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https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Complete Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer (Dramatized) Author: Mark Twain Narrator: Jason Damron Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins Language: English Release date: 12-27-12 Publisher: BN Publishing Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 13 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: An easy to navigate audio version of every published Twain novel that features Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer Abroad, and Tom Sawyer Detective). This audiobook also includes a plot overview for each work.

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Dharma Bums Author: Jack Kerouac Narrator: Allen Ginsberg Format: Abridged Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins Language: English Release date: 12-15-99 Publisher: Phoenix Books Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 107 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: Two friends in 1950s San Francisco Bohemia explore Buddhism Zen - hipster style. On the road to finding Dharma, or truth, the story's narrator, Raymond Smith comes to a spiritual roadblock. Smith, based on Kerouac himself, discovers a role model in his friend Japhy Ryder, modeled after the real poet-Buddhist Gary Snyder. This autobiographical novel is one of Kerouac's most popular, and has served as an inspiration to the beat culture, hippies, and dharma seekers since the 1950s. This program is narrated by legendary poet Allen Ginsberg, a friend of Kerouac's and an early fan of his work. Recording (P)1991 by Audio Literature; ©1958 by Jack Kerouac

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Kate Chopin Selected Short Stories, Volume I Author: Kate Chopin Narrator: Kitty Hendrix Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 39 mins Language: English Release date: 01-17-18 Publisher: Spoken Realms Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: Kate Chopin, one of the great literary writers of 19th-century American fiction, was a woman ahead of her time. From the early 1890s, Chopin was writing short stories, articles, and translations which appeared in periodicals and magazines regionally based in St. Louis - she was perceived as a "local color" writer, but her literary qualities were discounted. Much of her writing was autobiographical. She took into account her ancestry of Irish and French descent, and her years with Creole and Cajun influences in Louisiana. When her novel, The Awakening, was published in 1899, with themes of sexual and social independence for women, it was met with negative criticism and banned in several states. Chopin, discouraged by the criticism and realizing that she had not been accepted as the legitimate author she knew she was, turned to short story writing almost exclusively for the rest of her life. Volume 1 includes the following short stories: "Beyond The Bayou"; "Ma'Ame Pelagie"; "Desiree's Baby"; "A Respectable Woman"; "The Kiss"; "A Pair of Silk Stockings"; "The Locket"; and "A Reflection".

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: To Sir, with Love Author: E. R. Braithwaite Narrator: Ben Onwukwe Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins Language: English Release date: 12-05-17 Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: With opportunities for black men limited in post-World War II London, Rick Braithwaite, a former Royal Air Force pilot and Cambridge-educated engineer, accepts a teaching position that puts him in charge of a class of angry, unmotivated, bigoted white teenagers whom the system has mostly abandoned. When his efforts to reach these troubled students are met with threats, suspicion, and derision, Braithwaite takes a radical new approach. He will treat his students as people poised to enter the adult world. He will teach them to respect themselves and to call him Sir. He will open up vistas before them that they never knew existed. And, over the course of a remarkable year, he will touch the lives of his students in extraordinary ways - even as they, in turn, unexpectedly and profoundly touch his. Based on actual events in the author's life, To Sir, with Love is a powerfully moving story that celebrates courage, commitment, and vision and that inspired the classic film starring Sidney Poitier.

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Last of the Plainsmen Author: Zane Grey Narrator: Jack de Golia Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins Language: English Release date: 11-29-17 Publisher: Spoken Realms Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: Zane Grey's first western story, written in 1909, is based on a real character, Buffalo Jones. Grey's descriptive art was just beginning in this story. But he brings color and life to the area between the Grand Canyon and Utah. The story follows Grey, Jones, and a company of colorful characters on a "hunt" bent on capture rather than shooting. The attitudes are definitely late 19th and early 20th century. Anyone with modern ideas about wildlife will find some of the material jarring. But throughout you'll see in this story the birth of the western, a genre that brought us characters, cowboys, dust, and drama.

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories Author: Charles Bukowski, Gail Chiarrello - editor Narrator: Will Patton Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins Language: English Release date: 10-31-17 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 4 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: "He loads his head full of coal and diamonds shoot out of his finger tips. What a trick. The mole genius has left us with another digest. It's a full house - read 'em and weep." - Tom Waits Bukowski's mad immortal origins, surfaced from the literary underground, have addicted legions of audiences who've recognized Bukowski as one of America's greatest realist writers and poets. OBIE winner Will Patton (Remember the Titans, The Good Wife, Armageddon) recreates Bukowski in his visceral prime, along with every eye-popping character in his life, each adversary, lover, and stranger in a lost city. Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for 50 years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was 24, and began writing poetry at the age of 35. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of 73, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp. Critic Reviews: "Collections such as The Most Beautiful Woman in Town (1983)...showcase Bukowski's impressive narrative and creative abilities in stories that most often take place in bars and dingy apartments but are not simply about sex and alcohol. They're about staying alive in a world where the only choice for the majority of us is to face a firing squad in an office every day - the post office, in Bukowski's case - or maintain a commitment to creativity as we struggle to pay for food and a meager place to live." (Santa Fe Reporter)

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Gold-Bug Author: Edgar Allan Poe Narrator: Chris Lutkin Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 26 mins Language: English Release date: 07-25-17 Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: The grand-prize winner of a writing contest sponsored by the Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper, "The Gold-Bug" was one of Poe's most popular stories during his lifetime. Similar to his ratiocination tales - early versions of what we now call detective fiction - "The Gold-Bug" is full of mystery and adventure and includes a cryptogram, invisible ink, a scarab-like bug, and pirate treasure.

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Max Brand Library Author: Max Brand, Raging Bull Publishing Narrator: mike ortego Format: Unabridged Length: 29 hrs and 19 mins Language: English Release date: 05-17-17 Publisher: Raging Bull Publishing Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: This Raging Bull Publishing box set contains four classic Western books by Max Brand: Black Jack (1922) After the death of the outlaw Black Jack, his orphaned son is raised by a spinster who is determined to make an honest man of him. The spinster's brother, fearing his sister will disinherit him in favor of her adopted son, arranges for the boy, Terry, to discover his father's identity and to meet the man who killed his father. Terry challenges his father's killer and shoots the man in a fair duel. Terry then flees his home in disgrace. He tries to live an honest life, but no one will trust the son of Black Jack. Harrigan (1918) Two men who are so much alike that they hate each other fight bitterly as they compete for the attention of a woman, but if they want to survive life at sea, desert islands, street mobs, and savage mutineers, they're going to have to work together. Riders of the Silence (1919) The Great West prior to the century's turn abounded in legend. Stories were told of fabled gunmen whose bullets always magically found their marks, of mighty stallions whose tireless gallops rivaled the speed of the wind, of glorious women whose beauty stunned mind and heart. But nowhere in the vast spread of the mountain-desert country was there a greater legend told than the story of Red Pierre and the phantom gunfighter McGurk. The Untamed (1919) A tale of the West, a story of the wild, of four strange comrades: Whistling Dan of the untamed soul, within whose mild eyes there lurks the baleful yellow glare of beast anger; the mighty black stallion Satan, king of the ranges; the wolf devil dog to whom their master's word is the only law; and the girl.

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow [Classic Tales Edition] Author: Washington Irving Narrator: B. J. Harrison Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 23 mins Language: English Release date: 08-09-16 Publisher: B. J. Harrison Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 86 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: Here is the complete and unabridged tale of Ichabod Crane and his ill-fated visit to Sleepy Hollow. Half of the charm of the tale is Irving's beautiful prose, as he describes the glorious New England countryside. But of course there are chills galore when the Headless Horseman appears.

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Yellow Wallpaper [Classic Tales Edition] Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman Narrator: B. J. Harrison Format: Unabridged Length: 40 mins Language: English Release date: 08-09-16 Publisher: B. J. Harrison Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 26 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: It's just a hideously papered room. At least that's what everybody thought. But when a woman suffering from a nervous condition is housed in the room, things begin to surface from the wallpaper. Things that seem familiar but are best left quiet and undisturbed.

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Burnt Offerings Subtitle: Valancourt 20th Century Classics Author: Robert Marasco Narrator: R.C. Bray Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins Language: English Release date: 03-25-16 Publisher: Blue Heron Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1245 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: Ben and Marian Rolfe are desperate to escape a stifling summer in their tiny Brooklyn apartment, so when they get the chance to rent a mansion in upstate New York for the entire summer for only $900, it's an offer that's too good to refuse. There's only one catch: behind a strange and intricately carved door in a distant wing of the house lives elderly Mrs. Allardyce, and the Rolfes will be responsible for preparing her meals. But Mrs. Allardyce never seems to emerge from her room, and it soon becomes clear that something weird and terrifying is happening in the house. As the suspense builds toward a revelation of what really lies behind that locked door, the Rolfes will discover that their cheap vacation rental comes at a terrible cost.... The basis for a classic 1976 film adaptation and an acknowledged influence on Stephen King's The Shining, Burnt Offerings is one of the most original and scariest haunted house novels ever written. This edition, the first in decades, features a new introduction by award-winning author Stephen Graham Jones. Critic Reviews: " Burnt Offerings has no peer. Better than Rosemary's Baby, The Other, and The Exorcist." ( Hartford Courant) "Insidiously frightening...It snares you early and draws you inexorably to one of the most nerve-shattering finales in years." ( Publishers Weekly)

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Author: Washington Irving Narrator: Alan Munro Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 26 mins Language: English Release date: 12-02-15 Publisher: Trout Lake Media Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 82 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is the most famous supernatural wild chase in all of literature. One of the best known American short stories, this tale has been produced countless times for television and film. A Halloween classic!

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Tall Tales and Short Stories: An Amusing Compilation of Mark Twain's Short Stories Subtitle: Classic Novels, Volume 1 Author: Mark Twain Narrator: Douglas S. Pullar Format: Unabridged Length: 55 mins Language: English Release date: 10-20-15 Publisher: Leon Cutajar Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 11 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: "May you always keep your youth." - Mark Twain Tall Tales and Short Stories is a hilarious collection of Mark Twain's lesser known works that will have you chuckling long after you've finished the book. Rediscover one of America's greatest humorists and get your funny on! The stories found in this book include: This compilation will open up Mark Twain's work to a whole new generation of listeners!

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Great American Short Story Collection Subtitle: 40 Outstanding Tales by American Writers Author: Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, O. Henry, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Length: 21 hrs and 21 mins Language: English Release date: 07-10-15 Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 57 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: A thoroughly engaging collection of great classic tales by the very best American authors. ... and 10 more wonderful stories.

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ Título: Matar a un ruiseñor [To Kill a Mockingbird] Autor: Harper Lee Narrador: Adriana Sananes Formato: Unabridged Duración: 13 hrs and 6 mins Idioma: Español Fecha de publicación: 06-30-15 Editor: HarperCollins Espanol Calificaciones: 4.5 de 5 de 166 votos Categorías: Classics, American Literature Resumen del editor: El consejo de un abogado a sus hijos mientras él defiende el verdadero ruiseñor de la novela clásica de Harper Lee - un hombre negro acusado de violar a una niña blanca. A través de los ojos de Jem y Scout Finch, Harper Lee explora con humor y honestidad inquebrantable la irracionalidad de la actitud de los adultos hacia la raza y la clase en las profundidades del sur en la década de 1930. La conciencia de una ciudad impregnada de prejuicios, violencia e hipocresía se enfrenta con la resistencia y heroísmo silencioso de la lucha de un hombre por la justicia, pero el peso de la historia no tolera más allá de su límite. Uno de los clásicos más queridos de todos los tiempos, Matar un ruiseñor ha ganado muchas distinciones desde su publicación original en 1960. Ha ganado el Premio Pulitzer, ha sido traducido a más de cuarenta idiomas, vendió más de cuarenta millones de copias en todo el mundo, y se han convertido en una popular película. También se nombró como la mejor novela del siglo xx por los bibliotecarios de todo el país (Library Journal). Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Dunwich Horror and Other Tales Author: H.P. Lovecraft Narrator: B.J. Harrison Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins Language: English Release date: 02-24-15 Publisher: B.J. Harrison Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 21 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." (H.P. Lovecraft, "Supernatural Horror in Literature") Wilbur Whately has got to be one of the most horrifying characters in literature. Why is he eight feet tall at age 15 and can grow a full beard? Is it because of his controversial parentage? Or is his arrival merely a precedent for the arrival of an ancient evil? In The Dunwich Horror, Lovecraft lays further ground in the Cthulu mythos. Alongside The Dunwich Horror are the stories "Dagon", "The Call of Cthulhu", "The Lurking Fear", "Imprisoned with the Pharoahs", "The Music of Erich Zann", "Randolph Carter", "In the Walls of Eryx", and "The Transition of Juan Romero".

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: White Fang Author: Jack London Narrator: Alan Munro Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins Language: English Release date: 01-06-15 Publisher: Trout Lake Media Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 153 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: Jack London's classic adventure story about the friendship developed between a Yukon gold hunter and the mixed dog-wolf he rescues from the hands of a man who mistreats him. White Fang is a companion novel and thematic mirror to London's best-known work, The Call of the Wild.

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc Author: Mark Twain Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Length: 14 hrs Language: English Release date: 05-19-14 Publisher: Audio Book Contractors Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 56 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: Joan of Arc's life and her accomplishments, as seen through the eyes of her childhood friend, are described with irony and brilliant insight into human nature. This was Twain's last book and he considered it to be his best.

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Tender Is the Night Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Narrator: Therese Plummer Format: Unabridged Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins Language: English Release date: 04-22-14 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 506 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: Published in 1934, Tender Is the Night was one of the most talked-about books of the year. "It's amazing how excellent much of it is," Ernest Hemingway said to Maxwell Perkins. "I will say now," John O'Hara wrote Fitzgerald, "Tender Is the Night is in the early stages of being my favorite book, even more than This Side of Paradise." And Archibald MacLeish exclaimed: "Great God, Scott...You are a fine writer. Believe it - not me." Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise. A profound study of the romantic concept of character - lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative - Tender Is the Night, Mabel Dodge Luhan remarked, raised F. Scott Fitzgerald to the heights of a "modern Orpheus". Critic Reviews: "Plummer's skill with varied voices and accents is without equal. She navigates Fitzgerald's glamorous world with panache, immersing the listener in the intense characters' personalities. The result is an entertaining production in which the narrative is as alive as the characters themselves." (AudioFile)

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The King in Yellow Author: Robert W. Chambers Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki, Gabrielle de Cuir Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins Language: English Release date: 03-21-14 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 234 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: Originally published in 1895, Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow is a marvel of supernatural fiction that has influenced a number of writers in the genre, most notably H. P. Lovecraft. Its powerful combination of horror and lyrical prose has made it a classic, a masterpiece of weird fiction that endures to this day. There is a book that is shrouded in mystery. Some even say it's a myth. Within its pages is a play - one that brings madness and despair to all who read it. It is the play of the King in Yellow, and it will haunt you for the rest of your days. The King in Yellow is a collection of stories interwoven loosely by the elements of the play, including the central figure himself.

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Anthem Author: Ayn Rand Narrator: B. J. Harrison Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins Language: English Release date: 02-18-14 Publisher: B.J. Harrison Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 598 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see. It is base and evil. Deep issues of conscience are explored in Ayn Rands dystopian tale of a man who dares to fight against a system that invades his very mind and identity.

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: A Sport and a Pastime Author: James Salter Narrator: Jeff Woodman Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins Language: English Release date: 12-20-13 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 81 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: "As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price (The New York Times) described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both here and in Europe, for almost forty years. Set in provincial France in the 1960s, it is the intensely carnal story - part shocking reality, part feverish dream - of a love affair between a footloose Yale dropout and a young French girl. There is the seen and the unseen - and pages that burn with a rare intensity.

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https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: A Pair of Silk Stockings Author: Kate Chopin Narrator: Arielle DeLisle Format: Unabridged Length: 11 mins Language: English Release date: 12-04-13 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: Kate Chopin is a widely considered a forerunner to the feminist authors of the twentieth century. Focusing on themes of race andgender, her short stories largely center on life in rural Louisiana. In "A Pair of Silk Stockings," a young woman unexpected finds herself with fifteen dollars.Inspired by her newfound wealth, she ignores her natural impulses and indulgesin a day of luxurious abandon. A wistful rumination on loss and the illusion ofcontrol, "A Pair of Silk Stockings" is Chopin at her absolute best. Proceeds from sale of this title go to Reach Out and Read, an innovative literacy advocacy organization.

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Cabot Wright Begins Subtitle: A Novel Author: James Purdy Narrator: James Patrick Cronin Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins Language: English Release date: 11-05-13 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 8 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: Cabot Wright Begins, first published in 1964, may be one of the most neglected masterpieces in post-World War II American literature. Cabot Wright is a handsome, Yale-educated stockbroker and scion of a good family. He also happens to be the convicted rapist of nearly three hundred women. Bernie Gladhart is a naive used-car salesman from Chicago, who - spurred on by his ambitious wife - decides to travel to Brooklyn and write the Great American Novel about the recently paroled Cabot Wright. As Bernie tries to track down Wright in Brooklyn, he encounters a series of bizarre and Dickensian characters and sets in motion an extraordinary chain of events. In this merciless and outrageous satire of American culture, cult writer James Purdy is unsparing and prophetic in his portrayal of television, publishing, Wall Street, race, urban poverty, sex, and the false values of American culture in a work compared to Candide by Susan Sontag. Considered too scabrous for the stifling culture mores of the early 1960s, Purdy's comic fiction evokes "an American psychic landscape of deluded innocence, sexual obsession, violence and isolation" (New York Times)

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The World's Best Classic Short Stories Author: O. Henry, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, Saki, Kate Chopin, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Length: 20 hrs and 12 mins Language: English Release date: 09-13-13 Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 20 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: A glittering collection of some of the world's finest short stories, including:

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Author: Mark Twain Narrator: Eric G. Dove Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins Language: English Release date: 09-05-13 Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 20 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: Following the events of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn is under the watchful stewardship of the Widow Douglas. However, when he is forced back into his drunken father's custody, Huck fakes his own death and runs off down river. In the process, he meets up with Jim, a runaway slave, and the two become friends as well as travel companions. Their adventures lead them through many twists and turns through the American South, embarking on a legendary journey.

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Best of Edgar Allan Poe Subtitle: 32 of the Most Popular Short Stories Author: Edgar Allan Poe Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Length: 20 hrs and 2 mins Language: English Release date: 07-29-13 Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 20 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: Twenty hours of the very best of Edgar Allan Poes short stories:

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Gold Bug Author: Edgar Allan Poe Narrator: Cathy Dobson Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 26 mins Language: English Release date: 06-06-13 Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: Poe's gripping tale of a treasure hunt. When the reclusive adventurer and naturalist LeGrande finds an unusual beetle, he believes he has discovered a rare new species. But he little suspects that the discovery will set him on the trail of pirates, buried treasure and the restoration of his family fortunes.

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Author: Mark Twain Narrator: Mike Vendetti Format: Unabridged Length: 14 mins Language: English Release date: 04-02-13 Publisher: Spoken Realms Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 5 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: In Gold Rush-era California, Jim Smiley, a minor who loves to gamble and will bet on anything, obtains a frog. Sniley spends three months training this talented amphibian athlete to become a champion jumper. Smiley finds his mark in the form of a stranger who comes to town and shows an interest in the frog, and would love to bet but if he could find his own frog. "No problem, you hold my frog and I'll go find a frog for you." When hustler meets hustler, the results can be interesting. You might say Smiley didn't know his frog was loaded.

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Giovanni's Room Author: James Baldwin Narrator: Dan Butler Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins Language: English Release date: 04-01-13 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 445 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwins now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a moving, highly controversial story of death and passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart.

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald Subtitle: 45 Short Stories and Novels Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Narrator: Jay Wohlert Format: Unabridged Length: 45 hrs and 14 mins Language: English Release date: 03-15-13 Publisher: BookDar Publishing Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 43 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: Fitzgerald's short stories have themes that not only relate to the problems and culture of the Jazz Age, but also to the promises and despair encountered by the youth, as well as the aging. Love and relationships between two mismatched or unlikely characters are common, such as people who are unlikely to develop a spark of romantic interest between each other. The plots are usually set in the culture of the upper middle class and the elite, with characters either from this social group or aspiring to become part of it. Being inspired by the events that occurred during The Great Depression and the stock market crash, the stories also involve characters who lose wealth, but who are still trying to maintain their opulent lifestyle. However, Fitzgerald's stories will remain relevant no matter which era listeners are born into, as finding true love and happiness, despite the situation, will always be a common part of the human experience. Included in this book: Novels: This Side of Paradise The Beautiful and Damned Short Stories: The Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage Reade, Substitute Right Half A Debt of Honor The Room with the Green Blinds A Luckless Santa Claus Pain and the Scientist The Trail of the Duke Shadow Laurels The Ordeal Little Minnie McCloskey: A Story for Girls The Old Frontiersman: A Story of the Frontier The Diary of a Sophomore The Prince of Pests: A Story of the War Cedric the Stoker The Spire and the Gargoyle Tarquin of Cheapside Babes in the Woods Sentiment - And the Use of Rouge The Pierian Springs and the Last Straw Porcelain and Pink Head and Shoulders Benediction Dalyrimple Goes Wrong Myra Meets His Family Mister Icky The Camel's Back Bernice Bobs Her Hair The Ice Palace The Offshore Pirate The Cut-Glass Bowl The Four Fists The Smilers May Day The Jelly-Bean The Lees of Happiness Jemina O Russet Witch! Tarquin of Cheapside The Popular Girl Two for a Cent The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Diamond as Big as the Ritz Winter Dreams

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Age Of Innocence Author: Edith Wharton Narrator: Mary Sarah Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins Language: English Release date: 01-30-13 Publisher: Trout Lake Media Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 312 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: Whartons Pulitzer Prize-winning novel set in upper class New York City. Newland Archer, gentleman lawyer and heir to one of New York City's best families, is happily anticipating a highly desirable marriage to the sheltered and beautiful May Welland. Yet he finds reason to doubt his choice of bride after the appearance of Countess Ellen Olenska, May's exotic, beautiful 30-year-old cousin, who has been living in Europe. This novel won the first ever Pulitzer awarded to a woman.

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Street Subtitle: A Novel Author: Ann Petry Narrator: Shayna Small Format: Unabridged Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins Language: English Release date: 01-18-13 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. and Buck 50 Productions, LLC Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 91 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: As much a historical document as it is a novel, this 1946 winner of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award is the poignant and unblinkingly honest story of Lutie Johnson, a young black woman, and her spirited struggle to live and raise her son by herself amid the violence, poverty, and racial dissonance of Harlem in the late 1940s. Originally published in 1946 and hailed by critics as a masterwork, The Street was Ann Petrys first novel, a beloved best seller with more than a million copies in print. Its haunting tale still resonates today. Ann Petry (1908-1997) was an American author who became the first African American woman writer with book sales topping a million copies for her novel The Street, which earned her the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship. Critic Reviews: A major literary inventionA truly great book.(Los Angeles Times) Overflows with the classic pity and terror of good imaginative writing.(New York Times) A powerful, uncompromising work of social criticism. To this day, few works of fiction have so clearly illuminated the devastating impact of racial injustice. (Coretta Scott King, American author, activist, and civil rights leader)

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Ballad of the Sad Café Author: Carson McCullers Narrator: David Ledoux, Joe Barrett, Therese Plummer, Kevin Pariseau, Suzanne Toren, Edoardo Ballerini, Barbara Rosenblat Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins Language: English Release date: 01-10-13 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 64 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: Audie Award Finalist, Short Stories/Collections, 2014 A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers' best stories, including her beloved novella The Ballad of the Sad Cafe. A haunting tale of a human triangle that culminates in an astonishing brawl, the novella introduces readers to Miss Amelia, a formidable southern woman whose cafe serves as the town's gathering place. Among other fine works, the collection also includes "Wunderkind", McCullers' first published story, written when she was only 17, about a musical prodigy who suddenly realizes she will not go on to become a great pianist. Critic Reviews: "The readings are uniformly fine, with appropriate regional accents that are more hinted at than broad. These subtle stories would be easy to overplay, but they get the delicate touch they require. Don't expect complete resolutions and happy endings, but do expect to hear from one of our finest storytellers through the voices of these top narrators." (AudioFile)

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Great Gatsby Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Narrator: Humphrey Bower Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins Language: English Release date: 10-01-12 Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 59 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: Considered one of the all-time great American works of fiction, Fitzgeralds glorious yet ultimately tragic social satire on the Jazz Age encapsulates the exuberance, energy and decadence of an era. After the Great War, the mysterious Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, pursues wealth, riches and the lady he lost to another man with stoic determination. He buys a mansion across from her house and throws lavish parties to entice her. When Gatsby finally does reunite with Daisy Buchanan, tragic events are set in motion. Told through the eyes of his detached and omnipresent neighbour and friend, Nick Carraway, Fitzgeralds succinct and powerful prose hints at the destruction and tragedy that awaits.

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Winter Dreams Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Narrator: B. Jay Kaplan Format: Unabridged Length: 49 mins Language: English Release date: 09-18-12 Publisher: palmera publishing Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 23 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: Winter Dreams is a story of friendship, love and betrayal by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Magus Author: John Fowles Narrator: Nicholas Boulton Format: Unabridged Length: 26 hrs and 19 mins Language: English Release date: 09-07-12 Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 377 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: John Fowles The Magus was a literary landmark of the 1960s. Nicholas Urfe goes to a Greek island to teach at a private school and becomes enmeshed in curious happenings at the home of a mysterious Greek recluse, Maurice Conchis. Are these events, involving attractive young English sisters, just psychological games, or an elaborate joke, or more? Reality shifts as the story unfolds. The Magus reflected the issues of the 1960s perfectly, but even almost half a century after its first publication, it continues to create tension and concern, remaining the page-turner that it was when it was first released.

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Subtitle: 50th Anniversary Edition Author: Ken Kesey, Robert Faggen (introduction) Narrator: John C. Reilly Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins Language: English Release date: 07-31-12 Publisher: Penguin Audio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2468 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: A 50th-anniversary edition of Ken Kesey's searing American classic. Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Turning conventional notions of sanity and insanity on their heads, the novel tells the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the story through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-Indian patient who witnesses and understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them all imprisoned. Hailed upon its publication as a "glittering parable of good and evil" (The New York Times Book Review) and a "roar of protest against middlebrow society's Rules and the invisible Rulers who enforce them" (Time), Kesey's powerful book went on to sell millions of copies and remains as bracing and insightful today as when it was first released. This new deluxe audio edition commemorates the 50th anniversary of the original publication of the novel on February 1, 1962, and will be a must have for any literature lover.

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Best American Humorous Short Stories Author: Eliza Leslie, Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendle Holmes, Caroline M.S. Kirkland, George William Curtis, Mark Twain, Edward Everett Hale Narrator: Stephanye Dussud Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins Language: English Release date: 07-13-12 Publisher: Cherry Hill Publishing Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 50 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: Eighteen of the very best American short stories, each a classic in its own right. Stories include "The Little Frenchman and his Water Lots", by George Pope Morris; "The Angel of the Odd", by Edgar Allan Poe; "The Schoolmasterss Progress", by Caroline M.S. Kirkland; "The Watkinson Evening", by Eliza Leslie; "Titbottoms Spectacles", by George William Curtis; "My Double and "How He Undid Me", by Edward Everett Hale; "A Visit to the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Punsters", by Oliver Wendell Holmes; "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", by Mark Twain; "Elder Browns Backslide", by Harry Stillwell Edwards; "The Hotel Experience of Mr. Pink Fluker", by Richard Malcolm Johnston; "The Nice People", by Henry Cuyler Bunner; "The Buller-Podington Compact", by Frank Richard Stockton; "Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff", by Bret Harte; "The Duplicity of Hargraves", by O. Henry; "Bargain Day at Tutt House", by George Randolph Chester; "A Call", by Grace MacCowan Cooke; "How the Widow Won the Deacon", by William James Lampton; and "Gideon", by Wells Hastings.

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Narrator: Alan Munro Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 9 mins Language: English Release date: 06-20-12 Publisher: Trout Lake Media Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 52 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: Fitzgerald's tale of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences. This story was the basis for the Oscar-winning Brad Pitt film of the same name.

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Benjamin Button and Tales of the Jazz Age Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Narrator: Alan Munro Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins Language: English Release date: 06-20-12 Publisher: Trout Lake Media Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 27 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: This audiobook collection contains some of Fitzgeralds best stories from the Roaring '20s. Included on the audio are the classics "The Jelly-Bean", "The Camel's Back", "May Day", "Porcelain and Pink", "The Diamond as Big as The Ritz", "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", "Tarquin of Cheapside", "O Russet Witch!", "The Lees of Happiness", "Mr. Icky", and "Jemina".

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Caine Mutiny Author: Herman Wouk Narrator: Kevin Pariseau Format: Unabridged Length: 26 hrs and 31 mins Language: English Release date: 06-12-12 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2277 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: Having inspired a classic film and Broadway play, The Caine Mutiny is Herman Wouk's boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining novel of lifeand mutinyon a Navy warship in the Pacific theater. It was immediately embraced upon its original publication as one of the first serious works of American fiction to grapple with the moral complexities and the human consequences of the Second World War. In the intervening half century, this gripping story has become a perennial favorite, selling millions throughout the world, and claiming the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Rip Van Winkle Author: Washington Irving Narrator: Curtis Sisco Format: Unabridged Length: 37 mins Language: English Release date: 05-23-12 Publisher: Trout Lake Media Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 176 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: A man who sleeps for 20 years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world. This is an American classic!

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Winesburg, Ohio Author: Sherwood Anderson Narrator: George Guidall Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins Language: English Release date: 05-23-12 Publisher: Recorded Books Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 78 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: Winesburg, Ohio is a little-known masterpiece that forever changed the course of American storytelling. Bittersweet and richly insightful, it reveals Sherwood Andersons special talent for taking the small moments of life and transforming them into timeless folk tales - a talent that inspired a generation of writers including William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, and John Steinbeck. At the center of this collection of stories stands George Willard, an earnest young reporter for the Winesburg Eagle who sets out to gather the towns daily news. He ends up discovering the towns deepest secrets as one by one, the townsfolk confide their hopes, dreams, and fears to the reporter. In their recollections of first loves and last rites, of sprawling farms and winding country roads, the town rises vividly - and poignantly - to life. With polished prose and fresh imagery, Winesburg, Ohio is an American classic that celebrates small-town life in the lost days of innocence and good will.

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: O. Henry Short Stories, Vol. 2 Author: O Henry, William Sydney Porter Narrator: Bob Thomley Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins Language: English Release date: 05-02-12 Publisher: Trout Lake Media Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 15 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: O. Henry's short stories are well known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings. Includes: "By Courier", "Jimmie Hayes and Muriel", "School and Schools", "Roads of Destiny", "A Blackjack Bargainer"," A Cosmopolite in a Café", "Christmas by Injunction", "Mammon and the Archer", "A Bird of Bagdad", "After 20 Years", "From The Cabbys Seat", "Lost on Dress Parade", "Memoirs of a Yellow Dog", "Tobins Palm", "Transients in Arcadia", "The Trimmed Lamp", "The Skylight Room", "Ulysses and the Dogman", "The Pendelum", "The Enchanted Profile", "The Green Door", "The Third Ingredient", "The Princess and the Puma", and "Best-Seller".

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: O. Henry: Complete Short Stories Collection Author: O. Henry, William Sydney Porter Narrator: Bob Thomley Format: Unabridged Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins Language: English Release date: 05-02-12 Publisher: Trout Lake Media Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 98 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: O. Henry's short stories are well known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and clever twist endings. This collection includes

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Author: Washington Irving Narrator: Curtis Sisco Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 9 mins Language: English Release date: 04-25-12 Publisher: Trout Lake Media Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 453 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is the most famous supernatural wild chase in all of literature. One of the best known American short stories, this tale has been produced countless times for television and film. A halloween classic!

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Paul's Case Author: Willa Cather Narrator: Deaver Brown Format: Unabridged Length: 56 mins Language: English Release date: 03-20-12 Publisher: Simply Media Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: "Paul's Case" was first published in 1905 in Cather's first collection of short stories, titled The Troll Garden. When republished by McClure's in 1920, it established Cather's career and her fame spread across America. "Paul's Case", similar to "The Enchanted Forest" featured in her Nine Stories published by Simply, is one of the great writer's stories accessible to most young people in high school and college. It relates to what they feel, think, and want to be. Perhaps just as importantly, it depicts young people upset by their current circumstances, their families, and the drabness they perceive in their own lives. One of her best.

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Member of the Wedding Author: Carson McCullers Narrator: Susan Sarandon Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins Language: English Release date: 03-08-12 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 584 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: The best way to experience this classic of the American South is by joining five-time Academy Award nominee and Best Actress winner Susan Sarandon (Dead Man Walking, Thelma & Louise) as she guides the listener on a journey through the anguish of adolescence and isolation. "Rarely has emotional turbulence been so delicately conveyed," said The New York Times of Carson McCullers' sensitive portrayal of Frankie Addams, a disconnected 12-year-old whose only friends are her familys maid and a six-year-old cousin. Desperate to be part of something big, she takes an overlarge interest in her brothers wedding and dreams of following the couple on their honeymoon to the Alaskan wilderness. But as Frankie crosses into adulthood, she experiences the fantasy-shattering disillusionment that must come with it. This is a story for anybody whos ever felt like an outsider and a natural fit for Ms. Sarandon, a master at creating authentic, sympathetic characters. Critic Reviews: "Sarandon uses her voice well to convey all the emotions of a troubled girl who is searching for a place to belong." (Audiofile)