), 'Threads of Grey and Gold' (1913) and 'A Weaver of Deams' (1911). Reed also wrote numerous cookbooks.

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ID: 427644

Title: Prelude

Author: Katherine Mansfield

Narrator: Ire Monger

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:42:51

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories

Summary:

'There was not an inch of room for Lottie and Kezia in the buggy. When Pat swung them on top of the luggage they wobbled; the grandmothers lap was full and Linda Burnell could not possibly have held a lump of a child on hers for any distance.' The seemingly perfect Burnell family is moving from one house to another, and on the surface, everything appears idyllic. But as the story develops, the tension grows, threating to explode and expose their true nature. Prelude (1922) is evidence of Katherine Mansfields short fiction genius, and it was the first short story that Virginia Wolf commissioned for her publishing house.

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Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was short story writer and poet from New Zealand, who settled in England at the age of 19. Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence were among her literary friends and admirers. She died of tuberculosis at the age of 34.

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ID: 427720

Title: Flappers and Philosophers

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrator: Maurice Bean

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:50:22

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Classics

Summary:

Bernice is turned into a proper society girl by her more desirable cousin, who feels Bernice is a drag on her social life. But when Bernice starts to win over all the boys in town, the girls turn viciously against each other. Based on letters F. Scott Fitzgerald originally sent to his little sister advising her on how to be more attractive to men, Bernice Bobs Her Hair is one of eight vivid stories in Fitzgeralds first short story collection. In another, The Off-Shore Pirate, a girl gets captured by pirates and falls in love with the captain. It was adapted into a romantic comedy and starred silent movie actress Viola Dana. Flappers and Philosophers (1920) are tales about young dreamers whose dreams get broken, tales which perfectly encompass thezeitgeist of the 1920s.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) is one of the greatest American novelists of the 20th century and author of the classics Tender is the Night and The Great Gatsby. His writing helped illustrate the 1920s Jazz Age that he and wife Zelda Fitzgerald were in the centre of.

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ID: 427746

Title: Return of Tarzan

Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrator: Ralph Snelson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:08:10

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

This follow-up to Tarzan of the Apes begins where the first novel ended, with Tarzans beloved Jane set to marry his cousin. Disappointed in love, Tarzan leaves for Europe, and after a bit of trouble, becomes a spy for the French government. Soon, he finds himself back in the same jungle, in which he grew up, and coincidentally, so does Jane. Duals, attempted murders, espionage, suicide, ancient treasure, a shipwreck, lion attacks and numerous escapes, The Return of Tarzan (1915) does not lack for anything, and for people left wanting more after the first novel, this is it.

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Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) was an American author, best known for his novel Tarzan of the Apes (1914) and its sequels as well as the Barsoom series. During World War II, he was one of the oldest U.S war correspondents.

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ID: 427707

Title: Vicar of Wakefield

Author: Oliver Goldsmith

Narrator: Tadhg Hynes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:53:09

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

The lovable and innocent Dr. Primrose has lost his fortune. Forced into reduced circumstances, he takes his family on a journey to a new parish. Soon, they are all thrown into a tale of love, deceit, abduction, betrayal and humour. By turns comic and sentimental, Oliver Goldsmiths story of the rise and fall of the Primrose family is a classic, satirical depiction of domestic life in the 1700s. The hugely successful 'The Vicar of Wakefield' from 1766 became one of the most popular novels of Victorian England, with direct references to it in the work of Austen, Dickens, Shelley, Eliot, Brontë, Goethe, Schopenhauer and many others.

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Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet. He is most famous for his novel 'The Vicar of Wakefield' (1766).

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ID: 456234

Title: Body Machines

Author: Alexander Bard, Jan Söderqvist

Narrator: Bert Deivert

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:14:50

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science

Summary:

Following the massive international success The Netocrats and its ambitious follow-up The Global Empire, in this third installment of The Futurica Trilogy, Bard & Söderqvist approach something far more personal - the fragile human being herself and, most of all, her brain. The Body Machines, with a title borrowed from René Descartes, explains what a brain is, how it has developed and how it functions, and why it spends such an incredible amount of time and energy on fooling itself. The Body Machines matches and mixes the latest neuroscience with philosophy and psychoanalysis, in the process portraying a confused but incredibly interesting little machine that is doomed to constantly create new fictions about itself and its surroundings for its own consumtion, but which remains social by nature, and therefore able to create, together with other similar machines, enormously productive communities. The Body Machines is not only a work of science but also a work of philosophy, a prophetic book on how the humans of the digitalised and globalised future will have to view themselves, their world, and what values and valuations will come to dominate and replace the old and dysfunctional humanism. This is a hybrid book by hybrids for hybrids. This book is part 3 of 3 in the Futurica Trilogy. About the triology: The Futurica Trilogy is a work of philosophy, sociology and futurology in three closely related movements. The first volume, The Netocrats, deals with human history from the perspective of the new elite of Informationalism, the emerging society of information networks, shaped by digital interactivity, making prophecies about the digital future of politics, culture, economy, et cetera. The second volume, The Global Empire, explores the near future of political globalisation and the struggle to form new, functioning ideologies for a world where global decision making is a necessity. The third volume, The Body Machines, deals with the sad demise of the Cartesian subject. It discusses the implications of a materialist image of humanity and explains how it relates to the new, emerging hypertechnological paradigm. It explains why we are all nothing but body machines, and why this is actually good news.

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ID: 427697

Title: Beasts of Tarzan

Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrator: James Christopher

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:15:23

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

Old enemies are back to make life hard for Tarzan in The Beasts of Tarzan (1916), the third novel in the thrilling adventure series by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Dividing their time between Africa and England, Tarzan and Jane and their little son Jack are comfortably settled. But when they get kidnapped and separated, they must fight harder than ever to find a way back to each other. Tarzan returns to his roots in this particularly jungle-oriented novel in the series, and, using his primal intelligence, manages to secure the help of a panther, a native warrior, and a tribe of apes. Relentless in its pace and drenched in cliffhangers, this might just be the most exciting Tarzan novel yet.

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Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) was an American author, best known for his novel Tarzan of the Apes (1914) and its sequels as well as the Barsoom series. During World War II, he was one of the oldest U.S war correspondents.

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ID: 427702

Title: Prisoner of Zenda

Author: Anthony Hope

Narrator: Andy Minter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:35:37

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

When the Gentleman, Rudolf Rassendyll, leaves behind his quiet English life for a little vacation, he has no idea was he is about the get involved in.

The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) may on the surface look like your classic story of the young brother of a king plotting the disappearance of his older brother to get to the throne. But this is where comparisons end. Because when King Rudolf gets drugged on the eve of his coronation, his half-brother fails to consider that a distant cousin, extremely similar to the king in looks, is visiting the small country.

This romantic adventure novel has been adapted many times, and five times for the big screen. The best-known version is the 1937 Hollywood movie starring Ronald Colman.

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Anthony Hope (1863-1933) was an English novelist and playwright, known for his adventure novel The Prisoner of Zenda, the first draft of which he wrote in just one month, and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau. Hope had trained as a lawyer and barrister and completed the final stage of his education under the future Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, but ultimately chose writing as his profession.

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ID: 427652

Title: Idiot

Author: John Kendrick Bangs

Narrator: Gregg Margarite

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:17:30

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

The Idiot is anything but, yet that is how his fellow boarders at Mrs. Smithers Pedagog's home for single gentlemen see him. His brand of creative thought is dismissed as foolishness. And yet, it starts to get under their skin, because when you are beneath contempt, you can say what you please. Funny, clever, poignant and as relevant today as it was a hundred years ago, this is the first of John Kendrick Bangs 'Idiot' books.

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John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922) was an American author, humorist and editor of 'Life' and 'Harper' magazines. Bangs is the creator of the modern Bangsian fantasy, which is the school of fantasy writing where the plot is wholly or partially set in the afterlife.

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