The Art Of Money Getting
By: P.T. Barnum
Narrated by: Cyril Taylor-Carr & The Cliff
Length: 1 hour 41 minutes
Abridged: No
The Art of Money Getting was written by P. T. Barnum, who is widely known as an important historical entrepreneur as founder of the famous traveling circus, but in this publication, Barnum shares his knowledge of business and teaches readers how to be successful in making money. This is an excellent book for individuals who are interested in... Read more
View audiobookHard Times
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Cyril Taylor-Carr & The Cliff
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
“Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.”
― Charles Dickens, Hard Times
Hard Times is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens,... Read more
Leda
By: Aldous Huxley
Narrated by: Cyril Taylor-Carr & The Cliff
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
“Their Ethiop wives—sleek wineskins of black silk, Jellied and huge from drinking asses’ milk Through years of tropical idleness, to pray For offspring (whom he ever sent away With prayers unanswered, lest their ebon race Might breed and blacken the earth’s comely face.”― Aldous Huxley, Leda
Though he gained recognition for his later essays and... Read more
In Kent With Charles Dickens
By: Thomas Frost
Narrated by: Cyril Taylor-Carr & The Cliff
Length: 6 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
By his own admission, Thomas Frost found it hard to make a living from his writing, and no doubt he used the name of Dickens in the title of this book to boost sales. Frost tells a good tale, and the book is not only of interest to enthusiasts of Dickens and the county of Kent. He includes some of Dickens' own descriptions of locations, as well... Read more
View audiobookAfter London
By: Richard Jefferies
Narrated by: Cyril Taylor-Carr & The Cliff
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Jefferies' novel can be seen as an early example of "post-apocalyptic fiction." After some sudden and unspecified catastrophe has depopulated England, the countryside reverts to nature, and the few survivors to a quasi-medieval way of life.
The first part of the book, "The Relapse into Barbarism", is the account by some later historian of the... Read more
The Children's Book of Christmas Stories
By: Asa Don Dickinson
Narrated by: Cyril Taylor_Carr & The Cliff
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
The Children’s Book of Christmas Stories brings together some of the most beloved stories of all time. With 35 wonderful stories from greats like Dickens, Hans Christian Anderson, Elizabeth Harrison and Theodore Goodridge Roberts this book will be cherished by the whole family for years to come. A Christmas Star by Katherine Pyle The First... Read more
View audiobookGeneral Custer - Folly At Little Bighorn
By: Elizabeth Bacon Custer
Narrated by: Cyril Taylor-Carr & The Cliff
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Since the Battle of Little Bighorn, George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876) possessed one of the most unique places in American history. Although he was a capable cavalry officer who served honorably during the Civil War, he remains one of the most instantly identifiable and famous military men in American history due to the fact he was killed... Read more
View audiobookTales Of Unrest
By: Joseph Conrad
Narrated by: Cyril Taylor-Carr & The Cliff
Length: 6 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He came to be regarded a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of what... Read more
View audiobookThe Odyssey
By: Homer
Narrated by: Cyril Taylor-Carr
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. As with the Iliad, the poem is divided into 24 books. It follows the Greek hero Odysseus, king of Ithaca, and his journey home after the Trojan War. After the war itself, which... Read more
View audiobookDas eigensinnige Kind - Märchenstunde, Folge 10 (Ungekürzt)
By: Brüder Grimm
Narrated by: Viola Gabor
Length: 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Weil ein Kind seiner Mutter nicht folgt, lässt Gott es unheilbar erkranken. Im Grab streckt es immer sein Ärmchen hervor und findet erst Ruhe, nachdem die Mutter mit der Rute daraufschlägt. Read more
View audiobookThe Brave Cowboy
By: Edward Abbey
Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
From acclaimed author and literary genius Edward Abbey comes this classic novel that inspired the motion picture Lonely Are The Brave—a stirring and unforgettable tribute to the American hero and the American West.
The Brave Cowboy is a classic of modern Western literature. It follows Jack Burns, a loner at odds with modern civilization. He... Read more
The Bat
By: Mary Roberts Rinehart
Narrated by: John Rayburn
Length: 6 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
An older woman of the elite class has lots of money and abundant courage and determination. Miss Cornelia Van Gorder wants some adventure in her life, so she rents a large mansion to see what she can stir up. She moves in with her niece and an unpredictable Irish maid and is confronted by an embezzlement problem at the owner’s bank. But that’s... Read more
View audiobookMadame Bovary
By: Gustave Flaubert
Narrated by: Cyril Taylor-Carr & The Cliff
Length: 12 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Written over a century and a half ago, Madame Bovary is still an extraordinarily fresh, exciting and shockingly frank novel, at once an acute psychological study of a woman drawn into adultery through circumstances we can partly understand, and a sharply-observed comedy that offers a fascinating glimpse of the social and cultural divisions... Read more
View audiobookOcean Of Devotion Hare Hrsna Man The Guru Who Gave The World Bhakti Yoga A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
By: Sripad Jagannatha Dasa
Narrated by: Sripad Jagannatha Dasa
Length: 5 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
WHO IS A.C. BHAKTIVEDANTA PRABHUPADA? WHY IS HE SO IMPORTANT TO THE WORLD?
His Divine Grace Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada was born in Calcutta on September 1, 1896. He was an Indian Gaudiya Vaishnava perfect master who founded ISKCON, commonly known as the "Hare Krishna movement". Bhaktivedanta Swami was a direct... Read more
Emma
By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Cyril Taylor-Carr & The Cliff
Length: 14 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Emma, is a novel about youthful hubris and romantic misunderstandings. It is set in the fictional country village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Hartfield, Randalls and Donwell Abbey, and involves the relationships among people from a small number of families. The novel was first published in December 1815, with its title page... Read more
View audiobookMysteries Of Atlantis
By: William Scott Elliot
Narrated by: Cyril Taylor-Carr & The Cliff
Length: 4 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
This classic work, written by Theosophist, W. Scott-Elliot, this book goes into detail about the lost city of Atlantis. The information came from C. W. Leadbeater, who said he received his information from astral clairvoyance. Scott-Elliot provides info on the people of Atlantis, such as their religion, races, different periods money, education,... Read more
View audiobookBeowulf
By: Unknown
Narrated by: Cyril Taylor-Carr & The Cliff
Length: 2 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Beowulf is an Old English epic poem in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines. It is one of the most important and most often translated works of Old English literature. The date of composition is a matter of contention among scholars; the only certain dating is for the manuscript, which was produced... Read more
View audiobookCrome Yellow
By: Aldous Huxley
Narrated by: Cyril Taylor-Carr & The Cliff
Length: 6 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Crome Yellow, first novel by Aldous Huxley, published in 1921. The book is a social satire of the British literati in the period following World War I. The book revolves around the hapless love affair of Denis Stone, a sensitive poet, and Anne Wimbush. Anne’s uncle, Henry Wimbush, hosts a party at his country estate, Crome, that brings together... Read more
View audiobookNotes From The Underground
By: Fyodor Dostoevesky
Narrated by: Cyril Taylor-Carr & The Cliff
Length: 5 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Notes from Underground is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man) who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg.... Read more
View audiobookThe Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Prince Otto
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrated by: Cyril Taylor-Carr & The Cliff
Length: 2 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
On their weekly walk, an eminently sensible, trustworthy lawyer named Mr. Utterson listens as his friend Enfield tells a gruesome tale of assault. The tale describes a sinister figure named Mr. Hyde who tramples a young girl, disappears into a door on the street, and reemerges to pay off her relatives with a check signed by a respectable... Read more
View audiobookThe Blue Castle
By: L. M. Montgomery
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 8 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Valancy Stirling is twenty-nine years old. She has never been married, nor has she ever been in love. She lives with her quite judgmental mother and aunt, who constantly harp on her to get on with her life. An old maid by current societal standards, Valancy seeks reprieve from her current state in the form of reading books that take her to the... Read more
View audiobookDas Dietmarsische Lügenmärchen - Märchenstunde, Folge 9 (Ungekürzt)
By: Brüder Grimm
Narrated by: Viola Gabor
Length: 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Die kurze Geschichte erzählt unmögliche Begebenheiten aus einem fremden Land. Read more
View audiobookDas Bürle - Märchenstunde, Folge 8 (Ungekürzt)
By: Brüder Grimm
Narrated by: Viola Gabor
Length: 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Ein einziger armer Bauer wird von den Reichen das Bürle (Bäuerlein) genannt. Er lässt sich eine Kuh schreinern und vom Hirten mit aufs Feld tragen, der sie abends stehenlässt, wo sie gestohlen wird. Er muss dem Bürle eine Kuh geben. Es will das Fell verkaufen und kehrt unterwegs in eine Mühle ein, vor der es einen Raben mit gebrochenen Flügeln... Read more
View audiobookDas blaue Licht - Märchenstunde, Folge 7 (Ungekürzt)
By: Brüder Grimm
Narrated by: Viola Gabor
Length: 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Ein Soldat wird invalid und wird von seinem König schnöde abgedankt. Er zieht davon und kommt im Wald zu einem Hexenhaus. Die Hexe stellt ihm drei Aufgaben, an zweien scheitert er, die dritte ist, ihr ein blaues Licht aus einem trockenen Brunnen heraufzubringen. Er wird herabgelassen, findet das Lämpchen, wird aber argwöhnisch und will es erst... Read more
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