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Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Kilmeny of the Orchard Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Length: 3 hrs 47 mins Language: English Release date: 1/1/2015 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: Eric Marshall is all that a well brought-up young man should be. Handsome, steadfast, and full of ambition, he is expected to expand the Marshall & Company empire -- and to marry a woman suitable to replace his mother in Nova Scotia's finest circles. When a sick friend asks for a favour, becoming a substitute schoolmaster in the Prince Edward Island countryside seems the perfect post-graduation lark. But when Eric wanders into an old orchard at twilight, his life will be changed forever... (Summary by Sarah Jennings)

Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Castle of Otranto Author: Horace Walpole Narrator: Great Plains Length: 3 hrs 58 mins Language: English Release date: 1/1/2015 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is generally held to be the first gothic novel, initiating a literary genre which would become extremely popular in the later 18th century and early 19th century. Thus, Castle, and Walpole by extension is arguably the forerunner to such authors as Ann Radcliffe, Bram Stoker, Daphne du Maurier, and Stephen King. (Summary by Wikipedia)

Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Tim Author: Howard Overing Sturgis Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Length: 5 hrs 16 mins Language: English Release date: 1/1/2016 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: The first of only three novels by English author Howard Overing Sturgis, the son of wealthy American expatriates and a close friend of Henry James, Tim portrays a sensitive young boy's affection for an older boy. (Introduction by Dorlene Kaplan)

Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Belinda Author: Maria Edgeworth Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Length: 19 hrs 37 mins Language: English Release date: 8/26/2016 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: When Belinda was published in 1801, it became both controversial and popular. Controversial because of the inter-racial marriage presented in the novel, and popular because it's a very good comedy of manners, like Evelina by Fanny Burney. Belinda, like Evelina, is a soft and loving girl of 17, is coming to London with her aunt who directs her action in order to make sure that she'll find a good match. But what will happen if Belinda will fall in love? Will Clarence Hervey, the man she loves, be able to marry her? It seems almost impossible, as he is secretly bringing up another woman to be a perfect wife to him and now, in all honor, he thinks he must marry her. These social novels about young women trying to find good husbands were admired by Jane Austen who referred to Belinda, among other novels, in her own novel Northanger Abbey: "'And what are you reading, Miss - ?' 'Oh! It is only a novel!' replies the young lady, while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. 'It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda'; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language." (Summary by Stav Nisser)

Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (Volume I) Author: Tobias Smollett Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Length: 18 hrs 6 mins Language: English Release date: 8/26/2016 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle is a picaresque novel by the Scottish author Tobias Smollett (1721 - 1771), first published in 1751, and revised and reissued in 1758. It is the story of the fortunes and misfortunes of the egotistical dandy Peregrine Pickle, and it provides a comic and caustic portrayal of 18th century European society. (Summary by Wikipedia)

Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Shuttle Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett Narrator: Tabithat Length: 19 hrs 50 mins Language: English Release date: 8/26/2016 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: Rosalie Vanderpoel, the daughter of an American multimillionaire marries an impoverished English baronet and goes to live in England. She all but loses contact with her family in America. Years later her younger sister Bettina, beautiful, intelligent and extremely rich, goes to England to find what has happened to her sister. She finds Rosalie shabby and dispirited, cowed by her husband's ill treatment. Bettina sets about to rectify matters. She meets Lord Mount Dunstan, an impoverished earl, who lives nearby and they fall in love, but he cannot speak because it would look as if he were after her money... This is a romance but it is also about the rejuvenating effects of Americans and American money on a somewhat decadent English aristocracy. (Summary by Tabithat)

Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Bent Twig Author: Dorothy Canfield Fisher Narrator: Bellona Times Length: 18 hrs 16 mins Language: English Release date: 8/26/2016 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: Semi-autobiographical series of incidents in the life of an intellectual American family in the late 19th - early 20th Century as seen by favored daughter, Sylvia Marshall. Her father is an economics professor in a Midwestern state university and she is following in his inquisitive footsteps. Canfield writes this in a matter-of-fact manner with Tarkingtonesque good humor. ( Summary by BellonaTimes )

Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Noli Me Tangere (The Social Cancer) Author: José Rizal Narrator: Availle Length: 19 hrs 21 mins Language: English Release date: 8/26/2016 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: Noli Me Tangere (Latin for Touch Me Not) is a novel by the National Hero of the Philippines, Dr. José Rizal. It was originally written in Spanish, and first published in Germany in 1887. Noli Me Tangere exposed the corruption and abuse of the Spanish government and clergy towards the Philippine people and the ills of the Philippine society. This novel, and its sequel El Filibusterismo were banned in many parts of the Islands. Rizal was later arrested for inciting rebellion, based largely on his writings, and was executed in Manila. Noli Me Tangere, and the execution of Rizal, indirectly influenced the Philippine revolution from Spain. Today, Noli Me Tangere is required reading in all Philippine Schools. (Summary by JoeD)

Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Round the Block Author: John Bell Bouton Narrator: Grant Hurlock Length: 18 hrs 9 mins Language: English Release date: 8/26/2016 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: In Round the Block (1864), John Bell Bouton, a newspaper editor who later became a travel writer, stirs together comedy and pathos to explore the schemes and dreams of the average and extraordinary people inhabiting and intermingling on a single New York City block. In the path of the novel's circumambulation lie mystery, romance, and a murder trial, as love-matches and fortunes are made and lost through invention, speculation, and flimflam - plenty of flimflam. This richly-charactered novel, told with Dickensian brio, offers a fascinating slice of life, vivid in detail, of the bustling big-city habits and mores of America shortly before the Civil War. (Introduction by Grant Hurlock)

Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Claverings Author: Anthony Trollope Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Length: 19 hrs 58 mins Language: English Release date: 8/26/2016 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: "I consider the story as a whole to he good, though I am not aware that the public ever corroborated that verdict." - the author The Claverings is the best wrought of the novels designed for The Cornhill, and as surely conceived as any book he ever wrote." - Sadleir. "It is a novel of atmosphere, and the atmosphere is of that sort very dangerous for the English novelist, the atmosphere captured so supremely well by Thackeray the green-lighted, close-scented gambling rooms, the shabby adventures of half-deserted spas, the shelving beaches of foreign watering-places, concealed accents, stolen passports, impoverished counts and impertinent ladies' maids.... Trollope's most serious attempt to escape from his own personality." - Walpole (Summary by )

Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Rainbow (Version 2) Author: D. H. Lawrence Narrator: Tony Foster Length: 19 hrs 30 mins Language: English Release date: 8/26/2016 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: Briefly appearing in 1915, then banned and taken out of circulation for its adult treatment of sexuality, Lawrence's visionary novel The Rainbow attempts to situate the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family within the continuous social change marking the Victorian transformation of Britain. Farmer Tom and his Polish wife Lydia, whose peaceful rural existence re-enacts the potent myths of Genesis; artisan Will and the matriarch Anna, who go to live among the industrial and mining communities so rapidly sprung up around Nottingham; finally the restless Ursula who, moving to the city, seeks sexual and emotional fulfilment with the Polish-descended Skrebensky - the three couples are not merely illustrative of the changing times, but allow the author to study in depth the conflict between the outer 'social' selves of those individuals and what he curiously calls the 'inhuman' essential being, the 'is-ness' at the core of their psychical life. Lawrence evokes this dark, unconscious 'vital core' through a language of breathtaking poetic beauty; a rhythmic incantatory prose which listeners to this recording will find perfectly rendered by Tony Foster, in all its nuances. Like Paul Morel, the hero of the earlier Sons and Lovers, Ursula survives her losses to face a future of uncertain but radiant hope: "She saw in the rainbow the earth's new architecture, the old, brittle corruption of houses and factories swept away, the world built up in a living fabric of Truth, fitting to the over-arching heaven." (Summary by Martin Geeson)

Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Ayala's Angel Author: Anthony Trollope Narrator: Tabithat Length: 19 hrs 25 mins Language: English Release date: 8/26/2016 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: Lucy and Ayala Dormer are left penniless by the death of their parents. Ayala is taken in by their rich aunt Lady Tringle and Lucy by their poor uncle Mr Dosett. The girls find it hard to get used to their new surroundings. Lucy becomes engaged to one of her father's artist friends but they are too poor to marry. Three different men fall in love with Ayala but none live up to her ideal of the perfect man. Will Lucy be able to marry her sweetheart and will Ayala find her 'Angel of Light'? For the answers to these and many other questions, read this book. (Summary by Stav Nisser)

Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: John Caldigate Author: Anthony Trollope Narrator: Simon Evers Length: 19 hrs 39 mins Language: English Release date: 8/26/2016 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: After a rather dissolute youth and having been disowned by his father, John Caldigate sets sail for Australia with his friend Dick Shand hoping to make his fortune in the goldfields in New South Wales. On the voyage, he meets Euphemia Smith and they conduct an indiscreet affair aboard. After various problems, Caldigate literally strikes gold and returns to England. On his return, Caldigate meets and marries a previous acquaintance, Hester Bolton, and they have a son. He sets himself up as his father's heir and life seems perfect. However, Euphemia suddenly reappears and claims they were married in Australia, making Caldigate a bigamist and his son illegitimate. (Summary by Simon Evers)

Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Dangerous Connections Author: Choderlos de Laclos Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Length: 18 hrs 48 mins Language: English Release date: 8/26/2016 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: A translation of 'Les Liaisons dangereuses' alternative title 'Dangerous Liasons' Everyone probably has Glenn Close and John Malkovich in mind, but for those who have not seen the movie, this epistolary fiction describes how a young girl, Cécile de Voanges, walks on the road to perdition, and is just a toy in the Vicomte de Valmont's and the Comtesse de Merteuil's hands. (Summary by Nadine)

Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Sons and Lovers Author: D. H. Lawrence Narrator: Mark F. Smith Length: 18 hrs 50 mins Language: English Release date: 8/26/2016 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: This intimate portrait of a coal-miner's family fastens on each member in turn: Walter Morel, the collier; Gertrude, his wife; and the children: William, Annie, Arthur, and Paul. When Mrs. Morel begins to be estranged from her husband because of his poor financial sense and his drinking habits, she comes to inhabit the lives of her children - most particularly, her sons. She is determined that they will grow to be something more than men that come home blackened with coal dust every day and roaring with drink every night. As each grows up and moves away, she must release him. But Paul, she holds; they have a bond that defies time and the attractions of young women. Lawrence originally intended the book's title to be "Paul Morel" and it is on this son - and his lovers - that he spends the bulk of his tale. The strong mother can make a success of her son, but if he cannot learn to leave his mother's apron strings, will he really be a better man than his father? (Summary by Mark Smith)

Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: New Grub Street Author: George Gissing Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Length: 19 hrs 37 mins Language: English Release date: 8/26/2016 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: "The story deals with the literary world that Gissing himself had experienced. Its title refers to the London street, Grub Street, which in the 18th century became synomynous with hack literature; as an institution, Grub Street itself no longer existed in Gissing's time. Its two central characters are a sharply contrasted pair of writers: Edwin Reardon, a novelist of some talent but limited commercial prospects, and a shy, cerebral man; and Jasper Milvain, a young journalist, hard-working and capable of generosity, but cynical and unscrupulous about writing and its purpose in the modern (i.e. late Victorian) world". Summary from Wikipedia.

Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Innocents Abroad Author: Mark Twain Narrator: John Greenman Length: 19 hrs 39 mins Language: English Release date: 8/26/2016 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: When you dive into Mark Twain's (Samuel Clemens') The Innocents Abroad, you have to be ready to learn more about the unadorned, ungilded reality of 19th century "touring" than you might think you want to learn. This is a tough, literary journey. It was tough for Twain and his fellow "pilgrims", both religious and otherwise. They set out, on a June day in 1867, to visit major tourist sites in Europe and the near east, including Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, "the Holy Land", and Egypt. What Twain records, in often humorous, sometimes grotesque but always fascinating detail, are the day-to-day ups and downs of discovering the truth about people and places. The truths they learn are often far different than their education and rumor have made them preconceive. This is a voyage of discovery. It's long and, in places, tiresome. But it's revelatory about so much. As with some of his other works, Twain includes popular prejudices of his time, which are today considered socially unacceptable. His references to "Indians", "Negroes" and "infidels" come to mind. Beyond the lows, though, there are the highs of Twain's cutting wit and insight as he guides us along the bumpy and often dangerous voyage. No need to buckle up. Just take it slow, and steady...like the journey itself. (Summary by John Greenman)

Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Main Street Author: Sinclair Lewis Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Length: 18 hrs 27 mins Language: English Release date: 8/26/2016 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: Carol Milford is a liberal, free-spirited young woman, reared in the metropolis of Minneapolis. She marries Will Kennicott, a doctor, who is a small-town boy at heart. When they marry, Will convinces her to live in his home-town of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota. Carol is appalled at the backwardness of Gopher Prairie. But her disdain for the town's physical ugliness and smug conservatism compels her to reform it. (Summary from Wikipedia).

Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Swann's Way Author: Marcel Proust Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Length: 24 hrs 20 mins Language: English Release date: 8/10/2016 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: Swann's Way is the first book in the seven-volume work In Search of Lost Time, or Remembrance of Things Past, by Marcel Proust. It is a novel written in the form of an autobiography. Proust's most prominent work, it is popularly known for its length and the notion of involuntary memory, the most famous example being the "episode of the madeleine." (Summary from Wikipedia)

Please visit http://hotaudiobook.com to listen to an additional 100,000+ audiobooks of all genres in full for free Title: Orlando Furioso Author: Ludovico Ariosto Narrator: Thomas A. Copeland Length: 28 hrs 28 mins Language: English Release date: 8/10/2016 Publisher: LibriVox Genres: Fiction & Literature, General Publisher's Summary: Charlemagne's nephew Orlando (AKA Roland) is driven insane by the infidelity of his beloved Angelica. Angelica's relationship with him and others loosely unifies multiple story lines to produce a rich tapestry of romance, fictionalized history, and pure fantasy. This romance-epic is a sequel to the less distinguished and unfinished romance Orlando Innamorato, by Mattteo Maria Boiardo. (Summary by Thomas A. Copeland)