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ID: 427736

Title: Old Rose and Silver

Author: Myrtle Reed

Narrator: Daryl Wor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:34:37

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

Rose Bernard, at forty, is well on her way to confirmed spinsterhood. The love that she had always looked for eludes her. And now, when she finally finds a man she loves, he is in love with another. At turns colorful, melancholy, romantic, and zany, Myrtle Reeds 'Old Rose and Silver' is a gem of a historical romance novel.

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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: 427632

Title: Modest Proposal

Author: Jonathan Swift

Narrator: John Gonzales

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:24:53

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science

Summary:

In a time when poor Irish families struggled to feed their children, Jonathan Swift wrote an essay, which he published anonymously, making a few suggestions. He called it A Modest Proposal (1729) or A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making them Beneficial to the Publick.The solution was simple: Fatten up the undernourished children and sell them as food for the rich. Everybody wins! Though written in a serious tone, the humour in this essay is undeniable, and so is its mocking of the heartless attitudes towards poor people.

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Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, poet, and political pamphleteer, best known for his satirical work like A Modest Proposal (1729) and Gullivers Travels (1726).

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ID: 427671

Title: House of Pomegranates

Author: Oscar Wilde

Narrator: Alex Lau

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:25:53

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Classics

Summary:

Oscar Wilde supposedly said that these fables were 'intended neither for the British child nor the British public'. A follow-up to his first popular fairy-tale collection (The Happy Prince and Other Tales), A House of Pomegranates (1891) is indeed decidedly darker and more adult. The collection includes 'The Young King', 'The Birthday of the Infanta, 'The Fisherman of his Soul', and 'The Star Child'. While similar, in some ways, to the fairy-tales of Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm these have a certain interesting Wilde flair to them that is hard to pinpoint.

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Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet, famous for The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest to name a couple. He was believed to be gay and met a lot of resistance in his life on that account. He died in Paris at the age of 46.

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ID: 427683

Title: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

Author: L. Frank Baum

Narrator: Phil Chenevert

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:23:22

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Kids, Classics

Summary:

'There is no doubt they intend to kill us as dead as possible in a short time,' said the Wizard.

'As dead as poss'ble would be pretty dead, wouldn't it?' asked Dorothy.' During an earthquake in California Dorothy and her friends are swallowed up by cracks in the earth and find themselves in a whole new land the Land of Mangaboos. The Mangaboos are a vegetable people, and they accuse Dorothy and her friends of causing the earthquake and sentence them to death. The 1939 movie, The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland, perfectly told the story of a little girls first adventure, but the story of Oz and Dorothy far from ended then. With his trademark inventions on display, author L. Frank Baum delivers another imaginative and delightful book in the Oz series, though many will agree that this fourth one is darker and more troubling than its predecessors.

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L. Frank Baum (1956-1919) was an American author, actor, and filmmaker best known for his childrens books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and its thirteen sequels. He started writing young and created a journal with his brother, which they handed out for free.

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ID: 427705

Title: Summer

Author: Edith Wharton

Narrator: Elizabeth Klett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:41:06

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Classics

Summary:

Charity Royall is a 19-year-old girl, bored with her life in a small New England town. Ever since she was adopted by Mr. Royall as a child and saved from a life of poverty on the 'mountain', she has been unsure of her place in society. She longs to escape the claustrophobic town and the now widowed Mr. Royalls unwanted advances. Enter Lucius Harney, sophisticated architect and ambitious city boy. Suddenly, Charity's hopes of escape awaken, as well as her newly found sexuality. But will Lucius Harney mean her salvationor her undoing? Considered shocking and highly erotic when it was first published, Edith Whartons 1917 novella 'Summer' is a compelling commentary on societys notions of what is expected of women when it comes to marriage, love and proper behavior.

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Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was an American author, best known for her sharp stories about the upper-class society into which she was born. Her major works include 'The Age of Innocence' (1920),'Ethan Frome' (1911), and'The House of Mirth' (1905). She wrote over 40 books, which beyond novels included authoritative works on architecture, gardens, interior design, and travel. She was the first woman awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for 'The Age of Innocence' in 1921.

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ID: 427679

Title: Lavender and Old Lace

Author: Myrtle Reed

Narrator: Bridget Gaige

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:14:10

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

A young girl from the city, Ruth Thorne, visits her spinster aunt's house in the New England countryside. While exploring the attic, Ruth discovers a chest of mementos from her aunt's romantic past. Journalist Carl Winfield helps her unravel the past, and soon she finds herself reliving the old romance. A sweet Victorian romance novel with a bit of mystery, 'Lavender and Old Lace' is Myrtle Reeds most famous work.

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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: 427699

Title: Wood Beyond the World

Author: William William Morris

Narrator: Cori Samuel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:18:51

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

When his wife cheats on him, Golden Walter leaves his mundane life to start a new one at sea. Horrific news forces him to turn around, however, but before he can reach home, a storm carries his ship to a faraway country. A country inhabited by people he has seen before. In a vison. With novels like The Wood Beyond the World (1894) William Morris has gone down in history as the forerunner for much of the modern-day fantasy genre. C.S. Lewis, who wrote The Chronicles of Narnia, cited Morris as one of his favourite authors, and J.R.R. Tolkien was influenced by Morris fantasies in writing The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

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William Morris (1834-1896) was a British writer, textile designer and Socialist. His earliest works were historical fiction, but today he is known for being the forerunner of modern-day fantasy. He took a keen interest in Iceland and translated a series of Icelandic sagas to English together with the Icelandic scholar Eiríkur Magnússon.

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ID: 427680

Title: Thirty-Nine Steps

Author: John Buchan

Narrator: Adrian Praetzellis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:18:25

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

'I returned to the City about three oclock on that Monday afternoon pretty well disgusted with life. I had been three months in the Old Country, and was fed up with it.' So opens John Buchans The Thirty-Nine Steps and with it he creates a whole new genre: the adventure novel. Richard Hannay, the protagonist, finds himself reluctantly drawn into a chain of events that drags him away from the civilisation of London and into the Scottish wilderness, where he is chased both by villains and by policemen.

This book has been adapted countless times, the most famous one certainly being Alfred Hitchcocks 1935 version. Full of excitement and good humour, The Thirty-Nine Steps is a modern classic youll never want to put down.

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John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish writer, historian and unionist. Born in Perth, he grew up in Fife where he developed the keen love for the Scottish nature that can be found in his work. After graduating from Oxford with a degree in Classics, he became the personal secretary of Alfred Milner, the Secretary of State of War and for the Colonies. Later he wrote for the British War Propaganda Bureau and was a correspondent in France for The Times. In 1935, he became viceregal representative in Canada, where he passed away five years later. He wrote throughout his life, leaving behind him hundreds of works, including novels, short shorties, and biographies of famous men such as Walter Scott and Oliver Cromwell, and he was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1928. Yet Buchan remains most famous for his spy thriller adventures, which have delighted readers for generations.

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ID: 469213

Titel: Restekuscheln

Autor: Micha Ebeling

Erzähler: Micha Ebeling

Format: Abridged

Spieldauer: 01:17:20

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 01-02-17

Herausgeber: Bookwire

Kategorien: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

Zusammenfassung:

Micha Ebeling ist ein Virtuose des Wortes, der Metaphern aufblühen und Alliterationen in Aktion treten lässt, der als abgebrühter ehemaliger Berliner taxi driver über scheiternde Figuren philosophiert, als Frauenversteher nicht nur Beamtinnen am Telefon die Beichte abnimmt und uns als grotesker Märchenerzähler mit poetischer Ironie verzaubert. Seine Texte können alles sein: zum Brüllen komisch oder voll Verzweiflung, provozierend zynisch oder hoffnungslos idealistisch - im besten Fall aber alles zugleich.

Micha Ebelings rasante Geschichten begeistern das Publikum der Lesebühne Liebe Statt Drogen und der Multimedia-Show Lokalrunde nicht weniger als die Fangemeinde der Poetry Slams. Mit Restekuscheln erscheint zum ersten Mal eine Sammlung seiner besten Texte.

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ID: 290243

Title: Secret House

Author: Edgar Wallace

Narrator: Don W. Jenkins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:49:39

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-17

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

A stranger and foreigner arrives at the offices of a small publication in London only to be faced by the editor whose face is completely swathed in a veil. Nothing is as it seems, and it quickly becomes evident that both are bent on more than lively gossip about the elite. Blackmail and opportunism is the order of the day. When two men are found shot to death outside the door of Mr. Farrington the millionaire who just happens to live a few doors from T. B. Smith, the head of the secret police, the connections to blackmail are not long in coming. Were these men shot by the blackmailer? Who is actually what he seems to be? (Summary by Don W. Jenkins)

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