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ID: 483643

Title: Roll-Call

Author: Arnold Bennett

Narrator: David Beed

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:49:17

Language: English

Release date: 03-02-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Family Life

Summary:

The Roll-Call (1918) by Arnold Bennett is a novel written after the Clayhanger trilogy. It describes the young life of Clayhanger's stepson, George. George Edwin Cannonhe soon drops the surname Clayhanger, given to him upon his mother's marriageis an architect, and represents what his stepfather Edwin Clayhanger wished to become. The characters of Edwin and Hilda are not developed further in this book: Edwinnow elevated to Aldermanappears only briefly. The central character displays an unattractive arrogance because of the wealth behind him. In an early chapter, he thinks about adding electric light to his London dwelling, and decides that heor rather, his stepfathercan well afford it. Bennett seems to have felt that the children of the successful bourgeoisie, unless their excesses are suppressed as Edwin's were, will become spoilt.

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ID: 483405

Title: Great Man, a Frolic

Author: Arnold Bennett

Narrator: David Beed

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:17:28

Language: English

Release date: 03-02-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Humor

Summary:

A Great Man: a Frolic (1904) is a humorous novel by Arnold Bennett about the beginning of the marriage of another author: Henry Shakspere Knight. Excerpt from the book: 'On an evening in 1866 Mr. Henry Knight, a draper's manager, aged forty, dark, clean-shaven, short, but not stout, sat in his sitting-room on the second-floor over the shop which he managed in Oxford Street, London. He was proud of that sitting-room, which represented the achievement of an ideal. The rich green wall-paper covered with peonies in full bloom matched the magenta table-cloth of the table at which Mr. Knight was writing. The fine elaborate effect thus produced was in no way impaired, but rather enhanced and invigorated, by the mahogany bookcase, the horsehair sofa netted in a system of antimacassars, the waxen flowers on the marble mantelpiece, the rosewood harmonium, and the posse of chintz-protected chairs. Mr. Knight, who was a sincere and upright man, saw beauty in this apartment.'

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ID: 483125

Title: Union and Communion, or Thoughts on the Song of Solomon

Author: J. Hudson Taylor

Narrator: Thomas Collins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:05:35

Language: English

Release date: 03-02-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Kids, Non-Fiction

Summary:

This book, whose design is to lead the devout Bible-student into the Green Pastures of the Good Shepherd, thence to the Banqueting House of the King, and thence to the service of the Vineyard, is one of the abiding legacies of Mr. Hudson Taylor to the Church. In the power of an evident unction from the Holy One, he has been enabled herein to unfold in simplest language the deep truth of the believer's personal union with The Lord, which under symbol and imagery is the subject of The Song of Songs. And in so doing he has ministered an unfailing guidance to one of the most commonly neglected and misunderstood of the Sacred Scriptures. For how many have said in bewilderment at the richness of language and profusion of figure which both conceal and reveal its meaning, 'How can I understand except some man should guide me?' It is safe to say that these pages cannot fail to help and bless all such.

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ID: 483650

Title: Beyond

Author: John Galsworthy

Narrator: David Beed

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:13:40

Language: English

Release date: 03-02-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Historical Romance

Summary:

Beyond (1917) is a romance novel by John Galsworthy. Excerpt from the book: 'On this grey February day he wore no overcoat; faithful to the absolute, almost shamefaced quietness of that wedding, he had not even donned black coat and silk hat, but wore a blue suit and a hard black felt. The instinct of a soldier and hunting man to exhibit no sign whatever of emotion did not desert him this dark day of his life. His face was narrow and weathered and thin-cheeked, with a clean-cut jaw, small ears, hair darker than the moustache, but touched at the side wings with greythe face of a man of action, self-reliant, resourceful. And his bearing was that of one who has always been a bit of a dandy, and paid attention to 'form,' yet been conscious sometimes that there were things beyond. A man, who, preserving all the precision of a type, yet had in him a streak of something that was not typical. Such often have tragedy in their pasts.'

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ID: 483388

Title: Ghost

Author: Arnold Bennett

Narrator: David Beed

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:55:44

Language: English

Release date: 03-02-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance, Romantasy

Summary:

The Ghost: A Modern Fantasy (1911) is a novel by Arnold Bennett. Excerpt from the book: 'I see,' I observed, carrying my crushed remains out into the street. Impossible to conceal the fact that I had recently arrived from Edinburgh as raw as a ploughboy! If you had seen me standing irresolute on the pavement, tapping my stick of Irish bog oak idly against the curbstone, you would have seen a slim youth, rather nattily dressed (I think), with a shadow of brown on his upper lip, and a curl escaping from under his hat, and the hat just a little towards the back of his head, and a pretty good chin, and the pride of life in his ingenuous eye. Quite unaware that he was immature! Quite unaware that the supple curves of his limbs had an almost feminine grace that made older fellows feel paternal! Quite unaware that he had everything to learn, and that all his troubles lay before him! Actually fancying himself a man because he had just taken his medical degree...

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ID: 483578

Title: Wild Olive

Author: Basil King

Narrator: David Beed

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:22:55

Language: English

Release date: 03-02-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

The Wild Olive (1910) is a novel by Basil King. Excerpt from the book: 'As he fled, he had a consciousness of abandoning somethingperhaps of deserting somethingwhich brought a strain of regret into this minute of desperate excitement. He felt he was giving up the fight. He, or his counsel for him, had contested the ground with all the resourceful ingenuity known to the American legal practitioner. He was told that, in spite of the seeming finality of what had happened that morning, there were still loopholes through which the defence might be carried on. In the space of a few hours Fate had offered him the choice between two courses, neither of them fertile in promises of success. The one was long and tedious, with a possibility of ultimate justification; the other short and speedy, with the accepted imputation of guilt. He had chosen the latter. He knew even now that he was leaving the ways and means of proving his innocence behind him.'

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ID: 483306

Title: Club of Queer Trades

Author: G. K. Chesterton

Narrator: Thomas Collins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:46:29

Language: English

Release date: 03-02-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Humor

Summary:

The Club of Queer Trades is a collection of stories by G. K. Chesterton first published in 1905. Each story in the collection is centered on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means (a 'queer trade', using the word 'queer' in the sense of 'peculiar'). To gain admittance one must have invented a unique means of earning a living and the subsequent trade being the main source of income.

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ID: 483671

Title: Hand of Ethelberta

Author: Thomas Hardy

Narrator: David Beed

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:41:40

Language: English

Release date: 03-02-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Historical Romance

Summary:

The Hand of Ethelberta (1876) is a comedy novel by Thomas Hardy. Ethelberta was raised in humble circumstances but, through her work as a governess, married well at the age of eighteen. Her husband died two weeks after the wedding and, now twenty-one, Ethelberta lives with her mother-in-law, Lady Petherwin. In the three years that have elapsed since the deaths of both her husband and father-in-law, Ethelberta has been treated to foreign travel and further privilege by her benefactress, but restricted from seeing her poor family. The story reveals Ethelberta's career as a famous poet and storyteller as she struggles to support her family and conceal her secretthat her father is a butler. Beautiful, clever, and rational, she easily attracts four very persistent suitors (Mr. Julian, Mr. Neigh, Mr. Ladywell, and Lord Mountclere), but is reluctant to give her much-coveted hand.

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ID: 483667

Title: Lady Anna

Author: Anthony Trollope

Narrator: David Beed

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:03:39

Language: English

Release date: 03-02-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

Lady Anna (1874) is a novel by Anthony Trollope. It describes Lady Anna's attempts to resolve the conflict between her duty to her social class and her duty to the man she loves. The story takes place at about the time of the First Reform Act of 1832. Lady Anna is the daughter of the late Earl Lovel. Her mother married him out of ambition, despite his evil reputation. Soon after their marriage, he told her that he had a living wife, which made their union invalid and their unborn daughter illegitimate. He then sailed to Italy and did not return to England for twenty years. During those two decades, Lady Lovel struggled to prove the validity of her marriage, and consequently her right to her title and her daughter's legitimacy. She enjoyed neither the sympathy of the public nor the support of her family during this time; her only friend and supporter was Thomas Thwaite, a Radical tailor of Keswick, who gave her and her daughter shelter and financed her legal battles

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ID: 483239

Title: Answers to Prayer

Author: A. E. C. Brooks George Müller

Narrator: Thomas Collins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:37:38

Language: English

Release date: 03-02-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Religious Studies

Summary:

Mr. Brooks, in this compilation, has endeavored to select those incidents and practical remarks from Mr. Müller's Narratives, that show in an unmistakeable way, both to believers and unbelievers, the secret of believing prayer, the manifest hand of a living God, and His unfailing response, in His own time and way, to every petition which is according to His will.

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