Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213303 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/213303] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jane Eyre Series: Part of The Classics Read by Celebrities Series Author: Charlotte Brontë Narrator: Juliet Mills Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 30 minutes Release date: June 4, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 53 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: Jane Eyre, the plain yet spirited governess, introduced a new kind of heroine in literature—one whose virtuous integrity, sharp intellect, and tireless perseverance broke through class barriers to win equal stature with the man she loved. Orphaned and subjected to cruelty at Lowood charity school, Jane nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. The story of how Jane becomes governess at Thornfield Hall, meets and loves Mr. Rochester, and discovers the impediment to their lawful marriage transcends melodrama to portray a woman's passionate search for a wider and richer life than that traditionally accorded to her by Victorian society. Hailed by William Makepeace Thackeray as 'the masterwork of a great genius,' this impassioned love story is still regarded, more than a century later, as one of the finest novels in literature.

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/211280 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/211280] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Madame Bovary Author: Gustave Flaubert Narrator: Juliet Stevenson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 17 minutes Release date: March 1, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.37 of Total 30 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: In Madame Bovary, one of the great novels of nineteenth-century France, Flaubert draws a deeply felt and sympathetic portrait of a woman who, having married a country doctor and found herself unhappy with a rural, genteel existence, longs for love and excitement. However, her aspirations and her desires to escape only bring her further disappointment and eventually lead to unexpected, painful consequences. Flaubert’s critical portrait of bourgeois provincial life remains as powerful as ever.

Shipping News by Annie Proulx

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151322 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151322] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shipping News Author: Annie Proulx Narrator: Paul Hecht Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 15, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 18 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family. Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a “head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched as kissed fingertips,” is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. An aunt convinces Quoyle and his two emotionally disturbed daughters to return with her to the starkly beautiful coastal landscape of their ancestral home in Newfoundland. Here, on desolate Quoyle’s Point, in a house empty except for a few mementos of the family’s unsavory past, the battered members of three generations try to cobble up new lives. Newfoundland is a country of coast and cove where the mercury rarely rises above seventy degrees, the local culinary delicacy is cod cheeks, and it’s easier to travel by boat and snowmobile than on anything with wheels. In this harsh place of cruel storms, a collapsing fishery, and chronic unemployment, the aunt sets up as a yacht upholsterer in nearby Killick-Claw, and Quoyle finds a job reporting the shipping news for the local weekly, the Gammy Bird (a paper that specializes in sexual-abuse stories and grisly photos of car accidents). As the long winter closes its jaws of ice, each of the Quoyles confronts private demons, reels from catastrophe to minor triumph—in the company of the obsequious Mavis Bangs; Diddy Shovel the strongman; drowned Herald Prowse; cane-twirling Beety; Nutbeem, who steals foreign news from the radio; a demented cousin the aunt refuses to recognize; the much-zippered Alvin Yark; silent Wavey; and old Billy Pretty, with his bag of secrets. By the time of the spring storms Quoyle has learned how to gut cod, to escape from a pickle jar, and to tie a true lover’s knot.

Time and Again by Jack Finney

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151669 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151669] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Time and Again Author: Jack Finney Narrator: Paul Hecht Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 8, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.15 of Total 26 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 12 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: The 50th anniversary edition of the beloved classic that Stephen King has called “THE great time-travel story.” Featuring a brand-new introduction by the New York Times bestselling author of Recursion, Blake Crouch. When advertising artist Si Morley is recruited to join a covert government operation exploring the possibility of time travel, he jumps at the chance to leave his mundane 20th-century existence and step into the past. But he also has another motivation for going back in time: a half-burned letter that tells of a mysterious, tragic death and ominously of “fire which will destroy the whole world.” Traveling to New York City in January 1882 to investigate, he finds a Manhattan teeming with a different kind of life, the waterfront unimpeded by skyscrapers, open-air markets packed with activity, Central Park bustling with horse drawn sleighs—a city on the precipice of great things. At first, Si welcomes these trips as a temporary escape but when he falls in love with a woman he meets in the past, he must choose whether to return to modern life or live in 1882 for good. “Pure New York fun” (Alice Hoffman, New York Times bestselling author), Time and Again is meticulous recreation of New York in the late nineteenth century, exploring the possibilities of time travel to tell an ageless story of love, longing, and adventure. Finney’s magnum opus has been a source of inspiration for countless science fiction writers since its first publication in 1970.

Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93298 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/93298] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ellen Foster Author: Kaye Gibbons Narrator: Ruth Ann Phimister Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 4, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 10 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: 'When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy.' So begins the tale of Ellen Foster, the brave and engaging heroine of Kaye Gibbons's first novel, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Wise, funny, affectionate and true, Ellen Foster is, as Walker Percy called it, 'The real thing. Which is to say, a lovely, sometimes heart/wrenching novel...[Ellen Foster] is as much a part of the backwoods South as a Faulkner character and a good deal more endearing.'