Voices of Today
1,095 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days 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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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 ...
The Wheels Of Chance Sample
February 14, 2024 18:56 - 4 minutes - 4.57 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/wheels The Wheels of Chance A Bicycling Idyll By H. G. Wells Narrated by John Burlinson Mr. Hoopdriver is a frustrated draper’s assistant in Putney, London. He is badly paid, over-worked, and he needs a holiday. He also owns a bicycle—though he is an awkward rider. When his annual ten days’ holiday comes around, Mr. Hoopdriver sets out on a bicycling tour of the “Southern Coast.” Will this adventure be enoug...
The Hardy Boys - The Shore Road Mystery Sample
February 14, 2024 18:08 - 4 minutes - 3.87 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/shore The Hardy Boys: The Shore Road Mystery The Hardy Boys, Book 6 By Franklin W. Dixon Narrated by Gary D. MacFadden The Shore Road Mystery is the sixth book in the original Hardy Boys series. Bayport, the home of the Hardy Boys, is suddenly experiencing numerous car thefts. When their friend, Jack Dodd, and his father are accused of stealing a car that mysteriously shows up parked behind their barn, F...
The Hardy Boys - The Missing Chums Sample
February 14, 2024 18:05 - 4 minutes - 4.53 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/chums The Hardy Boys: The Missing Chums The Hardy Boys, Book 4 By Franklin W. Dixon Narrated by Gary D. MacFadden The Missing Chums is the fourth book in the original Hardy Boys series. Chet and Biff, friends of Frank and Joe Hardy, depart for a long-planned boating excursion, but mysteriously disappear in a storm. The Hardy Boys fear the worst when they can find nothing but a small amount of wreckage along ...
The Hardy Boys - Hunting For Hidden Gold Sample
February 14, 2024 18:03 - 4 minutes - 4.45 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/hidden The Hardy Boys: Hunting For Hidden Gold The Hardy Boys, Book 5 By Franklin W. Dixon Narrated by Gary D. MacFadden Hunting For Hidden Gold is the fifth book in the original Hardy Boys series. While their father, Fenton Hardy, is in Montana working on a case of stolen gold, the Hardy Boys and their friends meet Jadbury Wilson, a former gold prospector. Wilson relates his tale of how Bart Dawson, a tr...
The Pied Piper of Hamelin sample
February 14, 2024 17:49 - 1 minute - 1.31 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/piper The Pied Piper of Hamelin By Robert Browning Narrated by Harry Harper The legend of a garishly-dressed piper who uses his musical skills to rid a town of a plague of rats and then lures the town's children into a mysterious and inaccessible realm when denied payment for his services dates back to the Middle Ages. Browning's colourful retelling of the tale first appeared in 1842 in the collection Dra...
English Idylls And Other Poems Sample
February 13, 2024 10:42 - 4 minutes - 4.51 MBThe complete audiobook is availble for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/idyll English Idylls And Other Poems By Alfred, Lord Tennyson Narrated by Denis Daly and Erin Grassie This collection contains several of Tennyson’s best-known poems and shows his mastery of both lyricism and epic narrative. Contents 1. The Epic - Morte d'Arthur 2. The Gardener's Daughter, or The Pictures 3. Dora 4. The Talking Oak 5. Love and Duty 6. Ulysses 7. Locksley Hall 8. Godiva 9. The Day-drea...
Poems Of Sentiment And Reflection Sample
February 13, 2024 10:36 - 3 minutes - 3.37 MBThe complete audiobook is availble for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/psr Poems of Sentiment and Reflection By William Wordsworth Narrated by Denis Daly William Wordsworth belonged to a chosen band of poets for whom poetry was a priesthood, which is displayed by his unerring devotion to his art. He nourished his unique poetic gift by daily intimacy with Nature. It is Wordworth’s peculiar achievement to reveal the impulses at work behind the outward beauty of Nature, and to mani...
The Cat and the Fiddle sample
February 07, 2024 00:15 - 57 seconds - 900 KBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Cat-and-the-Fiddle-Audiobook/B0CV2ZV95F The Cat and the Fiddle By L. Frank Baum Narrated by Andre Baum Little Bobby was the only son of a small farmer who lived out of town upon a country road. It was lonely on the farm, especially when his father and mother were both busy working, but the boy found a special way to amuse himself. He was very fond of music, and his father one day brought him a smal...
Red Shadows sample
February 07, 2024 00:13 - 2 minutes - 2.65 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/Red-Shadows-Audiobook/B0CV2T53WR Red Shadows By Robert E. Howard Narrated by Andre Baum "Excitement and sorcery mixed with blades of steel. The mysterious stranger who appears out of nowhere to avenge injustice and defend the defenseless. Robert Howard, in this early story of his, gives us Solomon Kane; the man who walks like a leopard, wears all black and is relentless in pursuing evil doers. But h...
Much Ado About Nothing Sample
January 30, 2024 10:26 - 3 minutes - 3.32 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/maan Much Ado About Nothing appears to have been written about 1599, shortly before As You Like It and Twelfth Night. The action combines two narrative threads: the spirited comedy of the courtship of Benedick and Beatrice, and the somber tale of confused love between Hero and Claudio. The first is a creation by Shakespeare and the second appears to have been drawn from an Italian source, either by Bandello or...
The Life Triumphant sample
January 26, 2024 02:51 - 4 minutes - 4.05 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/life The Life Triumphant: Mastering the heart and mind By James Allen. Narrated by Gregory Sheridan James Allen wrote frequently about an ideal world, the path to which was the practice of moral excellence. However, he contended that such a world existed not in a hypothetical afterlife, but in the here and now, and entry into this world is attained by the practice of rigorous self-discipline. In the introd...
Saltbush Bill JP and Other Verses sample
January 20, 2024 04:43 - 4 minutes - 3.92 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/salt Saltbush Bill J.P. and Other Poems By A. B. “Banjo” Paterson Narrated by Denis Daly First published in the Bulletin in the nineties, Paterson's verse has enjoyed enduring success throughout Australian literary history. Paterson had an intimate knowledge of life in the outback: he knew bushmen and he knew horses. His boundary riders and shearers, his buckjumpers and station-hands, are real characters — ...
Flecker's Magic Sample
January 16, 2024 14:49 - 4 minutes - 3.74 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/fma Flecker's Magic By Norman H. Matson Narrated by Graham Scott Praised by E M Forster in his essay series Aspects of the Novel, Flecker's Magic is a fantasy in which imaginative American Spike Flecker, an aspiring young painter enduring a life of poverty in Paris while he learns his craft, meets a girl in a café who tells him that she is a witch. The girl gives him a ring, which will grant him one wish. Bu...
The Power - House Sample
January 16, 2024 14:43 - 4 minutes - 4.12 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/tph The Power-House By John Buchan Narrated by Garham Scott In the days before the First World War, the measured routine of barrister and accidental Member of Parliament Edward Leithen is disrupted when Charles Pitt-Heron, an Oxford contemporary and now the husband of Leithen’s old flame, abruptly goes missing. As he investigates the mystery, Leithen is soon pitted against the murderous forces of ‘the Power-...
Mr Britling Sees It Through Sample
January 16, 2024 14:28 - 4 minutes - 4.32 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/britling Mr Britling Sees It Through By H. G. Wells Narrated by Denis Daly and Marty Krz Wells had a keen interest in the political and social issues of his day, one of the most significant of which was the outbreak of the First World War. This book, written in 1916, presents the story of Mr Britling, a political commentator, living in comfortable security in his country estate at Matchings Easy, in Essex....
Now We Are Six Sample
January 16, 2024 14:26 - 3 minutes - 3.29 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: Now We Are Six By A. A. Milne This collection of 35 short poems was first published in 1927, and is a sequel to When We Were Very Young, which was the first anthology of verse dealing with the domestic adventures of Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh. As the author explains in the introduction: “We have been nearly three years writing this book. We began it when we were very young ... and now we are six. So, of course, bit...
Twelfth Night Sample
January 16, 2024 14:25 - 3 minutes - 2.99 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/12n Twelfth Night By William Shakespeare Presented by Voices of Today As the generating force of its plot Twelfth Night uses a device which has since become a staple in comedy: gender confusion. Viola and her twin brother Sebastian, are shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria, a country ruled by the melancholy Duke Orsino. The twins are separated and Viola is led to believe that her brother has perished. She ...
The Fox's Fire sample
January 09, 2024 22:30 - 4 minutes - 11 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/fox The Fox’s Fire And Other Fantastic Tales By Danielle Ackley-McPhail Narrated by Jennifer Fournier Dance Among the Embers, But Don’t Get Burned… From a kitsune slinking through the mists … to an elven champion tied to every crossroad in the moment of Midnight … to the heir of Underhill ruling the road on a Harley, the mystical and magical intersect nearly unrealized with the world of man. Do you dare to ...
Mr Fortune Books 1 - 3 Sample
January 05, 2024 06:13 - 4 minutes - 4.42 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0CRJ5C8NZ Mr Fortune - Books 1 - 3 By H. C. Bailey Narrated by Graham Scott Nineteen tales of murder and mystery in the first three books to feature HC Bailey's golden age detective Mr Reginald 'Reggie' Fortune: surgeon and general practitioner, a man interested in everything, but not in anything in particular, and with a vast store of eclectic knowledge that makes him the ideal man to advise the C...
Lord Peter Wimsey Novels 1 - 3 Sample
January 05, 2024 06:11 - 3 minutes - 3.59 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0CRJ2MLYW Lord Peter Wimsey - Novels 1-3 By Dorothy L. Sayers Narrated by Graham Scott The first three mysteries for Dorothy L. Sayers aristocratic sleuth: first, a body is discovered in a Battersea bathroom, wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez, on the same night that financier Sir Reuben Levy disappears from his Park Lane home. Then, Wimsey returns to England when his brother, the Duke of Denv...
The Clicking Of Cuthbert Sample
January 05, 2024 06:07 - 4 minutes - 3.84 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0CRJ9LD9L The Clicking of Cuthbert By P. G. Wodehouse Narrated by Graham Scott In his first collection of golfing stories, presided over benignly by the Oldest Member, Wodehouse extracts high comedy from the noble and mysterious game. Including the clash of literature and golf that impedes the romantic progress of Cuthbert Banks; the horror of golfing garrulity; two cases of ordeal by golf between ...
Father Brown 42 Stories Sample
January 05, 2024 06:04 - 4 minutes - 4.07 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0CRJHXV5M Father Brown - 42 Stories By G. K. Chesterton Narrated by Graham Scott Every story of Chesterton's unassuming little priest detective, from the first four published collections: The Innocence of Father Brown (1911), The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914), The Incredulity of Father Brown (1926), and The Secret of Father Brown (1927).
The Divine Companion Sample
December 29, 2023 15:26 - 4 minutes - 4.37 MBThe complete audiobook is availble for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/dcom The Divine Companion By James Allen Narrated by Gregory Sheridan and Simon Paxton The Divine Companion was the last work completed by James Allen and was published posthumously in 1919. Of the book, Allen himself wrote: "It is the story of my soul, and should be read last of all my books, so that the student may understand and find my message in its pages. Therefore hold it back until you have published...
Andrea Del Sarto sample
December 27, 2023 22:04 - 2 minutes - 1.95 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/andrea Andrea Del Sarto By Robert Browning Narrated by Denis Daly Andrea Del Sarto (1836 - 1530) was a Florentine painter whose career flourished during the High Renaissance. In this dramatic monologue, “the faultless painter” (Andrea Senza Errori, as he was surnamed by the Italians) is the speaker. He addresses his unsympathetic wife, Lucrezia, upon whom he dotes, and for whom he has broken faith with his...
Huang-Po's Sermon sample
December 27, 2023 21:59 - 2 minutes - 1.91 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/hpo Huang-Po's sermon from Treatise of the Essentials of the Transmission of the Mind. (Denshin Hoyo) Translated by D. T. Suzuki Narrated by Denis Daly Little is known of the life of Zen master Huang-Po (Obaku in Japanese). He was born in Fuzhou, China, and died about 850 AD. His main teacher was Pai Chang (Hyakujo) (720 - 814). The main source for Huang-po's teaching is The Treatise of the Essentials...
Eolaus - a lyrical drmatic poem sample
December 21, 2023 23:10 - 5 minutes - 5.35 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/eolaus Eolaus, a lyrical dramatic poem by James Allen Presented by Voices of Today In 1907 New Thought author James Allen published a verse anthology entitled Poems of Peace. Included in the collection is his sole dramatic work, Eolaus, which describes the journey of a troubled pilgrim from the wilderness of worldly despair to the heights of personal realization. Cast Narrator, The Prophet, Earth and Cos...
Oscar Wilde In Outline Sample
December 19, 2023 10:45 - 4 minutes - 7.88 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/Oscar Oscar Wilde in Outline By Charles J. Finger Narrated by Gary D. MacFadden Learn about the many talents and achievements of Oscar Wilde—the playwright, novelist, critic, poet, and essayist. Author Charles J. Finger is critical of Wilde as a novelist, claiming that only The Picture of Dorian Gray will be remembered in posterity. But he is effusive in his praise of Wilde as a playwright and essayist, and...
As A Thief In The Night Sample
December 16, 2023 23:38 - 4 minutes - 3.73 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/thief As A Thief in the Night By R. Austin Freeman Narrated by Graham Scott When irascible clergyman Amos Monkhouse, visiting from the North, finds the condition of his invalid brother Harold so much worse than he had expected, he calls in a specialist. But when Harold then suddenly dies an investigation reveals that he was poisoned with arsenic. The police can make nothing of the conflicting evidence beyond...
The Heavenly Life sample
December 15, 2023 23:23 - 4 minutes - 4.38 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase from Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/heaven The Heavenly Life By James Allen Narrated by Gregory Sheridan The Heavenly Life is one of James Allen's lesser-known but most aphoristic works. His basic thesis is that total absorption in the eternal Now is the true path to discovering the divine centre within oneself. The past is a dream and the future is just a speculation: man can only act and live in the present. He can change his world only b...
Childe Roland the the Dark Tower Came sample
December 15, 2023 23:21 - 2 minutes - 2.09 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase from Audible.com: Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came By Robert Browning Narrated by Denis Daly This poem, rich in its palette of human emotions, is couched in simple narrative language. Some critics have sought to interpret the poem as an allegory, and find a specific meaning for every phrase and picture, but the richness of its symbolism is not favourable to this kind of treatment. In some ways it resembles a piece of music. Each mind ...