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episode 21: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ~ Full Audiobook
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen audiobook. Pride and Prejudice is the most famous of Jane Austen’s novels, and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature - “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in posses...
episode 20: Persuasion by Jane Austen ~ Full Audiobook
Persuasion by Jane Austen audiobook. Anne Elliott, Jane Austen's only aging heroine, has devoted her life to caring for her financially irresponsible family. Just when she is growing content with her uneventful lifestyle, a long-lost flame re-enters ...
episode 19: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen ~ Full Audiobook
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen audiobook. Northanger Abbey is a hilarious parody of 18th century gothic novels. The heroine, 17-year old Catherine, has been reading far too many “horrid” gothic novels and would love to encounter some gothic-style te...
episode 18: War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells ~ Full Audiobook
War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells audiobook. H. G. Wells wrote The War of the Worlds in 1898, when there was much speculation about life on the planet Mars. The book is considered to be one of the first science fiction novels. In the story, an English...
episode 17: The Time Machine by H. G. Wells ~ Full Audiobook
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells audiobook. The Time Machine is a novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895, later made into two films of the same title. This novel is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel using ...
episode 16: Pandora’s Box by Frank Wedekind ~ Full Audiobook
Pandora's Box by Frank Wedekind audiobook. Pandora's Box (1904) (Die Büchse der Pandora) is a play by the German dramatist Frank Wedekind. It forms the second part of his pairing of 'Lulu' plays (the first is Earth Spirit [1895]), both of which depic...
episode 15: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett ~ Full Audiobook
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett full audiobook. Mary Lennox is a spoiled, middle-class, self-centered child who has been recently orphaned. She is accepted into the quiet and remote country house of an uncle, who has almost completely wi...
episode 14: The Tragedy of Mariam by Elizabeth Cary ~ Full Audiobook
The Tragedy of Mariam (1613) is the first original drama written in English by a woman. Elizabeth Cary drew on Jewish histories by Josephus to create a closet drama (written to be read, rather than performed live) about Mariam, the second wife of Her...
episode 13: Lady Susan by Jane Austen ~ Full Audiobook
Lady Susan by Jane Austen audiobook. Jane Austen demonstrated her mastery of the epistolary novel genre in Lady Susan, which she wrote in 1795 but never published. Although the primary focus of this short novel is the selfish behavior of Lady Susan a...
episode 12: The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells ~ Full Audiobook
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells audiobook. The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells, addressing ideas of society and community, human nature and identity, religion, Darwinism, and eugenics. When t...