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  Gulliver's Travels

  Jonathan Swift

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  Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnm and the brutish Yahoos - give Gulliver new, bitter insights into human behavior. Swift's savage satire view mankind in a distorted hall of mirrors as a diminished, magnified and finally bestial species, presenting us with an uncompromising reflection of ourselves. 
   It is widely considered Swift's magnum opus and is his most celebrated work, as well as one of the indisputable classics of English literature

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  Three Musketeers The (Unabridged)

  Alexandre Dumas

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  One of the most celebrated and popular historical romances ever written, The Three Musketeers tells the story of the early adventures of the young Gascon gentleman, D'Artagnan and his three friends from the regiment of the King's Musketeers - Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Under the watchful eye of their patron M. de Treville, the four defend the honour of the regiment against the guards of Cardinal Richelieu, and the honour of the queen against the machinations of the Cardinal himself as the power struggles of seventeenth century France are vividly played out in the background. But their most dangerous encounter is with the Cardinal's spy, Milady, one of literature's most memorable female villains, and Alexandre Dumas employs all his fast-paced narrative skills to bring this enthralling novel to a breathtakingly gripping and dramatic conclusion.

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  Scowrers The - A Sherlock Holmes...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is loosely based on the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James McParland. The story was first published in the Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915. The first book edition was copyrighted in 1914, and it was first published by George H. Doran Company in New York on 27 February 1915, and illustrated by Arthur I. Keller. The novel starts with Sherlock Holmes receiving a cipher message from Fred Porlock, a pseudonymous agent of Professor Moriarty. After Porlock sends the message, however, he changes his mind for fear of Moriarty's discovering that he is a traitor. He decides not to send the key to the cipher, but he sends Holmes a note telling of this decision.

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  Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman

  E.W. Hornung

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  Ernest William Hornung(1866-1921) was born in Middlesborough, England and educated at Uppingham School, Rutland. He spent two years in Australia for his health, returning to England in 1886.  In 1893 he married Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's sister Constance and five years later the first of his stories of “Raffles” the gentleman burglar appeared in Cassell's Magazine.  More stories followed and proved extremely popular. The first collection of the exploits of A.J. Raffles and his friend Bunny Manders was published as “The Amateur Cracksman” in 1899.The characters of Raffles and Bunny were possibly inspired by his brother-in-law's creations, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, although they are on the opposite side of the law.The activities of the gentleman cricketer and his associate are highly questionable but “he never steals from his hosts and he helps his old friends in trouble”.The stories are: “The Ides of March”“A Costume Piece”“Gentleman and Players”“Le Premier Pas”“Wilful Murder”“Nine Points of the Law”“The Return Match”“The Gift of the Emperor”Public Domain (P)2016 Spiders' House Audio/Roy Macready

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  The Ugly Duckling and Other Stories

  Hans Christian Anderson

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  This is a collection of four of Hans Christian Andersen's most beloved stories, The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor's New Clothes, Thumbellina and The Constant Tin Soldier.

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  Joe Wilson and His Mates

  Henry Lawson

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  oe Wilson and His MatesBy Henry LawsonNarrated by Amy Soakes and Denis DalyThis collection was published in 1901 and contains some of Lawson's best known stories.Most of the stories are set in the Australian bush, and feature many of Lawson's iconic characters, like squatters, swagmen and struggling selector farmers. A persistent theme is the harshness of rural life and the inevitablity of personal tragedy.1) The Author’s Farewell to the Bushmen2) Joe Wilson’s Courtship3) Brighten’s Sister-In-Law4) "Water Them Geraniums"5) A Double Buggy at Lahey's Creek6) The Writer Wants to say a Word7) The Golden Graveyard8) The Chinaman’s Ghost9) The Loaded Dog10) Poisonous Jimmy Gets Left11) The Ghostly Door12) A Wild Irishman13) The Babies in the Bush14) A Bush Dance15) The Buck-Jumper16) Jimmy Grimshaw’s Wooing17) At Dead Dingo18) Telling Mrs Baker19) A Hero in Dingo-Scrubs20) The Little World Left Behind21) The Never-Never CountryText prepared by Denis DalyAudio edited by Denis DalyProduction copyright 2021 Voices of Today

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