Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte audiobook.
Genre: tragedy
On the lonely Yorkshire moors, an orphan named Heathcliff is taken into the Earnshaw household and grows up alongside their fierce, willful daughter, Catherine. Bound by a wild, consuming attachment and sharpened by cruelty and class prejudice, the two form a relationship that is as intimate as it ... Show More
Jun 3
News From Nowhere by William Morris ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]
News From Nowhere by William Morris audiobook. Genre: scifi In News From Nowhere, William Morris blends dream vision, social criticism, and speculative fiction into a vivid journey through a transformed England. After falling asleep following a heated discussion about politics an ... Show More
7h 37m
Jun 2
The Revolutions of Civilization by William Matthew Flinders Petrie ~ Full Audiobook [history]
The Revolutions of Civilization by William Matthew Flinders Petrie audiobook. Genre: history In this compact work of historical interpretation, pioneering archaeologist William Matthew Flinders Petrie sets out to explain why great cultures seem to rise, peak, decline, and return ... Show More
1h 41m
Sep 2021
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Anne Bronte's second novel, published in 1848, which is now celebrated alongside those of her sisters but which Charlotte Bronte tried to suppress as a 'mistake'. It examines the life of Helen, who has escaped her abusive husband Arthur Huntingdon ... Show More
49m 33s
Apr 2023
502 Persuasion by Jane Austen | My Last Book with Stephen Dobranski
Harold Bloom called Persuasion "the perfect novel." Virginia Woolf said "In Persuasion, Jane Austen is beginning to discover that the world is larger, more mysterious, and more romantic than she supposed." In this episode, the first of three parts, Jacke takes a look at Jane Aust ... Show More
35m 41s