More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter by Robert Louis and Fanny van de Grift Stevenson by Robert Louis STEVENSON (1850 - 1894) Genre(s): General Fiction Read by: Don W. Jenkins in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 01 - 01 - Prologue of the Cigar Divan 00:20:19 - 02 - 02 - Challoner's Adventure: The Squire of Dames 00:39:26 - 03 - 03 - Story of the Destroying Angel 01:46:48 - 04 - 04 - The Squire of Dames (concluded) 02:18:56 - 05 - 05 - Somerset's Adventure: The Superfluous Mansion 02:30:22 - 06 - 06 - Narrative of the Spirited Old Lady 03:25:13 - 07 - 07 - The Superfluous Mansion (continued) 04:20:32 - 08 - 08 - Zero's Tale of the Explosive Bomb 04:39:52 - 09 - 09 - The Superfluous Mansion (continued) 04:59:55 - 10 - 10 - Desborough's Adventure: The Brown Box 05:13:45 - 11 - 11 - Story of the Fair Cuban 06:23:44 - 12 - 12 - The Brown Box (concluded) 06:48:04 - 13 - 13 - The Superfluous Mansion (concluded) More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (1885) is a collection of linked short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Vandegrift. Three gentlemen of little means and no occupation meet in the Bohemian Cigar Divan, a tobacco shop with couches to sit and smoke. They read of a reward offered for information as to the whereabouts of a man with big moustaches and a sealskin coat. They agree among themselves that they will separate and search for the man so as to claim the reward. The stories that follow concern their adventures. They meet again in the cigar divan in an epilogue to their travels. (Summary by Don W. Jenkins) More information: http://librivox.org/more-new-arabian-nights-the-dynamiter-by-robert-louis-and-fanny-van-de-grift-stevenson/ LibriVox - free public domain audiobooks (https://librivox.org/)

Gallipoli Diary by John Graham GILLAM (1883 - ) Genre(s): War & Military, Memoirs Read by: Sue Anderson in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 15 - August 21-29, 1915 00:36:44 - 16 - August 30-September 17, 1915 01:06:11 - 17 - September 18-October 10, 1915 01:38:09 - 18 - October 11-31, 1915 02:07:02 - 19 - November 1-25, 1915 02:42:17 - 20 - November 26-30, 1915 03:10:53 - 21 - December 1-16, 1915 03:44:19 - 22 - December 17-31, 1915 04:19:51 - 23 - January 1-15, 1916 and Epilogue Major John Graham Gillam, British Supply Officer, wrote in his World War I Gallipoli Diary that when he sailed from England for the Dardanelles in March, 1915, he had visions of 'trekking up the Gallipoli Peninsula with the Navy bombarding a way for us up the Straits and along the coast-line of the Sea of Marmora, until after a brief campaign we entered triumphantly Constantinople, there to meet the Russian Army, which would link up with ourselves to form part of a great chain encircling and throttling the Central Empires. . . We little appreciated the difficulties of the task,' he continues, in potent understatement.Gillam's charge was shepherding supplies--food and munitions--from beach depots to the trenches for a brigade of 4000 men. Since it was his first experience with 'real war,' he decided to keep a diary, which he did from the day he landed at Gallipoli (April 25, 1915) until he was evacuated at the end of the campaign in January 1916. He aptly states in the preface to the published version of his diary: 'those who desire to survey the whole amazing Gallipoli campaign in perspective must look elsewhere than in these pages. Their sole object was to record the personal impressions, feeling, and doings from day to day of one supply officer to a Division whose gallantry in that campaign well earned for it the epithet 'Immortal.'As the campaign intensifies, Gillam's entries mature. Early on (May 30), a sample entry: 'This afternoon I ride . . . to Morto Bay, and on the way have a delightful cross-country canter. I have difficulty, though, in making my mare jump trenches. She jumped hurdles at Warwick race-course like a bird.' A month later, on June 30, 'The smell of dead bodies is at times almost unbearable in the trenches, and chloride of lime is thrown over them. I know of no more sickly smell than chloride of lime with the smell of a dead body blended in.' Another month, and respect for the Turks, and also for the rugged terrain of the peninsula is evident (August 29): 'Behind me, purple Turkish hills, every point of which is held by the enemy. Then in between our line and the hills the scrubby low-lying country. . . I look at it hopelessly--for I know now, as we all do, that the conquest of the Peninsula is more than we can hope for. All that is left to us is to hang on day by day. . . Death in various forms walks with us always . . .'Today, the Turkish Government maintains a war memorial and cemeteries at the Gallipoli Peninsula Historical National Park. Memories are very much alive there. Preserved trenches and the sad graves of many, many soldiers from both sides of the conflict are made especially poignant by the beauty of the setting-- the sea and high hills beyond.(Summary by Sue Anderson) More information: http://librivox.org/gallipoli-diary-by-john-graham-gillam/

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood ANDERSON (1876 - 1941) Genre(s): Short Stories Read by: Stewart Wills, Rosalind Wills, Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014), David Rowland, Patti Brugman, Gigi Minden, webslog, David Barnes, Craig Summers, Sandra, Steve Karafit, John Lieder, Betsie Bush, Chris Hughes, J. M. Smallheer, ML Cohen, Martin Rink, Miguel Rodriguez, Cori Samuel, Val Grimm, ranchmutt in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 01 - Book of the Grotesque, The 00:08:08 - 02 - Hands 00:23:30 - 03 - Paper pills 00:30:51 - 04 - Mother 00:54:35 - 05 - Philosopher, The 01:09:52 - 06 - Nobody knows 01:18:19 - 07 - Godliness 01:41:42 - 08 - Godliness, Part II, also concerning Jesse Bentley 02:05:03 - 09 - Godliness, Part III Surrender, concerning Louise Bentley 02:24:04 - 10 - Godliness, Part IV Terror, concerning David Hardy 02:36:50 - 11 - Man of Ideas, A 02:54:40 - 12 - Adventure 03:12:13 - 13 - Respectability 03:28:14 - 14 - Thinker, The 04:00:50 - 15 - Tandy 04:08:18 - 16 - Strength of God, The 04:26:51 - 17 - Teacher, The 04:46:31 - 18 - Loneliness 05:08:58 - 19 - Awakening, An 05:27:11 - 20 - Queer 05:47:50 - 21 - Untold Lie, The 06:04:45 - 22 - Drink 06:24:43 - 23 - Death 06:51:17 - 24 - Sophistication 07:14:44 - 25 - Departure Published in 1919, and listed on the Modern Library roster of the 20th century's 100 greatest novels in English, Winesburg, Ohio presents a series of loosely related character studies of the inhabitants of a fictional Midwestern town that together form a novel of unusual unity and vision. The inarticulate and lonely citizens of Winesburg, each with his or her own secret tale to tell, frequently relate those tales to, or through their interactions with, the character of George Willard, a young Winesburg citizen on the cusp of manhood with dreams of becoming a writer. Thus Winesburg tells the story of the townspeople's loneliness and alienation in parallel with the tale of George's own coming of age. The citizens of Winesburg are described obliquely as 'grotesques,' but as the introductory chapter makes clear, 'The grotesques were not all horrible. Some were amusing, some almost beautiful . . .' (Description by Stewart Wills) More information: http://librivox.org/winesburg-ohio-by-sherwood-anderson/

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924) Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction Read by: Stewart Wills in English Cover design by Kathryn Delaney A print from Ernst Haeckel's 1905 Wanderbilder. Chapters: 00:00:00 - 18 - Chapters 21-22 00:30:45 - 19 - Chapters 23-24 01:02:47 - 20 - Chapters 25-26 01:36:03 - 21 - Chapters 27-28 02:08:23 - 22 - Chapters 29-30 02:34:10 - 23 - Chapters 31-32 03:04:37 - 24 - Chapters 33-34 03:50:15 - 25 - Chapters 35-36 04:21:05 - 26 - Chapters 37-38 04:59:46 - 27 - Chapters 39-40 05:36:54 - 28 - Chapters 41-42 06:06:12 - 29 - Chapters 43-44 06:33:09 - 30 - Chapter 45 More information: https://librivox.org/lord-jim-by-joseph-conrad/ LibriVox - free public domain audiobooks (https://librivox.org/)