Read by Richard Thomas. Convention and circumstance bind Ethan Frome to a wife he cannot love. Resigned to his fate, he sees for himself a bleak life. But the appearance of his ailing wife's cousin, Matte Silver, rouses a passion that provokes a last, desperate impulse to free himself
Arctic explorer, survival expert and naturalist Freddy Spencer Chapman was trapped behind enemy lines when the Japanese overran Malaya in 1942. His response was to begin a commando campaign of such lethal effectiveness that the Japanese deployed an entire regiment against him, hunting for him as they did for no other. He was wounded, and racked by tropical disease. His companions were killed, or captured...