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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Section 9 - Quatrains 801 - 845
October 18, 2021 04:05 - 14 minutes - 13.1 MBThe Quatrains of Omar Kheyyam of Nishapour The title of this collection reads "The quatrains of Omar Kheyyam of Nishapour. Now first completely done into English verse from the Persian, in accordance with the original forms, with a biographical and critical introduction by John Payne. London, "Printed for the Villon Society by private subscription and for private circulation only, 1898." Poet and translator, John Payne is known today for his translations of Persian classics like The Thousan...
The Lincoln-Douglas Debate sample
October 17, 2021 14:24 - 3 minutes - 2.82 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/q2q The Lincoln-Douglas Debate By John Hugh Bowers Narrated by Marty Krz Stephen Arnold Douglas was one of two Democratic Party nominees for president in the 1860 presidential election, which was won by Republican Abraham Lincoln. The Lincoln-Douglas debate, which occured during the senatorial campaign, in Illinois, in 1858, focused on the contentious issue of slavery. The Republican party was in principle...
The Force Of Truth Sample
October 17, 2021 14:21 - 4 minutes - 3.9 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/7x2 The Force of Truth By Thomas Scott Narrated by David K. Martin In his spiritual autobiography, Thomas Scott (1747–1821) describes entering ministry in the Church of England under false pretenses. Through the unexpected friendship of John Newton (author of Amazing Grace) Scott becomes convicted of his sin and need for God’s grace. As had John Wesley, Scott considers himself “snatched…as a brand from the b...
Pagan Christs sample
October 17, 2021 14:17 - 4 minutes - 4.42 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/9ih Pagan Christs By Joseph McCabe Narrated by Denis Daly Joseph McCabe (1867-1955) was a Catholic priest and scholar who abandoned his faith in the 1890s, and later became a very prominent secular activist. He published over 250 books and pamplets, covering a wide range of genres, including history, politics, biography, and popular science. However, the bulk of McCabe's writings focused on religion, in pa...
Crotchet Castle sample
October 13, 2021 06:05 - 4 minutes - 4.53 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://rb.gy/yoawos Crotchet Castle By Thomas Love Peacock Presented by Voices of Today Narration by Graham Scott Also featuring the voices of Alan Weyman, Denis Daly and Rachel May. Text prepared by Denis Daly and Alan Weyman. Music for songs composed and arranged by Alan Weyman. Audio edited by Denis Daly and Alan Weyman. Crotchet Castle, the sixth novel by English man of letters, Thomas Love Peacock, was first publis...
The Tyranny of God sample
October 13, 2021 06:02 - 4 minutes - 4.53 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://rb.gy/0j5ulc The Tyranny of God By Joseph L. Lewis Narrated by Oberon Michaels Joseph Lewis (1889 – 1968) was one of the most notable atheist activists in the early twentieth century. He was founder of the Truth Publishing Company and for many years the president of a secular humanist association, The Freethinkers of America, over which he was said to exert a rigid control. The Tyranny of God was one of his earliest...
Scott's Last Expedition sample
October 13, 2021 06:00 - 4 minutes - 4.28 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://rb.gy/ucjouy cott’s Last Expedition By Robert Falcon Scott. Narrated by Steve Gough Preface and Afterword narrated by Ken Bradley Music composed and performed by Nadine Reddy. Captain Scott’s ill-fated journey to the Antarctic Pole in 1911 is part triumph, part tragedy – an epic tale of heroic endeavour which has inspired books and films over the generations. Despite the simple outline of the story, Scott and his f...
Charmides And Other Poems Sample
October 13, 2021 05:56 - 3 minutes - 2.84 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://rb.gy/fgxaio Charmides and Other Poems By Oscar Wilde Narrated by Graham Scott First published in 1913, more than a decade after the author's death, Charmides and Other Poems is a collection including the long narrative poem Charmides (1881), and a number of shorter poems, and sonnets, many written when Wilde was at the height of his powers as an author.
Lecture on Lincoln sample
October 13, 2021 05:52 - 4 minutes - 4.29 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://rb.gy/efh3kj Lecture on Lincoln By Robert G. Ingersoll Narrated by Marty Krz Abraham Lincoln was probably the most iconic world leader of recent centuries and also one of the most researched. It is estimated that over 15,000 books have been written about him - significantly more than have been composed about more recent dominant figures of world history like Churchill and Hitler. For those who are not yet ready to t...
Brewster's Millions sample
October 13, 2021 05:47 - 4 minutes - 4.52 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://rb.gy/dvmdug Brewster's Millions By George Barr McCutcheon Narrated by Marty Krz This humorous novel, first published in 1902, is built around a comic device which has been used in a variety of forms in many books and plays. A young man receives a great windfall, but is prevented from fully exploiting his good fortune until he has met certain exacting preliminary conditions. In this case, Montgomery Brewster,...
Right Ho Jeeves Sample
October 13, 2021 05:42 - 4 minutes - 3.94 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://rb.gy/hpdevo Right Ho, Jeeves By P. G. Wodehouse Narrated by Graham Scott As Jeeves and Bertie fall out over the latter's new white mess jacket, the young master takes exception to Jeeves' handling of the romantic affairs of newt enthusiast Gussie Fink-Nottle, and assumes personal charge of the case. But Bertie's schemes soon expand to encompass the ruptured engagement of his cousin Angela and Tuppy Glossop, and the f...
Carry On Jeeves Sample
October 13, 2021 05:35 - 4 minutes - 4.13 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://rb.gy/zlxisn Carry On, Jeeves By P. G. Wodehouse Narrated by Graham Scott In the first of this collection of ten short stories, Jeeves takes office in the Wooster household in the midst of an imbroglio concerning Bertie's imperious fiancée, Lady Florence Cray, and the manuscript of his uncle's scandalous memoires. And soon, the incomparable manservant becomes a fixture, hauling the young master, and his equally mental...
The Growth of Love sample
October 13, 2021 05:33 - 4 minutes - 3.89 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://rb.gy/qntbxm The Growth of Love By Robert Bridges Narrated by Denis Daly Robert Bridges, who was English Poet Laureate between 1913 and 1930, published three versions of his sonnet sequence, The Growth of Love: 1876 - 24 sonnets 1889 - 79 sonnets 1898 - 69 sonnets This recording is of the 1889 edition. The poems are essentially meditations on the elusive subject of love, and display the poet's reverence for his gre...
A Tale Of Two Cities Sample
October 13, 2021 05:30 - 4 minutes - 3.87 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://rb.gy/4yjtwh A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens Narrated by Graham Scott "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." In his most famous historical novel, Dickens explores the horrors of the French Revolution, and the injustices that brought it about, through the history of the unjustly imprisoned Dr. Manette and his daughter Lucy - the "golden thread" binding together a cast of characters across Lo...
Essays and Criticisms sample
October 13, 2021 05:25 - 4 minutes - 4.34 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://rb.gy/iovjnj Essays and Criticisms By Oscar Wilde Edited by Robert Ross Narrated by Gregory Sheridan This collection contains twenty-one reviews of artistic events and artefacts which originally appeared between 1877 and 1889. Clearly on display is Wilde's comprehensive knowledge on contemporary painting, fashion and literature, as well as his capacity to create paradoxical aphorisms, which is such a feature of mor...
Heidi Sample
October 01, 2021 06:03 - 4 minutes - 6.03 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/au/en/audiobook/heidi-303 Heidi By Johanna Spyri Presented by Voices of Today First published in 1881, the subtitle of the book reads "It was written as a book "for children and those who love children." Heidi as a 5 year old orphan has been handed off by her young aunt, Dete, to live with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps. The story follows her life as she falls in love with grandfather and he with her and the ...
The Discovery Of Radium
September 25, 2021 03:26 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MBThe Discovery Of Radium By Marie Curie Narrated by Erin Grassie The Discovery of Radium is the transcript of a speech given by Madame Marie Curie at Vassar College, New York, on May 14, 1921. It represents the only extended address she gave on that visit to the US. Cover image by Sarah Bacaller Produced by Voices of Today For more recordings by Erin Grassie, please visit https://soundcloud.com/eringrassievo
Around The World In Eighty Days Sample
September 08, 2021 15:14 - 4 minutes - 3.77 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://tinyurl.com/96ybajae Around the World in Eighty Days By Jules Verne Solitary and mechanical clubman Mr Phileas Fogg, accepting a challenge from fellow members of the Reform Club, wagers the fantastic sum of £20,000, half of his total fortune, on an attempt to travel around the world in only 80 days. Setting out that very day with his newly-employed French valet Passepartout - and a carpet bag containing the entire bala...
The Sword of Damocles sample
August 28, 2021 15:27 - 3 minutes - 3.3 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://tinyurl.com/wz8nevx8 The Sword of Damocles By Anna Katharine Green Narrated by Kristina Rothe The Sword of Damocles is unusual in the output of Anna Katharine Green, being a melodramatic romance rather than a straight crime novel. Although her best-known detective, Ebenezer Gryce, does put in an appearance, his role is almost parenthetical. A young man, Bertram Mandeville, confesses to his wealthy uncle Edward Sylv...
The Chief Legatee Sample
August 28, 2021 15:15 - 4 minutes - 4.45 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://tinyurl.com/393cx42r The Chief Legatee By Anna Katharine Green Narrated by Christianne Lupher Hours after his lavish wedding in early 20th-century New York, millionaire Roger Ransom discovers his bride, Georgian, missing. The sinister man who crashed their reception seems to be the culprit, but evidence turns up that she left of her own free will. In a journey of surprising revelations, Ransom uncovers a truth more com...
The Seven That Were Hanged Sample
August 28, 2021 15:11 - 4 minutes - 4.49 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://tinyurl.com/xtz3ywa9 The Seven That Were Hanged By Leonid Andreyev, Herman Bernstein (translator) Narrated by John Burlinson Leonid Andreyev was one of the major literary artists at the turn of the 20th century and is widely regarded as perhaps the most talented and prolific representative of the "Silver Age" period of Russian literature. The Seven Who Were Hanged is considered by many to be his masterpiece. It tells ...
The Smoky God sample
August 27, 2021 06:17 - 4 minutes - 6.59 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Kobo.com: https://www.kobo.com/au/en/audiobook/the-smoky-god-7 The Smoky God Or A Voyage to the Inner World By Willis George Emerson Narrated by Susan Iannucci Is there an inner and outer world? Yes! Much like a geode, Willis George Emerson describes this world to us through the life story of Olaf Jenson. We learn of the inner world that is both hard to reach and most difficult to leave through Olaf's story as told to the author.
Crow Country sample
August 27, 2021 01:19 - 4 minutes - 4.38 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Kobo.com: https://www.kobo.com/au/en/audiobook/crow-country-3 Crow Country by Kate Constable Narrated by Elizabeth Chambers Sadie is upset when her mum uproots them from the city to move to the remote small town of Boort. But before long she has discovered a powerful place and crows that speak to her, and she is drawn to two boys, Lachie and Walter. Then Sadie is thrown back in time to witness a dreadful crime in which her family is invol...
Not Just a Piece of Cake Sample
August 27, 2021 00:38 - 4 minutes - 4.18 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Kobo.com: https://www.kobo.com/au/en/audiobook/not-just-a-piece-of-cake-3 Not Just a Piece of Cake Being an Author by Hazel Edwards OAM Narrated by Erin Marie White A memoir is only a slice of a life. This 'questory' (quest + history) covers more than the beloved cake-eating hippo. 'Not Just a Piece of Cake' is a candid memoir of the realistic process of the process of creativity, via anecdotes. 'Anecdultery' is a Hazel original term for...
Les Diaboliques Sample
August 27, 2021 00:24 - 4 minutes - 4.5 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Kobo.com: https://www.kobo.com/au/en/audiobook/les-diaboliques-63 Les Diaboliques By Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly Narrated by Cate Barratt and John Burlinson This translation, by an unknown hand, of D'Aurevilly's salacious miscellany, which consists of six novellas, was published in 1900 under the title “Weird Women” and is in the public domain. When the collection was first published in France in 1874, it caused up an uproar; it w...
Poems - 1905-1911 sample
August 27, 2021 00:19 - 4 minutes - 3.71 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Kobo.com: https://www.kobo.com/au/en/audiobook/poems-1905-1911 Poems - 1905-1911 By Rupert Brooke Narrated by Denis Daly Not all the young poets whose lives were cut short during the First World War were actual casualties of the conflict. James Elroy Flecker and Rupert Brooke both died in 1915, each leaving a body of finished work which places him in the ranks of the major poets of the Twentieth Century. Brooke seems to have had a prem...
Three Men in a Boat Sample
August 27, 2021 00:15 - 2 minutes - 3.31 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Kobo.com: https://www.kobo.com/au/en/audiobook/three-men-in-a-boat-174 Three Men in a Boat (To say Nothing of the Dog) By Jerome K. Jerome Narrated by Graham Scott Three Men in a Boat is one of the most popular and enduring comic novels of any age, and remains as fresh and witty as ever: Narrator 'J', and friends George and Harris, diagnose themselves to be suffering from "overwork", and resolve that they, along with J's anarchistic fox t...
A Short History of the World Sample
August 27, 2021 00:13 - 4 minutes - 7.65 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Kobo.com: https://www.kobo.com/au/en/audiobook/a-short-history-of-the-world-47 A Short History of the World By H. G. Wells Narrated by Graham Scott In 'A Short History of the World', H. G. Wells examines the origins of the Earth, and the development of life upon the planet, as it was understood in his era; and then explores the history of human civilization from its earliest beginnings, through the various empires of world history, up to ...
Sin and Sorrow Are Common to All sample
August 27, 2021 00:10 - 4 minutes - 9.22 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/au/en/audiobook/sin-and-sorrow-are-common-to-all Sin and Sorrow are Common to All A Drama in Four Acts By Alexander Ostrovsky Translated by George Rapall Noyes A central theme of Ostrovsky's plays is the inevitable struggle between the demands of personal morality and and those dictated by social propriety. In this grim drama the dramatist sketches a tragic incident arising from the conflict of two social cla...
Debate on Capital Punishment sample
August 14, 2021 21:37 - 4 minutes - 4.39 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://tinyurl.com/j3cht4sh Debate on Capital Punishment Held at New York, on 27th October, 1924 In a public debate held at the Manhattan Opera House, Clarence Darrow argued that not one of the nineteen men under sentence of death at Sing Sing Prison would have been convicted if they could have afforded good attorneys. He was opposed by Judge Alfred J. Talley of General Sessions, who argued for retention of the death penalty...
The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science sample
August 14, 2021 21:30 - 4 minutes - 4.56 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://tinyurl.com/j6wv3tbc The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science By Thomas Troward Narrated by Denis Daly Thomas Troward was a divisional Judge in British-administered India, who had a particular interest in the study of comparative religion. Influences on his thinking, as well as on his writing, included the teachings of the New Testament, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. After his retirement from the judiciary in 1896, ...
The Misfortunes of Elphin sample
August 03, 2021 05:09 - 4 minutes - 4.51 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com https://tinyurl.com/286whyb5 The Misfortunes of Elphin By Thomas Love Peacock Presented by Voices of Today Narration by Graham Scott Also featuring the voices of Alan Weyman, Denis Daly, and Rachel May. Text prepared by Denis Daly and Alan Weyman. Music for songs composed and arranged by Alan Weyman. Audio edited by Denis Daly and Alan Weyman. The Misfortunes of Elphin is the fourth novel by eccentric scholar and man of l...
The Life of Saint Macrina Sample
August 01, 2021 13:40 - 2 minutes - 2.13 MBThe complete audiobook can be purchased at Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/the-life-of-saint-macrina The Life of Saint Macrina by St Gregory of Nyssa Narrated by Sarah Bacaller The Life of Saint Macrina' is a significant work of early Christian literature written by Bishop Gregory of Nyssa. In the form of a letter to the monk Olympus, Gregory describes the life and influence of his sister Macrina. Macrina – also known as ‘Macrina the Younger’ – had helped to establish a monaster...
Debate On Prohibition sample
July 31, 2021 23:17 - 4 minutes - 4.43 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://tinyurl.com/2u97tvmm Debate On Prohibition Held at New York, on 14th December, 1924 Under the auspices of the League for Political Discussion, in a meeting held at the Manhattan Opera House, Rev. John Haynes Holmes of the Community Church, taking the positive, and Clarence Darrow, taking the negative, debated the following proposition: "A Resolution that the United States should continue the policy of prohibition as de...
Complete Short Stories Vol 13 Sample
July 29, 2021 09:09 - 4 minutes - 4.42 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://tinyurl.com/yu4rumj6 The Complete Original Short Stories Volume 13 By Guy de Maupassant Narrated by Cate Barratt Guy de Maupassant, France's gift to the world of short stories, was a prolific writer of this genre. His complete collection numbers just under 200. Volume 13 contains the following titles: 1) Old Judas 2) The Little Cask 3) Boitelle 4) A Widow 5) The Englishman of Etretat 6) Magnetism 7) A Father's Confess...
Complete Short Stories Vol 12 Sample
July 29, 2021 09:07 - 4 minutes - 4.53 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://tinyurl.com/452b9c The Complete Original Short Stories, Volume 12 By Guy de Maupassant Narrated by Cate Barratt Guy de Maupassant, France's gift to the world of short stories, was a prolific writer of this genre. His complete collection numbers just under 200. Volume 12 contains the following titles: 1) The Child 2) A Country Excursion 3) Rose 4) Rosalie Prudent 5) Regret 6) A Sister's Confession 7) Coco 8) Dead Woma...
Tales of Space and Time sample
July 17, 2021 14:06 - 3 minutes - 3.26 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/au/en/audiobook/tales-of-space-and-time-101 Tales of Space and Time By H.G.Wells Narrated by Graham Scott Tales of Space and Time is a fantasy and science fiction collection by H.G.Wells, comprising the three short stories 'The Crystal Egg', 'The Star', and 'The Man Who Could Work Miracles', along with the two five-part novellas 'A Story of the Stone Age', and the dystopian 'A Story of the Days to Come'.
Concentration sample
July 16, 2021 14:39 - 4 minutes - 3.9 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase on Audible.com: https://tinyurl.com/4wby88bv Concentration By Christian D. Larson Narrated by Denis Daly Christian D. Larson was a prominent representative of the New Thought movement and the author of more than twenty books covering many aspects of self development. In this compact tract Larson provides a trenchant examination of the basic principles of concentration and straightforward plan for its development in the individual.
Alastor and Other Poems sample
July 15, 2021 05:59 - 4 minutes - 3.66 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/au/en/audiobook/alastor-3 Alastor Or the Spirit of Solitude And Other Poems By Percy Bysshe Shelley Narrated by Denis Daly This meditation on artistic creativity was written during the latter months of 1815, during a sojourn on the border of Windsor Forest. Critics have concurred in the opinion that the anonymous hero of the poem is Shelley himself, who feared that he too would become an "inheritor of unfulfi...
The Buddhist Philosophy of Life Sample
July 15, 2021 05:56 - 4 minutes - 4.33 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/au/en/audiobook/the-buddhist-philosophy-of-life The Buddhist Philosophy of Life Henry M. Tichenor Narrated by Denis Daly In this extended pamphlet, free-thinking advocate Henry Tichenor presents the life story of Gotama Buddha in the style of a hagiography, in which the fundamental doctrines of Buddhism are interwoven.
Joe Wilson and His Mates sample
July 15, 2021 05:54 - 4 minutes - 4.05 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/au/en/audiobook/joe-wilson-and-his-mates-13 Joe Wilson and His Mates By Henry Lawson Narrated by Amy Soakes and Denis Daly This collection was published in 1901 and contains some of Lawson's best known stories. Most of the stories are set in the Australian bush, and feature many of Lawson's iconic characters, like squatters, swagmen and struggling selector farmers. A persistent theme is the harshness of rural ...
The Amelia Butterworth Mysteries Sample
July 13, 2021 21:16 - 4 minutes - 4.58 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://tinyurl.com/cn22fphc The Amelia Butterworth Mysteries By Anna Katharine Green Anna Katharine Green (1846 - 1935) was one of the first writers of detective fiction, and a major precursor of more celebrated female crime writers like Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. She composed over thirty major crime novels, her prime detective characters being policemen Ebenezer Gryce and Caleb Sweetwater and amateur sleuths Ame...
Maid Marian sample
July 13, 2021 21:13 - 4 minutes - 4.55 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://tinyurl.com/rmwrsax8 Maid Marian By Thomas Love Peacock Presented by Voices of Today Narration by Graham Scott Also featuring the voices of Alan Weyman, Denis Daly and Rachel May. Text prepared by Denis Daly and Alan Weyman. Music for songs composed and arranged by Alan Weyman. Maid Marian, first published in 1822, was the fourth novel by scholar and man of letters, Thomas Love Peacock (1785 - 1866). Unlike Peaco...
Silence sample
June 28, 2021 22:21 - 3 minutes - 2.93 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://tinyurl.com/3ywnwk6h Silence By Leonid Andreyev Translated by John Cournos Narrated by Ron Altman In this typically gloomy novella Andreyev explores the stunning finality of death and the futility of regret. Production copyright 2021 Voices of Today
A Kahlil Gibran Collection Sample
June 23, 2021 21:47 - 3 minutes - 2.96 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://tinyurl.com/6av7n7je A Kahlil Gibran collection Narrated by Denis Daly While he is most famous for his didactic fable, The Prophet, the works of Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931) address a wide range of philosophical and social issues. The overriding theme of his narratives is not the religious universalism that he is supposed to represent but rather the inevitable conflict between human aspirations and the remorseless mac...
Short Stories sample
June 16, 2021 23:42 - 4 minutes - 4.47 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://tinyurl.com/42xjud8u Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories 1909-1922 By Lucy Maud Montgomery Narrated by Melissa Green Canadian author, Lucy Maud Montgomery is best known for her series of coming of age novels featuring the feisty orphan, Anne Shirley. However, Montgomery was also a prolific producer of short short stories, which are notable for their wholesome presentations of romance and family life. This collect...
The Mystery Of 31 New Inn Sample
June 16, 2021 21:50 - 4 minutes - 3.93 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://tinyurl.com/c46zaykw The Mystery of 31 New Inn By R. Austin Freeman Narrated by Graham Scott Overworked locum Dr Jervis is called to the bedside of a gentlemen who refuses to see a doctor except on the condition that the doctor must be told neither his name nor his address. After a strange ride in a closed carriage Jervis finds his patient apparently suffering the effects of morphine poisoning, and departs with a sens...
Rilla Of Ingleside Sample
June 16, 2021 21:43 - 4 minutes - 4.3 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://tinyurl.com/2bsrktef Rilla of Ingleside By Lucy Maud Montgomery Presented by Voices of Today Produced by Susan Iannucci First published in 1921, Rilla of Ingleside is the 8th book in the Anne of Green Gables series. It is WW1 and Canada has entered the war. Young men enthusiastically join up, mothers and sweethearts stay behind and fill the jobs that once were only for men. The Canadian view of the war and the US Pre...
The Mill Mystery Sample
June 13, 2021 12:47 - 4 minutes - 3.73 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Kobo.com: https://www.kobo.com/au/en/audiobook/the-mill-mystery-31 The Mill Mystery by Anna Katharine Green Narrated by Jennifer Fournier Love at first sight can be wonderful … unless you fall in love with a murderer. The local minister dies under mysterious circumstances and Dwight Pollard, indeed the whole Pollard family, are hiding something - something related to the minister. To fulfill a promise to a dying friend, Constance must fin...
Headlong Hall - Sample 2
June 13, 2021 07:42 - 8 minutes - 14.7 MBThe complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://tinyurl.com/whaph4pv Headlong Hall By Thomas Love Peacock Presented by Voices of Today Narration by Graham Scott Also featuring the voices of Alan Weyman, Denis Daly, and Rachel May. Text prepared by Denis Daly and Alan Weyman. Music for songs composed and arranged by Alan Weyman. Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) was a scholar, novelist, and poet. For many years he rendered distinguished service to the East India...