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  The Secret of the Old Clock

  Carolyn Keene

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
  The Secret of the Old Clock is the first book in the beloved Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. When young Nancy Drew witnesses an accident, she finds herself drawn into the mystery of a missing will. The late Josiah Crowley promised to leave his fortune to several deserving families, but his greedy relatives claim otherwise. With courage, wit, and determination, eighteen-year-old Nancy sets out to find the truth hidden within an old clock. This classic mystery introduces readers to one of literature's most iconic teenage detectives as she solves her first case in River Heights. A thrilling adventure filled with suspense, clever clues, and the beginning of an enduring legacy.

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  American Family Shakespeare...

  Stefan Rudnicki, Charles Lamb,...

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  Blackstone Audio presents An American Family Shakespeare Entertainment, a sparkling adaptation based on Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb, augmented by miscellaneous scenes and soliloquies from Shakespeare’s plays. Read by a full cast and featuring Elizabethan songs and dances in new arrangements for stringed instruments, this production is entertaining and accessible for young and old alike! 
  THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA read by Stephen Hoye THE COMEDY OF ERRORS read by Arte Johnson THE TAMING OF THE SHREW read by Robert Forster SCENE: Petruchio & Kate read by Gabrielle de Cuir & Stefan Rudnicki A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM read by John Rubinstein ROMEO AND JULIET read by Orson Scott Card THE MERCHANT OF VENICE read by David Birney SOLILOQUY: “Hath not a Jew...” read by David Birney MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING read by Scott Brick MUSIC: “It Was a Lover and his Lass...” by Stefan Rudnicki AS YOU LIKE IT  read by Stephanie Zimbalist HAMLET read by Joe Barrett SOLILOQUY: “O What a Rogue... “ read by Joe Barrett TWELFTH NIGHT read by Cassandra Campbell ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL read by Emily Janice Card MEASURE FOR MEASURE  read by Lorna Raver

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  A Dead Secret - From their pens...

  Lafcadio Hearn

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  Lafcadio Hearn was born on the 27th June 1850 on the Ionian isle of Levkás in Greece to a British Army officer and a Greek Mother. 
  His father, fearing for his career prospects at being married to a Greek Orthodox wife, sent them to Dublin whilst he continued to advance his career with further postings.  Life there was difficult for mother and son.  His father returned, wounded and traumatised, when Lafcadio was three.  He annulled the marriage and she remarried but had to give up care of Lafcadio to her sister-in law.   
  After brief periods for Catholic education in England and France he emigrated to Ohio in the United States when he was 19, taking on a series of casual jobs before embarking on a career as a journalist, publishing poems and essays in Cincinnati.  It was whilst here that he began a side-line in translating, starting with Gautier and Flaubert.  He married in 1874 to a 20 year old African-American woman in violation of Ohio's anti-miscegenation law.  The marriage soon failed. 
  In 1877 he relocated to New Orleans to write on a variety of themes before picking up a two year assignment from Harper’s to write in the West Indies, where he also wrote his first novel. 
  In 1890 Harper’s sent him to Japan.  Here he left journalism and took the remarkable decision to become a schoolteacher in the north of Japan.   Enraptured by the culture he was driven to explain it in various Western publications to those who had little, if any, knowledge of its culture.  Within the year he had fallen in love with, and married, a high-born Japanese lady, together they would have four children.   
  In 1895 he became a Japanese national and took the name Koizumi Yakumo, Koizumi being his wife’s family name. 
  The following few years, whilst a professor of Literature at the Imperial University of Japan, were his most creative and admired period.   
  Lafcadio Hearn died of heart failure on the 26th of September 1904, in Tokyo, Japan shortly before leaving to deliver a series of lectures at Cornell University in New York State.  He was 54.

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  The Picture of Dorian Gray

  Oscar Wilde

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  Discover the captivating world of Oscar Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' like never before! Immerse yourself in this timeless classic with our mesmerizing digital audiobook. Let the enchanting narration and spellbinding performances of our talented cast transport you to a realm of opulence, desire, and moral dilemmas. Don't miss this opportunity to experience the haunting tale of Dorian Gray as you've never heard it before. Get your digital audiobook now and embark on a journey of beauty, corruption, and the pursuit of eternal youth!

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  The Wind Blows

  Katherine Mansfield

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  "The Wind Blows" is a short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in the magazine Signature (4 October 1915) as “Autumns: II” under the pseudonym Matilda Berry. It was published in revised form in the Athenaeum on 27 August 1920, and subsequently reprinted in Bliss and Other Stories.
  Matilda is woken up by the wind; she looks out the window; her neighbour, Marie, is fetching flowers from the garden and then Matilda’s mother is called for the telephone by Bogey, Matilda’s brother.

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  The War of the Worlds

  H. G. Wells

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  "The War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells stands as a monumental work in the realm of science fiction, leaving an indelible mark on the landscape of popular culture. The narrative unfolds as an unsettling tale of an invasion from the distant planet Mars, seen through the eyes of an unnamed protagonist who resides in the tranquil countryside of Surrey, England.  
  As the story progresses, a palpable sense of dread envelops the landscape, transforming the serene hills into a theater of chaos and despair. The arrival of the Martian army sends shockwaves through the populace, igniting a wave of panic that engulfs towns and cities alike. Towering three-legged machines resembling nightmarish sentinels stomp through the English terrain, their metallic limbs crushing everything in their wake. With a terrifying precision, they unleash devastating heat rays that incinerate anything caught in their path, while toxic clouds billow forth, choking the air with their poisonous fumes. 
  In the face of this unprecedented invasion, humanity is forced to grapple with the harrowing reality: the specter of annihilation looms large, signaling not just the end of civilization as we know it but the ominous dawn of Martian dominion over a world thrown into turmoil.

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