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 ...
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Looking Backward (MP3) The hero is anyone who has ever longed for escape to a better life. The time is tomorrow. The place is a Utopian America. This is the backdrop for Edward Bellamy�s prophetic novel about a young Boston gentleman who is mysterious ...
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A Marriage Made in Heaven or Too Tired for an Affair (MP3) "I now pronounce you husband and wife." There are few phrases as sobering, with the possible exceptions of "We have lift-off" and "This country is at war." Yet as they have done for centuries, millions of courageous men and women ...
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Professor, The (MP3) Rejected by the publisher who took on the work of her sisters in 1846-Anne's Agnes Grey and Emily's Wuthering Heights-The Professor remained unpublished until 1857, two years after Charlotte Brontd's death. Like Villette (1853), T ...
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The Pilgrim's Progress (MP3) Next to The Bible, The Pilgrim's Progress has probably been more widely read than any other book in the English language-and rightfully so. It is considered by most critics as the greatest allegory in any language. And to think th ...
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Canterbury Tales, Disc 1 of 2 (MP3) In this, Chaucer's finest work, the poet tells of meeting at the Tabard Inn with thirty others to make the usual April pilgrimage to Becket's shrine at Canterbury. He describes his companions, who are of widely varying classes and ...
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Deerslayer, The - Vol 1of 2 (MP3) The Deerslayer is the first of the Leatherstocking Tales of James Fenimore Cooper. Here we meet Natty Bumppo as a young man living in upstate New York in the early 1740s. The action begins as Bumppo, called "Deerslayer," and his f ...
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David Copperfield Disk 1 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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The Idiot (MP3) Disc 1 of 2 Despite the harsh circumstances besetting his own life—abject poverty, incessant gambling, and the death of his firstborn child—Dostoevsky produced a second masterpiece, The Idiot, just two years after completing Crime and Punishm ...
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A Room With a View ( MP3) A ROOM WITH A VIEW portrays the love of a British woman for an expatriate living in Italy, a country which to Forster represents the forces of true passion. Caught up in a world of social snobbery, Forster's heroine, Lucy Honeychu ...
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Longest Journey, The (MP3) In this searching tragicomedy of manners, personalities, and world views, E.M. Forster explores the "idea of England" he would later develop in Howards End. Bookish, sensitive, and given to wild enthusiasms, Rickie Elliot is virtu ...
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Wives And Daughters - Disk 1 of 2 (MP3) Set in English society before the 1832 Reform Bill, Wives and Daughters centers on the story of youthful Molly Gibson, brought up from childhood by her father, When he remarries, a new stepsister enters Molly's quiet life�loveab ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Moby Dick Disk 1 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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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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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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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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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 ...