The Buccaneers: A Novel by Marion Mainwaring, Edith Wharton

The Buccaneers: A Novel by Marion Mainwaring, Edith Wharton

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622667 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622667] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Buccaneers: A Novel Author: Marion Mainwaring, Edith Wharton Narrator: Carol Monda Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 57 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: Edith Wharton's spellbinding final novel tells a story of love in the gilded age that crosses the boundaries of society—now an original series on AppleTV+! “Brave, lively, engaging...a fairy-tale novel, miraculouly returned to life.”—The New York Times Book Review Set in the 1870s, the same period as Wharton's The Age of Innocence, The Buccaneers is about five wealthy American girls denied entry into New York Society because their parents' money is too new. At the suggestion of their clever governess, the girls sail to London, where they marry lords, earls, and dukes who find their beauty charming—and their wealth extremely useful. After Wharton's death in 1937, The Christian Science Monitor said, 'If it could have been completed, The Buccaneers would doubtless stand among the richest and most sophisticated of Wharton's novels.' Now, with wit and imagination, Marion Mainwaring has finished the story, taking her cue from Wharton's own synopsis. It is a novel any Wharton fan will celebrate and any romantic reader will love. This is the richly engaging story of Nan St. George and Guy Thwarte, an American heiress and an English aristocrat, whose love breaks the rules of both their societies.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623563 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623563] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame Series: Part of Oasis Classics Author: Victor Hugo Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 35 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: The Hunchback of Notre Dame By Victor Hugo. Translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood.   A mad priest, a vagabond playwright, a social-climbing soldier, and a deformed bell-ringer — all are captivated by a gypsy girl's beauty and charm. Two of them will betray her, but the others will remain loyal, even in the shadow of the gallows. These outlaws find sanctuary within the walls of medieval Paris' greatest monument, the grand Cathedral of Notre Dame. "What a beautiful thing Notre-Dame is!" declared Gustave Flaubert of Victor Hugo's 1837 novel. Originally published as Notre-Dame de Paris (Our Lady of Paris), it was conceived as a story of the cathedral itself, which functioned as the passionate heart of fifteenth-century city life. But Hugo's human drama rivals the Gothic masterpiece for dominance. Drawn with humor and compassion, his characters endure, both in literary history and in readers' imaginations: Frollo, the sinister archdeacon; Quasimodo, the hideous hunchback; and the enchanting outcast, Esmeralda.

[German] - Der letzte Sommer by Ricarda Huch

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622607 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622607] to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der letzte Sommer Author: Ricarda Huch Narrator: Audiella Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 57 minutes Release date: September 7, 2022 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: Eine Erzählung in Briefen über das Ende einer Ära und über politischen Extremismus. Russland Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts. Revolutionäre Kräfte rütteln am Reich des Zaren. Die Familie des Gouverneurs Jegor von Rasimkara verbringt den Sommer auf ihrem Landsitz. Aus Angst vor Anschlägen haben sie einen jungen Mann als Beschützer eingestellt. Lju wird schnell von allen geschätzt und fast zu einem Teil der Familie. Aber er hat einen Plan und die Zeit läuft.

The Damned & Other Stories of the Macabre by Algernon Blackwood

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623783 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623783] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Damned & Other Stories of the Macabre Author: Algernon Blackwood Narrator: Paul Boehmer, Stefan Rudnicki, Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 21 minutes Release date: June 14, 2022 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: “And the word that rose in my mind was not the gross description of ‘impure,’ but the more fundamental qualification—‘un-pure.’” The Damned & Other Stories of the Macabre is Skyboat Media’s second original compilation of stories by Algernon Blackwood, featuring six of his most unique and macabre stories that contemplate the true meaning of reality and nature of the making of the world. In “The Damned,” a brother and sister visit a recently widowed friend at her massive estate in the countryside, only to discover that there is something corrupted at the heart of this former estate of a dead preacher—something eerily similar to the fire and brimstone in his sermons. “A Desert Episode” sees an unlikely couple finding solace in each other against the ominous presence waiting for them in the Egyptian desert. Then in “First Hate,” a man shares a disturbing story about the early years of his engagement with his hunting party. A tenacious little boy ventures into the forbidden parts of his house looking for the mysterious figures of Sleep and the Ruler in “The Other Wing.” In “The Sacrifice,” after receiving terrible news, a man leads a last-minute mountain trekking expedition with two men he has never met before. And finally in “The Man Whom the Trees Loved,” a married couple living on the edge of a forest find themselves on different paths—called to, and warned away from, the trees—and they must decide whether to listen to those calls or to put each other above all else, above their own natures. Full Contents: Introduction by Alison Belle Bews“The Damned”“A Desert Episode”“First Hate”“The Other Wing”“The Sacrifice”“The Man Whom the Trees Loved”

The Trespasser by D.H. Lawrence

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623559 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623559] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Trespasser Author: D.H. Lawrence Narrator: Patrick Barker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: May 30, 2022 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: The Trespasser By D. H. Lawrence Narrated by Patrick Barker Siegmund deserts his family in the London suburbs for a five day holiday on the Isle of Wight with his lover and violin pupil Helena. Despairing of both his marriage and his future with Helena, Siegmund returns home and takes his own life. Made of stronger stuff, Helena and Beatrice, his wife, move on. In his second published novel, based on the journal of his friend Helen Corke, Lawrence skilfully interweaves romantic melodrama, domestic realism and imaginative symbolism as he begins to explore the sexual and philosophical themes of his later novels. Production copyright 2021 Voices of Today