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
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 ...
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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 ...
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2004
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
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 ...
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2004
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
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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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2004
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 ...
