Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas HARDY (1840 - 1928) Genre(s): General Fiction Read by: Lee Ann Howlett, Simon Evers, Patti Brugman, Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014), E. Plein, hefyd, Tracey Norman, J. M. Smallheer, Sarah Jennings, George Deprez, PhD, John Lieder in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 01 - 01 - Description of Farmer Oak--An Incident 00:11:23 - 02 - 02 - Night--The Flock--An Interior--Another Interior 00:30:58 - 03 - 03 - A Girl on Horseback--Conversation 00:49:57 - 04 - 04 - Gabriel's Resolve--The Visit--The Mistake 01:10:23 - 05 - 05 - Departure of Bathsheba--A Pastoral Tragedy 01:22:01 - 06 - 06 - The Fair--The Journey--The Fire 01:41:47 - 07 - 07 - Recognition--A Timid Girl 01:51:05 - 08 - 08 - The Malthouse--The Chat--News 02:39:51 - 09 - 09 - The Homestead--A Visitor--Half-Confidences 02:55:02 - 10 - 10 - Mistress and Men 03:08:32 - 11 - 11 - Outside the Barracks--Snow--A Meeting 03:20:30 - 12 - 12 - Farmers--A Rule--An Exception 03:30:41 - 13 - 13 - Sortes Sanctorum--The Valentine 03:39:26 - 14 - 14 - Effect of the Letter--Sunrise 03:49:34 - 15 - 15 - A Morning Meeting--The Letter Again 04:12:29 - 16 - 16 - All Saints' and All Souls' 04:19:28 - 17 - 17 - In the Market-Place 04:25:07 - 18 - 18 - Boldwood in Meditation--Regret 04:35:13 - 19 - 19 - The Sheep-Washing--The Offer 04:47:40 - 20 - 20 - Perplexity--Grinding the Shears--A Quarrel 05:00:27 - 21 - 21 - Troubles in the Fold--A Message 05:13:05 - 22 - 22 - The Great Barn and the Sheep-Shearers 05:34:18 - 23 - 23 - Eventide--A Second Declaration 05:48:08 - 24 - 24 - The Same Night--The Fir Plantation 06:01:28 - 25 - 25 - The New Acquaintance Described 06:09:14 - 26 - 26 - Scene on the Verge of the Hay-Mead 06:27:45 - 27 - 27 - Hiving the Bees 06:35:06 - 28 - 28 - The Hollow Amid the Ferns 06:47:40 - 29 - 29 - Particulars of a Twilight Walk 07:04:22 - 30 - 30 - Hot Cheeks and Tearful Eyes 07:14:53 - 31 - 31 - Blame--Fury 07:34:35 - 32 - 32 - Night--Horses Tramping 07:54:07 - 33 - 33 - In the Sun--A Harbinger 08:08:34 - 34 - 34 - Home Again--A Trickster 08:28:25 - 35 - 35 - At an Upper Window 08:36:31 - 36 - 36 - Wealth in Jeopardy--The Revel 08:54:23 - 37 - 37 - The Storm--The Two Together 09:09:28 - 38 - 38 - Rain--One Solitary Meets Another 09:17:08 - 39 - 39 - Coming Home--A Cry 09:25:25 - 40 - 40 - On Casterbridge Highway 09:43:18 - 41 - 41 - Suspicion--Fanny Is Sent For Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and offers in ample measure the details of English rural life that Hardy so relished. Hardy's growing taste for tragedy is also evident in the novel. It first appeared, anonymously, as a monthly magazine serial, where it gained a wide readership and critical acclaim. According to Virginia Woolf, 'The subject was right; the method was right; the poet and the countryman, the sensual man, the sombre reflective man, the man of learning, all enlisted to produce a book which . . . must hold its place among the great English novels.' The book is often regarded as an early piece of feminist literature, since it features an independent woman with the courage to defy convention by running a farm herself. Although Bathsheba's passionate nature leads her into serious errors of judgment, Hardy endows her with sufficient resilience, intelligence, and good luck to overcome her youthful folly. More information: http://librivox.org/far-from-the-madding-crowd-by-thomas-hardy/

A Shepherd's Life; Impressions Of The South Wiltshire Downs by William Henry HUDSON (1841 - 1922) Genre(s): Travel & Geography Read by: David Wales in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 01 - Salisbury Plain 00:26:18 - 02 - Salisbury As I See It 00:56:07 - 03 - Winterborne Bishop 01:15:14 - 04 - A Shepherd Of The Downs 01:47:20 - 05 - Early Memories 01:59:56 - 06 - Shepherd Isaac Bawcombe 02:16:52 - 07 - The Deer-Stealers 02:31:00 - 08 - Shepherds And Poaching 02:48:36 - 09 - The Shepherd On Foxes 03:08:31 - 10 - Bird Life On The Downs 03:27:36 - 11 - Starlings And Sheep-Bells 03:44:07 - 12 - The Shepherd And The Bible 03:57:00 - 13 - Vale Of The Wylye 04:20:40 - 14 - A Sheep-Dog's Life 04:42:54 - 15 - The Ellerbys Of Doveton 04:58:18 - 16 - Old Wiltshire Days 05:21:23 - 17 - Old Wiltshire Days Continued 06:00:06 - 18 - The Shepherd's Return 06:15:49 - 19 - The Dark People Of The Village 06:49:43 - 20 - Some Sheep-Dogs Hudson wrote this classic work in 1910; it is admiringly mentioned by many other writers. It focuses on the memories of a head shepherd, Caleb Bawcombe, so it is concerned with the period of mid to late nineteenth century rural Wiltshire, a county in England. This pleasant engaging book contains rural wisdom, natural history, farming practices, human characters, and more - Summary by david wales More information: http://librivox.org/a-shepherds-life-impressions-of-the-south-wiltshire-downs-by-william-henry-hudson/ LibriVox - free public domain audiobooks (https://librivox.org/)

Monday Tales by Alphonse DAUDET (1840 - 1897), translated by Marian MCINTYRE (1840 - 1900) Genre(s): Short Stories Read by: MaryAnn, Linda Johnson, Jim Locke, Phil Schempf, tovarisch, Garth Burton in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 36 - Yule-Tide Stories, part 2 00:20:18 - 37 - The Pope is Dead 00:33:07 - 38 - Gastronomic Scenes 00:42:57 - 39 - A Sea-Side Harvest 00:56:19 - 40 - The Emotions of a Young Red Partridge 01:11:42 - 41 - The Mirror 01:19:45 - 42 - The Blind Emperor, part 1 01:39:56 - 43 - The Blind Emperor, part 2 This is a collection of short stories by Alphonse Daudet. The stories paint an incredibly vivid picture of life in continental Europe before the turn of the last century. The settings of the stories also take us all over France, Belgium, and Germany, with little excursions also outside of those countries. The spirit of Europe of the 19th century is palpable, and described in a way few writers can. - Summary by Carolin More information: http://librivox.org/monday-tales-by-alphonse-daudet/ LibriVox - free public domain audiobooks (https://librivox.org/)

Murder Madness by Murray LEINSTER (1896 - 1975) Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction, Science Fiction Read by: Richard Kilmer in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 18 - Chapter 18 Murder Madness! Seven Secret Service men had completely disappeared. Another had been found a screaming, homicidal maniac, whose fingers writhed like snakes. So Bell, of the secret 'Trade,' plunges into South America after The Master--the mighty, unknown octopus of power whose diabolical poison threatens a continent! (Summary by Murray Leinster) More information: http://librivox.org/murder-madness-by-murray-leinster/ LibriVox - free public domain audiobooks (https://librivox.org/)