All audiobooks

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus is a fictional biography of what we know today as Saint Nicholas, the man of gifts. Lyman Frank Baum narrates the story of Claus, an orphan who was found, cared and brought up by Ak in the Burzee forests. As Claus grows up, he leaves forest and reaches Laughing valley, where he starts making toys and present t..

American Fairy Tales

by Lyman Frank Baum

Though American Fairy Tales was written by the man of fantasy Lyman Frank Baum, these stories not only miss his trademark fantasy elements, but also take up a heavy tone which is unusual for a fairy genre. We must consider the fact that Baum might have targeted not only children but even adult readers as audience for this work since it was original..

A Kidnapped Santa Claus

by Lyman Frank Baum

A Kidnapped Santa Claus is an extended version of Lyman Frank Baum's The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, and this work narrates the kidnapping of Claus by pagan daemons. The story starts with kidnapping and moves on to the daemons' failed attempts to change the character of Claus to selfishness, envy and hatred. The story then moves on to how C..

Under the Greenwood Tree

by Thomas Hardy

Under The Greenwood Tree is a christian romance written by English writer Thomas Hardy narrating the romance in the Church back-round. Fancy Day, a school mistress and modern organ player, proud to have a handful of suitors. Dick Dewy, one of the Church musician falls in love at first sight with Fancy and wins her heart in-spite of her father's obj..

Moments of Vision

by Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy, the English novelist well known for his romantic & tragic novels was not recognized by his contemporaries as a poet. Indeed he had been continuously published poems during his life time and this collection contains forty of his poems. Most of his poems dealt with love, life and disappointment with tragic themes...

A Pair of Blue Eyes

by Thomas Hardy

A Pair of Blue Eyes is a triangle love story written by Thomas Hardy known to be the first novel bearing his name in the published work. Elfride Swancourt, a beautiful young women had been courtship-ed by Stephen Smith, an architect but from ill-back-round and Henry Knight, an elderly man hails from upper class society. Henry discards his intention..

The Trumpet-Major

by Thomas Hardy

Written in the sets of historical Back-round, Thomas Hardy's novel The Trumpet-Major explores the life of Anne Garland, a beautiful lady and her three suitors John Loveday, Bob Loveday and Festus Derriman. While John and Bob are brothers serving British regiment in Peninsular and Trafalgar wars, another suitor Festus is a cowardly nephew. Hardy's e..

The Woodlanders

by Thomas Hardy

Grace Melbury's unfortunate life is narrated in Thomas Hardy's tragic novel The Woodlanders. Losing her childhood friend and lover Giles Winterborne, on account of his social status, her father forces her to marry a doctor Edgar Fitzpiers. Edgar a womanizer is in extra-martial relationships with Suke Damson, a village woman and Mrs Charmond, an eld..