Scarlet Pimpernel, The (MP3) Perhaps the most famous alias of all time, "The Scarlet Pimpernel" hides the identity of a British nobleman who, masked by various disguises, leads a band of young men to undermine the Reign of Terror after the French Revolution. ...
English
2005
Screwtape Letters, The (MP3) “Apparently this Oxford don and Cambridge professor is going to be around for a long time; he calls himself a dinosaur but he seems to speak to people where they are.”—The Washington Post Book World
“If wit and wisdom, s ...
English
2005
Sea Wolf, The (MP3) He is a man capable of abandoning two sailors in an open boat, yet he is an avid and thoughtful reader of the moral philosophers. He is Wolf Larsen-captain of the seal-hunting Ghost and the unforgettable protagonist of one of the ...
English
2003
Secret Adversary, The (MP3) The Secret Adversary
By Agatha Christie
Narrated by Penelope Dellaporta
Set in 1919, young couple Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley form a partnership, hiring themselves out as "young adventurers". Their first case, howev ...
English
2007
Sense and Sensibility (MP3) The first of Jane Austen's novels to be published, Sense and Sensibility marked the debut of England's primary novelist of manners. Convinced that "3 or 4 families in a country village is the very thing to work upon," Austen creat ...
English
2003
Shadow-Line, The (MP3) Written at the start of the Great War, when his son Borys was at the Western Front, The Shadow-Line is Conrad�s supreme effort to open man�s eyes to the meaning of war through the stimulus of art. In many ways an autobiographi ...
English
2004
Shakespeare For Children (MP3) Introduce your children to the magic of Shakespeare with these twenty favorite tales. Although simplified, these animated stories don't underestimate young readers - they keep the complexity, twists of plot, and turns of fate foun ...
English
2005
Son of Tarzan, The (MP3) Paulvitch seeks revenge against Tarzan once again, this time by luring Lord Greystoke's rebellious son away from London. The great ape Akut foils the plot of revenge as he helps the boy escape the wrath of Paulvitch. Akut and the ...
English
2005
Son of the Middle Border, A (MP3) Unabridged
A Son of the Middle Border is an epic story of the quest for new frontiers during the last half of the nineteenth century and of the gradual, heartbreaking failure of America?s pioneer ideal.
Drawing on the hist ...
English
2005
South Sea Tales (MP3) Most readers are familiar with Jack London's stories of the frozen northland, such as White Fang and To Light a Fire, but many critics feel he should be equally acknowledged for his fascinating stories of the South Pacific. Here i ...
English
2003
Stalky & Co. (MP3) Based on Kipling's own adolescent experiences, Stalky & Co. is a cunning story of mischievous 19th century British schoolboys attempting scholastic mutiny. The faculty and headmaster of a boys' private school repeatedly pursue a t ...
English
2005
Strange Fiction: Stories by H.G. Wells (MP3) Nine stories including "The Door in the Wall," "The Country of the Blind," "The Truth About Pycraft," and "The Strange Orchid."
"Each piece of narration is invested with gristliness and wit." - Talking Book World
English
2003
Summer (MP3) Written in Paris in 1916, as Edith Whaton contemplated the German army's approach, SUMMER is her most erotic and lyrical novel. The setting for the book, however, is far away from Paris, in the same rigid New England she used forE ...