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Lady Windermere's Fan (Audio) (v. 1.0)

Appieverse опубликовал приложение 2012-10-09
(обновлено 2012-10-09)

Set in London, the play's action is put in motion by Lady Windermere's jealousy over her husband's interest in Mrs. Erlynne, a beautiful older woman with a mysterious past.

Unknown to Lady Windermere, Mrs. Erlynne is really her divorced mother who, for the past 20 years, has been presumed dead. Lord Windermere is merely hoping to ease the older woman's reentrance into society, which she attempts under a pseudonym.

In a fit of pique, Lady Windermere goes to the rooms of her ardent admirer, Lord Darlington. Mrs. Erlynne follows closely, saving her daughter from scandal by an act of generosity that ruins her own chances.

Oscar Wilde entirely dedicates this play to the exploration of the way a woman can be saved from destruction in this society of appearances. A woman was the victim of an imbroglio in the past and abandoned her daughter.

This woman comes back and the daughter ignores her relation to her. She is brought back into societry by the daughter's husband who knows the truth but does not want his wife to know it.

The daughter nearly does the same mistake as her mother but she is saved by her mother who accepts to be tainted in her daughter's place. Bus Oscar Wilde must think there is some kind of reward for a good deed and all is well that ends well, and this play has a happy ending too.

Oscar Wilde definitely explores in this play the great disadvantage of a woman in society. Men can do nearly all they want. Women are extremely limited and have to walk a very straight and narrow line. Oscar Wilde seems to be ahead of his time as for the fate of women: he seems to aspire for real equality for them.

Wit, intellectual, aesthete and raconteur, Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. His writing - including children's stories, poetry, philosophical essays, a novel and several hugely popular plays - made him the greatest celebrity of his day, and he remains one of the world's most frequently-quoted and well-loved writers.

An Ideal Husband (Audio Book) (v. 1.0)

Appieverse опубликовал приложение 2012-10-09
(обновлено 2012-10-09)

An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedy by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honor.

The action is set in London, in “the present”, and takes place within a single day. “Sooner or later,” Wilde notes, “we shall all have to pay for what we do.” But he adds that, “No one should be entirely judged by their past.”

An Ideal Husband is one of Oscar’s best plays.

He explores the political world in London and how a young ambitious but poor man can commit a crime, which is a mistake, to start his good fortune. But he builds his political career on ethical principles.

Sooner or later someone will come into the picture to blackmail him into supporting an unacceptable scheme, by producing a document that could ruin his career if revealed. His past mistake may come back heavily onto him.

But he resists and sticks to his moral reputation. He prefers doing what is right to yielding to some menace. He may lose though his political ambition and career and his wife's love.

But love is saved by forgiveness and the man's career is also saved by the work of a real friend who recaptures the dubious document and destroys it.

In other words love and an ethical career are saved by the burrying of the old mistake into oblivion. In other words love and friendship are stronger than the scheming action of a blackmailer.

Wit, intellectual, aesthete and raconteur, Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. His writing - including children's stories, poetry, philosophical essays, a novel and several hugely popular plays - made him the greatest celebrity of his day, and he remains one of the world's most frequently-quoted and well-loved writers.

The Time Machine (Audio Book) (v. 1.0)

Appieverse опубликовал приложение 2012-10-07
(обновлено 2012-10-07)

The time? 802,701 A.D.

The place? An Earth stranger than you can imagine.

The people? A pretty, childlike race, the Eloi-and their distant cousins, the Morlocks: disgusting, hairy creatures who live in caves and feed on the flesh of-what?

Enter the Time Traveler, who has hurtled almost a million years into the future. After the Morlocks steal his machine, he may be trapped there forever...and at their mercy.

An unnamed time traveler sees the future of man (802701 A.D.) and then the inevitable future of the world. He tells his tale in details.

It goes without saying that this book is a science fiction classic in every sense of the word and that H.G. Wells was a founding father of the genre.

The Time Machine was first published in 1895 and later directly adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It indirectly inspired many more works of fiction in all media.

This novella is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposefully and selectively.

The term "time machine", coined by Wells, is now universally used to refer to such a vehicle. Wells introduces an early example of the Dying Earth subgenre as well.

The story was first published in serial form in the New Review through 1894 and 1895. The book is based on the Block Theory of the Universe, which is a notion that time is a fourth space dimension.

The whole book seems to be a warning against scientific omniscience and communal living.

The future human society that the Time Traveler finds is supposedly ideal--free of disease, wars, discrimination, intensive labor, poverty, etc.

However, the great works of man have been lost--architectural, scientific, philosophical, literary, etc.--and human beings have basically become children, each one dressing, looking, and acting the same.

Little Wars (Audio Book) (v. 1.0)

Appieverse опубликовал приложение 2012-10-07
(обновлено 2012-10-07)

Miniature war-gaming got its start with the publication in 1913 of this thoroughly entertaining little account of how H.G. Wells, with his friends, took their childhood toys and turned play into acceptable middle-aged sport by subjecting the exercise to the civilizing influence of actual rules.

While war-gaming progressed far past these beginnings, Wells observes how “little wars” with even his elementary rules can suggest the wholesale crudity of the real thing.

“You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realize just what a blundering thing Great War must be.

Great War is at present, I am convinced, not only the most expensive game in the universe, but it is a game out of all proportion.

Not only are the masses of men and material and suffering and inconvenience too monstrously big for reason, but–the available heads we have for it, are too small.

That, I think, is the most pacific realization conceivable, and Little War brings you to it as nothing else but Great War can do.”

Wells leaves almost hanging the tantalizing concept that we might someday simulate war, as an instrument of international decision-making, rather than practice actual combat.

But most of this book is just the fun of evicting the boys from the playroom and spending happy days there, away from the “skirt-swishers”, developing the framework under which two gentlemen might meet and accumulate boastable victories!

Black for Luck and Others (v. 1.0)

Appieverse опубликовал приложение 2012-09-24
(обновлено 2012-09-24)

"A miscellaneous collection of short stories, not featuring any of Wodehouse's regular characters, most concern love and romance and, being Wodehouse, all are amusing."

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was an English humorist, whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career that lasted more than seventy years and his many writings continue to be widely read.

Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of pre-war English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career.

You will find following stories in this book.

01: Bill the Bloodhound
02: Wilton's Holiday
03: The Making of Mac's
04: Black for Luck

The Man With Two Left Feet (v. 1.0)

Appieverse опубликовал приложение 2012-09-24
(обновлено 2012-09-24)

The Man With Two Left Feet and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse.

All the stories had previously appeared in periodicals, usually the Strand in the UK and the Red Book magazine or the Saturday Evening Post in the US. It is a fairly miscellaneous collection — some stories concern relationships, sports and household pets, and do not feature any of Wodehouse's regular characters; one, however, "Extricating Young Gussie", is notable for the first appearance in print of two of Wodehouse's best-known characters, Jeeves and his master Bertie Wooster and Bertie's fearsome Aunt Agatha.

01 - Extricating Young Gussie
02 - The Romance of an Ugly Policeman
03 - A Sea of Troubles
04 - The Man with Two Left Feet

A Man of Means (Audio Book) (v. 1.0)

Appieverse опубликовал приложение 2012-09-24
(обновлено 2012-09-24)

A Man of Means is a collection of six short stories written in collaboration by P. G. Wodehouse and C. H. Bovill. The stories all star Roland Bleke, a nondescript young man to whom financial success comes through a series of “lucky” chances, the first from a win in a sweepstake he had forgotten entering. Roland, like many a timid young man seeks love and marriage.

In this pursuit his wealth is regularly a mixed blessing. The plot of each story follows its predecessor, sometimes directly, and occasionally refer back to past events in Bleke’s meteoric career. The writing style is crisp and droll, and shows much of the skill and polish of the later Wodehouse.

The disasters that befall the hapless Bleke are entertainingly recounted and his unforeseen rescues surprise and delight. In the character of the butler, Mr Teal, we meet an early draft of the ingenious Jeeves.

Find our more in this book.

1 – The Episode of the Landlady’s Daughter
2 – The Episode of the Financial Napoleon
3 – The Episode of the Theatrical Venture
4 – The Episode of the Live Weekly
5 – The Diverting Episode of the Exiled Monarch
6 – The Episode of the Hired Past

Coffee Break Collection(Audio) (v. 1.0)

Appieverse опубликовал приложение 2012-09-24
(обновлено 2012-09-24)

This is a collection of short (15 minute or less readings) stories suitable for a coffee break at work or a short commuter ride. Emphasis for this collection is Humor in various genres — fiction and non-fiction.

Hope you enjoy them!

01. Aspects of Game Captaincy by P.G. Wodehouse
02. Beyond Pandora by Robert J. Martin
03. The Boar-Pig by Saki
04. Closing Number by Will M. Cressy
05. A Cosmopolite In A Cafe by O. Henry
06. Vaudeville Vs The Legitimate by Will M. Cressy
07. When Papa Swore in Hindustani by P.G. Wodehouse
08. The Greedy Dog by Lida Brown McMurry
09. Hard Guy by H. B. Carleton
10. Journalism in Tennessee by Mark Twain
11. Life’s Eternal Query by Thomas L. Masson
12. Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor by B.P. Shillaber
13. Selections from Mr. Punch Awheel edited by Sir J. A. Hammerton
14. My Watch by Mark Twain
15. The New Advertising by P.G. Wodehouse
16. Noting an Increase in Bigamy from Love Conquers All by Robert Benchley
17. Ode to my Clothes by William Schwenck Gilbert
18. On University Snobs by W. M. Thackeray
19. Poppa Needs Shorts by Walt and Leigh Richmond
20. A Rash Assumption from Punch 9 Dec 1914
21. Reginald In Russia by Saki
22. The Steam-Roller Man’s Story (1914) by Harry J. Rowland and George Hay
23. The Two Doves by Lida Brown McMurry

The Science of Being Well (v. 1.0)

Appieverse опубликовал приложение 2012-09-24
(обновлено 2012-09-24)

If you are seeking better health and ways to stay well…This book is for you!
Wallace D. Wattles was an American author and a pioneer success new thought movement writer. His most famous work and first book is a book called The Science of Getting Rich in which he explains how to get rich. Additionally, In the Science of Getting Well, Wattles suggests the reader to think and ACT in a Certain Way.

As with his first book, Wattles explains in simple concepts the keys to Getting Well. With faith and discipline, Wattles suggests you can stay well. Says Wattles “for those who want health, and who want a practical guide and handbook, not a philosophical treatise. It is an instructor in the use of the universal Principle of Life, and my effort has been to explain the way in so plain and simple a fashion that the reader, though he may have given no previous study to New Thought or metaphysics, may readily follow it to perfect health”.

00 - Preface
01 - The Principle of Health
02 - The Foundation of Faith
03 - Life and Its Organisms
04 - What to Think
05 - Faith
06 - Use of the Will
07 - Health From God
08 - Summary of the Mental Actions
09 - When to Eat
10 - What to Eat
11 - How to Eat
12 - Hunger and Appetites
13 - In a Nutshell
14 - Breathing
15 - Sleep
16 - Supplementary Instructions
17 - A Summary of the Science of Being Well

Phaedrus (Audio Book) (v. 1.0)

Appieverse опубликовал приложение 2012-09-21
(обновлено 2012-09-21)

“For there is no light of justice or temperance, or any of the higher ideas which are precious to souls, in the earthly copies of them: they are seen through a glass, dimly…”

Socrates and his earnest friend Phaedrus, enjoying the Athenian equivalent of a lunchtime stroll in the park, exchange views on love and on the power of words, spoken and written.

Phaedrus is the most enchanting of Plato’s Erotic dialogues (capitalised in honour of the god). The barefoot philosopher urges an eager young acquaintance – who has allowed his lover’s oratorical skills to impress him overmuch – to re-examine the text of Lysias’s speech in the light of his own exalted (and Platonic) vision of Love.

Not long ago this early example of literary dismantling was itself deconstructed by a contemporary sage - Jacques Derrida.

The present reader tries to present Socrates as he conceivably was: the chortling, pot-bellied ex-soldier, a flirtatious yet charismatic talker with a serious passion for Truth.

This book is translated by Benjamin Jowett.


01 - "My dear Phaedrus, whence come you..."
02 - "What an incomprehensible being you are..."
03 - "Now, Socrates, what do you think?"
04 - "And now, dear Phaedrus, I shall pause..."
05 - "Your love of discourse, Phaedrus, is superhuman..."
06 - "I might tell of many other noble deeds..."
07 - "Thus far I have been speaking..."
08 - "And so the beloved, who, like a god..."
09 - "Shall we discuss the rules of writing...?"
10 - "Suppose that you read me the first words..."
11 - "Leave the unimportant..."
12 - "Oratory is the art of enchanting the soul..."
13 - "Enough appears to have been said..."
14 - "And now, Phaedrus, having agreed..."