All audiobooks
Decoration of Houses
by Edith WhartonThe Decoration of Houses, a manual of interior design written by Edith Wharton with architect Ogden Codman, was first published in 1897. In the book, the authors denounce Victorian-style interior decoration and interior design, especially rooms decorated with heavy window curtains, Victorian bric-a-brac and overstuffed furniture. They argue that su..
Daniel Deronda
by George EliotDaniel Deronda is a novel by George Eliot, first published in 1876. It was the last novel she completed and the only one set in the contemporary Victorian society of her day. The work's mixture of social satire and moral searching, along with its sympathetic rendering of Jewish proto-Zionist and Kabbalistic ideas, has made it the controversial fina..
Adam Bede
by George EliotAdam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously, even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of her time. The novel has remained in print ever since and is used in university studies of 19th-century English literature. The story..
The Mill on the Floss
by George EliotThe Mill on the Floss is a novel written by George Eliot, portrays love, romance and sacrifice. The childhood life of Tom and Maggie was happy going until death of their father Mr. Tulliver, who loses his mill on a financial crisis. With his hard-work and business acumen Tom recovers their properties. Maggie's affection towards intellectual but poo..
Brother Jacob
by George EliotBrother Jacob is a classic English novel by George Eliot Among the many fatalities attending the bloom of young desire, that of blindly taking to the confectionery line has not, perhaps, been sufficiently considered. How is the son of a British yeoman, who has been fed principally on salt pork and yeast dumplings, to know that there is satiety for ..
Felix Holt, The Radical
by George EliotFelix Holt, the Radical is a social novel written by George Eliot about political disputes in a small English town at the time of the First Reform Act of 1832. In January 1868, Eliot penned an article entitled "Address to Working Men, by Felix Holt"...
Second Variety
by Philip K. DickPhilip K. Dick's science fiction short story Second Variety explores the dangers of advance robotic technologies. Losing many human soldiers in the nuclear war, self-replicating robots are designed and placed in unmanned territory. Years passed, the robots called "Claws" have grown themselves which can no more be controlled by human, in fact Claws ..
Beyond Lies the Wub and The Skull
by Philip K. Dick"Beyond Lies the Wub" is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. It was his first published genre story, originally appearing in Planet Stories in July 1952. It was first collected in The Preserving Machine in 1969, and was included in The Best of Philip K. Dick in 1977. It was the title story for the first volume of the original edition o..