Audiobooks Narrated by Abigail Weir

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (also known as Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford. It details the story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre.  Plot: Alice, a young girl, sits bored by a riverbank and spots a White Rabbit with a pocket watch and waistcoat lamenting that he is late. Surprised, Alice follows him down a rabbit hole, which sends her into a lengthy plummet but to a safe landing. Inside a room with a table, she finds a key to a tiny door, beyond which is a garden. While pondering how to fit through the door, she discovers a bottle labelled 'Drink me'. Alice drinks some of the bottle's contents, and to her astonishment, she shrinks small enough to enter the door. However, she had left the key upon the table and cannot reach it. Alice then discovers and eats a cake labelled 'Eat me', which causes her to grow to a tremendous size. Unhappy, Alice bursts into tears, and the passing White Rabbit flees in a panic, dropping a fan and two gloves. Alice uses the fan for herself, which causes her to shrink once more and leaves her swimming in a pool of her own tears. Within the pool, Alice meets various animals and birds, who convene on a bank and engage in a 'Caucus Race' to dry themselves. Following the end of the race, Alice inadvertently frightens the animals away by discussing her cat... CREATED: Narrated by Abigail Weir Author: Lewis Carroll Date of original publication: 1865 Genre: children's novel Language : English Version : unabridged, full/complete Without subtitles"

Lewis Carroll (Author), Abigail Weir (Narrator)

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Wuthering Heights

"Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name 'Ellis Bell'. It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with the Earnshaws' foster son, Heathcliff. The novel, influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction, is considered a classic of English literature. Wuthering Heights was accepted by publisher Thomas Newby along with Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey before the success of their sister Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre, but they were published later. After Emily's death, Charlotte edited a second edition of Wuthering Heights, which was published in 1850. Wuthering Heights is now widely considered to be one of the greatest novels ever written in English, but contemporaneous reviews were polarised. It was controversial for its depictions of mental and physical cruelty, including domestic abuse, and for its challenges to Victorian morality, religion, and the class system. CREATED: Narrated by Abigail Weir Author: Emily Brontë Date of original publication: 1847 Genre: novel Language : English Version : unabridged, full/complete Without subtitles"

Emily Brontë (Author), Abigail Weir (Narrator)

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The Yellow Wallpaper

"Audiobook 'The Yellow Wallpaper' (original title: 'The Yellow Wall-paper. A Story') is a short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature for its illustration of the attitudes towards mental and physical health of women in the 19th century. It is also lauded as an excellent work of horror fiction. The story is written as a collection of journal entries narrated in the first person. The journal was written by a woman whose physician husband has rented an old mansion for the summer. Forgoing other rooms in the house, the husband confines the woman to an upstairs nursery. As a form of treatment, the husband forbids the journal writer from working or writing, and encourages her to eat well and get plenty of air so that she can recuperate from what he calls a 'temporary nervous depression – a slight hysterical tendency', a common diagnosis in women at the time. As the reader continues through the journal entries, they experience the writer's gradual descent into madness with nothing better to do than observe the peeling yellow wallpaper in her room. CREATED: Narrated by Abigail Weir Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman Date of original publication: 1892 Genre: short story Language : English Version : unabridged, full/complete Without subtitles"

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Author), Abigail Weir (Narrator)

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