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
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
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
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
Robinson Crusoe (MP3) One of the first true novels in the English language, Robinson Crusoe is the famous adventure of a castaway and his desert-island companion, Friday.
English
2003
Razor's Edge, The (MP3) The Great War changed everything and the years following it were tumultuous - most of all for those who lived the war first-hand. Maugham himself is a character in this novel of self-discovery and search for meaning, but the prota ...
English
2005
Poe: Collected Stories and Poems (MP3) "Eighteen best-loved stories and poems. Those below plus The Pit and the Pendulum, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Annabel Lee, and more."
"These fine recordings definitely deserve a prominent place in public schools and librari ...
English
2003
Pinocchio (MP3) The famous story of the puppet who wants to become a real boy.
The story of the wooden puppet who wants to be a real boy and his adventures and trouble-making - a classic still loved by children and adults.
English
2003
Picture of Dorian Gray, The (MP3) When The Picture of Dorian Gray was first published in 1891, it evoked a tremendous amount of hostile criticism, in most part due to its immoral content. Oscar Wilde was identified with the "art for art's sake" movement of the nin ...
English
2005
Peter Rabbit and Other Stories (MP3) "'Tales of Peter Rabbit,' 'The Tale of Benjamin Bunny,''Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies,' 'The Tale of Jeremy Fisher,''The'The Tailor of Gloucester' and many more."
"The younger set will be charmed by Maroney's crisp British accent. ...
English
2002
Oliver Twist (MP3) Unabridged
With the publication of this fiercely comic second novel, Charles Dickens's eminent literary reputation was firmly established. Oliver Twist was, according to Edgar Johnson, "a clarion peal announcing to the world th ...
English
2005
New England Days (MP3) Eight of Jewett's best, including "The Only Rose," "Miss Tempy's Watchers," "The Flight of Betsy Lane," and "Martha's Lady."
"Tana Hicken was an inspired choice for this material. My first exposure to Jewett. MORE! MORE!" - Mich ...
English
2003
Mystery of Edwin Drood, The (MP3) Against a background of opium dens, nocturnal graveyard visits, and moldering monastic crypts, Dickens weaves a tightly knit plot centered on the ominous disappearance of young Edwin Drood. Suspected of foul murder are John Jasper ...
English
2006
Mutiny of the Elsinore, The (MP3) Life has lost its savor for Mr. Pathurst. New York, fame, women, the arts, have all become tedious. Searching for excitement, he books passage on a cargo vessel sailing from Baltimore to Seattle on a route that travels around the ...
English
2005
Murders in the Rue Morgue (MP3) fourth floor room, a door locked with the key inside - no way in, no way out. Edgar Alan Poe is the true grandfather of the murder mystery. Decades before Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, Poe gave us C. Auguste Dupin, a man abl ...
English
2005
Man of Property, The (MP3) The Man of Property
by John Galsworthy
read by David Case
Unabridged
Audio Sample
Galsworthy won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932 “for his distinguished art of narration, which takes its highest form in The Forsyte S ...
English
2006
Making of a Marchioness, The (MP3) In this two-part adult Cinderella tale, Emily Fox-Seton, a poor, distant descendant of aristocracy, accepts a serving position in one of their garden estates, where she is surprised to receive the attentions of the rich, eligible ...
English
2006
Little Lord Fauntleror (MP3) Young Cedric Errol lives in poverty in New York with his mother. When his father, who was disinherited for marrying an American, dies, Cedric is summoned to his grandfather's English estate. While the crotchety old Earl planned to ...
English
2005
Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power ( MP3) .This extraordinary, prize-winning biography of Abraham Lincoln by one of the most highly regarded historians on the subject examines Lincoln both as a rising politician and as president.
Beautifully written and full of compelli ...
English
2005
Last of the Mohicans, The (MP3) The Last of the Mohicans is a story of romance and adventure on the American frontier. It is a story of love and loyalty, and of America's coming of age. While the French and Indians besiege Fort William Henry, Cora and Alice Munr ...
