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ID: 483690

Title: Life on the Mississippi

Author: Mark Twain

Narrator: John Howels

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:29:11

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Literary

Summary:

Life on the Mississippi (1883) is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War, and also a travel book, recounting his trip along the Mississippi River from St. Louis to New Orleans many years after the War.

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ID: 483717

Title: Innocents Abroad

Author: Mark Twain

Narrator: John Howels

Format: Unabridged

Length: 20:35:36

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Literary

Summary:

This travel book humorously chronicles the trip Twain called his 'Great Pleasure Excursion,' on board the chartered vessel Quaker City through Europe and the Holy Land in 1867. The excursion was billed as a Holy Land expedition, with numerous stops and side trips along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, such as the train excursion from Marseille to Paris for the 1867 Paris Exhibition during the reign of Napoleon III and the Second French Empire, a journey through the Papal States to Rome, a side trip through the Black Sea to Odessa, and finally culminating in an excursion through the Holy Land. Twain recorded his observations and critiques of the various aspects of culture and society which he encountered on the journey, some more serious than others. Many of his observations draw a contrast between his own experiences and the often grandiose accounts in contemporary travelogues, which were regarded in their own time as indispensable aids for traveling in the region.

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ID: 483682

Title: Pair of Blue Eyes

Author: Thomas Hardy

Narrator: Steven Green

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:48:16

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Historical Romance

Summary:

A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) is a novel by Thomas Hardy. The book describes the love triangle of a young woman, and her two suitors from very different backgrounds. One is a socially inferior but ambitious young man who adores her and with whom she shares a country background. The other is the respectable, established, older man who represents London society. Although the two are friends, the older is not aware of the younger's previous liaison with her. She finds herself caught in a battle between her heart, her mind and the expectations of those around herher parents and society. When her father finds that his guest and candidate for his daughter's hand, the younger man is the son of a mason, he immediately orders him to leave. The older, who is a relative of her stepmother, is later on the point of seeking to marry her, but ultimately rejects her when he learns she had been previously courted. So, out of desperation, she marries a third man

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ID: 483672

Title: Olive

Author: Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Narrator: Harriet Reese

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:57:53

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Family Life

Summary:

Olive (1850) is a novel by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik about a wife and painter who was born with physical disability. Excerpt from the book: 'Puir wee lassie, ye hae a waesome welcome to a waesome warld!' Such was the first greeting ever received by my heroine, Olive Rothesay. However, she would be then entitled neither a heroine nor even 'Olive Rothesay,' being a small nameless concretion of humanity, in color and consistency strongly resembling 'red earth,' whence was taken the father of all nations. No foreshadowing of the coming life brightened her purple, pinched-up, withered face, which, as in all new-born children, bore such a ridiculous likeness to extreme old age. No tone of the all-expressive human voice thrilled through the unconscious wail that was her first utterance, and in her wide-open meaningless eyes had never dawned the beautiful human soul. There she lay, as you and I, reader, with all our compeers, lay oncea helpless lump of breathing flesh.

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ID: 483601

Title: Poisoned Pen

Author: Arthur B. Reeve

Narrator: Andrew Scott

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:10:09

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

The Poisoned Pen is a collection of 12 detective short stories by Arthur B. Reeve, featuring Craig Kennedy and Walter Jamesonthe American Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Excerpt from the book: 'Kennedy's suit-case was lying open on the bed, and he was literally throwing things into it from his chiffonier, as I entered after a hurried trip up-town from the Star office in response to an urgent message from him. 'Come, Walter,' he cried, hastily stuffing in a package of clean laundry without taking off the wrapping-paper, 'I've got your suit-case out. Pack up whatever you can in five minutes. We must take the six o'clock train for Danbridge.' I did not wait to hear any more. The mere mention of the name of the quaint and quiet little Connecticut town was sufficient. For Danbridge was on everybody's lips at that time. It was the scene of the now famous Danbridge poisoning casea brutal case in which the pretty little actress, Vera Lytton, had been the victim.'

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ID: 483190

Title: Three Short Works

Author: Gustave Flaubert

Narrator: Thomas Collins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:03:47

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

This book consists of the short stories 'A Simple Soul', 'Saint Julian the Hospitalier,' and 'Dance of Death'.'The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitalier' - Julian is predicted at birth to do great things. His father is told that he will marry into the family of a great emperor, while his mother is told he will be a saint. However, Julian joins a band of vagrants, and they eventually grow into a huge army under his control...

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ID: 483421

Title: Vicar of Wakefield

Author: Oliver Goldsmith

Narrator: Steven Green

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:34:08

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Satire

Summary:

The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) lives an idyllic life in a country parish with his wife Deborah, son George, daughters Olivia and Sophia, and three other children. He is wealthy due to investing an inheritance he received from a deceased relative, and he donates the 34 that his job pays annually to local orphans and war veterans. On the evening of George's wedding to wealthy Arabella, the Vicar loses all his money through the bankruptcy of his merchant investor who has left town abruptly. Arabella's father, who is known for his prudence with money, calls off the wedding. George, who was educated at Oxford and is old enough to be considered an adult, is sent away to town. The rest of the family moves to a new and more humble parish on the land of Squire Thornhill, a womanizer. On the way, they hear about the dubious reputation of their new landlord. The squire's uncle is Sir William Thornhill, who is known throughout the country for his worthiness and generosity

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ID: 483569

Title: Fidelity

Author: Susan Glaspell

Narrator: Harriet Reese

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:08:29

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Teen, Tough Topics

Summary:

Fidelity (1915) is a novel by Susan Glaspell. Excerpt from the book: 'It was hard to get back into the easy current of everyday talk. Cora Albright's question had too rudely pulled them out of it, disturbing the quiet flow of inconsequential things. Even when they had recovered and were safely flowing along on the fact that the new hotel was to cost two hundred thousand dollars, after they had moved with apparent serenity to lamentation over a neighbor who was sick in bed and without a cook, it was as if they were making a display of the ease with which they could move on those commonplace things, as if thus to deny the consciousness of whirlpools near by. So they seemed to Dr. Deane Franklin, who, secured by the shadow of the porch vine, could smile to himself at the way he saw through them.'

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ID: 483702

Title: Scaramouche

Author: Rafael Sabatini

Narrator: Jack Shelly

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:58:14

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Romance, General

Summary:

Scaramouche is an historical novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1921. A romantic adventure, Scaramouche tells the story of a young lawyer during the French Revolution. In the course of his adventures he becomes an actor portraying 'Scaramouche' (a roguish buffoon character in the commedia dell'arte). He also becomes a revolutionary, politician, and fencing-master, confounding his enemies with his powerful orations and swordsmanship. He is forced by circumstances to change sides several times. The book also depicts his transformation from cynic to idealist. The three-part novel opens with the memorable line: 'He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.' This line was to become Sabatini's epitaph, on his gravestone in Adelboden, Switzerland.

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ID: 483669

Title: Walden

Author: Henry David Thoreau

Narrator: Jack Shelly

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:32:10

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Biography & Memoir

Summary:

Walden (1854) is a book by Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. 'I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.'Henry David Thoreau

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