Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623825 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The American Author: Henry James Narrator: Robin Lawson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 42 minutes Release date: February 1, 2012 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: During a trip to Europe, wealthy American businessman Christopher Newman proposes marriage to the scintillating and beautiful aristocrat Claire de Cintri. To his dismay, he comes up against the machinations of her impoverished but proud family, who find Newman to be a vulgar example of the American privileged class. Brilliantly combining elements of comedy, tragedy, romance, and melodrama, this tale of thwarted desire vividly contrasts nineteenth-century American and European manners.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624208 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Can You Forgive Her? Series: #1 of The Palliser Novels Author: Anthony Trollope Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 27 hours 34 minutes Release date: May 5, 2011 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: Can You Forgive Her? is the first of the six Palliser novels. Here Trollope examines parliamentary election and marriage, politics and privacy. As he dissects the Victorian upper class, issues and people shed their pretenses under his patient, ironic probe. Alice Vavasor cannot decide whether to marry her ambitious but violent cousin George or the upright and gentlemanly John Grey—and so finds herself accepting and rejecting each of them in turn. She is increasingly confused about her own feelings and unable to forgive herself for such vacillation—a situation contrasted with that of her friend Lady Glencora, forced by “sagacious heads” to marry the rising politician Plantagenet Palliser in order to prevent her true love, the worthless Burgo Fitzgerald, from wasting her vast fortune. In asking his listeners to pardon Alice for her transgression of the Victorian moral code, Trollope created a telling and wide-ranging account of the social world of his day.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624086 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Madame Bovary: Classic Collection Author: Gustave Flaubert Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 40 minutes Release date: January 7, 2009 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: Emma Bovary is a sensuous, sentimental young woman whose romantic ideals make her dissatisfied with her humdrum married life. Attempting to escape into an exciting world of passion and dreams, she drifts into sordid affairs with Rodolphe Boulanger and Léon Dupuis. The first of these lovers, an older man, dominates the affair, while the second, inexperienced and young, is dominated. The eventual collapse of Emma’s romantic dreams is inevitable, and her disillusionment leads ultimately to her doom. A brilliant psychological portrait, Madame Bovary searingly depicts the human mind in search of transcendence. Acclaimed as a masterpiece upon its publication in 1857, it catapulted Flaubert to the ranks of the world’s greatest novelists and ushered in a new age of realism in literature.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623813 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Westward Ho!: or the Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the County of Devon in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Eliza Author: Charles Kingsley Narrator: Frederick Davidson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 3 minutes Release date: January 1, 2007 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: Subtitle: or the Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the County of Devon in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth From the coral reefs of the Barbados to the jungles and fabled cities of the Orinoco and on to the great sea battle with the Spanish Armada, this vibrant novel captures the daring spirit of the Elizabethan adventurers who sailed with Sir Francis Drake. Full of the drama of that age of exploration, discovery, and conquest, Kingsley has truly brought this colorful era to life.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623999 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Moll Flanders Author: Daniel Defoe Narrator: Wanda Mccaddon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 37 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: Possibly the first novel in the English language, Moll Flanders is the fictional autobiography of a delightfully scandalous young female rogue. Born in Newgate Prison in seventeenth-century England, Moll is predestined to poverty and lawlessness, yet relentlessly driven to overcome her fate. Donning whatever mask suits her best in the moment, she appraises theft, prostitution, and bigamy only in terms of their profit potential, her indomitable will undaunted by her bad luck. Eventually, however, a moral sense begins to intrude. Defoe creates a narrative that brilliantly commentates on morality and self-reliance within the period in which it is set.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623877 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wind in the Willows Author: Kenneth Grahame Narrator: Mary Woods Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 59 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: The Wind in the Willows is a book for those “who keep the spirit of youth alive in them; of life, sunshine, running water, woodlands, dusty roads, winter firesides.” So wrote Kenneth Grahame of his timeless tale of Rat, Mole, Badger, and Toad, in their lyrical world of gurgling rivers and whispering reeds, a world which is both beautiful and benevolently ordered. But it is also a world threatened by dark forces—”the Terror of the Wild Wood” with its “wicked little faces” and “glances of malice and hatred”—and defended by the mysterious Piper at the Gates of Dawn. In the end, Grahame triumphantly succeeds in conveying his most precious theme: the miracle of loyalty and friendship. This tale of four friends and their adventures is a timeless classic that will inspire and delight listeners of all ages.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624034 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Vanity Fair Author: William Thackeray Narrator: Frederick Davidson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 29 hours 54 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: “Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?” Generally considered to be Thackeray’s masterpiece, Vanity Fair is a resplendent social satire that exposes the greed and corruption raging in England during the turmoil of the Napoleonic wars. Subtitled A Novel without a Hero, it traces the changing fortunes of two unforgettable women: the scheming opportunist Becky Sharp—one of literature’s most resourceful, engaging, and amoral heroines—and her foil, the faithful but naïve Amelia Sedley. Amid the swirl of London’s posh ballrooms and affairs of love and war, their fortunes rise and fall. Thackeray’s subversive, comic attack on the hypocrisy and “dismal roguery” of an avaricious world still resonates, more than 150 years later, with implications for our own times.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623909 to listen full audiobooks. Title: His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes Series: #1917 of The Sherlock Holmes Series Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Narrator: Frederick Davidson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 32 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: A body on the London Underground; the strange disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax; a parcel containing some coarse salt and two freshly severed human ears. This collection of eight world-famous cases from Doctor Watson’s portfolio illustrates the singular mental faculties of Sherlock Holmes. In the course of his investigations, Holmes himself is struck down by a virulent Eastern disease, and we are reintroduced to his remarkable brother Mycroft: “all other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.” Finally, with the approach of the German War, Holmes emerges from retirement among his books and bees on the South Downs to lay his unique intellect at the disposal of the British Government, with the historic results disclosed in “His Last Bow.”