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1Good Soldier

By Ford Madox Ford

The Good Soldier (1915) "... is set just before World War I and chronicles the tragedies of the lives of two seemingly perfect couples. The novel is told using a series of flashbacks in non-chronological order, a literary technique pioneered by Ford. It also makes use of the device of the unreliable narrator, as the main character gradually reveals a version of events that is quite different from what the introduction leads you to believe. The novel was loosely based on two incidents of adultery and on Ford's messy personal life.” (Summary by Wikipedia)<br><br> Music in sections 1-5 "Minuet in G flat major and Valse Bluette" by Beethoven.

2My Life and Work

By Henry Ford

Henry Ford profiles the events that shaped his personal philosophy, and the challenges he overcame on the road to founding the Ford Motor Company. Throughout his memoir, he stresses the importance of tangible service and physical production over relative value as judged by profits and money. He measures the worth of a business or government by the service it provides to all, not the profits in dollars it accumulates. He also makes the point that only service can provide for human needs, as opposed to laws or rules which can only prohibit specific actions and do not provide for the necessaries of life. Ford applies his reasoning to the lending system, transportation industry, international trade and interactions between labor and management. For each, he proposes solutions that maximize service and provide goods at the lowest cost and highest quality. He analyzes from a purely material viewpoint, going as far as to argue that the need for a good feeling in work environments may reflect a character flaw or weakness. However, his unflinching focus on the ultimate material products and necessities of life provide clever insights in how he created an efficient and flexible system for providing reliable transportation for the average person. (Summary by LivelyHive)

3Fifth Queen

By Ford Madox Ford

The Fifth Queen trilogy is a series of connected historical novels by English novelist Ford Madox Ford. It consists of three novels, The Fifth Queen; And How She Came to Court (1906), Privy Seal (1907) and The Fifth Queen Crowned (1908), which present a highly fictionalized account of Katharine Howard's marriage to King Henry VIII. (Summary by Wikipedia)<br><br> <a href="https://librivox.org/the-fifth-queen-by-ford-madox-ford/">The Fifth Queen</a><br> <a href="https://librivox.org/privy-seal-his-last-venture-by-ford-madox-ford/">Privy Seal</a><br>

4Great K. & A. Train-Robbery

By Paul Leicester Ford

In this short novel the narrator is a superintendent on the K. & A. railroad, sometime in the late nineteenth century. The train is robbed somewhere in the Arizona desert. Various adventures involve this young superintendent. Romance is provided by a comely passenger. (Summary by David Wales)

One of the most shocking plays produced in England during the reign of Charles I, 'Tis Pity She's A Whore chronicles the disastrous results of an incestuous affair between fatalistic Italian siblings, Giovanni and Annabella. As suitors vie for Annabella's hand, various webs of deception and revenge intertwine, culminating in a bloody finale. (Summary by Elizabeth Barr)<br><br /> <b>CAST LIST<br></b>Bonaventura, a Friar/ Bergetto, Nephew to Donado: <a href="http://librivox.ord/reader/7170">alanmapstone</a><br>A Cardinal, Nuncio to the Pope AND Banditti: <a href="http://librivox.ord/reader/4705">Algy Pug</a><br>Soranzo, a Nobleman: <a href="http://librivox.ord/reader/8169">tovarisch</a><br>Florio, Citizen of Parma: <a href="http://librivox.ord/reader/3912">Bob Neufeld </a><br>Donado, Citizen of Parma: <a href="http://librivox.ord/reader/8087">Arnie Horton</a><br>Grimaldi, a Roman Gentleman: <a href="http://librivox.ord/reader/4267">Ric F</a><br>Giovanni, Son to Florio: <a href="http://librivox.ord/reader/7079">Chuck Williamson</a><br>Richardetto, a supposed Physician: <a href="http://librivox.ord/reader/26">Denny Sayers</a><br>Vasques, Servant to Soranzo: <a href="http://librivox.ord/reader/7040">Chris Marcellus</a><br>Poggio, Servant to Bergetto: <a href="http://librivox.ord/reader/7410">laurenburwell</a><br>Annabella, Daughter to Florio: <a href="http://librivox.ord/reader/5269">Elizabeth Barr</a><br>Hippolita, Wife to Richardetto: <a href="http://elizabethklettaudio.com">Elizabeth Klett</a><br>Philotis, his Niece: <a href="http://charlotteduckett.wordpress.com/">Charlotte Duckett</a><br>Putana, Tutoress to Annabella: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/AmandaFridayVoiceoverArtist">Amanda Friday</a><br>Officer(s): <a href="http://librivox.ord/reader/7679">Libby Gohn</a><br>Servant: <a href="http://librivox.ord/reader/7138">CaprishaPage</a><br>Narrator: <a href="http://librivox.ord/reader/6548">Kristingj</a>

6Witch of Edmonton

By Thomas Dekker, John Ford and William Rowley

Mother Elizabeth Sawyer is a poor, lonely, and unfairly ostracized old woman with nothing left to lose. Frank is a poor farmer who intends to marry his beloved Winnifred, who is pregnant with his child, but is pressured to marry Susan, the rich yeoman's daughter. Young Cuddy Banks is a clown who pines after a girl who doesn't love him. When Mother Sawyer turns to witchcraft after being unjustly accused of it, a talking devil-dog named Tom (performed by a human actor) comes to her aid, becoming her familiar and only friend. Though she intends to get her revenge, little does she know many of those around her are only too willing to sell their souls to the devil all by themselves. The play was inspired by the real-life story of Elizabeth Sawyer, who had been executed for witchcraft on 19 April 1621, and draws heavily on a pamphlet by Henry Goodcole, The wonderful discoverie of Elizabeth Sawyer, Witch (1621). While the pamphlet may be very ready to capitalize on the sensational story of a witch and portray Sawyer as simply a bad woman, the play does not permit an easy and comfortable demonization of her. It presents her as a product of society rather than an anomaly in it. - Summary by Mary Kay <br><br> <b>Cast</b><br />Narrator: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/8883" rel="nofollow">LydiaCW</a><br />Mother Elizabeth Sawyer: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/6281" rel="nofollow">Elizabby</a><br />Anne: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/ 9872" rel="nofollow">Newgatenovelist</a><br />Susan: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10179" rel="nofollow">Kitty</a><br />Katherine: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/6548" rel="nofollow">Kristingj</a><br />Winnifred: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/1259" rel="nofollow">gloriana</a><br />Sir Arthur Clarington: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/9905" rel="nofollow">Hamlet</a><br />Old Thorney / Hamluc: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/8799" rel="nofollow">unreadpages</a><br />Carter: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/6754" rel="nofollow">ToddHW</a><br />Warbeck: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10396" rel="nofollow">jburlinson</a><br />Somerton: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10542" rel="nofollow">Salvationist</a><br />Frank Thorney: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/2624" rel="nofollow">Dave in the Fax</a><br />Old Banks: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/7170" rel="nofollow">alanmapstone</a><br />Cuddy Banks: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10528" rel="nofollow">BlueFunk</a><br />Dog, aka Tom: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/8164" rel="nofollow">RobBoard</a><br />Ratcliffe: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10459" rel="nofollow">McFarlane</a><br />Justice / Constable: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/6065" rel="nofollow">dlolso21</a><br />First Clown / First Countryman: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/9755" rel="nofollow">Khaghbboommm</a><br />Second Clown / Second Countryman: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/7315" rel="nofollow">catrose</a><br />Third Clown / Third Countryman: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10614" rel="nofollow">leanneyauyau</a><br />Fourth Clown / Sawgut: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/9905" rel="nofollow">Hamlet</a><br /><b>Edited by:</b> <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/5796" rel="nofollow">carteki</a> and <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/5796" rel="nofollow">linny</a>

A fast-paced, somewhat racey look into the life, accomplishments and idiosyncrasies of Benjamin Franklin. Acclaimed biographer Paul L. Ford uses Franklin’s letters, papers and journals to step us through Franklin's many adventures, to reveal intimate details of his personal life - relations with siblings, wife, children, friends, business partners; his physique, health, illnesses, schooling, personal habits and goals; his opinions on education, philosophy, religion, friendship, industry; his library; his career as printer and publisher, writer and journalist, politician and diplomat, scientist, humorist, jack of all trades; and his relations at home and abroad with the “fairer sex“. Goes beyond the official Autobiography. A must read for Franklin devotees. - Summary by Michele Fry, Soloist

'Most of us love places very much as we may love what, for us, are the distinguished men of our social lives. [...] We are, all of us who are Londoners, paying visits of greater or less duration to a Personality that, whether we love it or very cordially hate it, fascinates us all. And, paying my visit, I have desired to give some such record.<br /><br /> I have tried to make it anything rather than encyclopaedic, topographical, or archaeological. To use a phrase of literary slang I have tried to "get the atmosphere" of modern London -- of the town in which I have passed so many days; of the immense place that has been the background for so many momentous happenings to so many of my fellows.' - Summary by Ford Madox Ford, from the Introductory; 1905.

The Broken Heart stands next to ‘Tis Pity She's a Whore as Ford's most popular drama. All is not right in Sparta because of, as is typical in this era of tragedies, the issue of marriage. In brief, Penthea wishes to marry Orgilus, but her brother Ithocles gets involved and bans them from doing so. He forces her to marry Bassanes, an abusive brute who happens to be wealthier than Orgilus. Ithocles then realises what he's done wrong and tries to get his friend Prophilus to marry Orgilus's sister Euphrania. Ithocles himself wants to marry the princess of Sparta, Calantha, who chooses him over her current betrothed, her cousin Nearchus. Thus begins a shocking cycle of revenge and recrimination... with predictably grisly consequences. (Charlotte Duckett & ChuckW)<BR><BR><b>Cast list:</b><BR> Amyclas, King of Laconis: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/8808">davidpr</a><br> Ithocles, a Favourite: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/11507">Stuart Partin</a><br> Orgilus, Son of Crotolon: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10789">Tomas Peter</a><br> Bassanes, a jealous Nobleman: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/9905">Hamlet</a><br> Armostes, a Counsellor of the State: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10357">Mike Harris</a><br> Crotolon, another Counsellor: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/9755">Khaghbboommm</a><br> Prophilus, Friend of Ithocles: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10671">LindaB</a><br> Nearchus, Prince of Argos: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/7170">alanmapstone</a><br> Tecnicus, a Philosopher: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/8169">tovarisch</a><br> Hemophil, a Courtier: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/1724">Anna Simon</a><br> Amelus, friend to Nearchus: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/6754">ToddHW</a><br> Phulas, Servant to Bassanes: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10542">David Purdy</a><br> Calantha, Daughter of Amyclas: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10179">Sonia</a><br> Penthea, Sister of Ithocles and Wife of Bassanes: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/7315">Charlotte Duckett</a><br> Euphranea, Daughter of Crotolon, a Maid of honour: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/8677">KHand</a><br> Christalla, a Maid of honour: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10466">sawasawaya</a><br> Grausis, Overseer of Penthea: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/4174">Availle</a><br> Groneas, a Courtier: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10528">K. Adrian Stroet</a><br> First Servant: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/4174">Availle</a><br> Philema, a Maid of honour: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10614">Leanne Yau</a><br> Stage Directions: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/7079">Chuck Williamson</a><br><br> Editor: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/7079">Chuck Williamson</a>

10Inheritors

By Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford

The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story (1901) is a quasi-science fiction novel on which Ford Madox Ford and Joseph Conrad collaborated. It looks at society's mental evolution and what is gained and lost in the process. Written before the first World War, its themes of corruption and the effect of the 20th Century on British aristocracy appeared to predict history. In the novel, the metaphor of the "fourth dimension" is used to explain a societal shift from a generation of people who have traditional values of interdependence, being overtaken by a modern generation who believe in expediency, callously using political power to bring down the old order. - Summary by Wikipedia

11Hooded Detective: 6 Action Packed Pulp Detective Stories

By Cliff Campbell, J. Lloyd Conrich, T. W. Ford, Roy Giles, David Goodis, Wilbur S. Peacock, Matt Rand and Harry Stein

Evil lurks in the hearts and minds of men and many nefarious schemes are hatched by these gangsters, mob bosses and super villains. But thankfully, equally brave, talented detectives (some of them hooded) are there to track them down and thwart their twisted plans. These six stories, along with two "true fact detective shorts" were in the magazine Hooded Detective, January 1942. Are they well written? well, no, but they are fun. Here are a few of the blurbs: "They had expected spaghetti with meat sauce for dinner, but were served instead, hot lead, with a little bit of blood on the side...." (A Dinner Date with Murder) "Wilson Lamb cuddled his automatic to play "Mr. Death" and fingered little Louis Engel for coffin cargo. But when he pulled the trigger, Whisper the gun-cobra from Chi spilled out of Doom's deck.." (Candidate for a Coffin). How can you top that last sentence? - Summary by Phil chenevert

A travel journal of a year the author spent in Germany. With a preface and two additional chapters by her partner, the novelist Ford Madox Ford (here using the surname Hueffer). - Summary by barbara2

13Shorty McCabe

By Sewell Ford

Yes, it's been a couple of years since I quit the ring. . . . I slid into a quiet corner for a month or so, and then I dropped into the only thing I knew how to do, trainin' comers to go against the champs. It ain't like pullin' down your sixty per cent of the gate receipts, but there's worse payin' jobs.<br /><br />Course, there's times when I finds myself up against it. It was durin' one of them squeezes, not so long ago, that I gets mixed up with Leonidas Dodge, and all that foolishness. Ah, it wa'n't anything worth wastin' breath over. You would? Honest? Well, it won't take long, I guess. - Summary by Sewell Ford

14Raid of Dover: A Romance of the Reign of Woman A.D. 1940

By Douglas Morey Ford

Britain is ruled by women who experience invasion and natural disasters. Men eventually figure out a plan to regain power to replace the government. - Summary by Kirk Z

15Chronicles of America Volume 14 - Washington and His Colleagues

By Henry Jones Ford

This next volume of the Chronicles of American series investigates Washington's development in the day to day world the various dimensions of the newly conceived Federal government with a president, a congress, a supreme court, a cabinet (his own creation), and a state department. Washington, being a man of great strength and character forged his own way, but was surrounded by all those remarkable men who had been his friends and helpers and challengers too in his past who became his colleagues in the endeavor to make the new form of government succeed against sometimes unforeseen and difficult situations.

Joseph Conrad (1857 – 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. Conrad wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of what he saw as an impassive, inscrutable universe. Conrad collaborated in some works with Ford Madox Ford. Ford (1873 – 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals The English Review and The Transatlantic Review were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English literature. Ford in this memoir quotes extensively from Conrad's works and in the audible version it is sometimes difficult to determine where the quotes begin and end.- Summary by David Wales

17Good Soldier (Version 2)

By Ford Madox Ford

First published in 1915, The Good Soldier might be characterised as a melodrama of English upper class infidelities, cut into little pieces, then retold out of sequence by a narrator who occasionally appears to be half asleep. That is not wholly wrong, yet many have seen in this novel's beguiling voice, innovative narrative technique, and acute depiction of erotic repression a literary masterpiece. In 2015, the BBC ranked The Good Soldier 13th on its list of the 100 greatest British novels. (Summary by Peter Dann)

18Some Do Not...

By Ford Madox Ford

Set immediately before and during the Great War, Some Do Not... is a tale of social cruelty among the English upper classes that pits real honour against shameless duplicity and subjects its principal characters to extremes of mental suffering that appear to be analogous to the (never directly described) physical horrors of the actual fighting. The plot revolves around the mores and desires of the intellectually brilliant but impossibly high-minded Christopher Tietjens, his icy wife Sylvia, and Valentine Wannop, a poor but well-educated young woman who loves Christopher, and is in many ways his moral and intellectual equal. In its time, the novel was unusual for its daring, often disorienting, use of flashbacks within scenes, for its scrambling together of interior and spoken dialog, and for the demand it places on the reader to interpret what is "really" taking place on the basis of slender and widely dispersed clues. As Julian Barnes has written "It will be a very rare reader who does not intermittently look up from the page to ask, ‘But did I know that? Have we been told that already or not?’ " Notwithstanding these difficulties, Malcolm Bradbury has described Parade's End, the tetralogy of which Some Do Not... forms the first part, as being, in toto, "the greatest modern war novel from a British writer".<br> <br> As the text sometimes mentions persons' names out of context, the following list of characters is included to help the listener keep track of who is who:<br> Christopher Tietjens: intellectually brilliant youngest son of a wealthy landowner.<br> Sylvia Tietjens, née Sattherthwaite: Christopher Tietjens' wife.<br> Mrs Satterthwaite: Sylvia Tietjens' mother.<br> Father Consett: an Irish priest, friend of the Satterthwaites.<br> Vincent Macmaster: a colleague and friend of Christopher Tietjens.<br> General Campion: an old friend of Christopher Tietjens' father.<br> Lady Claudine Sandbach: sister of General Campion. Wife of Paul Sandbach.<br> Paul Sandbach, Conservative politician, husband of Lady Claudine Sandbach.<br> Mrs Duchemin: wife of the Rev. Mr. Duchemin, an Anglican clergyman.<br> Valentine Wannop: daughter of Professor Wannop, deceased (an old friend of Christopher Tietjens' father) and Mrs Wannop.<br> Gertie Wilson: friend of Valentine Wannop, wanted by police for allegedly criminal suffragette activities.<br> Mrs Wannop: an accomplished novelist and journalist fallen on hard times.<br> Lord Port Scatho: manager of one of London's greatest and most respected banks.<br> Mr Brownlie ("Brownie"): banker and nephew of Lord Port Scatho. Hopes to marry Sylvia Tietjens if/when she divorces Christopher.<br> Mark Tietjens: Christopher Tietjens oldest but childless brother. Current occupant of Groby, the Tietjens' estate.<br> Ruggles: A friend of Mark Tietjens who shares his London quarters and deals extensively in gossip.<br> Glorvina: Nickname of a 'great lady' who is the mother of two of Sylvia Tietjens' closest friends.<br> - Summary by Peter Dann

When No More Parades was first published in 1925, a critic in The Observer wrote of the first 100 pages that they "easily surpass in truth, brilliance and subtlety everything else that has yet been written in England about the physical circumstances and moral atmosphere of the war". The second novel in the Parade's End tetralogy, No More Parades places army captain (and former civil servant and statistician) Christopher Tietjens, his beautiful but cruel wife Sylvia, and Tietjens' jealous and tempestuous godfather and commanding officer General Campion in, and just behind, the lines at Rouen, France in 1917, where Christopher finds himself subject not only to physical, but also to mental and moral torments that speak volumes about the society of which he is a part, and which will perhaps surprise many a modern reader/listener. - Summary by Peter Dann

20Queen Who Flew: A Fairy Tale

By Ford Madox Ford

In this delightful tale, the naive and sheltered Queen Eldrida learns the secret of flight from her friend the bat and sets off by air for a series of unusual adventures. In her travels she meets new friends - and foes - and discovers the joy of being of use to her fellows. (Summary by Scarbo)

21Privy Seal: His Last Venture

By Ford Madox Ford

This is the second book in Ford's Fifth Queen trilogy, a series of historical novels presenting a fictionalized version of the life of Katharine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII. In this installment, the king is becoming increasingly drawn to Katharine. He is married to Anne of Cleves, however, and Katharine's unwillingness to be the cause of a divorce stands in the way of her accepting queenship. Meanwhile, Lord Privy Seal Thomas Cromwell and his men conspire to use Katharine as a pawn for their own political ends. (Summary by Scarbo)<br><br> <a href="https://librivox.org/the-fifth-queen-by-ford-madox-ford/">The Fifth Queen</a><br> <a href="https://librivox.org/privy-seal-his-last-venture-by-ford-madox-ford/">Privy Seal</a><br>

Major Edward Brent Foster is on his way to a house in the country to stay with his aunt and uncle. So are his fiancée Olympia Peabody, his actress friend Flossie Delamare, and the novelist Juliana Kerr Howe, with whom he has a complicated relationship. To make matters more awkward, the house in question is that of Lady Mary Savylle, the major’s former lover. And as if that weren't enough, the revelation of a secret panel allowing guests’ rooms to communicate has the potential to lead to some compromising situations. Can the major keep Miss Peabody’s jealousy at bay? Will chaos ensue, or can the canny Nancy, Lady Savylle’s maid, maintain order in the household? (Summary by Scarbo)

'A Man Could Stand Up' is the third, and culminating, part of Ford Madox Ford's 'Parade's End' tetralogy of novels, which begins with 'Some Do Not', followed by 'No More Parades', and whose coda would be 'Last Post'. While 'A Man Could Stand Up' can be appreciated on its own, it will make far better sense to a listener or reader already familiar with its predecessors. It's at once a war story (the middle section is set in the trenches in France, in 1918), a story of immense upheaval in social mores, and a passionate, if extraordinarily restrained, love story. Just like, say, Virginia Woofe's 'Mrs Dalloway', published the previous year, Ford's novel is pitched at readers who are assumed to be highly literate and well-educated. (Summary by Peter Dann)

The headstrong Princess Ernalie is one day carried off from her kingdom by an eagle. Unable to return home because of impassable terrain, she settles into her new home with the former king and queen of the land, who have been dethroned. She then discovers that a feather from the tail of the eagle who carried her off gives her the power of invisibility.<br><br> When she gets to know the king and queen's son Treblo, love spurs her on to undertake a voyage to the moon in order to save his life. During this adventure, which she carries out with the help of the feather, she makes the acquaintance of no less than the Man in the Moon, the Fates, and the goddess Diana. But her flight home from the moon lands her back in her original homeland, divided from Treblo by impossibly hostile terrain. Can she find a way to reunite with him? (Summary by Scarbo)

25Fifth Queen Crowned

By Ford Madox Ford

This is the final book of Ford's The Fifth Queen trilogy, a series of historical novels presenting a fictionalized version of the life of Katharine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII. In this last installment, Katharine is now queen, but calumnious rumors gaining traction in the king's court are putting her reputation and life at stake. (Summary by Scarbo)<br><br> <a href="https://librivox.org/the-fifth-queen-by-ford-madox-ford/">The Fifth Queen</a><br> <a href="https://librivox.org/privy-seal-his-last-venture-by-ford-madox-ford/">Privy Seal</a><br>

The first of three collaborations between Conrad and Ford. On the verge of being found out in a matter of breach of fiduciary trust and financial scandal, the anonymous narrator contemplates suicide in a series of letters to his beloved.

27Romance

By Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford

Second of three collaborations between Conrad and Ford. The hero and narrator, John Kemp, gets involved with smugglers, Caribbean pirates, Irish rebels, prison, treachery,, and--need I add?--romance.

After a train accident, one Mr. Sorrell finds himself transported back to the Middle Ages, where he is mistaken for a Greek slave who works miracles. As he becomes acclimated to the customs and way of life of the time, and then as he falls in love, he finds himself feeling increasingly at home in the past. But will he be able to stay there? Summary by Scarbo

29Inheritors (Version 2)

By Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford

An invading group from the Fourth Dimension takes over a corrupt Earth - Summary by Mark Leder

30State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1975 - 1977)

By Gerald Ford

The State of the Union address is a speech or report presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress, typically delivered annually. The address not only reports on the condition of the nation but also allows the President to outline his legislative agenda (for which he needs the cooperation of Congress) and national priorities. This album contains recordings of addresses from Gerald Ford. - Summary by KevinS

31Last Post

By Ford Madox Ford

This is the last novel in Ford Madox Ford's "Parade's End" tetralogy. Its predecessors "Some Do Not", "No More Parades" and "A Man Could Stand Up" are all available on Librivox. In this coda to the tetralogy, the prevailing mood is elegiac. The foreground action takes place on a single day, some years after the Great War has ended, in the rural setting where Christopher Tietjens and his unmarried partner Valentine Wannop have settled down, and where Christopher's older brother lies unmoving under a thatched shelter, having long since suffered a stroke. Valentine is expecting a child, but Christopher's passionately irascible wife Sylvia has plans for upsetting this rural idyl. As always with Ford's mature work, the reader has to do some work to figure out "what is going on" as the tale jumps about in time and between points view, but Ford's display of narrative virtuosity is interlaced throughout with wry humour, and the novel's conclusion is heart-wrenchingly poignant. (Summary by Peter Dann)

32Call: The Tale of Two Passions

By Ford Madox Ford

The story of an English gentleman's relationship with two women. Ford's themes are reminiscent of Henry James: the tensions between desire and social conventions and expectations; the dilemmas when personal moral values are challenged by life's unexpected turns and tribulations. - Summary by Anthony Ogus