Moby Dick Disk 2 OF 2 (MP3) First published in 1851, this realistic account of a whaling voyage, drawing on Melville's own experience as a merchant seaman, contains within a symbolic account of the conflict between man and his fate. It is the fruit of Melvil ...
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2003
Moon and Sixpence, The (MP3) This is the story of an artist who was willing to sacrifice everything for the sake of art. In much of its general outline, this famous novel follows the life of Paul Gauguin, famous French post-impressionist painter, but it is no ...
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2003
Parnassus on Wheels (MP3) on Wheels is the story of a marvelous man, small in stature, wiry as a cat, yet Olympic in personality. Roger Mifflin is part pixie, part sage, part noble savage, and all God's creature. With his traveling book wagon named Parnass ...
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2003
The Story Of King Arthur And His Knights (MP3) For hundreds of years, the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table has been one of the world's most precious literary possessions. In 1902, the distinguished American artist Howard Pyle undertook to retell and ill ...
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2003
The Odyssey Of Homer (MP3) When this ground-breaking serialized dramatization premiered on 320 U.S. radio stations, critics were unanimous in their praise, calling it "a feast for the ears" and "a magnificent blend of scholarship and showmanship." It won nu ...
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2003
Captain Blood (MP3) George MacDonald Fraser, author of the Flashman novels, praises this hearty saga as "one of the great unrecognized novels of the 20th century." Doctor Peter Blood's quiet life is shattered when he is convicted of treason for helpi ...
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2003
The Talisman (MP3) The Crusaders, led by Richard I of England, are encamped in the Holy Land, and torn by the dissensions and jealousies of the leaders, including, besides Coeur de Lion himself, Philip of France, the duke of Austria, the Marquis of ...
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2003
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The (MP3) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a humorous and nostalgic book depicting the carefree days of boyhood in a small Midwestern town. The characters are based on Twain's schoolmates and the town is Hannibal, Missouri-the setting where ...
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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 ...
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2003
The House Of Mirth (MP3) The House of Mirth was Edith Wharton?s first great novel. Set among the elegant brownstones of New York City and opulent country houses like gracious Bellomont on the Hudson, the novel creates a satiric portrayal of what Wharton h ...
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2003
Arabian Nights, The (MP3) Here is a selection of some of the best-known and best-loved tales of The Arabian Nights, including "Sinbad," "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," "Aladdin," "The Talking Bird," and the "Fisherman and the Genie." In this "treasure ho ...
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2003
The Count of Monte Cristo, Disc 2 of 4 (MP3) The Count of Monte Cristo is the tense and exciting story of Edmond Dantes, a man on the threshold of a bright career and a happy marriage, who is imprisoned in the island fortress of the Chateau de If on a false political charge. ...
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2003
The Count of Monte Cristo, Disc 3 of 4 (MP3) The Count of Monte Cristo is the tense and exciting story of Edmond Dantes, a man on the threshold of a bright career and a happy marriage, who is imprisoned in the island fortress of the Chateau de If on a false political charge. ...
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2003
The Count of Monte Cristo, Disc 4 of 4 (MP3) The Count of Monte Cristo is the tense and exciting story of Edmond Dantes, a man on the threshold of a bright career and a happy marriage, who is imprisoned in the island fortress of the Chateau de If on a false political charge. ...
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2003
David Copperfield Disk 2 of 3 (MP3) Of all Charles Dickens's novels, this is perhaps the most revealing, both of Dickens himself and of the society of his time. It is little wonder that Dickens said of it, "of all my books I like this the best; like many fond parent ...
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2003
David Copperfield Disk 3 of 3 (MP3) Of all Charles Dickens's novels, this is perhaps the most revealing, both of Dickens himself and of the society of his time. It is little wonder that Dickens said of it, "of all my books I like this the best; like many fond parent ...
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2003
Ivanhoe - disc 2 of 2 (MP3) Ivanhoe brings to life 12th-century England. This is a masterful story of courtly love and derring-do which established Scott as the originator of the historical novel.
The stirring drama of Ivanhoe includes several unforgettab ...
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2003
Don Quixote De La Mancha - Vol 3 of 3 (MP3) Unabridged
Don Quixote-the world's first novel and by far the best-known book in Spanish literature-was originally intended by Cervantes as a satire on traditional popular ballads, yet he also parodied the romances of chivalry ...
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2004
Don Quixote De La Mancha - Vol 2 of 3 (MP3) Unabridged
Don Quixote-the world's first novel and by far the best-known book in Spanish literature-was originally intended by Cervantes as a satire on traditional popular ballads, yet he also parodied the romances of chivalry ...
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2004
Don Quixote De La Mancha - Vol 1 of 3 (MP3) Unabridged
Don Quixote-the world's first novel and by far the best-known book in Spanish literature-was originally intended by Cervantes as a satire on traditional popular ballads, yet he also parodied the romances of chivalry ...
