Tom Logan has narrated 5 audiobooks on Listento.it by 5 authors, with an average listener rating of 3.5★ across 3 ratings. The most-rated is Reminiscences of a Stock Operator.
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Summary
Edwin Lefevre (1871-1943) was a stockbroker and an independent investor, as well as a novelist and writer of short stories. This lightly fictionalized account of the career of stock speculator Jesse Livermore was first published in 1923. Now, nearly 100 years later, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator remains highly recommended for an understanding of investment. Lefevre’s trading advice and analyses of market price movements are as relevant today as in 1923. What makes this book so valuable are the observations that Lefèvre records about investing, speculating, and the nature of the market itself. Offering profound insights into the attitudes, feelings and motivations of investors, the book is a timeless instructional tale for investors everywhere.
Public Domain (P)2020 Museum Audiobooks
My First Summer in the Sierra
Summary
John Muir (1838-1914), also known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the National Parks", was a naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, and an early advocate for the preservation of wilderness areas in the United States. Upon visiting the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, Muir was so enchanted by what he saw that he decided to devote his life to the preservation of this majestic wilderness. My First Summer in the Sierra is based on a diary he kept while tending sheep in Yosemite country and is filled with the author’s awe for the “divine, enduring, unwasteable wealth” of the natural world. It remains a classic of environmental literature and continues to inspire people.
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Lays of Ancient Rome
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Lays of Ancient Rome is an 1842 collection of narrative poems by Thomas Babington Macaulay. Four of these: Horatius, The Battle of Lake Regillus, Virginia and The Prophecy of Capys cover heroic episodes from early Roman history. They have brief introductions that treat the legends from a scholarly perspective. Two others deal with more recent historical events: Ivry, a Song of the Huguenots, deals with French history, and The Armada: A Fragment, is about the Spanish fleet sent to subdue England. They became immensely popular in Victorian England, and were standard reading in British public schools for more than a century.
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The Old Man and the Sea
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Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and sportsman. The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel published in 1952, the last major work of fiction written by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. In search of an epic catch, the old fisherman Santiago sets out before dawn on an odyssey that takes him far out to sea. He catches a gigantic marlin and suffers tremendous hardship to bring the great fish to land. In 1953, The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway.
Public Domain (P)2021 Museum Audiobooks
Of Mice and Men
Summary
John Ernst Steinbeck (1902-1968) was the winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature. The novella Of Mice and Men (1937) is the story of two migrant field workers in California during the Great Depression. George Milton and Lennie Small share a dream of owning their own piece of land. When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the fulfillment of their dream seems to be within reach. Then, tragedy strikes. The themes include kindness, the bonds of friendship, and the cruelty of this world.
Public Domain (P)2021 Museum Audiobooks