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ID: 483285

Title: Hunters out of Space

Author: Joseph E. Kelleam

Narrator: Andrew Scott

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:24:58

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure

Summary:

Hunters Out of Space is a science fiction novel by Joseph E. Kelleam. Excerpt from the book: 'Both hands of the clock were pointing upward. And I was half-asleep, and half-dreaming. Remembering all the friends I hadmost of them scattered to the four winds by now. And that best friend of all, Doctor Jack Odin! I wondered where he was and how he had fared since he disappeared into that dark cave in Texas. Suddenly I became aware of a flickering light above me. I looked up. I had thought that the lights were winking, but they were not. The room was lit by a reading lamp, and the ceiling was so shadowy that at first I could see nothing at all. Then I saw the lightor the ghost of a lightgleaming faintly uponor throughthe ceiling. It was the faintest yellow, neither a bull's eye nor a splotch. Instead, it seemed to be a tiny whirlpool of movementthe faintest nebula in miniature with spirals of light swiftly circling a central core.'

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ID: 483695

Title: Jude the Obscure

Author: Thomas Hardy

Narrator: Steven Green

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:54:02

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Historical Romance

Summary:

Jude the Obscure (1895) by Thomas Hardy is a novel dealing with issues of class, education, religion and marriage. Jude is a working-class young man, a stonemason, who dreams of becoming a scholar. As a youth, Jude teaches himself Classical Greek and Latin in his spare time, while working first in his great aunt's bakery, with the hope of entering university. But before he can try to do this the naïve Jude is seduced by Arabella, a rather coarse and superficial local girl who traps him into marriage. They separate, and he falls in love with Sue, his free-spirited cousin. After a scandal Sue and Jude spend some time living together without any sexual relationship, because of Sue's dislike both of sex and the institution of marriage. Later Sue and Jude have two children together and expect the thirdwhile being unmarried. Jude's employers dismiss him because of the illicit relationship, and the family is forced into a nomadic lifestyle

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ID: 483433

Title: Window at the White Cat

Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart

Narrator: Ben Hill

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:46:50

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Criticism

Summary:

The Window at the White Cat (1910) is a detective novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Excerpt from the book: 'In my criminal work anything that wears skirts is a lady, until the law proves her otherwise. From the frayed and slovenly petticoats of the woman who owns a poultry stand in the market and who has grown wealthy by selling chickens at twelve ounces to the pound, or the silk sweep of Mamie Tracy, whose diamonds have been stolen down on the avenueall the wearers are ladies, and as such announced by Hawes. In fact, he carries it to excess. He speaks of his wash lady, with a husband who is an ash merchant. So when Hawes announced a lady, I took my feet off my desk, put down the brief I had been reading, and rose perfunctorily. With my first glance at my visitor, however, I threw away my cigar, and I have heard since, settled my tie. That this client was different was borne in on me at once by the way she entered the room.'

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ID: 483343

Title: House on the Borderland

Author: William Hope Hodgson

Narrator: Ray Adams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:14:12

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Teen, Paranormal

Summary:

The House on the Borderland (1908) is a supernatural horror novel by William Hope Hodgson. Tonnison and Berreggnog make a fishing holiday to the remote village of Kraighten in rural Ireland. On the third day of their stay, they stumble upon the ruins of a strangely shaped house on a large lake. They discover the moldering journal of the Recluse, an unidentified man who recorded his last days in the house before its destruction. The Recluse begins his journal with descriptions of how he acquired the house, along with his daily life with his sister and his faithful dog, Pepper. He started the diary to record the strange experiences and horrors occurring in and around the house. The Recluse relates a vision in which he travels to a remote and vast arena, 'the Plain of Silence', surrounded by mountains with representations of mythological beast-gods, demons, and other 'bestial horrors' on their slopes.

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ID: 483693

Title: Far from the Madding Crowd

Author: Thomas Hardy

Narrator: Steven Green

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:41:41

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Erotica, Historical

Summary:

Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is the first novel set in Hardy's fictional county of Wessex in rural southwest England. It deals with the themes of love, honor and betrayal, against a backdrop of the seemingly idyllic, but often harsh, realities of a farming community in Victorian England. It describes the farmer Bathsheba Everdene, her life and relationshipsespecially with her lonely neighbor William Boldwood, the faithful shepherd Gabriel Oak, and the thriftless soldier Sergeant Troy. The novel was listed at number 48 on the BBC's survey The Big Read in 2003. The book finished 10th on the Guardian's list of greatest love stories of all time in 2007. It has been dramatized several times, notably in an Oscar-nominated 1967 film directed by John Schlesinger.

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ID: 483575

Title: Mark Twain's Journal Writings

Author: Mark Twain

Narrator: John Howels

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:15:50

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies

Summary:

This incredible collection in 3 volumes contains various essays and articles Mark Twain wrote during his lifetime: numerous funny anecdotes like 'How I Escaped being Killed in a Duel', travel adventures like 'Americans on a Visit to the Emperor of Russia' and 'The Esquimau Maiden's Romance', personal writings like 'The Hearth of a Humorist', as well as essays about his greatest works such as 'How Tom Sawyer Got his Fence Whitewashed'... The listener, amongst all of the above, and other delightful things, also gets to travel all the way from Gibraltar via India to South Africa.

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ID: 483534

Title: Wessex Tales

Author: Thomas Hardy

Narrator: Steven Green

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:22:51

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories

Summary:

Wessex Tales (1888) by Thomas Hardy is a collection of short stories. Hardy writes of the true nature of nineteenth century marriage and its inherent restrictions, the use of grammar as a diluted form of thought, the disparities created by the role of class status in determining societal rank, the stance of women in society and the severity of even minor diseases causing the rapid onset of fatal symptoms prior to the introduction of sufficient medicinal practices. A focal point of all the short stories is that of social constraints acting to diminish one's contentment in life, necessitating unwanted marriages, repression of true emotion and succumbing to melancholia due to constriction within the confines of 19th century perceived normality.

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ID: 483480

Title: Million Pound Bank Note

Author: Mark Twain

Narrator: John Howels

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:33:17

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Humor

Summary:

This story was published in 1893, in a bad decade for the United States and also a difficult time for Twain personally, as he was forced into bankruptcy and mourned the death of his favorite daughter, Suzy. The story still brims with confidence and optimism, marking the moment of hope just before Twain turned to the grim stories of his later years. The story takes place in Victorian London, where Henry Adams, the protagonist, has ended up destitute after a boating accident in the U.S. swept him out to sea. Two rich and eccentric brothers see him and give him an envelope with money inside it: a single bank note for one million pounds. Henry is the subject of a bet: one brother believes that the possession of the symbol of wealth, without any other means of support, will help him survive for the month. The other brother thinks that the prohibition against exchanging the note for cash will render it useless...this is the beginning of a fascinating and rewarding journey for Henry Adams!

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ID: 483289

Title: China and the Chinese

Author: Herbert Allen Giles

Narrator: Thomas Collins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:27:33

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Politics, Political Ideologies

Summary:

If the Chinese people were to file one by one past a given point, the interesting procession would never come to an end. Before the last man of those living to-day had gone by, another and a new generation would have grown up, and so on for ever and ever. The importance, as a factor in the sum of human affairs, of this vast nation,of its language, of its literature, of its religions, of its history, of its manners and customs,goes therefore without saying. Yet a serious attention to China and her affairs is of very recent growth. Twenty-five years ago there was but one professor of Chinese in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; and even that one spent his time more in adorning his profession than in imparting his knowledge to classes of eager students.

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ID: 483132

Title: Doctor Ox's Experiment

Author: Jules Verne

Narrator: Ray Adams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:13:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure

Summary:

Doctor Ox's Experiment is a short story by Jules Verne, published in 1872. It describes an experiment by Dr. Ox and his assistant Gedeon Ygene. A prosperous scientist Dr. Ox offers to build a new gas lighting system to an unusually stuffy Flemish town: Quiquendone. As the town bore no charges, the offer is gladly accepted. The hidden interest of Dr. Ox is however not lighting, but large scale experiment on effect of oxygen on plants, animals and humans. He uses electrolysis to separate water into hydrogen and oxygen. The latter is being pumped to the city causing accelerated growth of plants, excitement and aggressiveness in animals and humans. The story ends up by destruction of the oxygen factory of Dr. Oxby accident, oxygen and hydrogen got mixed causing a major explosion. Jules Verne acknowledges in the epilogue that the described effect of oxygen is a pure fiction invented by him.

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