Archive for the 'Fiction' Category
Listen to Wodehouse
Closed Published March 17th, 2009 in Fiction, PG Wodehouse, new in the Listening LibraryListen to Five Go To Mystery Moor by Enid Blyton
Closed Published February 21st, 2009 in Enid Blyton, Fiction, new in the Listening LibraryLISTEN NOW to Enid Blyton
Review by Keith Robinson (August 14, 2005)
For some reason the Five’s thirteenth adventure, Five Go To Mystery Moor, is one of a few that has stuck in my mind through the years. But whereas old favorites like Five Go To Smuggler’s Top and Five on a Hike Together were almost exactly [...]
Listen to The Million Pound Banknote by Mark Twain
Closed Published February 18th, 2009 in Mark Twain, new in the Listening LibrarySource of audio: AudioBooksforFree.com
Things look up for Henry Adams when two eccentric bankers issue the penniless seaman with a banknote with a face value of a million quid. The toffs select Adams as their guinea pig in an experiment to see if a man can live like a king if he’s broke but has an [...]
I was born in the working-class. Early I discovered enthusiasm, ambition, and ideals; and to satisfy these became the problem of my child- life. My environment was crude and rough and raw. I had no outlook, but an uplook rather. My place in society was at the bottom. Here life offered [...]
“‘Tis only fools speak evil of the clay –
The very stars are made of clay like mine.”
The mightiest and absurdest sleep-walker on the planet! Chained in the circle of his own imaginings, man is only too keen to forget his origin and to shame that flesh of [...]
