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Title: Leaves of Grass

Subtitle: The Original 1855 Edition

Author: Walt Whitman, American Renaissance Books

Narrator: Sam Torode

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-10-17

Publisher: American Renaissance Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

When Walt Whitman self-published "Leaves of Grass" in 1855, he rocked the literary world and forever changed the course of poetry. In subsequent editions, Whitman continued to revise and expand his poems - but none matched the raw power and immediacy of the first edition. This volume presents the 1855 "Leaves of Grass" in its entirety, unchanged, along with Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous letter to Whitman.

Members Reviews:

Great Poetry Marred by Mispronunciations

What three words best describe Sam Torodes performance?

Pleasant voice and pace but far too many mispronunciations.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No. Over four hours of poetry should be enjoyed slowly.

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Title: Nature

Author: Sam Torode - foreword, Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrator: Sam Torode

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-01-17

Publisher: American Renaissance Books

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature" is perhaps the greatest original work of philosophy written by an American. This specially-prepared edition includes a foreword on the origin and significance the book.

"Emerson defined genius as the ability to see the miraculous in the commonplace, and to take old truths and express them in a new way. "Nature" is a perfect example of such genius. Its pages are alive, brimming with fresh and startling insights grounded in the soil of ancient wisdom." (From the foreword)

Members Reviews:

A treasure...

I love how the philosophical words of Emerson have been made timeless and modern with these beautiful photos and this presentation. This short book (76 pages) juxtaposes ancient and modern ideas in a very attractive and thought-provoking way. Emerson's ideas are prophetic and the editor, Sam Torode, has written an insightful forward and afterword.

This booklet is shorter and more beautiful than I had anticipated, which means I will be rereading it often.

Five Stars

Awesome transaction. A+

Breath Taking in words and vision

I loved this book, an dreadingn it made me feel connected to myself and the world in a different way.

It isn't the book, it's just me

Really, I'm certain that it isn't the book, it's just me. I think I just am not interested in pondering at this time.

Essential American Literature

Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson's first book, is his manifesto and thus the birth of Transcendentalism and true American Romanticism. It got little initial attention but has come to be seen as one of his major works. Though not as famous or acclaimed as later Emerson, it is of great significance not only historically but in terms of his career and the many he influenced. It is remarkable just how much of his writing is here in embryo; in a large sense, he spent the rest of his career refining this. Many key concepts are here: nature's all-encompassing beauty and force, our place in regard to it, art's role, and of course deduction of God from nature. Some speculations are more philosophical, historical, or critical, but all lead to these basic points, which are Transcendentalism's cornerstones. Emerson's characteristically optimistic thought is here in full, as is his signature poetic prose. He now unfortunately has the reputation of being somewhat impenetrable or simply impractical, but it is important to realize that he wrote for the masses; unlike nearly all philosophers, he did not rely on jargon or polysyllables. Time has of course obscured him somewhat, but he is still notably accessible compared to others. Yet his writing has a rare beauty rarely approached in any prose, much less philosophy; it is often as close to poetry as prose can be. That Emerson enjoyed writing - perhaps not the drudgery but certainly the exploration - is clear; he often works himself up to such a pitch that he positively rhapsodizes, producing near-lyrical beauty even when writing about the most abstract metaphysics. Nature has a consummate example - the "transparent eyeball," perhaps his most famous passage. The book has much to tell us even after all these years, and it is indeed somewhat ironic that factors ostensibly making it archaic - greater industrialization, ever-expanding technology, deforestation, etc. - in many ways make it really more relevant than ever.

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Title: The Ohio River Valley Trilogy

Author: Zane Grey, Raging Bull Publishing

Narrator: J Rodney Turner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 30 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-14-17

Publisher: Raging Bull Publishing

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

This Raging Bull Publishing Box Set contains three classic Western books by Zane Grey including:

Betty Zane

Inspired by the life and adventures of his own great-great grandmother, Betty Zane was Zane Grey's first novel and launched his career as a master writer of rousing frontier and Western adventures.

Betty Zane is the story of the events culminating in the last battle of the American Revolution, when 200 Redcoats from British-controlled Detroit along with 400 Shawnee Indian attacked the small, wood-palisaded Ford Henry on the western frontier. The heroine of the battle - a young, spunky, and beautiful frontier girl - was Betty Zane.

The Spirit of the Border

He was known as Deathwind to the Ohio Valley Indians, and now Lewis Wetzel must single-handedly save Fort Henry. Armed only with his long rifle and knife, he heads out on a one-man rampage to stop the bloody border wars, to face down Chief Wingenund and to avenge the brutal missionary massacre at Village of Peace.

The Last Trail

A woman is kidnapped from Fort Henry by a band of renegades and hostile Ohio Valley Indians. Now, Lewis Wetzel and Jonathan Zane take pursuit. With no hope of survival, they follow the trail into the unknown wilderness, vowing it to be their last venture. At trail's end, they will face their bloodiest battle.

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Title: Daisy Miller

Author: Henry James

Narrator: Kitty Hendrix

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-21-17

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Daisy Miller portrays the courtship of a beautiful American girl by Winterbourne, a sophisticated compatriot of hers. His pursuit of her is hampered by her own flirtatiousness, which is frowned upon by the other expatriates when they meet in Switzerland and Italy.

Henry James uses Daisy's story to discuss what he thinks Europeans and Americans believe about each other, and more generally the prejudices common in any culture.

Daisy Miller was an immediate and widespread popular success for James, despite some criticism that the story was "an outrage on American girlhood". The story continues to be one of James' most popular works, along with The Turn of the Screw and The Portrait of a Lady.

This narration is from the original text that was published in 1879. In 1909 Henry James published a second version of Daisy Miller, which, in spite of his preferring it, never had the critical or commercial acclaim of the earlier version.

Members Reviews:

Interesting look back

Any additional comments?

This was an odd but interesting read. Not my normal taste but I appreciated the research done and how it related to other Henry James novels. Winterbourne becomes infatuated with Daisy but Daisy Miller is attracted to a young Italian. Unfortunately his actions were too little too late.I was voluntarily provided this free review copy audiobook by the author, narrator, or publisher.

I Am Lost For Words

I got this book via audiobook boom. I listened to the entire book and the best I can say is that the narrator was very good. The story centered around an American family touring Europe. The daughter Daisy Miller is the central character and the way people who have too much money and too little to do other than gossip treat her. I think. It may also be about her not knowing how to treat a man who is interested in her. Or it may be about the man not knowing how to treat the woman he is interested in. In the end, he discovers how he should have treated her but it is too late because she is dead.

Good quick read

Any additional comments?

Daisy Miller by Henry James was a good read. Daisy Miller was a beautiful young American woman traveling in Europe with her famil. Winterbourne becomes infatuated with Daisy even though she becomes infatuated with a young Italian. This was a great quick read.

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Title: The Love of the Last Tycoon

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrator: Brian Sutherland, Lauren Fortgang

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-21-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 13 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The Last Tycoon, edited by the renowned literary critic Edmund Wilson, was first published a year after Fitzgerald's death and includes the author's notes and outline for his unfinished literary masterpiece. It is the story of the young Hollywood mogul Monroe Stahr, who was inspired by the life of boy-genius Irving Thalberg, and is an exposé of the studio system in its heyday.

Members Reviews:

I love his writing

I love his writing. The reader is left to conclude what happens, but I am still glad it was published.

Five Stars

My wife enjoyed the book.

thumbs up

Really enjoyed this series.

The Locw of the Last Tycoon

Quite good. There was quite a bit about how movie studios operated at the time without sounding like a textbook but written within the fabric of the story. I did not quite understand soe of it but it could be the difference in the time it was written. It told a sad but beautiful story and I wished it had not ended as it did but another ending would not have been as meaningful.

A great unfinished novel.

Fitzgerald died at age 44 leaving unfinished what probably was going to be his second great novel. There are two versions of the novel which have been reconstructed using the completed fragments and incomplete notes left by the writer. This is one of the two published versions.

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Title: Rip Van Winkle [Classic Tales Edition]

Author: Washington Irving

Narrator: B.J. Harrison

Format: Unabridged

Length: 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-16-17

Publisher: B.J. Harrison

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Rip Van Winkle lived in a quiet colonial town, and had a habit of attending to everyone else's chores. Henpecked and poor, he goes squirrel hunting in the woods one day, only to exit twenty years later.

Members Reviews:

enjoyable

Any additional comments?

I enjoyed this short listen and I love BJ Harrison's narration. He has a great narrating voice.

An Amazing Tale

I absolutely loved this book. It was a great story and exceptionally well read. What a lovely setting. I felt pity for Rip in the beginning, and felt sorrow for him in the end.

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Title: The Classic Tales Podcast, Season Four

Author: Oscar Wilde, L. Frank Baum, H. P. Lovecraft, G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: B. J. Harrison

Format: Unabridged

Length: 39 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-16-17

Publisher: B.J. Harrison

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Comedy, mystery, classic horror, children's stories, adventure and more! The range of titles available in the complete fourth season of The Classic Tales Podcast is unparalleled! It contains 29 audiobooks, including two complete novels and three newly recorded stories. It's over 39 hours long!

Whether you like fairy tales from Oscar Wilde and L. Frank Baum, HP Lovecraft's horror, adventure with The Scarlet Pimpernel, or mystery from GK Chesterton and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, you will find every tale stretches your imagination while presenting plenty of food for thought.

So pick up the fourth season of The Classic Tales Podcast, and take a journey through the greatest stories the world has ever known!

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Title: Something Wicked This Way Comes

Author: Ray Bradbury

Narrator: Diane Capen, J. T. Turner, Anastas Varinos, Daniel R. Gelinas, Teresa Goding, Matthew Scott Robertson

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-15-17

Publisher: Blackstone Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Ray Bradbury has dramatized his literary classic, Something Wicked This Way Comes, into this first-class audio drama, produced by The Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air, complete with a full cast, sound effects, and original music.

Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show comes to Greentown, Illinois, one week before Halloween. Two boys, Jim Nightshade and Will Halloway, soon discover the evil of this carnival, which promises to make your every wish and dream come true. But with those wishes and dreams comes a price that must be paid. Behind the mirrors and the mazes is the nightmare of a lifetime.

Instrumental soloist: Jeffrey Gage Producers: Mark Vander Berg, Jerry Robbins, Chris Snyder Director: Nancy Curran Willis Produced by The Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air

Full cast of narrators includes Marcia Friedman, Lincoln Clark, Diane Lind, Shonna McEachern, Joseph Zamparelli, Alyssa Mello, Tom Berry, and Rik Pierce.

Members Reviews:

This Story is a Classic

Phenomenal Story that has an actual lesson to be learned if you just listen carefully

Something Not Too Shabby This Way Comes

This is classic tale performed in a classic style . Bradbury's somewhat heavy-laden horror tale is cut down to size and brought to life with no attempt to make it contemporary. This audio play has kept faith with the original book released some 55 years ago. As such it's a reasonably accessible way either to re-visit the story or even hear it for the first time. As a novel Something Wicked This Way Comes was fairly light on dialogue and heavy on quite heavy prose. As such its translation to an audio play means that it did seem to jump around a little and anyone new to the story might find it a little harder to follow.

Given the classical form I think that the cast do an excellent job with it. To my ears the sound was beautifully mastered because there are multiple voices, lots of music and a plethora of sound effects including some nice bass-laden thunder. With all that going on it would have been easy for the voices to get lost a little but they remained crystal clear throughout.

Overall I'd say it was a pretty decent short listen and it makes a really good fist at providing an accessible way to enjoy this classic horror story.

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Title: Washington Square

Author: Henry James

Narrator: Adam Sims

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-29-16

Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Washington Square tells the poignant and gently comic story of Catherine Sloper, a sweet and unassuming young heiress, and her fortune-seeking suitor Morris Townsend. Set in New York City during the 1840s, the story follows Ms. Sloper's conflicts with her concerned father, who attempts to thwart Mr. Townsend, and her busybody aunt, who encourages the attachment. But amid all the duplicity and folly, Ms. Sloper slowly grows towards independence and maturity, and begins to make her own decisions.

Members Reviews:

What??

The ending was so unsatisfying. But the performance of the story was great! Thanks Audible

Not a Henry Hames fan

On all technical aspects, this book was excellent; however, the story simply did not appeal to me, James created a long narrative for a very simple plot. I usually love Victorian literature, and am used to the long explanations and detailed emotional descriptions of things, but this book was a real slog to get through.

I am sure many others will enjoy it though, and overall it is in good form.

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Title: The Ballad of the Sad Café

Author: Carson McCuller

Narrator: Suzanne Toren, Barbara Rosenblat, David Ledoux, Therese Plummer, Kevin Pariseau, Joe Barrett, Edoardo Ballerini

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-27-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

A classic work that has charmed generations of listeners, this collection assembles Carson McCullers's best stories, including her beloved novella The Ballad of the Sad Café. A haunting tale of a human triangle that culminates in an astonishing brawl, the novella introduces listeners to Miss Amelia, a formidable southern woman whose café serves as the town's gathering place. Among other fine works, the collection also includes "Wunderkind", McCullers's first published story written when she was only 17 about a musical prodigy who suddenly realizes she will not go on to become a great pianist. The Ballad of the Sad Café is a brilliant study of love and longing from one of the South's finest writers.

Members Reviews:

Considered one of her classics

Needs a thoughtful read and time to contemplate. Multi-layered story and the reader must account for the time period and adjust modern values to work in a completely and to some alien era.

the ballad of the sad cafe

The ballad of the sad cafe is a gem by itself. The other stories vary in quality, the last story one of the best.

Happy with purchase and vendor

Item as described,arrived quickly. Happy with purchase and vendor..

How it had been whritten more better than about it had been written

How it had been whritten more better than about it had been written. Its Great beatiful style and language. Alliens must study english by reading books by Carson McCullers.

Great

Great book even though it was used. I enjoyed it and passed it along to a friend. Would buy again