Beyond the City (MP3) Destiny brings three peculiar households together in the placid English countryside. The desire for money and romance drive these Victorians beyond the natural boundaries of their middle class lives. As the web of lust and deceit ...
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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
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
Charles Dickens' Three Short Stories (MP3) Charles Dickens is known not only for his novels, but also for his short stories, particularly "A Christmas Carol." In the latter genre, interestingly, these stories had a powerful commercial impulse, for they were serialized in m ...
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2005
Colonel Starbottle's Client and other Stories (MP3) Society has forgiven Jo Corbin for killing a man, but can he forgive himself? Will the Postmistress lose all in a bid to help a friend escape justice? Will the new teaching assistant's unorthodox ways tame the unruly pioneer child ...
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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
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
Godfather, The (MP3) The Godfather is an extraordinary novel which has become a modern day classic. Puzo pulls us inside the violent society of the Mafia and its gang wars. The leader, Vito Corleone, is the Godfather. He is a benevolent despot who sto ...
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2005
Ivanhoe - (BR) (MP3) Disc 1 of 2 A century has passed since the Norman Conquest, and England is still a colony of foreign warlords. Prince John is plotting to seize the throne from his brother, Richard the Lion-Hearted, and Robin Hood and his merry band are makin ...
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2005
Ivanhoe - (BR) (MP3) Disc 2 of 2 A century has passed since the Norman Conquest, and England is still a colony of foreign warlords. Prince John is plotting to seize the throne from his brother, Richard the Lion-Hearted, and Robin Hood and his merry band are makin ...
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2005
Jungle Tales of Tarzan (MP3) In this collection of 12 short stories, Burroughs returns to Tarzan's early years providing new depth and detail to the Lord of the Jungle, during his time among the great apes. Having learned to read from his father's books, Tarz ...
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2005
Just So Stories (MP3) Drawing from the oral storytelling traditions of India and Africa, Noble prizewinner Rudyard Kipling's vigorous, amusing tales offer imaginative answers to unanswered questions about animals and provide little pearls of wisdom. Th ...
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2005
Last of the Mohicans, The (MP3) The Last of the Mohicans is a story of romance and adventure on the American frontier. It is a story of love and loyalty, and of America's coming of age. While the French and Indians besiege Fort William Henry, Cora and Alice Munr ...
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2005
Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power ( MP3) .This extraordinary, prize-winning biography of Abraham Lincoln by one of the most highly regarded historians on the subject examines Lincoln both as a rising politician and as president.
Beautifully written and full of compelli ...
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2005
Little Lord Fauntleror (MP3) Young Cedric Errol lives in poverty in New York with his mother. When his father, who was disinherited for marrying an American, dies, Cedric is summoned to his grandfather's English estate. While the crotchety old Earl planned to ...
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2005
Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre, The (MP3) In this luminous debut novel, Dominic Smith reinvents the life of one of photography’s founding fathers. In 1839, Louis Daguerre’s invention took Paris and the world by storm. A decade later, he is sinking deep into delusions ...
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2005
Murders in the Rue Morgue (MP3) fourth floor room, a door locked with the key inside - no way in, no way out. Edgar Alan Poe is the true grandfather of the murder mystery. Decades before Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, Poe gave us C. Auguste Dupin, a man abl ...
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2005
Mutiny of the Elsinore, The (MP3) Life has lost its savor for Mr. Pathurst. New York, fame, women, the arts, have all become tedious. Searching for excitement, he books passage on a cargo vessel sailing from Baltimore to Seattle on a route that travels around the ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
