Greenmantle by John Buchan

Greenmantle is the second of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Mr Standfast (1919); Hannay's first and best-known adventure, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), is set in the period immediately before the war started. - Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world, and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to meet up with his friend Sandy in Constantinople. Once there, he and his friends must thwart the Germans' plans to use religion to help them win the war, climaxing at the battle of Erzurum. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Some interesting links about the book:
http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t45957.html
http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2005/08/greenmantle-by-john-buchan.html

As You Like It - William Shakespear

I decided to listen to As You Like it, because Phillipa, who read The Man Who Would Be King, and by far my most favourite audio book reader, reads the part for Celia.

Plot Summary
Copied from http://www.william-shakespeare.info/shakespeare-play-as-you-like-it.htm
As You Like It is considered by many to be one of Shakespeare's greatest comedies, and the heroine, Rosalind, is praised as one of his most inspiring characters and has more lines than any of Shakespeare's female characters. Rosalind, the daughter of a banished duke falls in love with Orlando the disinherited son of one of the duke's friends. When she is banished from the court by her usurping uncle, Duke Frederick , Rosalind switches genders and as Ganymede travels with her loyal cousin Celia and the jester Touchstone to the Forest of Arden, where her father and his friends live in exile. Observations on life and love follow (including love, aging, the natural world, and death) friends are made, and families are reunited. By the play's end Ganymede, once again Rosalind, marries her Orlando. Two other sets of lovers are also wed, one of them Celia and Orlando's mean older brother Oliver . As Oliver becomes a gentler, kinder young man so the Duke conveniently changes his ways and turns to religion and so that the exiled Duke, father of Rosalind, can rule once again.

Text of the paly at http://www.william-shakespeare.info/script-text-as-you-like-it.htm

Famous Quotes / QuotationsThe quotes from As You Like It are amongst Shakespeare's most famous including 'too much of a good thing' and 'All the world 's a stage, and all the men and women merely players'. Details of these famous quotes follow, complete with information regarding the Act and the Scene, allowing a quick reference to the section of the play that these quotations can be found in.
"All the world 's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts" As You Like It - (Act II, Scene VII).

"Can one desire too much of a good thing?". As You Like It (Act IV, Scene I).

"True is it that we have seen better days". As You Like It - Act II, Scene VII).

"For ever and a day". As You Like It - (Act IV, Scene I).

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool". (Act V, Scene I).

Audio download from here. http://www.archive.org/details/as_you_like_it_0902_librivox

The Man Who Would Be King - Rudyard Kipling

Read by Phillipa. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=Philippa%20AND%20mediatype%3Aaudio The Man Who Would Be King http://www.archive.org/details/man_wwb_king_0810_librivox tells the story of two British adventurers in British India who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan. It was inspired by the exploits of James Brooke, an Englishman who became the "white Raja" of Sarawak in Borneo, and by the travels of American adventurer Josiah Harlan, who claimed the title Prince of Ghor.

Interesting links on the story http://iwatchfilm.com/download-movie/The-Man-Who-Would-Be-King.html

39 Steps by John Buchan

This is the first audio book I listened to and it has opened a whole new activity for me. Actually look forward to the 2 1/2 hour commute each day, just so I can listen to yet another chapter in what ever book I am listening to at the time.
Read by Adrian Praetzellis http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=Praetzellis%20AND%20mediatype%3Aaudio and set just prior to WW 1, the story http://www.archive.org/details/39_steps_0807_librivox follows Richard Hannay's adventures as he tries to solve secret codes whilst staying one step ahead of murderers and spies.