The Princess and Curdie (MP3) In this sequel to The Princess and the Goblin, Curdie has returned to his life as a miner and has dismissed the supernatural happenings of the past, believing them to have been a dream. When Curdie callously wounds a pigeon, his c ...
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2005
The Path of the King (MP3) What is the true root of royal blood? A young Viking prince is stranded in a strange world with nothing but a band of gold. Through the turmoil of history, the band of gold is passed from generation to generation. Encounter the st ...
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2005
The Metamorphosis and other short Stories (MP3) THE METAMORPHOSIS begins as its protagonist, Gregor Samsa, wakes up one morning to find that he has become a huge insect. This change is understandably difficult for Gregor, not to mention his family and business. It ends up costi ...
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The Man Who Would be King (MP3) Kipling, a Nobel prize winner, tells the story of two Englishmen, with twenty rifle and two donkeys, setting off from India into the wild unknown to win a kingdom. Added to the adventure is a surprise ending and an authentic pictu ...
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2005
The Lost World (MP3) On a zoology expedition up the Amazon, Professor Challenger has made an inexplicable discovery. Back in London, his claims are ridiculed throughout the professional community. Reluctantly, he recounts to Journalist Edward Malone, ...
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2005
The Jungle Book (MP3) "...Oh hear the call! Good hunting all - That keep the Jungle Law!" -Night-Song in the Jungle
When young little Mowgli's parents are run out of their camp by a formidable Bengal tiger, the toddler scampers to safety alone in t ...
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2005
The Evil Genius (MP3) Collins' most financially successful novel, The Evil Genius, opens with a jury determining the fate of a sea captain whose ship allegedly facilitated a diamond theft. The story develops into a powerful novel of Victorian private l ...
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2005
Diamond, The (MP3) A dazzling historical novel about the spectacular diamond that passed from the hands of William Pitt tm)s grandfather to the kings of France to Napoleon, linking together many of the most famous personalities of the eighteenth a ...
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2005
The Cossacks (MP3) “I read The Cossacks and was carried away….”—Ivan Turgenev
Olenin, a young nobleman who is disenchanted with city life, finds himself caught up in the wild beauty of the Caucasus and the simplicity of its people.
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2005
Complete Tales, The (MP3) "It spoils people's clothes to squeeze under a gate; the proper way to get in, is to climb down a pear tree," said Little Benjamin Bunny. Hear Peter Rabbit outwit old Mr. McGregor and Squirrel Nutkin come within a tail's length of ...
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2005
Black Tulip, The (MP3) The tulip craze of 17th century Holland has a dark side! Cornelius van Baerle, a wealthy but na�ve tulip grower, finds himself entangled in the deadly politics of his time. Cornelius' one desire is to grow the perfect black tuli ...
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2005
Black Arrow, The (MP3) Caught in the midst of England's War of the Roses, young Dick Shelton's loyalties are torn between a guardian who betrays him and the leader of the secret fellowship, "The Black Arrow".
The Houses of York and Lancaster are loc ...
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2005
Bat, The (MP3) Miss Cornelia Van Gorder has left her New York City home for a vacation in an isolated country mansion with her beautiful young niece, neurotic maid, pompous butler and a mysterious but genteel young man, only to find herself the ...
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2005
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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2005
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 ...
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2005
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 ...
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2005
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 ...
