![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Where Angels Fear to Tread - E.M. Forster LibriVox recording of Where Angels Fear to Tread, by E. M. Forster. Read by Julie Pandya. On a journey to Tuscany with her young friend and traveling companion Caroline Abbott, widowed Lilia Herriton falls in love with both Italy and a handsome Italian much younger than herself, and decides to stay. Furious, her dead husband's family send Lilia's brother-in-law to Italy to prevent a misalliance, but he arrives too late... Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text Keywords: English; Forster; Italy; Italian; baby; marriage Downloads: 11,510 Average rating: (1 review) |
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![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Howards End - E.M. Forster The Schlegels frequently encounter the Wilcoxes. The youngest, Helen, is rejected by the younger Wilcox brother, Paul. The eldest, Margaret, becomes friends with his mother Ruth Wilcox. Ruth’s most prized personal possession is her family house at Howards End. She wishes that Margaret could live there, as she feels that it might be in good hands with her. Ruth’s own husband and children do not value the house and its rich history, because such abstractions, while being very dear to Margaret,... Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text Keywords: Forster; Modern literature; modern novel Downloads: 19,210 Average rating: (0 review) |
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![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Howards End - E.M. Forster This is a LibriVox recording of Howards End by E. M. Forster. Read by Elizabeth Klett. The book is about three families in England at the beginning of the twentieth century. The three families represent different gradations of the Edwardian middle class: the Wilcoxes, who are rich capitalists with a fortune made in the Colonies; the half-German Schlegel siblings (Margaret, Tibby, and Helen), who represent the intellectual bourgeoisie and have a lot in common with the real-life Bloomsbury Group; ... Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text Keywords: audiobook; literature Downloads: 54,098 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The Longest Journey - E. M. Forster LibriVox recording of The Longest Journey, by E. M. Forster. Read by Julie Pandya and Kehinde. Frederick Elliot is a student at early 20th century Cambridge, a university that seems like paradise to him, amongst bright if cynical companions, when he receives a visit from two friends, an engaged young woman, Agnes Pembroke, and her older brother, Herbert. The Pembrokes are Rickie’s only friends from home... Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text Keywords: Librivox; audiobook; E.M. Forster; fiction; orphans; boarding schools; bullying Downloads: 558 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The Machine Stops - E. M. Forster LibriVox recording of The Machine Stops, by E.M. Forster. Read by Jerome Lawsen. Published in 1909, this science fiction short story takes place in a future where mankind, seemingly no longer able to survive on earth's surface, exists in a vast underground civilization known as "The Machine". Each individual lives in an isolated, fully-automated cell-like room, connected to global information and communication systems, but cut off from all direct experience... Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text Keywords: Science fiction; sci-fi; short stories; literature; Librivox; audiobook; E. M. Forster Downloads: 949 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The Machine Stops - E. M. Forster The Machine Stops is a short science fiction story. It describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual lives in isolation in a 'cell', with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine. Most humans welcome this development, as they are skeptical and fearful of first-hand experience. People forget that humans created the Machine, and treat it as a mystical entity whose needs supersede their own... Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; science fiction; e. m. forster; machine stops Downloads: 9,720 Average rating: (1 review) |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | A Room with a View - E.M. Forster LibriVox recording of A Room with a View, by E.M. Forster. Read by Kara Shallenberg. When Lucy Honeychurch travels to Italy with her cousin, she meets George Emerson, a bohemian and an atheist who falls in love with her. Upon her return to England, she is forced to choose between free-spirited George and her more conventional fiancé, Cecil Vyse. The story is both a romance and a critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century... Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobooks; forster; romance Downloads: 38,243 Average rating: (0 review) |
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