Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage to follow her heart and must endure the hypocrisies of society. (Summary by Mary Anderson)
In Book 5 we see the new life begun by Levin and Kitty contrasted with that of Anna and Vronsky. The seeds of Anna's and Vronsky's discontent are sown.
33 episodes
He was a painter, a poet, a novelist. He lived during the Hungarian revolution and his love of freedom meant his life was often in peril. She was his first love, this girl with the eyes like the sea. She was at heart noble, good and loving. What an excellent lady might have been made out of this woman, if she had only met with a husband who, in the most ordinary acceptance of the word, had been a good fellow, as is really the case with about nine men out of every ten. But she always managed to draw the unlucky tenth out of the urn of destiny. And so she spurned his true love in favor of a high-flying dandy. He went on to pursue a life of politics and she to follow her capricious heart. But yet, throughout her life, she kept returning to him and to the end, of all men, she loved him perhaps best of all. (Eyes Like the Sea won the Hungarian Academy of Sciences prize for literature in 1890.) (Summary by MaryAnn)
27 episodes
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage to follow her heart and must endure the hypocrisies of society. (Summary by Mary Anderson)
32 episodes
A light-hearted romantic comedy in twelve short scenes, set during a tea party in the home of Mrs. Amy Somers, a widow who is courted by the ingenuous and delightful Mr. Willis Campbell. (Summary by Ruth Golding)
CAST: Narrator: Kim Stich
Mr. Willis Campbell: Martin Geeson
Mrs. Amy Somers: Ruth GoldingOld Mr. Bemis: Lars Rolander
Mr. Roberts: SamECircle
Mrs. Roberts: Annise
Mrs. Curwen: Elizabeth Klett
Dr. Lawton: Brett W. Downey
Mr. Miller: Algy Pug
Mrs. Miller: Laura C. Harrington
Mrs. Crashaw: rashada
Young Mr. Bemis: David Lawrence
Mrs. Bemis: Arielle Lipshaw
Mrs. Wharton: Kalynda
Miss Bayly: Lucy Perry
Audio edited by Ruth Golding.
1 episodes
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. In Book 8, Vronsky leaves for the Servian war, unable to live without Anna and hoping to die. Back at his farm with a loving wife and baby son, Levin struggles with thoughts of death and the horror of living when he does not understand "the whence, and why, and how, and what [life] was." (Summary by Mary Anderson and MaryAnn)
19 episodes
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. In Book 7, Levin, in town for Kitty’s confinement, finds himself drawn to the corruptive influence of Moscow society. Stiva again presses Karenin to divorce Anna, while Anna, driven by jealousy, becomes increasingly irrational towards Vronsky. (Summary by Mary Anderson and MaryAnn)
31 episodes
Bailén es la cuarta novela de la primera serie de los Episodios Nacionales de Benito Pérez Galdós. En El 19 de Marzo y el 2 de Mayo, el joven gaditano Gabriel de Araceli libera a Inés de su encierro, en casa de los hermanos Requejo, con una hábil estratagema. Pero estalla el alzamiento del pueblo de Madrid contra los invasores franceses y ambos son apresados por las tropas de ocupación. En la novela anterior dejamos a Gabriel ante el pelotón de fusilamiento, que en ese momento acaba de disparar, y dedica sus últimos pensamientos a su amada. ¿Logrará Juan de Dios, empleado de los Requejo, casarse con Inés? ¿Qué habrá sido de los tíos de Inés? (Resumen por Tux.)La Primera Serie
1 - Trafalgar
2 - La corte de Carlos IV
3 - El 19 de marzo y el 2 de mayo
4 - Bailén
5 - Napoleón en Chamartín
6 - Zaragoza
7 - Gerona
8 - Cádiz
9 - Juan Martín el Empecinado
10 - La batalla de los Arapiles
32 episodes
Our hero, Peter Vibart, an Oxford graduate with no means of support but for 10 guineas he has inherited, sets out on a walking tour of the Kent countryside. Along the way, he meets many quaint and adoring characters as well as a few ne’er-do-wells, meets with several disasters and triumphs, and eventually he meets "The Woman," who leads him to even more disasters and triumphs. (Introduction by John Lieder)Proof-listened by Dawn Larsen and BainbridgeCatherine.
47 episodes
C'est un roman historique, social et philosophique dans lequel on retrouve les idéaux du romantisme et ceux de Victor Hugo concernant la nature humaine. L'auteur lui-même accorde une grande importance à ce roman et écrit en mars 1862, à son éditeur Lacroix : « Ma conviction est que ce livre sera un des principaux sommets, sinon le principal, de mon œuvre ».Dans ce tome, Marius, devenu étudiant, rencontre Cosette et son père, M. Leblanc. Nous ferons la connaissance des membres de l'ABC et retrouverons quelques anciennes connaissances, les Thénardier et Javert. (résumé de Wikipedia, modifié par Nadine)
77 episodes
Angèle, une jeune fille orpheline recueillie par deux charmants Québecois, rentre chez elle un soir et tombe sur un jeune homme ensanglanté qui s'est évadé de prison. Jacques Bourgeot, qui est amoureux d'Angèle, soupconne quelque chose. Angèle et Alphonse parviendront-ils à échapper aux policemen et à trouver le bonheur ensemble? Angèle, a young orphan, adopted by two lovely French Canadians, comes home one night and finds a young man covered in blood on her doorstep. He has escaped from jail. Jacques Bourgeot, who is in love with Angèle, is getting suspicious of something fishy. Will Angèle and Alphonse manage to escape the policemen and find happiness together? (résumé par Nadine Eckert-Boulet)
121 episodes
Stephen Glennard's career is falling apart and he desperately needs money so that he may marry his beautiful fiancee. He happens upon an advertisement in a London magazine promising the prospect of financial gain. Glennard was once pursued by Margaret Aubyn, a famous and recently deceased author, and he still has her passionate love letters to him. Glennard removes his name from the letters and sells them, making him a fortune and building a marriage based on the betrayal of another. (Summary by Wikipedia)
14 episodes
“Poor Miss Finch.” That is what everyone calls the courageous protagonist of this book. In other words, “poor thing, she’s blind, isn’t it awful?” Ha! Lucilla Finch is the wisest of all the characters, in spite of, and perhaps because of, her blindness. This story is about her trials, tribulations and triumphs. She reminds me of myself. Not the falling recklessly in love and being pulled this way and that by foolish young men and mad old doctors. I mean that, like her, I’m blind and proud of it!
(Introduction by Sandra G)
Editing by TriciaG & Nadine Eckert-Boulet
51 episodes
A sweet, old fashioned Christmas romance set in an old New England meeting house. (Summary by Maria Therese)
9 episodes
Mr. Neilson was determined to name his first child after his boyhood chum, William Henshaw. When the baby disappointed him by being a girl, he was consoled by naming her Billy. Miss Billy, now 18, orphaned and all alone in the world, takes her lawyer’s suggestion to ask her namesake to take her in. Only one little problem – Mr. Henshaw did not know of her existence, and then mistakenly thinks that Billy is a boy!
Eleanor H. Porter was an early 20th century author of children’s literature and novels. Her most well known book was “Pollyanna” and it’s sequel, “Pollyanna Grows Up”. (Summary by Maria Therese)
42 episodes
Fifth novel in the Barsetshire series, The Small House at Allington is largely focused on the Small House's inhabitants, Mrs. Dale and her two marriageable daughters, Lily and Bell. The two girls, of course, have suitors: their cousin, Bernard Dale, his friend Adolphus Crosbie, and the local boy, Johnny Eames, whose career in London is to mark him as far more than the "hobbledehoy" that he has earlier been considered. Crosbie is a social climber, and his connection with the dysfunctional de Courcys of Barsetshire give the author a chance for a splendid portrayal of an aristocratic family in decline. As with many of AT's novels, there are subplots as well, and many pictures of rural life standing in contrast to that of London. Some critics have seen in the portrayal of Johnny Eames something of an autobiographical exercise on Trollope's part.(Summary by Nicholas Clifford)
Novels in the series are
1-The Warden
1-The Warden(version 2)
2-Barchester Towers
3-Doctor Thorne
4-Framley Parsonage
5-The Small House at Allington
6-The Last Chronicle of Barset
60 episodes
“Mr. and Mrs. Seth Appleby were almost old. They called each other 'Father' and 'Mother.' But frequently they were guilty of holding hands, or of cuddling together in corners, and Father was a person of stubborn youthfulness.” It is only by subterfuge that Seth is able every year to obtain his two week's vacation from the shoe store, and they are off to the farm-house of Uncle Joe Tubbs on Cape Cod. But this year the vacation turns into a full blown scheme to open a country tea room somewhere on Cape Cod, and their life suddenly begins to change. . . . (Introduction by Don W. Jenkins)
18 episodes
La Princesse de Monpensier est un court roman publié anonymement en 1662 par Madame de Lafayette (1634-1693). L'action se déroule entre 1568 et 1572 en France et a pour toile de fond la troisième et la quatrième guerres de religions; le récit s'achève à l'époque du massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy, qui y est brièvement évoqué. L'héroïne est une jeune et riche héritière de famille noble dont le jeu des alliances politiques décide du mariage au Prince de Monpensier. Son amour de jeunesse pour le duc de Guise se ravive à l'occasion d'une rencontre fortuite et un combat entre la vertu et la passion s'ensuit. Ce roman met en lumière la difficulté des relations amoureuses prises en porte-à-faux entre les considérations politiques, les contraintes sociales et les impératifs de la passion. (résumé par Ariodante)
1 episodes
Romantik pur: ein edles verarmtes Fräulein, ein wilder Räuberhauptmann, ein edler Graf, eine schöne aber eigensinnige Dame, alte Schlösser in den bewaldeten Tälern der Loire und eine Wette mit dem französischen König. Das sind die Elemente dieser Erzählung von Joseph von Eichendorff (Zusammenfassung von Hokuspokus)
5 episodes
Black Heart and White Heart, is a story of the courtship, trials and final union of a pair of Zulu lovers in the time of King Cetywayo. (Introduction by H. Rider Haggard)
6 episodes
Lucy Maud Montgomery (L.M. Montgomery) was a prolific Canadian writer of books and short stories for children and adults during the first half of the twentieth century. Her writings, frequently set in Prince Edward Island where she was born and grew up, helped to put Canada on the literary map and made her a famous and beloved author, both during her own life and after her death. She published hundreds of short stories and twenty novels; her public-domain short stories have been collected in chronological order by Project Gutenberg. This project consists of stories published in 1904.Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922(Summary by Project Gutenberg)
18 episodes
Napoleón en Chamartín es la quinta novela de la primera serie de los Episodios Nacionales de Benito Pérez Galdós. Continúa con la historia del joven gaditano Gabriel de Araceli, quien es también protagonista de los anteriores episodios, Bailén, El 19 de marzo y el 2 de mayo, La Corte de Carlos IV y Trafalgar. Siguiendo a su amada Inés, Gabriel llega a Madrid. Tras la derrota sufrida por los franceses en Bailén, el propio Emperador Napoleón se dirige a Madrid con la intención de someter a la capital, y proclamar rey a su hermano José Bonaparte. Los madrileños se preparan para la batalla, pero su inferioridad frente a las tropas imperiales es evidente. Don Diego de Rumblar, el prometido de Inés, lleva una vida disoluta en Madrid, bajo la influencia de Santorcaz, de quien se sospecha, es un espía francés. Gabriel sabe que Santorcaz quiere secuestrar a su hija Inés, por las cartas que leyó en el anterior episodio Bailén, y decide poner en aviso a la Condesa. La Condesa le convence de abandonar la idea de amar a Inés, y le promete una ejecutoria de nobleza y una posición administrativa en Perú. El joven las rechaza, prefiriendo una vida honrada y patriota como soldado, pero promete a la Condesa abandonar Madrid tan pronto como termine el asedio de las tropas francesas, y no volver a ver nunca a Inés. Gabriel luchará junto con las milicias madrileñas en el asedio de Madrid, pero... (Resumen de Wikipedia)
La Primera Serie
1 - Trafalgar
2 - La corte de Carlos IV
3 - El 19 de marzo y el 2 de mayo
4 - Bailén
5 - Napoleón en Chamartín
6 - Zaragoza
7 - Gerona
8 - Cádiz
9 - Juan Martín el Empecinado
10 - La batalla de los Arapiles
29 episodes
G.E. Lessing, widely regarded by students of theater as the world's first dramaturg, was also one of the first proponents of the German bourgeois tragedy. Miss Sara Sampson, in which a young woman runs off with a ne'er-do-well who is still entangled with his former mistress, was a reaction against the Voltarian verse drama popular in the eighteenth century. (Summary by Arielle Lipshaw)
Cast:
Sir William Sampson: Anthony
Miss Sara Sampson, his daughter: Arielle Lipshaw
Mellefont: Algy Pug
Marwood, formerly Mellefont's mistress: Availle
Arabella, a child, daughter of Marwood: Miss Avarice
Waitwell, an old servant of Sir William: John Steigerwald
Norton, servant of Mellefont: John Fricker
Betty, Sara's maid: Nichole Thompson
Hannah, Marwood's maid: debolee
Innkeeper: David Lawrence
Servant: mb
Narrator: Elizabeth Klett
Audio edited by: Arielle Lipshaw
5 episodes
Wordsworth was a defining member of the English Romantic Movement. Like other Romantics, Wordsworth’s personality and poetry were deeply influenced by his love of nature, especially by the sights and scenes of the Lake Country, in which he spent most of his mature life. A profoundly earnest and sincere thinker, he displayed a high seriousness tempered with tenderness and a love of simplicity. (summary from Bartleby.com)
13 episodes
This little-known but engrossing Trollope novel, published in 1870, centers on a feisty small-town clergyman, his cantankerous neighbor, the miller, and the women in both their lives. A murder, a trial, a feud, a fallen woman, and a complicated romance are woven together in an exploration of the limits of our ability to truly do right when we involve ourselves in the lives of others, even with the best intentions. (Introduction by Angela Rowland)
74 episodes
When Miss Billy closed, Miss Billy and Bertram were happily engaged. In this first sequel to Miss Billy will the path to wedded bliss run smooth or will misunderstandings and heartache cross their path? Find out in Miss Billy’s Decision! (Summary by Maria Therese)
33 episodes
Charlotte Temple, a cautionary tale for young women, follows the unfortunate adventures of the eponymous heroine as she is seduced by a dashing soldier, Montraville. Influenced by both her lover and an unruly teacher at her boarding school, she is persuaded to run away to America, where she is eventually abandoned by Montraville after he becomes bored, leaving her alone and pregnant. First published in England in 1791, it went on to become America's bestselling novel, only being ousted by Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. (Summary by BumbleVee)
36 episodes
Miss Frances, the youngest Ward sister, "married, in the common phrase, to disoblige her family, and by fixing on a lieutenant of marines, without education, fortune, or connexions, did it very thoroughly. She could hardly have made a more untoward choice." Some years later, pregnant with her ninth child, Mrs. Price appeals to her family, namely to her eldest sister and her husband, Sir Thomas Bertram, for help with her over-large family. Sir Thomas provides assistance in helping his nephews into lines of work suitable to their education, and takes his eldest niece, Fanny Price, then ten years old, into his home to raise with his own children. It is Fanny's story we follow in Mansfield Park. (Summary by Karen Savage with text from Mansfield Park)
48 episodes
The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare, first published in 1602, though believed to have been written prior to 1597. It features the fat knight Sir John Falstaff, and is Shakespeare's only play to deal exclusively with contemporary Elizabethan era English middle class life. (Summary by Wikipedia)Cast:Anne Page, Mistress Page's daughter: Elizabeth BarrBardolph, sharper attending on Falstaff: AlanDoctor Caius, a French physician: Marty KrisFalstaff: Mark F. SmithFenton, a gentleman: Peter BishopFirst Servant: Ted GarvinFord, a gentleman dwelling at Windsor: Timothy FergusonHost of the Garter Inn: TriciaGHostess Quickly, hostess of a tavern in Eastcheap: Amy GramourMistress Ford: Elizabeth KlettMistress Page: Arielle LipshawNym, sharper attending on Falstaff: SkythrockPage, a gentleman dwelling at Windsor: AlanPistol: Peter BishopRobert Shallow, country Justice: Algy PugRobin, page to Falstaff: Beth ThomasRugby, servant to Doctor Caius: Dale BurgessSecond Servant: SkythrockServant: TriciaGSimple, servant to Slender: Sarah HoltzSir Hugh Evans, a Welsh parson: Matthew ReeceSlender, cousin to Shallow: David LawrenceWilliam Page, a boy, son to Page: Elizabeth KlettNarrator: Denny SayersAudio edited by: Arielle Lipshaw
5 episodes
"Married Love" is one of the most famous 'sex education' manuals. First published in 1918, it sold tens of thousands of copies, and was one of the first publications to openly discuss issues such as variations in male and female sexual desire in a form which could be easily read and understood by the ordinary reader. This is the 6th, revised and expanded, edition, from 1919. The main text is mostly unchanged. An appendix has been added with some extra information on subjects such as sex during pregnancy. (Summary by Archive.org.)
14 episodes
May Wedderburn is a quiet provincial girl, living in small and seemingly boring Skernford. Underneath the dull exterior, there is mystery, suspicion and fear in this little town, surrounding the austere local wealthy landowner who is very interested in marrying poor May. It looks as though she will have to marry him whether she likes it or not until an unsuspected alliance is formed between her and a respected old lady. They both escape to Germany where music and excitement await them.
Editing and additional proof-listening by Betsie Bush & Sarah Jennings.
41 episodes
Mary Roberts Rinehart -- "America's Agatha Christie," as she used to be called -- set this story in a New York suburban town, shortly after the end of the first world war. Dick Livingstone is a young, successful doctor, who in the course of events becomes engaged to Elizabeth Wheeler. But there is a mystery about his past, and he thinks himself honor-bound to unravel it before giving himself to her in marriage. In particular, a shock of undetermined origin has wiped out his memory prior to roughly the last decade. Rinehart, who presumably had been reading, or reading about, the then popular Sigmund Freud, plays on what today is called "repressed memory," as she takes Dick into his past, and into the dangers that, unknown to him, lurk there. Is she correct about the behavior of memory? Who knows? After all, this is not a clinical treatise, but a work of fiction, one of the thrillers that made her such a popular writer of the earlier twentieth century.(Introduction by Nicholas Clifford)
48 episodes
This romantic mystery - or mysterious romance - tells the tale of jilted lover, Jim Conrad, who discovers an unusual gold ring while on a visit to Paris. What is the story of the ring? Why is Clelia Vine so sad? Who is the nameless 'chief'? And how is a dour English barber in a Parisian salon mixed up in all this?The novel, published in 1896, was written by Justin McCarthy, an Irish nationalist, Liberal historian, novelist and politician. (Introduction by Ruth Golding)
27 episodes
The Amoretti (meaning little love poems) is a sequence of 89 sonnets written in the tradition of the Petrarchan sonnets, a popular form for poets of the Renaissance period. Spenser’s sequence has been largely neglected in modern times, while those of his contemporaries William Shakespeare and Sir Philip Sidney have been acclaimed. However, because of the artistic skill, along with the emotion and the humor exhibited, these poems deserve a broader hearing, even though they may be somewhat difficult for the present-day reader, partly through Spenser’s love for words and expressions that were already archaic in his time.Amoretti, written throughout the year 1594 and published the following year, violates at least one of the conventional elements of the Renaissance sonnet sequences. Other poets, including Petrarch and Sidney, chose as the inspiration for their sonnets a woman who was inaccessible to the poet, sometimes even married to someone else. They idealized this woman, seeming to be extravagantly suffering because of their passionate admiration, while in real life they might hardly know the lady and had no real interest in an actual love affair. Spenser, however, dedicated his verses to a woman that he actually loved and sought, Elizabeth Boyle, whom he then married.Also the sonnet series by other poets were usually despairing of any fruition in regard to the lady, and Spenser certainly does show much frustration himself in his efforts to achieve a closer relationship with his love; but as the series progresses, he gradually sees improvement in the success of his wooing, as his actual wedding nears. The poems feature elaborate imagery, loaded with metaphorical situations, saying much the same thing repeatedly in a wide variety of ways, with much clever creativity, sometimes impressive and sometimes a bit awkward. There is a rich vein of humor running through the whole sequence, often through mock passion, and there is even a bit of sensuality in some of the later sonnets. The better poems are often sharp and crystalline, sparkling in their freshness and originality. (Introduction by Leonard Wilson)
30 episodes
Aucassin and Nicolette is a medieval romance written in a combination of prose and verse called a “song-story.” Created probably in the early 13th century by an unknown French author, the work deals with the love between the son of a count and a Saracen slave girl who has been converted to Christianity and adopted by a viscount. Since Aucassin’s father is strongly opposed to their marriage, the two lovers must endure imprisonment, flight, separation in foreign lands, and many other ordeals before their ardent love and fierce determination finally bring them back together. Aucassin is the very model of an intrepid knight, totally devoted to his love; and Nicolette is daring and ingenious in her staunch perseverance against all odds. This translation, completed in 1887, is by Scottish poet, novelist, critic, and collector of folk tales Andrew Lang (1844-1912). (Introduction by Leonard Wilson)
6 episodes
Fans of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women will remember that her heroine Jo wrote racy novels before turning her hand to more "serious" literature. Alcott, writing under the pseudonym A. M. Barnard, often did the same, and Behind a Mask (1866) is one of her sensation novels. It focuses on Jean Muir, who enters the home of the wealthy Coventry family as governess to their sixteen-year-old daughter. But is the beguiling Miss Muir all that she seems to be? (Introduction by Elizabeth Klett)
9 episodes
Regina van Berchem is een steenrijke jonge vrouw, die na het overlijden van haar vader intrekt bij haar oom in de stad X. Ze raakt verbitterd door de houding van de mensen in haar omgeving, nieuwe kennissen en jonge mannen die haar het hof maken, wie het allen vooral om haar geld te doen lijkt te zijn. Dan ontmoet ze een oude bekende uit haar jeugd, Eckbert Witgensteyn. Door een samenloop van omstandigheden verloopt die hernieuwde kennismaking niet gladjes. Als hij haar een huwelijksaanzoek doet wijst ze hem hardvochtig van de hand. Eckbert is gekrenkt en bezweert haar dat hij revanche zal nemen. (Samenvatting door Anna Simon)
27 episodes
Anne's story continues with her marriage to Gilbert and their years in the House of Dreams. ( Summary by Karen Savage)
Other books in this series by this reader:
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Avonlea
Anne of the Island
Rainbow Valley
Rilla of Ingleside
40 episodes
La Princesse de Clèves, de Marie-Madeleine de La Fayette, fut publié anonymement en 1678 et connut un grand succès dès sa parution.
Sur la fastueuse toile de fond de la cour d’Henri II, la très jeune Mademoiselle de Chartres, parangon de beauté et de vertu, devient la Princesse de Clèves en épousant un homme exemplaire qu’elle estime sans pouvoir aimer. Ce n’est que trop tard que madame de Clèves rencontre son double masculin, le duc de Nemours, dont elle se découvre progressivement, et bien malgré elle, amoureuse. Au hasard de confessions, de portraits dérobés, de lettres égarées et de rencontres fortuites, c’est alors une lutte entre passion et devoir que le récit s’attache à dépeindre.
Le contexte historique du milieu du XVIe siècle, dont les principaux événements politiques charpentent la narration, vient renforcer la grandeur du récit et la noblesse exceptionnelle des personnages, en qui tout – beauté, sagesse, grâce, ou passion – est superlatif. Par-delà son caractère de roman historique, le récit a également valeur de témoin littéraire du XVIIe siècle, par ses conversations précieuses, l’influence du jansénisme ou encore celle du théâtre classique. Les pauses introspectives qui ponctuent les événements et la complexité des sentiments que la narration retranscrit avec subtilité contribuent à faire de ce roman un texte fondateur dans l’histoire du roman moderne. (résumé par Isabelle)
23 episodes
This sad social novel revolves around the problematic issue of money. Michael returns from Australia to London a rich man. However, he hides this fact from everybody and spends money only on the things he really needs. He contemplates leaving his money to his granddaughter Jane, under the condition that she donate at least most of it to charity. However, Jane is not sure she can do it. This novel tells much about working class life in 19th century London.(Summary by Stav Nisser)
40 episodes
The tale of John Peerybingle, the good-hearted carrier, and his young wife Mary ('Dot'), interwoven with the story of poor toymaker Caleb Plummer, his beloved blind daughter Bertha, and the harsh old toy merchant Tackleton, who is due to marry May Fielding, a childhood friend of Dot. Comic relief is provided by Tilly Slowboy, the disaster-prone nursemaid of John and Dot's baby, and Boxer, the family dog.
The cricket who chirps on the family hearth assumes fairy form to save the day when disaster looms in the form of a mysterious stranger. Sentimental? Certainly - but this, the third (1845) of Dickens' short Christmas books, is as charming and irresistible as its predecessors A Christmas Carol (1843) and The Chimes (1844).The novella is subdivided into chapters called 'Chirps', similar to the 'Quarters' of The Chimes or the 'Staves' of A Christmas Carol. (Introduction by Ruth Golding)
8 episodes
Entre las comedias del fecundo y elegante Calderón merecía, sin duda, uno de los lugares mas distinguidos la que se conoce con el título de La dama duende. Con efecto la novedad original del argumento, la verdad de los caracteres, una multitud de escenas y de situaciones cómicas, y las gracias y sales derramadas con profusión en toda ella la hacían sumamente apreciable. Por otra parte el fin de esta obra era el de atacar una preocupación tan general como ridícula, que había llegado a apoderarse del pueblo español, y de la que aun está muy lejos de hallarse totalmente curado: La existencia de los duendes, fantasmas, trasgos, etc. estaba recibida entre nosotros en aquel siglo como un hecho seguro y constante; y, aunque esta errónea opinión no mereciese más que la risa y el desprecio, eran de tal trascendencia los males que ocasionaba que fue preciso hacer uso de cuantos medios pudieron emplearse a fin de procurar destruirla. (De la introducción de Antonio de Miguel a la edición de José Fernández Guerra de 1826.)
Elenco:
Narradora: DreamVoz
Don Manuel: Tux
Cosme: Ditirambo
Doña Angela: DreamVoz
Isabel: Margaret Espaillat
Rodrigo: Bob Gonzalez
Don Luis: Eduardo
Don Juan: Paolo Paez
Doña Beatriz: Karen Savage
Clara, criada: Availle
Audio editado por Tux y Karen Savage
4 episodes
Semi-autobiographical series of incidents in the life of an intellectual American family in the late 19th - early 20th Century as seen by favored daughter, Sylvia Marshall. Her father is an economics professor in a Midwestern state university and she is following in his inquisitive footsteps. Canfield writes this in a matter-of-fact manner with Tarkingtonesque good humor. ( Summary by BellonaTimes )
47 episodes
A romance and adventure novel, set in England during the reign of Queen Anne. The book is much unlike the author's later detective short stories. The actual book is difficult to locate and appears to have been forgotten. It is not even listed by Wiki as part of the author's work, nevermind have any information on the book itself. (Summary by JCarson)
10 episodes
A villainous vicar insinuates himself into the life of a wealthy but foolish widow, ruining the fortunes and happiness of her three children, until they begin to fight back. Published in 1837 by the mother of the better-known Anthony Trollope, this highly readable romance portrays the evangelical movement of the Anglican church in a shocking light that may remind readers of some of the religious abuses of the present day. (Summary by Angela Rowland)
45 episodes
This story revolves around Gilbert Fenton, a very talented middle class businessman from London, who falls in love with a beautiful country woman far below his station. He decides to marry her anyway. But is she all that she seems? (Summary by Stav Nisser.)
47 episodes
Beatrice is a lonely twenty-two year old woman. After saving Geoffrey's life, they fall in love. However, Geoffrey is married. In addition, a local rich land owner wants to marry the beautiful Beatrice. This is a romance by the author of King Solomon's Mines, Allen Quatermain, and She." (Summary by Stav Nisser)
31 episodes
This is the story of Elizabeth North, a young woman who becomes engaged and with the aid of a social climbing friend begins to plan her wedding beyond what she can afford. Her friend Evelyn Tripp convinces Elizabeth that she “simply can’t afford” not to live a fashionable and expensive lifestyle. However, her husband and her grandma help her to see sense and pull herself out of the debt she has got herself into. (Summary by Michele Eaton)
11 episodes
Stewart Edward White wrote fiction and non-fiction about adventure and travel, with an emphasis on natural history and outdoor living. White's books were popular at a time when America was losing its vanishing wilderness and many are based on his experiences in mining and lumber camps. The Blazed Trail is the story of early lumbermen in the northern woods of Michigan. The novel portrays the challenges faced by the workers focusing on one, Harry Thorpe, as he endeavors to be successful though completely unskilled when he enters the woods. The author mixes the splendor of nature with suspense, danger, and romance and provides glimpses into corrupt practices in the lumber industry at the time. (Summary by Tom Weiss)
19 episodes
Amanda McKittrick Ros, a Northern Irish writer, did for the novel what William McGonagall did for poetry and Florence Foster Jenkins for the coloratura voice. She published a number of novels (all at her own expense) and in addition to being a novelist was a poet, her best known being Visiting Westminster Abbey which begins:
Holy Moses!
Take a look!
Flesh decayed in every nook!
Some rare bits of brain lie here,
Mortal loads of beef and beer.
The best account of her life available on the web is probably http://oddbooks.co.uk/amanda/life.html. C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien and The Inklings were admirers and held competitions to see who could read her work for the longest time whist keeping a straight face. Sadly, all her books are now out of print but command high prices on the rare books market.
Irene Iddesleigh, her first book, is a romantic novel, telling the common story of an unhappy, doomed marriage. The prose style however is unique. (Summary by AJM)
19 episodes
Pride and Prejudice, a comedy of manners and marriage, is the most famous of Jane Austen's novels. In this dramatic adaption by Mary Keith Medbery Macakaye some liberties are taken with the storyline and characters, but it is still a fun listen or read. Perhaps a good introduction for someone not ready to tackle the complete novel ~ and for the reader familiar with the work, a laugh can be had at the changes that were made in order to adapt it to the stage (Summary by Maria Therese)Cast:Mr. Darcy: Algy PugMr. Bingley: Chris MarcellusColonel Fitzwilliam/Harris/Martin: ToddHWMr. Bennet: Robert Hoffman and Kevin W. DavidsonMr. Collins: Noel BadrianSir William Lucas: Nolan FoutColonel Forster: AnthonyMr. Wickham: Chuck WilliamsonMr. Denny: VikingJamesMrs. Bennet: KristingjJane Bennet: Tiffany Halla ColonnaElizabeth Bennet: Elizabeth KlettLydia Bennet/Lady Lucas: DuanCharlotte Lucas: Amanda FridayMiss Bingley: April GonzalesLady Catherine De Bourg: Nathanial W.C. HigginsHill (The Housekeeper at Longbourn): KerrieRae ClarkeMartha (The Maid at Mr. Collins's Parsonage): AvailleNarrator: Lauren BurwellAudio edited by Maria Therese ,/p>
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