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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Kidnapped (MP3) Kidnapped is one of Stevenson's most enduringly popular novels. Young David Balfour, whose father dies, goes to live with a cruel and miserly uncle. The uncle attempts to have the boy killed and then have him kidnapped and taken t ...
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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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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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2003
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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New England Days (MP3) Eight of Jewett's best, including "The Only Rose," "Miss Tempy's Watchers," "The Flight of Betsy Lane," and "Martha's Lady."
"Tana Hicken was an inspired choice for this material. My first exposure to Jewett. MORE! MORE!" - Mich ...
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Out of Times' Abyss (MP3) On Caprona, the Land That Time Forgot, all of the world's savage past still lives. Here are dinosaurs and flying reptiles, here are the most primitive of cavemen and the last of the Bronze Age barbarians. But there is one more sec ...
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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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2003
Pinocchio (MP3) The famous story of the puppet who wants to become a real boy.
The story of the wooden puppet who wants to be a real boy and his adventures and trouble-making - a classic still loved by children and adults.
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Poe: Collected Stories and Poems (MP3) "Eighteen best-loved stories and poems. Those below plus The Pit and the Pendulum, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Annabel Lee, and more."
"These fine recordings definitely deserve a prominent place in public schools and librari ...
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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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Robinson Crusoe (MP3) One of the first true novels in the English language, Robinson Crusoe is the famous adventure of a castaway and his desert-island companion, Friday.
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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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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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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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Strange Fiction: Stories by H.G. Wells (MP3) Nine stories including "The Door in the Wall," "The Country of the Blind," "The Truth About Pycraft," and "The Strange Orchid."
"Each piece of narration is invested with gristliness and wit." - Talking Book World
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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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Tales From Shakespeare (MP3) The English Man of Letters, Charles Lamb, paired with his sister Mary in this wonderful recounting of twenty of Shakespeare's most loved plays. It will appeal to both children and adults.
