Beowulf (MP3)(English) 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
Four Against the Arctic (MP3)(English) In 1743, a ship carrying fourteen Russian sailors was headed for whaling grounds near Norway when a violent storm blew it far off course where the ship froze into the ice. Some of the sailors remembered that other sailors had erec ...
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2003
The Confession - A Novel (MP3)(English) It is 1956. Radio reports of the Hungarian Revolution break through the government’s radio jamming, setting the entire Eastern Bloc on edge.
Inspector Ferenc Kolyeszar must track down a murderer while dealing with his crumbling ...
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2004
The Making of Toro (MP3)(English) This is a brilliant and hilarious story of what happens when you try too hard to make life into high art. An author gets an offer from a big-city publisher to write a new book about bullfighting in Mexico. His first book had been ...
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2003
Weather In Berlin, The (MP3)(English) On a whim, aging director Dixon Greenhouse accepted the three-month fellowship in Berlin, with a promise that nothing would be required of him but an interview about his moviemaking career. Thirty years have passed since he direct ...
