Seitsemän veljestä by Aleksis KIVI (1834 - 1872) Genre(s): General Fiction Read by: Maire Rhode, Sorina in Finnish Chapters: 00:00:00 - 23 - Kahdestoista luku, osa 1 00:22:12 - 24 - Kahdestoista luku, osa 2 00:38:14 - 25 - Kolmastoista luku, osa 1 01:13:19 - 26 - Kolmastoista luku, osa 2 01:53:25 - 27 - Neljastoista luku, osa 1 02:38:39 - 28 - Neljastoista luku, osa 2 Seitsemän veljestä on tarina seitsemän nuoren suomalaisen miehen elämästä, unelmista, juopottelusta, tappeluista, ankarasta työnteosta, katumuksesta ja kasvamisesta vastuulliseen miehuuteen 1800-luvun yhteiskunnassa. --(summary from Wikipedia) More information: http://librivox.org/seitseman-veljesta-by-aleksis-kivi/

Tales of the Five Towns by Arnold BENNETT (1867 - 1931) Genre(s): Short Stories, Published 1900 onward Read by: Martin Clifton in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 01 - 01 - His Worship the Goosedriver 00:41:16 - 02 - 02 - The Elixir of Youth 00:59:47 - 03 - 03 - Mary with the High Hand 01:31:45 - 04 - 04 - The Dog 02:01:19 - 05 - 05 - A Feud 02:43:51 - 06 - 06 - Phantom 03:12:24 - 07 - 07 - Tiddy-Fol-Lol 03:27:27 - 08 - 08 - The Idiot 03:39:57 - 09 - 09 - The Hungarian Rhapsody 04:16:51 - 10 - 10 - The Sisters Qita 04:29:43 - 11 - 11 - Nocturne at the majestic 05:12:07 - 12 - 12 - Clarice of the Autumn Concerts 05:22:57 - 13 - 13 - A Letter Home This is a selection of short stories recounting, with gentle satire and tolerant good humour, the small town provincial life at the end of the nineteenth century, based around the six towns in the county of Staffordshire, England, known as the Potteries. Arnold Bennett chose to fictionalize these towns by changing their names and omitting one (Fenton) as he apparently felt that 'Five Towns' was more euphonious than 'Six Towns'. The real town names which are thinly disguised in the novel are: Hanley, Longton, Burslem and Tunstal, the fifth, Stoke, became 'Knype'.Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was born in Hanley, the eldest child of a pawnbroker who subsequently became a solicitor. Bennett's father wished him to become a solicitor too, but he failed his university entrance examination and instead became a solicitor's clerk, at first in his father's office and, from 1889, in London.He showed early promise as a writer winning a writing competition in a local newspaper as a boy. In London he began to see his writing published in popular magazines and he joined the staff of ‘Woman' magazine in 1893.His first novel to be published, A Man from the North, appeared in 1898 and its success allowed him to give up other work to concentrate on writing. His first short story (A Letter Home) was written in 1893 and appears in Tales of the Five Towns. (Summary by Martin Clifton) More information: http://librivox.org/tales-of-the-five-towns-by-arnold-bennett/