Poe's Library website

A collection of everything Poe. I'm going to check out the audio section where there are links to readings of Poe stories and poems. http://www.houseofusher.net/library.html/

Closed on Account of Rabies

This could be the worst album cover of all time. It's a CD of people reading Poe against eerie musical backgrounds. Some of the tracks are unlistenable, while others are excellent! The excellent tracks: Ulalume read by the late Jeff Buckley, For Annie, read by Gavin Friday, The Raven, read by Christopher Walken, The Masque of the Red Death, read by Gabriel Byrne, and The Tell-Tale Heart, read by Iggy Pop.

The Age of Innocence

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Originally uploaded by vidalia_11.

I'm listening to this as an audiobook read by Brenda Dayne. It is a wonderful book by Edith Wharton. Beautifully written, sad, moving, emotional. Highly recommended. The movie is also excellent.

This audiobook is available as a podcast and on this website: http://brendadayne.blogspot.com/.

Henry Morton Stanley

I listened to an audiobook, Into Africa by Martin Dugard. First time I ever heard the real story of Stanley finding David Livingstone in central Africa. Livingstone was searching for the source of the Nile. He wouldn't leave Africa and died there. Stanley later returned to Africa and did a lot of exploration. [okay, it's more complicated than that.] This opens up a new area of interest for me. The explorers of Africa, South America, and South Pacific faced incredible dangers and illnesses. What made them go to these places and then conquer them?

The Diary of a Nobody

From Wikipedia: The diary is that of Mr Charles Pooter, a lower middle-class man, a city clerk, with modest social pretensions. Other characters include his wife Carrie (Caroline), his son Lupin, his friends Mr Cummings and Mr Gowing, and Lupin's unsuitable fiancée, Daisy. The humour comes from Pooter's unconscious gaffes and self-importance, as well as the snubs he receives from his supposed betters. This is a very funny book, originally serialized in Punch in 1888-89. I didn't want it to end, but unfortunately, it did. It is also free as an audiobook from Librivox.org, very entertainingly narrated by Martin Clifton.

Mrs Caudle's Curtain Lectures

"Curtain Lectures delivered in the course of Thirty Years by Mrs. Margaret Caudle, and suffered by Job, her Husband." The curtain refers to curtains hanging around the bed as Mrs Caudle nags and scolds her downtrodden husband. This is a satirical work from 1846 by Douglas William Jerrold, published in Punch magazine. It is public domain and available on the web to read. It is hysterical. http://www.hereweare.net/CAUDLE/CAUDLEHOME.htm

Cute Little Cardinal

Cute Little Cardinal
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"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, and comedy to those who think." -- Shakespeare

P.G. Wodehouse

His books are so silly and amusing. They're particularly great as audiobooks narrated by JONATHAN CECIL or FREDERICK DAVIDSON.

Audiobook narrators

This is the late, great British narrator, David Case, AKA Frederick Davidson, Edward Raleigh, James Nelson, and Ian McKay. I've heard him narrate John Mortimer (Rumpole), P.G. Wodehouse, Alexander Dumas. His voice is so beautiful and charming. He's my favorite, but there are others. More to come....

Audiobooks

A latecomer to audiobooks, I'm now addicted to them. I used to think: "Why would anyone want someone to read aloud to them? How childish and boring." I didn't know that many audiobooks are narrated by skilled actors, who create the illusion that different people are speaking the dialogue. I have one major limitation, though. I only want to hear British voices.