Literature audiobooks page 36

Song of the Cardinal
The Song of the Cardinal is about a big male Cardinal who lives in a tree near a farmer and his wife. The Cardinal immediately starts to sing to find himself a mate. Meanwhile the farmer and his wife enjoy watching this boisterous bird and seeing what he does. He does find a mate and through his singing the farmer and his wife's marriage is rejuvenated. It's a happy little parallel love story that will sweep you off your feet!

Hunters Out of Space

Originally published in the May, 1960 issue of Amazing Science Fiction Stories. Jack Odin has returned to the world of Opal, the world inside our own world, only to find it in ruins. Many of his friends are gone, the world is flooded, and the woman he swore to protect has been taken by Grim Hagen to the stars. Jack must save her, but the difficulties are great and his allies are few.

Love Among the Artists
Love Among the Artists was published in the United States in 1900 and in England in 1914, but it was written in 1881. In the ambience of chit-chat and frivolity among members of Victorian polite society a youthful Shaw describes his views on the arts, romantic love and the practicalities of matrimony. Dilettantes, he thinks, can love and settle down to marriage, but artists with real genius are too consumed by their work to fit that pattern. The dominant figure in the novel is Owen Jack, a musical genius, somewhat mad and quite bereft of social graces. From an abysmal beginning he rises to great fame and is lionized by socialites despite his unremitting crudity. As a study of Bohemia and...
Auswahl aus 'Die Leute von Seldwyla'
In dieser amüsanten Novellensammlung, die zu den Klassikern der deutschsprachigen Literatur gehört, beschreibt Keller anhand der Bürger von Seldwyla karikativ Merkmale der Gesellschaft des 19. Jahrhunderts.

In "Pankraz der Schmoller" geht es um einen Jungen, der als schmollender Versager in traurigen Verhältnissen aufwächst und seine positiven Entwicklung nachdem er sein zu Hause verlässt ...
"Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe" ist eine Variante der bekannten Liebesgeschichte zwischen den Kindern zweier verfeindeter Bauern ...
Eine allein erziehende Mutter zieht durch Liebe und gutes Vorbild in "Frau Regel Amrain und ihr Jüngster" entgegen Seldwyler Sitte einen vorbildlichen S...
Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems
This is a collection of poems on various topics by Vachel Lindsay.
Please note that the Booker T. Washington trilogy had to be omitted from this collection.

The Crystal Crypt & Beyond the Door
Two early science fiction stories by the wonderful craftsman, Philip K. Dick. In the Crystal Crypt, taken from the 1954 Planet Stories, the war between Mars and Terra is about to erupt and earth has only merchants and salesmen to fight; can they carry out their mission? Beyond the Door is a story that asks and answers the question: what lives beyond the door? And is it dangerous?
Quintessence of Ibsenism

George Bernard Shaw, a playwright with a few bones to pick of his own, undertakes a surgical analysis of the social philosophies underlying the work of Henrik Ibsen. Focusing his analysis on Ibsen's challenge to the conventional "ideals" which both Ibsen and Shaw consider the greatest evils in human society, Shaw summarizes and exposits sixteen of Ibsen's plays, seizing the opportunity to elucidate some of the principles dearest to himself. Some of the most striking passages reveal Shaw's radical feminist perspectives, some of which resonate as if a half-century ahead of their time. A fascinating revelation of the minds of two great and revolutionary writers (it's not always obvious wh...

A Drama of Exile
In writing her ‘Drama of Exile’, Barrett’s subject was ‘the new and strange experience of the fallen humanity, as it went forth from Paradise into the wilderness’. The bizarre, lyrical scenes that follow powerfully describe the grief and guilt of Eve, the sorrowful pride of Lucifer, and the redeeming power of love.

Erzählungen aus 'Die Leute von Seldwyla'
Die Leute von Seldwyla ist ein zweiteiliger Novellenzyklus des Schweizer Dichters Gottfried Keller. Es umfasst zehn "Lebensbilder" (so der Arbeitstitel während der Berliner Entstehungszeit), die durch einen gemeinsamen Schauplatz, die fiktive Schweizerstadt Seldwyla, zusammengehalten werden.
Diese Sammlung umfaßt sechs der zehn Novellen.