The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad by Thornton W. Burgess audiobook.
Genre: family
In The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad, Thornton W. Burgess invites listeners into the Green Meadows and the Smiling Pool, where a small, warty, wide-mouthed fellow becomes the center of big curiosity and bigger trouble. Old Mr. Toad is not fast like Peter Rabbit, not fierce like Redd ... Show More
Today
The Diary of a Superfluous Man by Ivan Turgenev ~ Full Audiobook [drama]
The Diary of a Superfluous Man by Ivan Turgenev audiobook. Genre: drama Written as a final confession, The Diary of a Superfluous Man follows a minor Russian landowner, Chulkaturin, who begins a diary when he senses his life is nearing its close. Alone with his thoughts, he looks ... Show More
2h 41m
Yesterday
The Old Maids Club by Israel Zangwill ~ Full Audiobook [comedy]
The Old Maids Club by Israel Zangwill audiobook. Genre: comedy In late-Victorian London, seventeen-year-old Lillie Dulcimer is brilliant, beautiful, and far too self-aware for polite society's comfort. With a millionaire father determined to see her safely married, Lillie answers ... Show More
9h 43m
Feb 3
The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honore de Balzac ~ Full Audiobook [drama]
The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honore de Balzac audiobook. Genre: drama In Restoration Paris, where wealth and reputation can be traded as easily as gossip, the worldly dandy Henri de Marsay lives for conquest and control. But a single glimpse of a young woman with striking, go ... Show More
4h 35m
Oct 2021
S9E013 – "Repulsive Revelations" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
Otis presents two terrifying tales by Kyle Harrison as only he can. In the first, a classified as describes an unusual and unpleasant...but much needed...open position. In the second, a man revisits a library from his childhood to find a book he loved is still there, and contains ... Show More
52m 34s
Aug 2022
436 The Lorax by Dr Seuss (with Mesh Lakhani)
He was born Theodor Seuss Geisel in 1904, but in the next 87 years, the world came to know and love him by his pen name, Dr. Seuss. Best known for his more than 60 books for children, including The Cat in the Hat, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Green Eggs and Ham, and Hop on Pop ... Show More
59m 16s
Nov 2021
Marla Frazee Draws A Delightful Childhood
<p>(Recorded July 2021) Marla Frazee’s an award-winning children’s book author and illustrator. She also the genius behind Boss Baby, the business-suit-wearing, hard-charging infant who changed Alec’s life. Marla Frazee says she tackles serious topics such as babies, birthday cak ... Show More
41m 29s
Mar 2019
12: S3E12 - "Paradise Lost" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, we bring you five terrifying tales from authors Sandra Varela, Richard Dockrey-Young, Judy Dockrey-Young, and an anonymous author, performed by host and narrator Otis Jiry, about losing one’s religion, occult occupations, paranor ... Show More
1h 30m
Jul 2022
429 Books I Have Loved (with Charles Baxter, Margot Livesey, and Jim Shepard)
For years, we've enjoyed talking to writers about the books they love best. In this "best of" episode, we go deep into the archive for three of our favorites: Jim Shepard and his youthful discovery of Bram Stoker's Dracula; Margot Livesey and her love for Ford Madox Ford's modern ... Show More
55m 37s
Dec 2017
122 Young James Joyce
We often think of James Joyce as a man in his thirties and forties, a monkish, fanatical, eyepatch-wearing author, trapped in his hovel and his own mind, agonizing over his masterpieces, sentence by sentence, word by laborious word. But young James Joyce, the one who studied lite ... Show More
1h 4m