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ID: 639815

Title: Oroonoko or The Royal Slave (Unabridged)

Author: Aphra Behn

Narrator: Carl Mason

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:06:41

Language: English

Release date: 01-29-21

Publisher: Zebralution

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies

Summary:

Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave is a short work of prose fiction by Aphra Behn (1640-1689), published in 1688 by William Canning and reissued with two other fictions later that year. It was also adapted into a play. The eponymous hero is an African prince from Coramantien who is tricked into slavery and sold to British colonists in Surinam where he meets the narrator. Behn's text is a first-person account of his life, love, rebellion, and execution.

Behn, often cited as the first known professional female writer, was a successful playwright, poet, translator and essayist. She began writing prose fiction in the 1680s, probably in response to the consolidation of theatres that led to a reduced need for new plays. Published less than a year before she died, Oroonoko is sometimes described as one of the first novels in English. Interest in it has increased since the 1970s, with critics arguing that Behn is the foremother of British women writers, and that Oroonoko is a crucial text in the history of the novel.

The novel's success was jump-started by a popular 1695 theatrical adaptation by Thomas Southerne which ran regularly on the British stage throughout the first half of the 18th century, and in America later in the century.

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ID: 512265

Title: Dummling and the Three Feathers (Unabridged)

Author: The Brothers Grimm

Narrator: Cheryl Bassett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:16:22

Language: English

Release date: 01-29-21

Publisher: Zebralution

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

'Dummling and the Three Feathers': Once upon a time there lived a King who had three sons; the two elder were learned and bright, but the youngest said very little and appeared somewhat foolish, so he was always known as Dummling. - When the King grew old and feeble, feeling that he was nearing his end, he wished to leave the crown to one of his three sons, but could not decide to which. He thereupon settled that they should travel, and that the one who could obtain the most splendid carpet should ascend the throne when he died...

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ID: 512259

Title: Yah! Yah! Yah! (Unabridged)

Author: Jack London

Narrator: Allan Monteiro

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:29:34

Language: English

Release date: 01-29-21

Publisher: Zebralution

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

'Yah! Yah! Yah!' written by Jack London: He was a whiskey-guzzling Scotchman, and he downed his whiskey neat, beginning with his first tot punctually at six in the morning, and thereafter repeating it at regular intervals throughout the day till bedtime, which was usually midnight. He slept but five hours out of the twenty-four, and for the remaining nineteen hours he was quietly and decently drunk. During the eight weeks I spent with him on Oolong Atoll, I never saw him draw a sober breath. In fact, his sleep was so short that he never had time to sober up. It was the most beautiful and orderly perennial drunk I have ever observed.

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ID: 512268

Title: Little One-Eye, Two-Eyes and Three-Eyes (Unabridged)

Author: The Brothers Grimm

Narrator: Cheryl Bassett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:23:42

Language: English

Release date: 01-29-21

Publisher: Zebralution

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

'Little One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes' is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 130.

A woman had three daughters: The eldest had one eye in the middle of her forehead, the second had two eyes like ordinary people, the third had three eyes; two on the sides of her head and a third in the middle of her forehead. Her mother and sisters scorned Little Two Eyes because she was like other people and treated her badly, leaving her only their leftovers to eat...

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ID: 512264

Title: Cinderella (Unabridged)

Author: The Brothers Grimm

Narrator: Cheryl Bassett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:19:55

Language: English

Release date: 01-29-21

Publisher: Zebralution

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

'Cinderella' is a folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression and triumphant reward.

A rich man's wife became sick, and when she felt that her end was drawing near, she called her only daughter to her bedside and said, 'Dear child, remain pious and good, and then our dear God will always protect you, and I will look down on you from heaven and be near you.' With this she closed her eyes and died...

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ID: 512266

Title: Faithful John (Unabridged)

Author: The Brothers Grimm

Narrator: Cheryl Bassett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:28:09

Language: English

Release date: 01-29-21

Publisher: Zebralution

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

'Faithful John' is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 6.

In some variants, a king on his deathbed orders his servant, Trusty John, not to let his son see a certain room, which holds a portrait of a princess. - In all variants, when the new king comes to power, he forces his way into the room. Instantly, he falls in love with the princess. In Joseph Jacobs's version, her country had been at war with his, and the portrait stems from betrothal negotiations that had fallen through; but in all versions, the king does not know how to win her. Trusty John tells him to prepare a ship with all manner of rich treasure, and then either sails with it himself, or has the king sail with him, to her country. The princess is lured aboard by the goods, and the ship sets sail, carrying her off...

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ID: 512272

Title: Oh, If I Could but Shiver! (Unabridged)

Author: The Brothers Grimm

Narrator: Cheryl Bassett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:32:01

Language: English

Release date: 01-29-21

Publisher: Zebralution

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

'Oh, If I Could But Shiver!' is a German folktale collected by the Brothers Grimm. It is tale number 4 in the collection. It was also included by Andrew Lang in The Blue Fairy Book (1889). - The Grimms' first, 1812 edition contained a much shorter version, 'Good Bowling and Card Playing'. - It is classified as its own Aarne-Thompson index type 326 of a male protagonist's unsuccessful attempts to learn fear, which eventually leads to his awareness of mortality.

A father had two sons. The younger, when asked by his father what he would like to learn to support himself, said he would like to learn to shudder. A sexton told the father that he could teach the boy. After teaching him to ring the church bell, he sent him one midnight to ring it and came after him, dressed as a ghost. The boy demanded an explanation. When the sexton did not answer, the boy, unafraid, pushed him down the stairs, breaking his leg...

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ID: 512645

Title: Snow-White and Rose-Red (Unabridged)

Author: The Brothers Grimm

Narrator: Cheryl Bassett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:25:17

Language: English

Release date: 01-29-21

Publisher: Zebralution

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

'Snow-White and Rose-Red' is a German fairy tale. The best-known version is the one collected by the Brothers Grimm as tale number 161.

Snow-White and Rose-Red are two little girls living with their mother, a poor widow, in a small cottage by the woods. Fair-haired Snow-White is quiet and shy and prefers to spend her time indoors, doing housework and reading. Dark-haired Rose-Red is outspoken, lively and cheerful, and prefers to be outside. They are both very good little girls who love each other and their mother dearly, and their mother is very fond of them as well...

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ID: 512252

Title: Mauki (Unabridged)

Author: Jack London

Narrator: Peter Walters

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:44:41

Language: English

Release date: 01-29-21

Publisher: Zebralution

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

'Mauki' written by Jack London: He weighed one hundred and ten pounds. His hair was kinky and negroid, and he was black. He was peculiarly black. He was neither blue-black nor purple-black, but plum-black. His name was Mauki, and he was the son of a chief. He had three tambos. Tambo is Melanesian for taboo, and is first cousin to that Polynesian word. Mauki's three tambos were as follows: First, he must never shake hands with a woman, nor have a woman's hand touch him or any of his personal belongings; secondly, he must never eat clams nor any food from a fire in which clams had been cooked; thirdly, he must never touch a crocodile, nor travel in a canoe that carried any part of a crocodile even if as large as a tooth.

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ID: 512270

Title: Little Snow-White (Unabridged)

Author: The Brothers Grimm

Narrator: Cheryl Bassett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:23:23

Language: English

Release date: 01-29-21

Publisher: Zebralution

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

'Little Snow-White' is a 19th-century German fairy tale which is today known widely across the Western world. The Brothers Grimm published it in 1812 in the first edition of their collection Grimms' Fairy Tales. It was titled in German: 'Schneewittchen' numbered as Tale 53. The name Schneewittchen was Low German and in the first version it was translated with Schneeweißchen. The Grimms completed their final revision of the story in 1854.

The fairy tale features such elements as the magic mirror, the poisoned apple, the glass coffin, and the characters of the evil queen and the Seven Dwarfs. The seven dwarfs were first given individual names in the 1912 Broadway play Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and then given different names in Walt Disney's 1937 film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

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