When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy the freedom that her fortune has opened up and to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. It is only when she finds herself irresistibly drawn to the cultivated but worthless Gilbert Osmond that she discovers that wealth is a two-edged sword and that there is a price to be paid for independence.
Linda says:
"Brilliant reading"
The Modern Scholar: A Way With Words, Part II: Approaches to Literature
UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 6 mins)
By Michael D.C. Drout
Narrated By Michael D.C. Drout
Overall
(168)
Performance
(65)
Story
(63)
In A Way with Words II: Approaches to Literature, Michael D.C. Drout leads a series of lectures that focus on the big questions of literature. Throughout, he introduces the major schools of literary and critical thought and employs illuminating examples from the world's most important literary works. This course proves a wonderful exploration of one of humankind's most cherished pursuits.
A User says:
"Drout is great"
As I Lay Dying
UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 55 mins)
By William Faulkner
Narrated By Marc Cashman, Robertson Dean, Lina Patel, and others
Whispersync for Voice-ready
Overall
(306)
Performance
(115)
Story
(116)
At the heart of this 1930 novel is the Bundren family's bizarre journey to Jefferson to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Faulkner lets each family member, including Addie, and others along the way tell their private responses to Addie's life.
Kristina says:
"Faulkner's As I Lay Dying review"
Dead Souls
UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 54 mins)
By Nikolai Gogol, C. J. Hogarth (translator)
Narrated By Arthur Morey
Overall
(23)
Performance
(20)
Story
(19)
Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowners to make each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these "souls" as collateral to reinvent himself as a gentleman. In this ebullient masterpiece, Nikolai Gogol created a grotesque gallery of human types.
Darwin8u says:
"Captures absurdity of mid 19th century Russia"
Madame Bovary
UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 26 mins)
By Gustave Flaubert, Gerard Hopkins (translator)
Narrated By Ronald Pickup
Overall
(124)
Performance
(72)
Story
(70)
Emma Bovary, a doctor's wife, seeks an escape from her dull life through having extra-marital affairs. Flaubert's novel scandalized its readers when it was first published in 1857, and it remains unsurpassed in its unveiling of character and society.
A. Laprade-velasco says:
"Fantastic Narrator"
Kate Chopin Collection: The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 30 mins)
By Kate Chopin
Narrated By Victoria Mcgee, Jane Leclercq
Overall
(3)
Performance
(3)
Story
(3)
From 1892 to 1895, Chopin wrote short stories for both children and adults which were published in such magazines as Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, The Century Magazine, and The Youth's Companion. Her major works were two short story collections, Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897). Her important short stories included "Desiree's Baby", a tale of miscegenation in antebellum Louisiana (published in 1893), "The Story of an Hour" (1894), and "The Storm "(1898).
Publisher's Summary
Daisy Miller is one of Henry James' most haunting characters. In this reading, Mullen brings her to life in all her innocent playfulness and melancholic yearning.
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