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Title: Ein Verbrechen

Author: Maxim Gorky

Narrator: Friedrich

Length: 1 hr 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 1/1/2017

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Publisher's Summary:

Nach dem Tode seines Vaters verlässt der einfältige und mittellose Wanja Kusmin sein heimatliches Dorf, um in der Stadt Arbeit zu finden. Doch er macht die Bekanntschaft des arbeitsscheuen Jeremé Salakin, der seinen Lebensunterhalt durch kleine Diebstähle und Bettelei bestreitet. Auf dem Wege zu einer geplanten, ihr Niveau übersteigenden größeren Straftat, durch die sie vermeinen, ihre elende Situation zu verbessern, begehen sie ein schreckliches Verbrechen, welches infolge der Einfalt Wanjas nicht lange verborgen bleibt. In dieser frühen Erzählung beschreibt Gorki mit knappen Worten die soziale Situation der verarmten Unterschicht in der russischen Provinz im neunzehnten Jahrhundert. - Summary by Friedrich

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Title: In a North Country Village

Author: M. E. Francis

Narrator: Phil Benson

Length: 5 hrs 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 1/1/2017

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Publisher's Summary:

M. E. Francis was born Mary E. Sweetman in Dublin and moved to Lancashire on her marriage to Francis Nicholas Blundell, of the Blundell family, who remain squires of Little Crosby, the last Catholic recusant village in England, which lies a few miles north of Liverpool. Blundell died young and Mary went on to write more than 50 books, using her husband's Christian name as pen name, including this collection of 12 stories set in Little Crosby (Thornleigh).

A romantic portrait of mid-19th century village life written from an aristocratic point of view, In a North Country Village (1896) is built around striking portraits of strong Lancashire women surviving in the face of Hardyesque tragedy and the weaknesses of their men folk. M. E. Francis set many of her books in Ireland and Dorset, but several were set in Lancashire, including A Daughter of the Soil (1895), Yeoman Fleetwood (1900) and Marjory o'th' Mill (1907). (Summary by Phil Benson)

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Title: The Real Thing

Author: Henry James

Narrator: Nicholas Clifford

Length: 1 hr 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 1/1/2017

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Publisher's Summary:

The Real Thing is, on one level, a somewhat ironic tale of an artist and two rather particular models. Yet it also raises questions about the relationship between the notion of reality in our humdrum world, and the means that an artist must use in trying to achieve, or reflect, that reality. Though the protagonist is an artist and illustrator of books, not a writer, it's not hard to imagine that James has himself, and other writers, in mind.(summary by Clifford)

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Title: But Thy Love and Thy Grace

Author: Francis J. Finn

Narrator: Maria Therese

Length: 1 hr 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 1/1/2017

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Publisher's Summary:

Father Finn's beautiful little tale can be read in an hour or so, but it conveys a lesson which ought to be of longer duration. The interest of the story is chiefly theological, turning, as it does, on the refining and ennobling effects of frequent confession and communion on the soul; yet it is so simply put that any child can understand it.

Regina O'Connell is a poor factory girl whose earnings support herself and her bedridden sister. She is simplicity itself-one of those rare beings whom unselfishness and genuine humility make heroines in the true sense of the word. She is a weekly communicant, and is trying her best to keep to the narrow path, but she cannot yet say from her heart the beautiful prayer of St. Ignatius:-" Take, O Lord, all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, my whole will." She is tried, sorely tried. At times the pathos is almost unendurable, but she learns her lesson at last. "Give me but Thy love and Thy grace," she whispered, "for these are sufficient for me." "And she received His love and His grace, and in the receiving her heart throbbed with a bliss seldom known upon earth, for His love and His grace were indeed sufficient."

The book is not devoid of humourous touches. Father McNichols' catalogue of his penitents and Regina's poor attempts at grandeur are amusing, while the description of the bazaar and of the raffle for the diamond ring are bright and vivid. (Summary from the New Ireland Review, Vol 17. 1902)

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Title: Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale For Tired Men

Author: Max Beerbohm

Narrator: David Wales

Length: 1 hr 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 1/1/2017

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Publisher's Summary:

Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm was an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist. The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale for Tired Men is a short story with moral implications. Beerbohm's tale is a lighter, more humorous version of Oscar Wilde's classic tale of moral degeneration, The Picture of Dorian Gray. The Happy Hypocrite tells the story of a man who deceives a woman with a mask in order to marry her. (Summary from Wikipedia)

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Title: Semi-Detached House

Author: Emily Eden

Narrator: Elizabeth Klett

Length: 5 hrs 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 1/1/2017

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Publisher's Summary:

If you're a Jane Austen fan, you'll enjoy Emily Eden's comic novels of manners, The Semi-Detached House (1859) and The Semi-Attached Couple (1860). At the opening of The Semi-Detached House, the beautiful (but rather petulant) Lady Blanche Chester, newly married and pregnant, is being installed in a suburban house while her husband is away. Her encounters with her neighbors, and the intrigues of the neighborhood, soon come to absorb and annoy her. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)

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Title: Peggy Raymond's Way (or Blossom Time At Friendly Terrace)

Author: Harriet Lummis Smith

Narrator: Daryl Wor

Length: 5 hrs 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 1/1/2017

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Publisher's Summary:

In this fifth and (as far as is known) final volume of Peggy Raymond and her Friendly Terrace entourage, we find the Girls winding down from the Great War, and pursuing more domestic and mischievous pursuits. Finishing up college and preparing for Peggy and Grahame's wedding, Ruth, Amy and Priscilla look toward their own opportunities of future relationships and potential marriages. As Harriet Lummis Smith is so good at, it is a neat blend of continuity toward the known characters and charming introductions of the new. (Summary by Daryl Wor)

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Title: Island Nights' Entertainments

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrator: Tony Addison

Length: 5 hrs 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 1/1/2017

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Publisher's Summary:

A marvelous depiction of two sides of South Sea Islands' life through three separate tales. One, the experience of the incoming British keen to live free and exploit the innocent; the other the supernatural as perceived by Stevenson working in the lives of the natives.

One tale carries the germ of the story of Madame Butterfly, since become a part of Western culture. Another is an extraordinary retelling of a German horror story transposed to a South Sea Island setting. The last is an effort of the pure Stevensonian imagination and there can be nothing better. - Summary by TONY ADDISON

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Title: Two Sides To Every Question: From A South Australian Standpoint

Author: Maud Jean Franc

Narrator: Kirsty Leishman

Length: 4 hrs 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 1/1/2017

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Publisher's Summary:

'Two Sides to Every Question: From a South Australian Standpoint is a meditation on poverty, wealth, and social aspiration set in the free settlement of Adelaide in pre-Federation Australia. The novel follows the lives of a cast of characters from different social classes as they negotiate the twists and turns in their respective fortunes. The newly-bereaved Alton familyan invalid widow and her two grown children, Tom and Nettiesell their rural property and move to the slovenly back streets of the inner-city; they are determined to hold onto their dignity and values as they turn to earning a living for the first time. The wealthy Clinton family runs the stock supply business where Tom finds employment as a clerk. Toms boss, Robert Clinton, supplements his business income through trading mining shares. His financial success ensures his wife and daughters, Elsie and Lily, have access to the higher echelons of colonial society. Meanwhile, the Clintons' cousin, Arthur Delta, arrives from England to take a position in his uncles business. Arthur's mother has called on her brother's charity to help her family in their time of need. When Arthur and Elsie fall in love, the scene is set as he attempts to build his fortune to secure her fathers favour and, so, her hand in marriage. (Summary by kirstyl)

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Title: Told in a French Garden

Author: Mildred Aldrich

Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers

Length: 5 hrs 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 1/1/2017

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Publisher's Summary:

American friends begin to summer in a beautiful French country house when WWI breaks out. They decide not to evacuate as the war encroaches. Their interactions are interwoven by the stories that they take turns telling after dinner each night to stimulate their nightly conversation and distract their thoughts from the war. (Summary by A.L. Gramour)