Divine Comedy, The (MP3) Unabridged
The Carlyle-Wicksteed translation
No words can describe the greatness of this work, a greatness both of theme and artistry. The theme that Dante treats is universal; it involves the greatest concepts which man ha ...
English
2004
A Country Doctor (MP3) Published in 1884, Sarah Orne Jewett?s first novel, A Country Doctor is a luminous portrayal of rural Maine and a semiautobiographical look at her world. In it, Nan?s struggle to choose between marriage and a career as a doctor, b ...
English
2004
Beowulf (MP3) One of the most universally studied of the English classics, Beowulf is considered the finest heroic poem in Old English. Written ten centuries ago, it celebrates the character and exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman of the Geat ...
English
2004
Winesburg, Ohio (MP3) Through twenty-three connected short stories, the author looks into the lives of the inhabitants of a small town in the American heartland. In a simple and intense style, these psychological portraits of the sensitive and imaginat ...
English
2004
Poor People (MP3) Poor People, Dostoevsky?s first published fictional work, was written in the form of an epistolary novel. It tells of the hopeless love of Makar Alexievitch Dievushkin, a poor, timid clerk, for Barbara Alexievna Dobroselova, a poo ...
English
2004
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
Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, The (MP3) David Wilson is called �Pudd�nhead� by the townspeople, who fail to understand his combination of wisdom and eccentricity. He redeems himself by simultaneously solving a murder mystery and a case of transposed identities.
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English
2004
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (MP3) Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Thomas De Quincey?s best-known work, is an account of his early life and opium addiction, in prose that is by turns witty, conversational, and nightmarish.
The Confessions involve the liste ...
English
2004
War and the Future (MP3) H.G. Wells sets forth an intriguing first-hand observation of Italy, France and Britain under severe duress during the "War to End All Wars", World War I. He insightfully examines the technological effects of modern warfare, parti ...
English
2005
Three Men on the Bummel (MP3) When three late-Victorian gentlemen escape from their claustrophobic suburban life to go on a cycling tour in the Black Forest of Germany, their trip turns into a comic expedition.
Many of their humorous adventures and mishaps ...
English
2005
The World Set Free (MP3) In this thought-provoking masterpiece, H.G. Wells predicts the inventions that will inadvertently lead to mass destruction, forcing the world to "start over". You will see many similarities between H.G. Wells' new world and today' ...
English
2005
The Valley of Fear (MP3) Only Holmes and Watson can get to the bottom of this baffling murder mystery. John Douglas is found in his study blasted faceless with a sawn-off shotgun. There is no obvious motive or suspect. Douglas and his wife, Ivy, a rich an ...
English
2005
Underground City, The (MP3) How can humans survive and prosper 1500 feet below the earth's surface? Jules Verne successfully weaves a dark, yet magnificent story into this equally dark world. The story takes place in a revived and now prosperous coal mine. A ...
English
2005
The Story of Dr. Dolittle (MP3) No one loves and understands animals like the eccentric 19th century physician, Dr. Dolittle - who masters animal language with the help of Polynesia the parrot. After his human patients desert him, the kind-hearted doctor finds h ...
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
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
The Ring of Thoth And Other Tales (MP3) From the Artic to Egypt to Australia, Doyle tells thrilling tales of crime, suspense, mysterious secrets, and humor. Included are:
The Captain of The Polestar (a captain in search of his wife's ghost)
J. Habakuk Jephson's St ...
English
2005
Return of Tarzan, The (MP3) Tarzan, after valiantly giving up the woman he loved to another man, leaves the deceitful world of civilization and returns to his beloved African jungle. Upon his return, buried in the mists of his Jungle, Tarzan discovers Opar, ...
English
2005
The Rainbow Trail (MP3) "Somewhere northward in the broken fastnesses lay hidden a valley walled in from the world. Would they be there, those lost fugitives whose story had thrilled him? After twelve years would she be alive, a child grown to womanhood ...
English
2005
The Princess and the Goblin MP3) Young Princess Irene is sent to the country to be raised in a half farmhouse, half castle located in the side of a mountain. While exploring the top of the castle, Irene becomes lost and inexplicably finds her way to a mystifying ...
