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ID: 483676

Title: Australia Felix

Author: Henry Handel Richardson

Narrator: Katharine Brooks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:17:10

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Family Life

Summary:

Australia Felix (1917) by Henry Handel Richardson is the first novel in the trilogy The Fortunes of Richard Mahony. 'Australia Felix' is a description used by explorer Major Thomas Mitchell in 1836 for the lush plains he discovered between the Murray River and the south coast of Victoria, including the area that later became the site of Ballarat. The novel introduces the reader to Dr. Richard Townshend-Mahony, from Edinburgh, the proprietor of Diggers' Emporium in Ballarat township, near Melbourne, Australia, which he runs with his assistants. He came to the goldfields in 1852 based on advertising that made gold seem easy to acquire. He marries a servant girl from a hotel, and after his store has to be closed, he becomes a successful physician. The more successful Mahony gets, the more he longs to return to England. In the novel the reader can follow the tragedies and successes of him and of his wife's family.

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ID: 483714

Title: Shuttle

Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett

Narrator: Katharine Brooks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19:21:26

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Family Life

Summary:

The Shuttle (1907) is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Sir Nigel Anstruthers comes to New York to search an heiress, as he no longer has enough money to keep up his estate, Stornham Court. He marries the pretty and treasured Rosalie, the daughter of an American millionaire. But on their return to England, Nigel and his mother control and isolate Rosalie from her family. Many years later, Rosalie's sister Bettina, who has spent a decade wondering why Rosy has lost contact with the family, arrives at Stornham Court to investigate. She discovers Rosalie and her son Ughtred, physically and emotionally fragile, living in the ruined estate. Bettina, begins to restore both Rosalie's health and spirits and the building and grounds of Stornham Court in Nigel's absence. Bettina attracts the attention of the local gentry and re-integrates her sister into society, while she gains the respect of the villagers by her insistence that repairs be done by local workers.

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ID: 483556

Title: Silent Bullet

Author: Arthur B. Reeve

Narrator: Andrew Scott

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:52:33

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

The Silent Bullet is a collection of 12 detective short stories by Arthur B. Reeve, featuring Craig Kennedy and Walter Jamesonthe American Holmes and Watson. Excerpt from the book: 'It has always seemed strange to me that no one has ever endowed a professorship in criminal science in any of our large universities.' 'Why should there be a chair in criminal science?' I remarked argumentatively, settling back in my chair. 'I've done my turn at police headquarters reporting, and I can tell you, Craig, it's no place for a college professor. Crime is just crime. And as for dealing with it, the good detective is born and bred to it. College professors for the sociology of the thing, yes; for the detection of it, give me a Byrnes.' 'On the contrary,' replied Kennedy, 'there is a distinct place for science in the detection of crime. On the Continent they are far in advance of us in that respect. We are mere children beside a dozen crime-specialists in Paris, whom I could name.'

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ID: 483654

Title: Mark Twain's Speeches

Author: Mark Twain

Narrator: John Howels

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:21:57

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies

Summary:

This collection is bursting with Twain's legendary wit. The speeches focus on a great number of issues ranging from cigars and tobacco to ladies, politics, courage, health and Russian stutterersthe topics are endlessly diverse, profound and entertaining!Twain was in great demand as a featured speaker, performing solo humorous talks, similar to what would later become stand-up comedy. His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers.Twain was also a staunch supporter of women's rights and an active campaigner for women's suffrage. His 'Votes for Women' speech, in which he pressed for the granting of voting rights to women, is considered one of the most famous in history. He also supported and made speeches for the labor movement, especially one of the most important unions, the Knights of Labor. Mark Twain's Speeches were written between 1872 and 1909 (the year before his death).

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ID: 483052

Title: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience: Premium Edition

Author: Henry David Thoreau

Narrator: Jack Shelly

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:20:43

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Politics, Political Ideologies

Summary:

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1848) is an essay from a speech by Henry David Thoreau, a lifelong abolitionist. The slavery crisis inflamed New England in the 1840s-1850s. The speech dealt with slavery, but at the same time criticized American imperialism, particularly the MexicanAmerican War. Thoreau asserts that because governments are typically more harmful than helpful, they therefore cannot be justified. Democracy is no cure for this, as majorities simply by virtue of being majorities do not also gain the virtues of wisdom and justice. The judgment of an individual's conscience is not necessarily inferior to the decisions of a political body or majority, and so '[i]t is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right... Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.'

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ID: 483621

Title: Robin

Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett

Narrator: Helen Smith

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:57:54

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

Robin (1921) is a historical novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Excerpt from the book: 'In the years when Victorian standards and ideals began to dance an increasingly rapid jig, there lived in Mayfair, in a slice of a house, Robert Gareth-Lawless and his lovely young wife. So light and airy was she to earthly vision and so diaphanous the texture of her mentality that she was known as 'Feather.' The slice of a house between two comparatively stately mansions in the 'right street' was a rash venture of the honeymoon. Robertwell born, irresponsible, without resourcesevolved a carefully detailed method of living upon nothing whatever, of keeping out of the way of duns, and telling lies with aptness and outward gaiety. But a year of giving smart little dinners and going to smart big dinners ended in a condition somewhat akin to the feat of balancing oneself on the edge of a sword. Then Robin was born. She was an intruder and a calamity, of course.'

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ID: 483420

Title: Bat

Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart

Narrator: Ray Adams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:34:29

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Criticism

Summary:

The Bat is a Broadway play by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood first produced in 1920. The plot relates how wealthy spinster Cornelia Van Gorder and her guests uncover a mystery at their rented summer home while being stalked by an enigmatic, costumed criminal known as 'The Bat'. The story takes place in an old mansion, where people look for hidden loot while a caped killer (The Bat) murders them one by one.

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ID: 483555

Title: How We Think

Author: John Dewey

Narrator: Helen Smith

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:51:56

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Non-Fiction, Philosophy

Summary:

How We Think by John Dewey was published in 1910. From the preface: 'Our schools are troubled with a multiplication of studies, each in turn having its own multiplication of materials and principles. Our teachers find their tasks made heavier in that they have come to deal with pupils individually and not merely in mass. Some clew of unity, some principle that makes for simplification, must be found. This book represents the conviction that the needed steadying and centralizing factor is found in adopting as the end of endeavor that attitude of mind, that habit of thought, which we call scientific. This scientific attitude of mind might, conceivably, be quite irrelevant to teaching children and youth. But this book also represents the conviction that such is not the case; that the native and unspoiled attitude of childhood, marked by ardent curiosity, fertile imagination, and love of experimental inquiry, is near, very near, to the attitude of the scientific mind.'

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ID: 483136

Title: Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay

Author: Watkin Tench

Narrator: Katharine Brooks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:20:44

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Essays & Travelogues

Summary:

A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay (1789) is a memoir by Watkin Tench. From the Introduction: 'An unpractised writer is generally anxious to bespeak public attention, and to solicit public indulgence. Except on professional subjects, military men are, perhaps, too fearful of critical censure. For the present narrative no other apology is attempted, than the intentions of its author, who has endeavoured not only to satisfy present curiosity, but to point out to future adventurers, the favourable, as well as adverse circumstances which will attend their settling here. The candid, it is hoped, will overlook the inaccuracies of this imperfect sketch, drawn amidst the complicated duties of the service in which the Author is engaged, and make due allowance for the want of opportunity of gaining more extensive information.'

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ID: 483457

Title: Prince and the Pauper

Author: Mark Twain

Narrator: John Howels

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:16:41

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Humor

Summary:

Set in 1547, The Prince and the Pauper tells the story of two young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his abusive father in Offal Court off Pudding Lane in London, and Prince Edward, son of King Henry VIII. Tom, the youngest boy in a poor family living in London, has always aspired to a better life, encouraged by the local priest. Loitering around the palace gates one day, he sees the Prince Edward of Wales. Tom is nearly caught and beaten by the Royal Guards, but Edward stops them and invites Tom into his palace chamber. There the two boys get to know one another, fascinated by each other's life and their uncanny resemblance. They decide to switch clothes 'temporarily'. The Prince momentarily goes outside, quickly hiding an article of national importance (the Great Seal of England), and eventually finding his way to the Canty home. Tom, posing as the prince, tries to cope with court customs and manners.

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