Heart of Darkness ♦ By Joseph Conrad ♦ Action & Adventure ♦ Full Audiobook

Heart of Darkness ♦ By Joseph Conrad ♦ Action & Adventure ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Heart of Darkness



Author: Joseph Conrad



Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction



Language: English



Read By: Bob Neufeld



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Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. Before its 1903 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It was classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the "100 best novels" and part of the Western canon. The story centres on Charles Marlow, who narrates most of the book. He is an Englishman who takes a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a river-boat captain in Africa. Heart of Darkness exposes the dark side of European colonization while exploring the three levels of darkness that the protagonist, Marlow, encounters: the darkness of the Congo wilderness, the darkness of the Europeans' cruel treatment of the African natives, and the unfathomable darkness within every human being for committing heinous acts of evil. Although Conrad does not give the name of the river, at the time of writing the Congo Free State, the location of the large and important Congo River, was a private colony of Belgium's King Leopold II. In the story, Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver. However, his more pressing assignment is to return Kurtz, another ivory trader, to civilization, in a cover-up. Kurtz has a reputation throughout the region. (Summary by Wikipedia)



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Jungle Tales of Tarzan ♦ Edgar Rice Burroughs ♦ Action & Adventure Ficti...

Jungle Tales of Tarzan ♦ Edgar Rice Burroughs ♦ Action & Adventure Fiction ♦ Audiobook



Title: Jungle Tales of Tarzan



Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs



Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction, General Fiction, Short Stories



Language: English



Group: Tarzan Series



Read By:  Ralph Snelson



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Jungle Tales of Tarzan is a collection of twelve loosely-connected short stories written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, comprising the sixth book in order of publication in his series about the title character Tarzan. Chronologically, the events recounted in it actually occur between chapters 12 and 13 of the first Tarzan novel, Tarzan of the Apes. (Summary from Wikipedia)



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The Dead ♦ By James Joyce ♦ Short Story ♦ Full Audiobook

The Dead ♦ By James Joyce ♦ Short Story ♦ Full Audiobook



Title: The Dead



Author: James Joyce



Genre(s): Short Stories



Language: English



Read By: Elizabeth Klett



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This novella is the final story in Joyce's collection Dubliners. It describes a Christmas party given by Kate and Julia Morkan, two elderly Dublin ladies, that is attended by their nephew, Gabriel Conroy, and his wife. While the party is festive, full of dancing, drinking, and eating, it is also pervaded by political, religious, and sexual tensions, as well as memories of loss. When Gabriel and his wife go home at the end of the night, she reveals a long-kept secret that leads to an epiphany. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett).



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Fables in Slang ♦ By George Ade ♦ Humorous Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook

Fables in Slang ♦ By George Ade ♦ Humorous Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook



Title:  Fables in Slang



Author:  George Ade



Genre(s): General Fiction, Humorous Fiction



Language: English



Read By: Gregg Margarite



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While a columnist for The Chicago Record humorist George Ade penned numerous “fables” which were subsequently collected into books. Fables in Slang is the first of these collections. It contains 26 satirical stories that lampoon phrenologists, idealists, snobs, fanatics and other ignorant fools of the day, most of which still wander through our modern lives. Jean Shepherd considered Ade a predecessor who made writers like James Thurber, Mike Royko, and himself possible. Fables in Slang was first published in 1899 by Herbert S. Stone and Company. (Summary by Gregg Margarite)



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The Beasts of Tarzan ♦ By Edgar Rice Burroughs ♦ Adventure Fiction ♦ Ful...

The Beasts of Tarzan ♦ By Edgar Rice Burroughs ♦ Adventure Fiction ♦ Full Audiobook



Title: The Beasts of Tarzan



Author:  Edgar Rice BURROUGHS



Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction, General Fiction



Language: English



Read By:  James Christopher



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This is the third of Burrough's Tarzan novels. Originally serialized in All-Story Cavalier magazine in 1914, the novel was first published in book form by A. C. McClurg in 1916.



In the previous novel Tarzan reclaimed his name and title as John Clayton, Lord Greystoke. In this novel he finds that proper society is just as vicious as the jungle when greedy men threaten him and his new family. Jane and her infant son Jack are kidnapped by Tarzan's enemies, Nikolas Rokoff and Alexis Paulvitch, who then trap Tarzan himself and attempt to exile him forever on a primitive island, bereft of all those dear to him. There, however, Tarzan gains new allies in the panther Sheeta and the ape Akut, together with Akut's band. (Summary by Wikipedia)



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