Heidi Wall has narrated 4 audiobooks on Listento.it by 4 authors, with an average listener rating of 4★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is The King of Elfland's Daughter.
The King of Elfland's Daughter
Summary
The King of Elfland’s Daughter, written by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany or more commonly known as Lord Dunsany, is a classic of early fantasy fiction and its prose is the very sound of fantasy. One can hear the echos of this tale in later works by such authors as J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. The Parliament of Erl tells their king that they want a more magical king for the future. They believe magic will bring fame to their beloved, but unknown, little village. Honoring their request, the king sends his son to Elfland to seek as his bride the King of Elfland's Daughter. The story travels from Erl to Elfland and back again meeting along the way magical creatures and enchanted lands as well as landscapes among the fields we know. The story unfolds as the magical and mundane worlds fail to mix quite as easily as the Parliament of Erl had planned.
Public Domain (P)2020 Heidi Wall
The Charing Cross Mystery
Summary
This story, originally published as Black Money in 1922, by Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863-1935), is a fast-paced thriller full of surprising twists and turns. Hetherwick, a young lawyer, becomes a witness to murder riding the train late one night. Of the two men who entered his train compartment, one drops dead, for no apparent reason, as the train pulls into Charing Cross station.
Public Domain (P)2019 Heidi Wall
Fancies Versus Fads
Summary
This collection of short essays by G.K. Chesterton is as applicable in 2020 as it was when it was written in 1923 during the first "Progressive Era". He saves his most subtle and cutting humor for commentary to skewer his favorite targets: feminists, vegetarians, modernists, journalists, social reformers, psychologists, and "sophisticated" people in general. Essays included in this collection: "The Romance of Rhyme" "Hamlet and the Psycho-Analyst" "The Meaning of Mock Turkey" "Shakespeare and the Legal Lady" "On Being an Old Bean" "The Fear of the Film" "Wings and the Housemaid" "The Slavery of Free Verse" "Prohibition and the Press" "The Mercy of Mr. Arnold Bennett" "A Defence of Dramatic Unities" "The Boredom of Butterflies" "The Terror of a Toy" "False Theory and the Theatre" "The Secret Society of Mankind" "The Sentimentalism of Divorce" "Street Cries and Stretching the Law" "Why Reforms Go Wrong" "The Innocence of the Criminal" "The Prudery of the Feminists" "How Mad Laws Are Made" "The Pagoda of Progress" "The Myth of the “Mayflower” "Much Too Modern History" "The Evolution of Slaves" "Is Darwin Dead?" "Turning Inside Out" "Strikes and the Spirit of Wonder" "A Note on Old Nonsense" "Milton and Merry England"
Public Domain (P)2020 Heidi Wall
Conquest of the Tropics
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This narrative about the creation and early growth of the United Fruit Company comes across like an adventure novel. The author whisks the listener to Central America to experience the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of a group of visionaries who carved a commercial empire out of virtually uninhabited Central American tropical jungles. These American businessmen and the people who worked for them were the early pioneers. They overcame tropical disease, financial problems, weather, and other obstacles by innovation and sheer grit. All of this is splendidly narrated in this important audiobook about a critical driving force in the history of Central America.
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