Voices of Today
1,124 episodes - English - Latest episode: 1 day ago -Voices of Today provides services in audiobook narration and production.
The proprietors are Denis Daly and Sarah Bacaller who are professional audiobook narrators and producers.
Denis Daly has provided narration and editing services for many projects at Librivox.org and Legamus.eu. He is also a founding member of Rhapsodize, a group which promotes the performance and recording of classic poetry.
Currently, he has over 300 titles in the catalogue at Audible.com, and several more recordings are under production.
Sarah Bacaller has over forty titles in the catalogue at Audible.com, and has also contributed to projects at Librivox.org. In addition to her activities as a narrator she also provides services in audiobook cover design and is a published author.
The other administrators of Voices of Today are Jennifer Fournier, Susan Iannucci, Lee Ann Howlett and Amy Soakes, who are also professional narrators and whose recordings can be found at Audible.com.
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A Banjo Paterson Collection sample
July 12, 2024 15:48 - 4 minutes - 3.91 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/banjo A Banjo Paterson Collection Narrated by Denis Daly Andrew Barton 'Banjo" Paterson (1864 - 1941) may be considered the unofficial poet laureate of Australia. After training as a solicitor he began contributing verse to the Sydney "Bulletin" under the pseudonym of "The Banjo", taken from the name of a horse. His first collection, "The Man from Snowy River", was published in 1895. Two further collections...
A James Allen Collection sample
July 12, 2024 15:46 - 4 minutes - 4.33 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/jac A James Allen Collection Narrated by Gregory Sheridan James Allen (1864 - 1912) was one of the most celebrated exponents of New Thought philosophy, a synthesis of universalist spiritual principles, which has since become the basis of many of the theories promulgated by the vast self-improvement industry of the present day. Allen's basic thesis was that thought is the ultimate creative force in the unive...
A Shropshire Lad sample
July 10, 2024 03:15 - 2 minutes - 2.21 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/104 A. E. Housman - 104 Poems By A. E. Housman Narrated by Graham Scott. Over one hundred poems by A. E. Housman, including the full text of both 'A Shropshire Lad', one of the best-loved collections in English poetry, and of 'Last Poems', the second volume of his verse to be published in the poet's lifetime. In simple, gently accessible language, the poet explores universal themes of life, death, love, and ...
Abraham Lincoln sample
July 06, 2024 22:50 - 4 minutes - 4.26 MBThe complete audiobook is available at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/Lincoln Abraham Lincoln By Ernest Foster Narrated by Ron Altman Even to this day Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) remains the most loved and respected of all American presidents. In this heartfelt biography, Ernest Foster reprises the ever-inspiring story of the man who traveled from a log cabin to the White House and presided over one of the momentous periods of change in the nation's history.
Dramatic Romances sample
July 06, 2024 00:06 - 3 minutes - 3.21 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/browning Dramatic Romances By Robert Browning With introduction and notes by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke Narrated by Denis Daly The dramatic romance was a poetic form particularly favored by Robert Browning. This collection of 25 poems includes many of the poet's most celebrated efforts in this genre. Each of these poems is essentially a monologue or imagined conversation by a character recalling...
A Duck Called Brian Sample
July 02, 2024 08:38 - 1 minute - 1.24 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/duck A Duck Called Brian By Al Murphy Narrated by Sarah Bacaller All out of Duck Nuts, fresh out of milk, and his best friend, Gregory, is nowhere to be found! Only a miracle can save Brian—and this day—from disaster!
Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience Sample
July 02, 2024 08:34 - 3 minutes - 3.13 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/songs Songs of Innocence and of Experience By William Blake This collection arguably contains some of the most charming lyrics ever written in English. The childlike simplicity and trust of these artless verses are unique. Blake’s poems can be enjoyed, not only for their historical importance in an age which was fiercely proud of its genius and its traditions, but also for their simple and beautiful express...
The Kindly One Sample
July 02, 2024 08:31 - 1 minute - 1.01 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/kindly The Kindly One and Other Horrific Tales By Danielle Ackley-McPhail Narrated by Jennifer Fournier Guilt, the venom running through humanity’s veins, The cancer eating mankind’s soul. Death, both courted and earned, well-fed upon denial. Balanced on the delicate edge between madness and damnation, clarity comes to us all. There is one thing more terrifying than the darkness at the edge of your visio...
Dawns A New Day Sample
July 02, 2024 08:29 - 2 minutes - 1.94 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/dawn Dawn's a New Day and Other Futuristic Tales By Danielle Ackley-McPhail Narrated by Jennifer Fournier Seven tales of conflict set among the stars, driven by the very roots of humankind’s Earth-bound strife. Yet even in the face of the vast void of space, these brave souls fight to hold on to their humanity. This audiobook includes the following stories: “Dawns a New Day”—A seemingly innocuous artifact ...
The Merchant Of Venice Sample
June 26, 2024 15:23 - 4 minutes - 4.56 MBThe complete audiobook is availble for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/merchant Written between 1596 and 1598 and published in 1600, The Merchant of Venice most notably touches on the troubling subject of antisemitism. While critical debate rages about Shakespeare’s actual attitudes toward Jewish culture, it is difficult to deny that the eventual fate of Shylock is not in accord with today’s view of social justice. Antonio, a wealthy and popular merchant, finds himself in financi...
Mr Fortune Explains Sample
June 25, 2024 02:29 - 4 minutes - 4.19 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/fortune5 Mr Fortune Explains By H. C. Bailey Narrated by Graham Scott HC Bailey's sixth collection of eight golden-age mysteries for the eclectic surgeon-detective Mr Reginald Fortune. Including: a child kidnapped from a picnic; a milliner's assistant vanished from home without a word to her friends; a strange visit, followed by a violent attack on Mr Fortune himself; a raid on a jeweller's shop and the thef...
Poems by Sir Walter Raleigh sample
June 25, 2024 02:23 - 3 minutes - 3.1 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/Raleigh Poems of Sir Walter Raleigh Narrated by Denis Daly Sir Walter Raleigh (1552 - 1618) was one of the most prominent political figures in the Elizabethan era. He was also a soldier, explorer, and prolific author. Although, like John Donne, Raleigh did not primarily consider himself as a poet, he left a small collection of verse, notable for its pithiness and mordant wit. This collection includes 21 of ...
The Evolution Of Christian Doctrine Sample
June 12, 2024 00:55 - 2 minutes - 2.14 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/ck4 The Evolution Of Christian Doctrine By Joseph McCabe Narrated by Oberon Michaels In the opinion of secular scholar Joseph McCabe, the teaching of Jesus was “almost entirely ethical.” He contends that the dogmatic pillars of organizational Christianity, such as original sin, the atonement and the divinity of Christ, were not part of Jesus’ message and originated with Paul. He also discusses the intermi...
Measure For Measure Sample
June 04, 2024 05:54 - 4 minutes - 4.54 MBThe complete auduiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/mfm Measure for Measure By William Shakespeare Narrated by Gary MacFadden, David Shears, Graham Scott, Josh Innerst, Kendra Murray, Blaise Doran, Simon Paxton, Roberta Jackson, Alexandra Lee Smith, Alan Weyman and Denis Daly Measure for Measure is one of darkest of Shakespeare’s comedies. Written in about 1603 and first performed in 1604, it immediately preceded the composition of the major tragedies Othello...
Wildy Weird But Totally True Australia Retail sample
June 04, 2024 05:51 - 2 minutes - 3.92 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/wild Wildly Weird But Totally True: Australia Fun Facts, True Stories and Trivia By Seana Smith Narrated by Gregory Dwyer Your kids will love hearing the weird and wonderful facts about Australia in this brand new book! Check out this hilarious Australian kids book, chock full of amazing facts, trivia, and stories. Learn about Australia in this amusing and entertaining children’s book, which will appeal to ...
The Watsons Sample
June 04, 2024 05:47 - 4 minutes - 4.51 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/watsons The Watsons A Fragment by Jane Austen and Concluded by L. Oulton By Jane Austen & L. Oulton Narrated by Catherine Bilson, Sarah Jane Rose, Graham Scott, Linda Barrans and Denis Daly Jane Austen probably commenced writing The Watsons in 1803 and discontinued it after her father’s death in 1805. The original text contains no chapter divisions. It was first published in 1871 as an appendix to A Memoir of...
In A German Pension Sample
June 01, 2024 00:48 - 4 minutes - 3.91 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/pension In a German Pension By Katherine Mansfield Narrated by Susannah Fullerton, Lisa Giles, Erin White, Naomi Barton, Amy Soakes, Kylie Elliott, Sarah Bacaller, Lyndal Curran Doolan In a German Pension (1911) was Katherine Mansfield’s first published collection of short stories. Many of these works had been previously published in the British weekly magazine, The New Age, which also featured work by figur...
Jane Eyre Sample
May 29, 2024 01:08 - 4 minutes - 4.29 MBThe complete audiobook is available at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/eyre Jane Eyre By Charlotte Brontë Narrated by Robin Siegerman, Blaise Doran, Graham Scott, Mai Ling Turner, Denis Daly, Alexandra Lee Smith and Jen Smith First published in 1847, Jane Eyre was the last and most popular of the novels composed by the Brontë sisters. The narrative bristles with energy and passionate conviction, and is one of the first novels written from the perspective of a child. Jane is an orphan, raise...
Mansfield Park And Lovers Vows Sample
May 29, 2024 01:06 - 4 minutes - 4.54 MBThe complete audiobook is available at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/mansfield Mansfield Park and Lovers’ Vows By Jane Austen, August Kotzebue and Elizabeth Inchbald Narrated by Catherine Bilson, Graham Scott, Sarah Jane Rose, Denis Daly, Linda Barrans The unlikely heroine of the novel is the bashful and unadventurous Fanny Price, who occupies a Cinderella-like position in the residence of her wealthy cousins, the Bertrams, at Mansfield Park. Fanny is the butt of ridicule by the young B...
Three Poems on Age - sample
May 24, 2024 00:03 - 2 minutes - 2.63 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0D51TZQCT Three Poems on Age By T. S. Eliot Narrated by Gregory Sheridan 1) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 2) Portrait of a Lady 3) Gerontion The first two poems in this collection were published in 1917 and the third in 1920. These poems are Eliot's most large scale poetic productions before the composition of The Wasteland, which appeared in 1922. Despite Eliot's comparative youth at the...
Bliss And Other Stories Sample
May 21, 2024 10:51 - 4 minutes - 4.37 MBThe complete audiobook is availble form purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/bliss Bliss and Other Stories By Katherine Mansfield Narrated by Naomi Barton, Sarah Bacaller, Kylie Elliott, Lisa Giles, Amy Soakes, Erin Marie White, and Susannah Fullerton. This collection of short stories, by celebrated New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield, was first published in 1920. Many of Mansfield’s short stories explore New Zealand landscapes and identity, and her work has been a shaping force in...
The Kybalion sample
May 18, 2024 02:02 - 4 minutes - 3.92 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0D4FPDZN7 The Kybalion A study of the hermetic philosophy of ancient Egypt and Greece By Three Initiates Narrated by Denis Daly The Kybalion purports to be an exposition of the teaching of the mysterious Hermes Trismegistus, a legendary figure, whose origin is buried in Egyptian mythology. A considerable body of literature that expounds theories and practices attributed to him is extant and has b...
Mr Fortune Speaking Sample
May 18, 2024 01:54 - 4 minutes - 4.22 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/mrf1 Mr Fortune Speaking By H. C. Bailey Narrated by Graham Scott A fifth collection of eight golden-age detective mysteries for HC Bailey's eclectic scientific detective Mr Reginald Fortune. Including: a stock market bubble and a sudden death; a wealthy businessman threatened by a mystery man; a mountaineering accident in the shadow of the Jungfrau; a curious archaeological discovery; a series of crimes in ...
Three Plucky Heroines Sample
May 15, 2024 09:42 - 4 minutes - 3.78 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Kobo.com: Three Plucky Heroines by Patricia Wentworth Narrated by Graham Scott This collection offers three novels of adventure and suspense from Patricia Wentworth, each with its own plucky and independent young heroine. First, Jane Smith is incognito at stately Luttrell Marches, in the middle of a mystery of secret formulae, political plots, and secret passages. Then, Sally Meredith is entrusted with the red lacquer case containing th...
The Dove's Nest Sample
May 14, 2024 09:38 - 4 minutes - 4.33 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/dove The Doves' Nest and Other Stories By Katherine Mansfield Narrated by Susannah Fullerton, Lisa Giles, Erin White, Naomi Barton, Amy Soakes, Kylie Elliott, Sarah Bacaller, Lyndal Curran Doolan. The Dove’s Nest and Other Stories is a collection of both finished and unfinished short stories written by Katherine Mansfield. The collection was published posthumously, not long after Mansfield’s death in 1923, b...
John Macnab Sample
May 14, 2024 09:35 - 4 minutes - 3.94 MBThe complete audiobook is available for pruchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/macnab John Macnab By John Buchan Narrated by Graham Scott Three gentlemen not wholly useless to their country – a lawyer, a banker, and a cabinet minister – have suddenly fallen into a state of profound ennui. Each seeks to rediscover the comfort of their lives through 'the tonic of difficulty': adopting the nom de guerre of 'John Macnab', they take to poaching in the Highlands of Scotland, issuing challeng...
The FLight of the Duchess sample
May 11, 2024 05:21 - 4 minutes - 3.74 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/flight The Flight of the Duchess By Robert Browning Narrated by Denis Daly This dramatic romance, first published in 1845, ostensibly relates the story of the escape of a love-lorn young woman from the rigours of life with a stern and uncaring husband. Several commentators have seen the poem as an oblique reference to Browning's own current life situation, in which he enabled his future wife, Elizabeth Barre...
The Flight of the Duchess sample
May 11, 2024 05:21 - 4 minutes - 3.74 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/flight The Flight of the Duchess By Robert Browning Narrated by Denis Daly This dramatic romance, first published in 1845, ostensibly relates the story of the escape of a love-lorn young woman from the rigours of life with a stern and uncaring husband. Several commentators have seen the poem as an oblique reference to Browning's own current life situation, in which he enabled his future wife, Elizabeth Barre...
A Few Of The World’s Great Religions Sample
May 07, 2024 11:26 - 1 minute - 1.71 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/fewrel A Few Of The World’s Great Religions Bu Joseph McCane Narrated by Oberon Michaels Joseph McCabe was a notable antagonist to all forms of organized religion. In this essay he offers brief and incisive critiques of some major non-Christian religious systems.
As You Like It Sample
May 07, 2024 11:17 - 4 minutes - 4.5 MBThe complete audiobook is availble for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/ayli As You Like It Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, and As You Like It are usually regarded as Shakespeare’s crowning achievements in the world of mirth and humor. In this group of plays, written during the playwright’s Second Period (1595–1600), the author depicts chiefly the cheerful, energetic side of life. In As You Like It, a wicked Duke expels his virtuous brother, the lawful ruler, from his doma...
Accept no substitutes sample
April 21, 2024 23:23 - 3 minutes - 3.23 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audbile.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/Accept-No-Substitutes-Audiobook/B0D277NDPR Accept No Substitutes By Robert Sheckley Narrated by Andre Baum Man was leaving Earth. Man—but not woman. Light-years from Earth, were little worlds without women - and men were not happy about it. Since real women could not go to them, scientists on Earth developed substitutes. Android females were developed, the surrogates, and shipped to the colonies. ...
Just be Glad sample
April 20, 2024 23:16 - 2 minutes - 2.53 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/glad Just be Glad By Christian D. Larson Narrated by Lyndal Curran Doolan In this brief treatise, prolific New Thought author Christian Larson explores the sheer power of maintaining a positive attitude. As the author says: "Resolve to please yourself by being glad, and you can add immeasurably to your happiness in this simple manner. You must remember that the fountain of joy within your own soul is i...
Inspector Hanaud 3 Mysteries Sample
April 16, 2024 11:11 - 3 minutes - 3.42 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/hanaud Inspector Hanaud Mysteries1 – 3 By: A. E. W. Mason Narrated by: Graham Scott This audiobook contains the first three adventures of A. E. W Mason’s enigmatic and mercurial Sûreté detective, Inspector Hanaud—a key inspiration for Agatha Christie’s celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot. First, Hanaud investigates the murder of wealthy Mme Dauvray at the fashionable French resort of Aix-les-Bains. Then, duri...
Zen Buddhism And Its Relation To Art Sample
April 16, 2024 10:58 - 2 minutes - 2.04 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible: voicesoftoday.net/zen Zen Buddhism and Its Relation to Art By Arthur Waley Narrated by Denis Daly In this entertaining pamphlet, the author, who was an expert on the artistic traditions of China and Japan, examines the effect of Zen Buddhism on popular culture. He provides a perceptive thumbnail view of the development of Buddhism in the Far East, and engaging portraits of its luminary figures.
Alice Adams Sample
April 11, 2024 00:42 - 3 minutes - 3.65 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/alicea Alice Adams By Booth Tarkington Narrated by Scott Cluthe and Gary MacFadden Alice Adams follows the day-to-day life of a young woman who dreams of climbing the social ladder and escaping from her middle-class background. She struggles with the constant tension between her parents and her older brother. When a wealthy young man becomes interested in her, she weaves a fictional life during their discussi...
The Runner's Bible Sample
April 08, 2024 00:05 - 4 minutes - 4.43 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/runner The Runner’s Bible Inspiration on the Go By Nora Smith Holm Narrated by Christianne Lupher This little volume of Biblical quotes—arranged for people with busy lives—was designed as a practical guide to working through daily challenges by following God’s Word. It shares the result of a lifetime’s worth of scriptural study and reflection. Holm grouped her quotes into three sections: Statements of Truth,...
Thorndyke Complete Short Stories Sample
April 08, 2024 00:03 - 4 minutes - 3.84 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/css Thorndyke: Complete Short Stories By R. Austin Freeman Narrated by Graham Scott A complete collection of R Austin Freeman's short stories of his great scientific investigator, Dr John Thorndyke. Including every story from John Thorndyke's Cases (1909), The Adventures of Dr Thorndyke (1912), Dr Thorndyke's Case-book (1923), The Puzzle Lock and Other Stories (1925), and The Magic Casket (1927); along with t...
Thought Vibration sample
April 08, 2024 00:00 - 4 minutes - 4 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/vib Thought Vibration The Law of Attraction in the Thought World By William Walker Atkinson Narrated by Denis Daly In Rhonda Byrne's self-help book, The Secret, published in 2006, the theory of the Law of Attraction is presented as a re-discovery of an ancient metaphysical principle, buried in ages of historical neglect. However, nothing could be further from the truth. Exactly a century earlier, prolific Ne...
Kipps - The Story of a Simple Soul Sample
April 02, 2024 12:34 - 4 minutes - 3.88 MBThe complete audiobook is available for sale at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/kipps Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul By H. G. Wells Narrated by Tim Dehn Artie Kipps is destined at the tender age of fourteen for a life of drudgery in the drapery trade … until he unexpectedly inherits a fortune from a grandfather he never knew existed! Enter: A whisky-drinking actor and playwright who persuades Kipps to invest in his play! A down-on-their-luck mother and daughter who promptly see Kipps as...
The Origin Of Religion Sample
March 26, 2024 08:30 - 4 minutes - 4.3 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/orel Much of the writing by secular scholar Joseph McCabe was devoted to the de-mystifying of organized religion. In this trenchant essay, McCabe seeks to disprove the assumption that the religious instinct in man was evident from the earliest days of human civilization, and that the search for spiritual revelation was one of the primary activities of primitive societies. From an examination of the history...
The House At Pooh Corner Sample
March 12, 2024 00:55 - 4 minutes - 4.43 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/pooh The House at Pooh Corner By A. A. Milne Narrated by Gregory Dwyer The House at Pooh Corner is the second book about the adventures of the thoughtful bear Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends. A particular feature of the book is the introduction of a new character, the ebullient Tigger. Fortunately for Pooh, Tiger dislikes honey, but it is later discovered that he likes Malt, which can be found in abundance at...
Mr Pottermack's Oversight Sample
March 12, 2024 00:50 - 4 minutes - 4.52 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/pottermack Mr Pottermack's Oversight By R. Austin Freeman Narrated by Graham Scott Mr Marcus Pottermack, an ingenious and meticulous gentleman, of quiet habits, is in a desperate situation: wrongfully convicted of fraud, he escaped from prison and established a new life, only to find himself in the clutches of a ruthless blackmailer. With no recourse to the law, Pottermack can see no way out—until a happy dis...
Beethoven Sample
March 05, 2024 10:09 - 4 minutes - 4.51 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/lvb Beethoven By Romain Rolland Narrated by Denis Daly Among all the figures in history of Western art forms, Beethoven is one of the most radical and influential. Not only did he produce some of most celebrated and recognizable music of all time, but his influence dramatically accelerated the development of musical composition. He was also instrumental in raising the status of the composer from that of a ...
Persuasion Sample
March 05, 2024 10:07 - 4 minutes - 4.57 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/persuasion Persuasion By Jane Austen Narrated by Catherine Bilson, Sarah Jane Rose, Graham Scott, Linda Barrans, and Denis Daly. Persuasion was the last novel completed by Jane Austen and was first published posthumously in December,1817. The heroine Anne Eliot, is something of an old maid – she is twenty-seven years old, still single and is considered by family and friends to have lost her youthful beauty....
Caliban Upon Setebos sample
March 02, 2024 23:29 - 1 minute - 1.38 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/caliban Caliban Upon Setebos or Natural Theology in the Island. By Robert Browning Narrated by Denis Daly Caliban is a major character in The Tempest by Shakespeare. He is a deformed monster, the offspring of Sycrorax, a witch. Prospero, a magician who presides over the island where Caliban dwells, has made him a servant. This galls Caliban's spirit, as he believes himself to be the rightful ruler of the i...
The Tower sample
March 01, 2024 00:40 - 3 minutes - 2.77 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/tower The Tower By W. B. Yeats Narrated by Denis Daly This anthology of twenty poems was Yeats's first major collection after he received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1923. The collection takes its title from the second poem and refers to Ballylee Castle, a Norman tower that Yeats purchased in 1917. The poet spent several summers at the castle with his family. The general themes of the poems are the agi...
From Poverty to Power sample
March 01, 2024 00:38 - 4 minutes - 4.5 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/ptp From Poverty to Power The Realization of Prosperity and Peace By James Allen Narrated by Gregory Sheridan James Allen (1864 - 1912) was a philosopher and a pioneer of the New Thought movement. His works have formed the basis of much of the curriculum used today by many motivational and self-help groups. His first book, which was published in 1901, was From Poverty to Power, subtitled The Realization of P...
Eight Pillars of Prosperity sample
March 01, 2024 00:36 - 4 minutes - 3.71 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/8pillars Eight Pillars of Prosperity By James Allen Narrated by Gregory Sheridan In this audiobook, New Thought philosopher James Allen contests the conventional wisdom that individual prosperity is dependent primarily on improvements in public welfare and political equity. Allen's thesis is that a real increase in general prosperity is built on a higher standard of morality rather than on a higher standard ...
The Garden Party Sample
February 20, 2024 00:57 - 4 minutes - 3.7 MBThe Garden Party and Other Stories By Katherine Mansfield Narrated by Susannah Fullerton, Naomi Barton, Kylie Elliott, Lisa Giles, Amy Soakes, Erin Marie White, Sarah Bacaller The Garden Party and Other Stories was published in 1922. A collection of fifteen short stories, it explores themes including life and death, gender and family roles, relationships and duty. CONTENTS: Introduction to Katherine Mansfield, written and read by Susannah Fullerton “At the Bay” “The Garden Party” “The Dau...
The Comedy Of Errors Sample
February 14, 2024 19:33 - 4 minutes - 4.2 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/coe The Comedy of Errors By William Shakespeare Mistaken identity (which the Elizabethans called “Error”) is nearly always amusing, whether on the stage or in actual life. The Comedy of Errors is a play in which this situation is developed to the extreme of improbability – but we lose sight of this improbability in the roaring fun which results. Nowadays we should call a play of this type a farce, since most ...