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ID: 257488

Title: Voyage Out

Author: Virginia Woolf

Narrator: Grant Hurlock

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17:40:21

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-16

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Summary:

The Voyage Out is the first novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1915 by Duckworth; and published in the U.S. in 1920 by Doran. One of Woolf's wittiest social satires.

Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a kind of modern mythical voyage. The mismatched jumble of passengers provide Woolf with an opportunity to satirize Edwardian life. The novel introduces Clarissa Dalloway, the central character of Woolf's later novel, Mrs. Dalloway.

E. M. Forster described it as "... a strange, tragic, inspired book whose scene is a South America not found on any map and reached by a boat which would not float on any sea, an America whose spiritual boundaries touch Xanadu and Atlantis... It is absolutely unafraid... Here at last is a book which attains unity as surely as Wuthering Heights, though by a different path." (Introduction from Wikipedia)

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ID: 292087

Title: Enchanted Island of Yew

Author: L. Frank Baum

Narrator: Ted Delorme

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:42:57

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-16

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

A fairy has become bored with her life, and convinces some young girls to transform her into a human boy so she can go on adventures.

The adventures come fast and furious, as the newly-named Prince Marvel explores the surrounding kingdoms. A masochistic squire accompanies Marvel, helping him with assorted kings, knights, dragons, and other medieval menaces along the way. (Summary by Ted Delorme)

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ID: 255868

Title: Brave New World (Dramatized)

Author: Aldous Huxley

Narrator: Aldous Huxley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-16

Publisher: BN Publishing

Genres: Audio Theatre, Drama

Summary:

The CBS Radio Workshop was an experimental series of productions, subtitled "radio's distinguished series to man's imagination" that ran between 27 January 1956 and 22 September 1957. The premiere production was Brave New World, narrated by Huxley himself, with a complicated sound-effects score that evidently took a long time to construct, and comprised a ticking metronome, tom-tom beats, bubbling water, an air hose, a cow's moo, an oscillator, and three kinds of wine glasses clicking together. There was also a cast of some ten actors.

What was most evident about this two-part adaptation, now available on podcast, was the vocal contrasts: between Huxley the narrator, telling the story in a cut-glass marked RP accent interspersed with occasional Americanisms ("diaper" instead of "nappy," for instance); the Controller, who spoke throughout in jovial tones, appropriate for the Brave New World of perpetual happiness; and the Savage, the representative of feeling, emotional humanity - now consigned to a reserve in darkest Mexico - whose tones became increasingly desperate as he understood how mechanized the universe had become.

The Brave New World was a topsy-turvy environment, which despised institutions such as marriage and parenthood (any mention of such terms was greeted with scornful laughter), and advocated free love without passion. Everyone belonged to everyone else, and no one needed to think any more. Despite the Director's jovial protestations that this was the best of all possible worlds (shades of Voltaire's Candide), the doom-laden consequences of what had happened were suggested by Bernard Herrman's specially composed score, full of doom-laden chords, and metronome-like chimes played on the tubular bells. The adaptation was announced by the actor William Conrad - who subsequently found fame on television as the corpulent detective Cannon: at the end of the first episode he informed listeners in no uncertain terms about the moral purpose of Froug's adaptation. It was intended as a "warning against the destruction of moral standards, family life and the soul of man."

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ID: 255883

Title: Go-Getter: A Story That Tells You How to Be One

Author: Peter B. Kyne

Narrator: Jason McCoy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:02:36

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-16

Publisher: BN Publishing

Genres: Business & Economics, Career Development

Summary:

In The Go-Getter, Bill Peck, a war veteran, persuades Cappy Ricks, the influential founder of the Rick's Logging & Lumbering Company, to let him prove himself by selling skunk wood in odd lengths - a job that everyone knows can only lead to failure. When Peck goes on to beat his quota, Rick hands Peck the ultimate opportunity and the ultimate test: the quest for an elusive blue vase.

Drawing on such classic values as honesty, determination, passion, and responsibility, Peck overcomes nearly insurmountable obstacles to find the vase and launch hia career as a successful manager.

In a time when jobs are tight and managers are too busy for mentoring, how can you maintain positive energy, take control of your career, and prepare yourself to ace the tests that come your way? By applying the timeless lessons in this compulsively listenable parable, employees at all levels can learn to rekindle the go-getter in themselves.

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ID: 255862

Title: Adjust to Wealth, Building Self-Confidence

Author: Joseph Murphy

Narrator: Joseph Murphy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:29:19

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-16

Publisher: BN Publishing

Genres: Business & Economics, Career Development

Summary:

It is your right to be rich. You are here to lead the abundant life, and to be happy, radiant, and free. You should, therefore, have all the money you need to lead a full, happy, prosperous life.

There is no virtue in poverty; the latter is a mental disease, and it should be abolished from the face of the earth. You are here to grow, expand, and unfold - spiritually, mentally, and materially. You have the inalienable right to fully develop and express yourself along all lines. You should surround yourself with beauty and luxury.

Acquiring wealth is not selfish; it enables us to expand and grow spiritually, mentally, socially, and intellectually. Dr. Murphy teaches us his four-step master key to wealth. By following this plan, a salesman quintupled his income, a minister funded the rebuilding the church of what had been an impoverished congregation, and it helped many people rise from dire poverty to riches. And he provides you with his simple and easy-to-implement plan so you can benefit by applying it in your life.

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ID: 258376

Title: Old Mother West Wind

Author: Thornton W. Burgess

Narrator: Laurie Anne Walden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:39:11

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-16

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Non-Fiction, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature

Summary:

Thornton Waldo Burgess (January 14, 1874 - June 5, 1965) was a conservationist and author of children's stories. He loved the beauty of nature and its living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years. By the time he retired, he had written more than 170 books. Many of his outdoor observations in nature were used as plots for his stories. In his first book, "Old Mother West Wind," published in 1910, the reader meets many of the characters found in later books and stories. These characters include Peter Rabbit, Jimmy Skunk, Sammy Jay, Bobby Raccoon, Joe Otter, Grandfather Frog, Billy Mink, Jerry Muskrat, Spotty the Turtle and of course, Old Mother West Wind and her Merry Little Breezes. Note to parents of very small children: in Chapter 15, little Tommy Trout gets eaten by a pickerel. (Summary by Wikipedia and Laurie Anne Walden.)

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ID: 255910

Title: Keys to Investment Success

Author: John Templeton

Narrator: Robert Meyerson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:58:38

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-16

Publisher: BN Publishing

Genres: Business & Economics, Career Development

Summary:

John Marks Templeton, regarded by Wall Street as one of the world's wisest investors, was the founder of the Templeton mutual fund group, which now manages more than $6 billion owned by more than 500,000 public investors. Called the "greatest stock picker of the century" by Money magazine, legendary fund manager Sir John Templeton is revered as one of the world's premiere value investors, widely known for pioneering global investing and outperforming the stock market over a five-decade span.

Keys to Investment Success provides a never-before-seen glimpse into Sir John's timeless wisdom, principles, and methods. Beginning with a review of the methods behind Sir John's proven investment selection process, Keys to Investment Success provides historical examples of his most successful trades and explains how today's investors can apply Sir John's winning approaches to their own portfolios.

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ID: 255891

Title: Have Gun Will Travel

Author: Sam Rolfe

Narrator: Ben Wright

Format: Unabridged

Length: 42:56:36

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-16

Publisher: BN Publishing

Genres: TV & Radio, Classics

Summary:

Have Gun Will Travel was a Western adventure radio show that started on ABC in November 1958, just a year after its television version aired. At first the scripts for the radio show were derived from those of the television show, making the episodes in sync with one another. Later, though, the radio show started making scripts on its own. The story is about guns for hire, with the main character being Paladin, played by John Denner. Despite the nature of the job, Paladin is in fact a principle man, as he prefers solving problems in a peaceful manner if at all possible. He usually works for people who he believes were wronged. Although it is important that his client can pay, he also works for free for those who can't pay. The radio show was on air until 1960, and the television show lasted until 1963.

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ID: 259188

Title: Wood Beyond the World

Author: William Morris

Narrator: Cori Samuel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:21:29

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-16

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

The Wood beyond the World is a fantasy novel by William Morris, perhaps the first modern fantasy writer to unite an imaginary world with the element of the supernatural, and thus the precursor of much of present-day fantasy literature. His use of archaic language has been seen by some modern readers as making his fiction difficult to read, but brings a wonderful atmosphere to the telling.

Morris considered his fantasies a revival of the medieval tradition of chivalrous romances. In consequence, they tend to have sprawling plots of strung-together adventures. In this story, Walter leaves his father and his own unfaithful wife and sets sail in search of adventure. This he finds aplenty, encountering love, treachery and magic in the Wood of the title and in travelling through the Mountains of the Folk of the Bears. But can he find happiness and peace by means of his Quest?

Read by Cori Samuel. Edited by Mandarine. Summary by Cori with reference to Wikipedia.

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ID: 257278

Title: Glimpses of the Moon

Author: Edith Wharton

Narrator: Elizabeth Klett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:46:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-16

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Historical Romance

Summary:

"The Glimpses of the Moon" (1922) is about Nick and Susy Lansing, both of whom live a decadent life in Europe by sponging off wealthy friends. They marry out of convenience and have an "open" relationship, but are unprepared for where their feelings will take them. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)

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