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Support our Podcasts: https://libri-vox.org/donateMore than eight years before the novel opens, Anne Elliot, then a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted 19 year old, accepted a proposal of marriage from the handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. He was clever, confident, and ambitious, but poor and with no particular family connections to recommend him. Sir Walter, Anne's fatuous, snobbish father and her equally self-involved older sister Elizabeth were dissatisfied with her choice, maintaining that he was no match for an Elliot of Kellynch Hall, the family estate. Her older friend and mentor, Lady Russell, acting in place of Anne's late mother, persuaded her to break the engagement. Now 27 and still unmarried, Anne re-encounters her former love when his sister and brother-in-law, the Crofts, take out a lease on Kellynch. Wentworth is now a captain and wealthy from maritime victories in the Napoleonic wars. However, he has not forgiven Anne for rejecting him. While publicly declaring that he is ready to marry any suitable young woman who catches his fancy, he privately resolves that he is ready to become attached to any appealing young woman except for Anne Elliot. (Support Us And Donate Here:⁠⁠⁠ https://libri-vox.org/donate/

Support Us And Donate Here:⁠⁠⁠ https://libri-vox.org/donate/Northanger Abbey follows seventeen-year-old Gothic novel aficionado Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen as they visit Bath. It is Catherine's first visit there. She meets new friends, such as Isabella Thorpe, and goes to balls. Catherine finds herself pursued by Isabella's brother, the rough-mannered, slovenly John Thorpe, and by her real love interest, Henry Tilney. She also becomes friends with Eleanor Tilney, Henry's younger sister. Henry captivates her with his view on novels and his knowledge of history and the world. General Tilney (Henry and Eleanor's father) invites Catherine to visit their estate, Northanger Abbey, which, from her reading of Ann Radcliffe's Gothic novel The Mysteries of Udolpho, she expects to be dark, ancient and full of Gothic horrors and fantastical mystery. - Summary by WikipediaSupport Us And Donate Here:⁠⁠⁠ https://libri-vox.org/donate/

Support Us And Donate Here:⁠⁠⁠ https://libri-vox.org/donate/Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. Before its 1903 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It was classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the "100 best novels" and part of the Western canon. The story centres on Charles Marlow, who narrates most of the book. He is an Englishman who takes a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a river-boat captain in Africa. Heart of Darkness exposes the dark side of European colonization while exploring the three levels of darkness that the protagonist, Marlow, encounters: the darkness of the Congo wilderness, the darkness of the Europeans' cruel treatment of the African natives, and the unfathomable darkness within every human being for committing heinous acts of evil. Although Conrad does not give the name of the river, at the time of writing the Congo Free State, the location of the large and important Congo River, was a private colony of Belgium's King Leopold II. In the story, Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver. However, his more pressing assignment is to return Kurtz, another ivory trader, to civilization, in a cover-up. Kurtz has a reputation throughout the region. (Summary by Wikipedia)Support Us And Donate Here:⁠⁠⁠ https://libri-vox.org/donate/

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An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedy by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honor. The action is set in London, in "the present", and takes place within a single day. "Sooner or later," Wilde notes, "we shall all have to pay for what we do." But he adds that, "No one should be entirely judged by their past." (Summary from Wikipedia)
Characters:
Narrator – Read by Alex Foster
The Earl Of Caversham, K.G. – Read by Linton
Viscount Goring, his son – Read by John Gonzalez
Sir Robert Chiltern, Bart., Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs – Read by David Barnes
Vicomte De Nanjac, Attache at the French Embassy in London – Read by Juho Fröjd
Mr. Montford – Read by Matthew Walton
Mason, Butler to Sir Robert Chiltern – Read by Hugh McGuire
Phipps, Lord Goring’s servant – Read by Juho Fröjd
James, footman – Read by Read by Chris Goringe
Harold, footman – Read by Zachary Brewster-Geisz
Lady Chiltern – Read by Kristin Hughes
Lady Markby – Read by Heather Barnett
The Countess Of Basildon – Read by JemmaBlythe
Mrs. Marchmont – Read by Ezwa
Miss Mabel Chiltern, Sir Robert Chiltern’s sister – Read by Ophelia Darcy
Mrs. Cheveley – Read by Betsie Bush
Project Editor – Paula Berinstein

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