• THE TALKING BOOK PROGRAM
    In 1931 the Congress established the talking-book program, which was intended to help blind adults who couldn't read print. This program was called ``Books for the Adult Blind Project``. The American Foundation for the Blind developed first talking books in 1932. One year later the first reproduction machine began the process of mass publishing. By 1935, after Congress approved free mailings of audio books to blind citizens, the Books for the Adult Blind Project was in full operation. In 1992 the National Library Service (NLS) for Blind and Physically Handicapped network circulated millions of recorded books to more than 700,000 handicapped listeners. All NLS recordings were created by professionals.
  • Libraries - a new source of free audiobooks
    With the development of portable cassette recorders audiotapes had become very popular and by the late 1960s libraries became a source of free audio books on cassettes. Instructional and educational recordings came first followed by self-help tapes, and then by literature and fiction. In 1970 Books on Tape Corporation started rental plans for audio books distribution. The company expanded their services selling their products to libraries. Audio books gained more and more popularity. By the middle of 1980s the audio publishing business grew to several billion dollars a year. The new companies, Recorded Books and Chivers Audio Books, were the first to develop integrated production teams and to work with professional actors. And since libraries made up the largest segment of their market space, Chivers Audio Books established close connections with them from the very beginning of the company's existence.
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  • MP CD Book Audio Emma
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    Emma - Jane Austen - Audio Book MP3 Read by Sherry Crowther Unabridged Emma - Jane Austen - Audio Book MP3 Unabridged 18 Hours on MP3 CD - This will not play on a Car/Portable CD player unless it is plays MP3 disks - it is however suitable to be copied to iPOD portable mp3 player Mobile Phone or any other device that plays MP3s Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen first published in 1816 about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character Emma Woodhouse is described in the opening paragraph as "handsome clever and rich" but is also rather spoiled. Prior to starting the novel Austen wrote "I am going to take a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like." About the Author Jane Austen Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was a British novelist whose realism biting social commentary and masterful use of free indirect speech burlesque and irony have earned her a place as one of the most widely-read and best-loved writers in British literature. Austen lived her entire life as part of a large and close-knit more here.....
  • CD Bram Dracula
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    Dracula by Bram Stoker read by Richard E. Grant Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Dracula - Bram Stoker - Read by Richard E. Grant - AudioBook CD Brand New : abridged 3 Audio CDs 3 Hours Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. Dracula has been attributed to many literary genres including vampire literature horror fiction the gothic novel and invasion literature. Structurally it is an epistolary novel that is told as a series of diary entries and letters. Literary critics have examined many themes in the novel such as the role of women in Victorian culture conventional and conservative sexuality immigration colonialism postcolonialism and folklore. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire the novel's influen more details.....
  • CD andSea Book Old Hemingway
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    The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Unabridged - Read by Donald Sutherland Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 3 Audio CDs The Old Man and the Sea is a novella (just over 100 pages in length) by Ernest Hemingway written in Cuba in 1951 and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction to be produced by Hemingway and published in his lifetime. One of his most famous works it centers upon Santiago an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.The Old Man and the Sea recounts an epic battle between an old experienced fisherman and a giant marlin said to be the largest catch of his life. It opens by explaining that the fisherman who is n more information.....
  • Unabridged Dramatised Shakespeare
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    The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare A fully dramatised recording Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare - Unabridged Play on Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 2 Audio CDs 88 minutes Egeon faces execution unless he can pay a fine of a thousand marks. He tells his sad story. In his youth he married and had twin sons. On the same day a poor woman also gave birth to twin boys and he purchased these as slaves to his sons. Soon afterwards the family made a sea voyage and was hit by a tempest. Egeon lashed himself to the main-mast with one son and one slave while his wife was rescued by one boat Egeon by another. Egeon never again saw his wife or the ch find out more.....
  • Measure Shakespeare
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    Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare A fully dramatised recording Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare - Unabridged Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 2 Audio CDs 149 minutes Vincentio the Duke of Vienna makes it known that he intends to leave the city on a diplomatic mission. He leaves the government in the hands of a strict judge Angelo. Under the Duke's government the city's harsh laws against fornication have been laxly enforced but Angelo who later reveals himself as a hypocrite is known to be a hard-liner on matters of sexual immorality. Claudio a young nobleman is betrothed to Juliet; having put off their wedding he makes her pregnant before wedlock. For this act of fornication he is punished by Angelo. Although he is willing to marry her he is sentenced to death. Claudio's friend Lucio visits Claudio's sister Isabella a more details.....
  • Homer Ian Mckellen Read by AudioBook
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    The Odyssey by Homer Read by Sir Ian McKellen Translated by Robert Fagles See also Homers The iliad on Audio Book click here The Odyssey by Homer Read by Sir Ian McKellen Unabridged Audio Book CD Brand New : 13 Hours 11 CDs Unabridged When Robert Fagles' translation of the Iliad was published in 1990 critics and scholars alike hailed it as a masterpiece. Now one of the great translators of our time presents us with the Odyssey Homer's best-loved poem recounting Odysseus' wanderings after the Trojan War. With wit and wile the 'man of twists and turns' meets the challenges of gods and monsters only to return after twenty years to a home besieged by his wife's suitors. In the myths and legends retold in this immortal poem Fagles has captured the energy of Homer's original in a bold contempor click here.....
  • CD That Hate Unabridged Cat Creech Sharon Audio Book
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    Hate That Cat by Sharon Creech Unabridged read by Scott Wolf Get Other Childrens Audio Books CD click here Hate That Cat by Sharon Creech - Unabridged AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 1 Audio CDs 1 Hours Hate That Cat continues the story of Jack from Love That Dog. It is a new school year and Jack learns that his previous year's teacher Miss Stretchberry has also moved up a grade along with him. "You understand my brain " he says. Once again Miss Stretchberry introduces Jack and his classmates to poems that intrigue and entice Jack allowing him to talk about things that are on his mind: mean cats sound silence worry and joy. You don't really think Miss Stretchberry is going to let Jack hate a cat do you? Hmm. About the Author Sharon Creech Sharon Creech is an American novelist of children's fiction. Her novel Walk Two Moons received in 1995 Newbery Medal; The Wanderer was a 2001 Newbery Honor book and R more here.....
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    MacBeth by William Shakespeare A fully dramatised recording Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here MacBeth by William Shakespeare - Unabridged Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 2 Audio CDs 2.1 Hours The first act of the play opens amidst thunder and lightning with the Three Witches deciding that their next meeting shall be with Macbeth. In the following scene a wounded sergeant reports to King Duncan of Scotland that his generals Macbeth who is the Thane of Glamis and Banquo have just defeated the allied forces of Norway and Ireland who were led by the rebel Macdonwald. Macbeth the King's kinsman is praised for his bravery and fighting prowess. The scene changes. Macbeth and Banquo enter discussing the weather and their victory ("So foul and fair a day I have not seen"). As they wander onto a heath the three Witches who more.....
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    Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut or the Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death Get Other Science Fiction Audio Books CD click here Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 5 Audio CDs 6 Hours Slaughterhouse-Five; or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death is a 1969 novel by Kurt Vonnegut. One of his most popular works and widely regarded as a classic it combines science fiction elements with an analysis of the human condition from an uncommon perspective using time travel as a plot device. The bombing of Dresden in World War II the aftermath of which Vonnegut witnessed is the starting point. Slaughterhouse-Five spans the life of a man who has "come unstuck in time." It is the story of Billy Pilgrim experiencing different time periods of his life most notably his experience in World War II and his relationship with his family. The book is a series of seemingly random happenings that in combination present the the more.....
  • Book Sherlock
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    Baker Street Dozen - Sherlock Holmes Starring Sir John Gielgud Ralph Richardson and Orson Welles 12 Dramatized Episodes Get Other Classic Books on Audio click here Baker Street Dozen - Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Audio Book CD New 5.25 Hours 6 CDs The acclaimed exciting fully dramatized performances of twelve Conan Doyle classics. It’s elementary that any Conan Doyle fan will want this splendid set of Sherlock Holmes mysteries—twelve timeless classics performed as radio theater linked by violin music interludes. The great Sir John Gielgud stars as the sleuth of Baker Street with Ralph Richardson as his venerable companion Dr. Watson and Orson Welles as the nefarious Professor Moriarty. With three giants of the theater in such colorful role more details.....
  • Benedict ofRound andKnights
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    King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Benedict Flynn Unabridged 2 CD Audio Book Set Get other Children's AudioBooks click here King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table - Benedict Flynn - Audio Book CD Brand New (2 CDs - 2.5 Hours): About King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table These stories are about how many years ago Arthur the once and future King of England set out to save his country from the troubles that plagued it aided by the brave knights of the Round Table and the most famous sword in the world Excalibur. How Merlin the Wizard fought against the wicked Morgana le Fay's enchantments and how Arthur loved and lost the beautiful Guinevere his Queen. About Bene click here.....
  • Eyre CD
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    Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte read by Joanna David Get Other Bronte Audio Books CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - AudioBook CD Brand New : abridged 6 Audio CDs Jane Eyre is not your typical romance. It is a story of a woman who struggles with a world in which she doesn’t quite fit. Once finished with her schooling and with no family that really cares for her she strikes out on her own as a governess. Jane Eyre searches for love someone to care for her and someone to care for and finds it in unexpected places. Jane Eyre is a young orphan being raised by Mrs. Reed her cruel wealthy aunt. A servant named Bessie provides Jane with some of the few kindnesses she receives telling her stories and singing songs to her. One day as punishment for fighting with her bullying cousin John Reed Jane's aunt imprisons Jane in the red-room the room in which Jane's Uncle Reed died. While locked in Jane believing that she sees her uncle's ghost screams and faints. She wakes to find herself in the care of Bessie and the kindly apothecary Mr. Lloyd who sugge more.....
  • Audio Unabridged
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    Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Unabridged read by Juliet Mills Get Other Bronte Audio Books CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte - Unabridged AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 16 Audio CDs 19.5 Hours Orphaned at an early age Jane Eyre leads a lonely life until she finds work as a governess at Thornfield Hall where she meets the mysterious Mr. Rochester and sees a ghostly woman who roams the halls by night. This is a story of passionate love travail and final triumph. The relationship between the heroine and Mr. Rochester is only one episode albeit the most important in a detailed fictional autobiography in which the author transmuted her own experience into high art. In this work the plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance but possesses an indomitable spirit a sharp wit and great courage. She is forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian a harsh employer and a rigid social order which circumscribes her life and position. About the Author more here.....
  • Harper Mockingbird Kill CD Unabridged To Audio Book Lee
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    To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Unabridged - Read by Sissy Spacek Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 11 Audio CDs 12 hrs The story takes place during three years of the Great Depression in the fictional "tired old town" of Maycomb Alabama. The narrator six-year-old Scout Finch lives with her older brother Jem and their widowed father Atticus a middle-aged lawyer. Jem and Scout befriend a boy named Dill who visits Maycomb to stay with his aunt for the summer. The three children are terrified of and fascinated with their neighbor the reclusive "Boo" Radley. The adults of Maycomb are hesitant to talk about Boo and for many years few have seen him. The children feed each other's imaginations with rumors about his appearance and reasons for remaining hidden and they fantasize about how to get him out of his house. Following two summers of friendship with Dill Scout and Jem find that som more.....
  • CD Wuthering Bronte Unabridged Emily Heights AudioBook
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    Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Get Other Bronte Audio Books CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Wuthering Heights - by Emily Bronte - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 12 CDs - 14.25 hours Somber tale of consuming passions and vengeance — played out amid the lonely English moors — recounts the turbulent and tempestuous love story of Cathy and Heathcliff. Poignant and compelling. In early nineteenth-century Yorkshire the passionate attachment between a headstrong young girl and a foundling boy brought up by her father causes disaster for them and many others even in the next generation. Includes explanatory notes throughout the text an introduction discussing the author and the background of the story and a study guide. About the Author Emily Bronte Emily Brontë was born in Thornton near Bradford in Yorkshire to Patrick Brontë and more details.....
  • Audio Book Unabridged World Huxley
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    Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 75th Anniversary edition read by Michael York Get Other Science Fiction Audio Books CD click here Brave New World - Aldous Huxley- AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 7 Audio CDs 8.3 Hours Brave New World is a 1932 novel by Aldous Huxley. Set in the London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. in the book) the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology and sleep-learning that combine to change society. Huxley answers this book with a reassessment in an essay Brave New World Revisited (1958) and with his final work a novel titled Island (1962) both summarized below. Brave New World is Huxley's most famous novel. The ironic title ultimately derives from Miranda's speech in Shakesp more.....
  • Lord AudioBook CD William ofFlies
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    Lord of the Flies by William Golding Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Lord of the Flies by William Golding - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 6 Audio CDs 6.9 Hours Lord of the Flies is an allegorical novel by Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding. It discusses how culture created by man fails using as an example a group of British school-boys stuck on a deserted island who try to govern themselves with disastrous results. The key idea that William Golding focuses on in The Lord of the Flies is when removed from civilised society people will devolve and return back to being primitive creatures. Golding portrays this idea throughout the whole book by using different characters. The book is about a group of boys who are stranded on a tropical island without any adults. At first they seem very excited about the situation and votes for one of the boys Ralph as a leader. Another one of the boys Jack leaves the group to form his own tribe who become more and more violent and obsessed with hunting pigs and the so-called beast that they believe lives on the island. At the end of the book t more details.....
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    The Iliad by Homer Read by Sir Derek Jacobi The Epic Story of Troy Translated by Robert Fagles See also Homers Oddessy on Audio Book click here The Iliad by Homer Read by Sir Derek Jacobi abridged Audio Book CD Brand New : 9 Hours 8 CDs abridged This groundbreaking English version by Robert Fagles is the most important recent translation of Homer's great epic poem. The verse translation has been hailed by scholars as the new standard providing an Iliad that delights modern sensibility and aesthetic without sacrificing the grandeur and particular genius of Homer's own style and language. The Iliad is one of the two great epics of Homer and is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time but to say the Iliad is a war story does not begin to des more information.....
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    The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells Unabridged read by Christopher Hurt Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 5 Audio CDs 6 Hours The War of the Worlds (1898) by H. G. Wells is an early science fiction novel describing an invasion of late Victorian England by Martians using Tripod fighting machines equipped with advanced weaponry. It is considered one of the most important foundation works of Science Fiction and the seminal depiction of an alien invasion of Earth. The novel is narrated by an anonymous journalist living in the area where the invaders first land. Throughout the narrative he struggles to reunite with his wife and brother while witnessing the Martians spreading destruction across the Southern extra info.....
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    World without End by Ken Follett Unabridged AudioBook 36 CDs Get Other Classic Audio Books click here Get Other Ken Follett AudioBooks click here World Without End - Ken Follett - Audio Book Unabridged CD Brand New (still shrink wrapped): . 45.5 hours 36 CDs The novel begins in the fictional city of Kingsbridge England in the year 1327. Four children — Caris Gwenda Merthin and Ralph — go into the woods on All Hallows Day. Gwenda brings her three-legged dog Hop whom Ralph shoots with Merthin's home-made bow foreshadowing Ralph's later cruel behaviour. The children witness two men killed in the forest by Sir Thomas Langley aided by Ralph. The children then flee with the exception of Merthin. Sir Thomas asks him to help bury a letter and then flees to Kingsbridge and seeks refuge in the monastery where he joins the Order of Saint Benedict becoming a monk. Ten years later Caris and Merthin are in love. Gwenda is sold for a cow by her father to a chapman who intends to prostitute her at a woodsmen's camp. She kills one of the men while he is raping her and escapes. She is followed but she is able to drown h extra info.....
  • Stories Audio CD Unabridged Book Great Classic Stories
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    Great Classic Stories 22 Unabridged Classics 6 CDs - 7 Hours Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here 22 Great Classic Stories - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 6 Audio CDs A treasure-chest of the written and spoken word this collection is read by brilliant actors who make this audio anthology a genuine treat for the listener. Includes: * Reginald on House Parties by Saki read by Nigel Hawthorne * The Sphinx Without a Secret by Oscar Wilde read by Martin Jarvis * Tobermory by Saki read by Barbara Leigh-Hunt * On Being Idle by Jerome K. Jerome read by Hugh Laurie * For Better or Worse by W.W. Jacobs read by Joanna David * The Model Millionaire by Oscar Wilde read by T.P. McKenna * The Garden of Truth by E. Nesbit read by Harriet Walker * The Cat That Walked by Himself by Rudyard Kipling read by Liza Goddard * The Girl from Arles by Alphonse Daudet read by Stephen Fry * Mr. Mrs. Dove by Katherine Mansfield read by Rosalind Ayres * Georgie Porgie by Rudyard Kipling read by Edward Fox * Caterpillars by E.F. Benson read by Patrick Malahide * Los more.....
  • Dostoevsky Fyodor Punishment
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    Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky abridged read by Alex Jennings Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Abridged - AudioBook CD Brand New : abridged 6 Audio CDs 5.5 Hours Crime and Punishment is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky that was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments in 1866. It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoevsky's full-length novels after he returned from his exile in Siberia and the first great novel of his mature period. Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov an impoverished St. Petersburg ex-student who formulates and executes a plan to kill a hated unscrupulous pawnbroker seemingly for her money thereby solving his financial problems and at the same time he argues ridding the world of an evil worthless parasite. Raskolnikov also strives to be an extraordinary being similar to Napoleon believing that murder is permissible in pursuit of a higher purpose. Dostoevsky conceived the idea of Crime and Punishment in the summer of 1865 having lost all his mon more here.....
  • CD Atlas Shrugged by Ayn
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    Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand - Audio Book CD Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand - Audio Book CD- Unabridged Brand New - Unbridged 50 CDs yes 50! - its 63 hours long!! - rare! Read by Scott Brick This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world-and did. Is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battle not against his enemies but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves? You will learn the answers to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the amazing men and women in this remarkable book. About the Author: Ayn Rand was born in Russia graduated from the University of Leningrad and in 1926 came to the United States where she was naturalized. Her first novel We the Living was published in more information.....
  • AUDIOBOOK Classics Spiritual Butler New Bowdon
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    50 Spritual Classics by Tom Butler-Bowden Timeless wisdom from 50 great books 50 Self Help Classics / 50 Success Classics / 50 Prosperity Classics/50 Spiritual Classics on Audio click here 50 Spritual Classics - Tom Butler-Bowden - Audio-Book CD Brand New : Unabridged 9 CDs ( a summary and analysis of the 50 books and the key ideas -not a reading of all 50 books) # An introduction to the success literature with list and thematic guide to the landmark works. # 50 commentaries on 50 classic works: the story of each book's writing their life-changing ideas their impact some representative quotes the meaning of each book 'in a nutshell' and cross-referencing to similar classics. # Includes 'quick tour of the literature' 'characteristics of successful people' and chronological list of titles. Read Tom Butler-Bowdon's summary of characteristics of successful people 1. Muhammad Asad The Road To Mecca (1954) 2. St Augustine Confessions (400) 3. Richard Bach Jonathan Livingston Seag more.....
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    The Lord of the Rings BBC Dramatisation - Audio CD This trilogy of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth is presented in dramatisation from the BBC with original music and sound effects Get Other Middle Earth Audio Books click here The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien - BBC - Audio Book CDs Brand New (still shrink wrapped): 13 Hours 12 CDs This trilogy of Tolkien's Middle Earth is presented in dramatisation from the BBC with original music and sound effects. It has actors playing the parts of the stories characters - it is not a reading of the book. In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths and Sauron The Dark Lord forged the One Ring filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell by chance into the hands of the hob more details.....
  • Leo AudioBook War Peace
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    War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Unabridged 61 hours read by Frederick Davidson Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - Read by Frederick Davidson - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 48 Audio CDs 61 Hours War and Peace is a novel by Leo Tolstoy first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russkii Vestnik which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoy's two major masterpieces (the other being Anna Karenina) as well as one of the world's greatest novels. War and Peace offered a new kind of fiction with a great many characters caught up in a plot that covered nothing less than the grand subjects indicated by the title combined with the equally large topics of youth marriage age and death. Though it is often called a novel today it broke so many conventions of the form that it was not considered a novel in its time. Indeed Tolstoy himself considered Anna Karenina (1878) to be his first attempt at a novel in the European sense. Although Tolstoy wrote the bulk of the book including all the narration in Russian significant pockets of dialogue throughout the book (including its opening sente extra info.....
  • Wilder AudioBook Ingalls Unabridged CD House onPrairie Laura Little
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    Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder Unabridged read by Cherry Jones Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Get Other Childrens Audio Books CD click here Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder - Unabridged AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 6 Audio CDs 5.5 Hours At the beginning of this story Pa Ingalls decides to sell the house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and move to the Indian Territory near Independence Kansas as there were widely circulating stories that the land (technically still under Osage ownership) would be opened to settlement by homesteaders imminently. So Laura along with Pa and Ma and Mary and baby Carrie move to Kansas. Along the way Pa trades his two horses for two Western mustangs which Laura and Mary name Pet and Patty. When the family reaches Indian Territory they meet Mr. Edwards who is more.....
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    I Claudius by Robert Graves Read by Derek Jacobi Other Classic Audio Book CDs Click here Get the Odyessy by Homer on AudioBook click here I Claudius by Robert Graves - Read by Derek Jacobi AudioBook CD Brand New : 4 Audio CDs - 5 Hours I Claudius and Claudius the God were written as if they were the secret autobiography of Claudius the fourth emperor of Rome (r. 41-54 A.D.). The historical Claudius was kept out of public life by his family the Julio-Claudians until his sudden elevation at the age of 49. This was due to several disabilities—including a stammer a limp and various nervous tics—which made him appear mentally deficient to his relatives. This is how he was defined by scholars for most of history and Graves uses these peculiarities to develop a sympathetic character whose survival in a murderous dynasty depends upon the incorrect assumption that he is a harmless idiot. Rober more here.....
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    Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Rebecca - by Daphne du Maurier - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 12 CDs 14 hrs. 45minutes "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again." So begins the classic Rebecca the unsurpassed modern masterpiece of romantic suspense -- one of the bestselling novels of all time! And so begins the remembrances of the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter as she recalls the events that led her to the isolated gray stone manse on the windswept Cornish coast. With a husband she barely knew the young bride arrived at this immense estate only to be inexorably drawn into the life of the first Mrs. de Winter the beautiful Rebecca -- dead but never forgotten; her suite of rooms never find out more.....
  • CD Great AudioBook
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    Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Unabridged 16 CD Audio Book Set Get other Fiction AudioBook CDs click here Get other Classic AudioBook CDs click here Great Expectations - by Charles Dickens - Audio Book CD Brand New (16 CDs - 20 hours): About Great Expectations Great Expectations chronicles the progress of Pip from childhood through adulthood. as he moves from the marshes of Kent to London society he encounters a variety of extraordinary characters: from Magwitch the escaped convict to Miss Havisham and her ward the arrogant and beautiful Estella. In this fascinating story Dickens shows the dangers of being driven by a desire for wealth and social status. Pip must establish a sense of self against the plans which others seem to have for him - and somehow discover a firm set of values and priorities. About Charles Dickens Dickens was born on February 7 1812 the son of a clerk at the Navy Pay Office. His father John Dickens continually living beyond his means was imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea in 1824. 12-year-old Charles was removed from school and more details.....
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  • Prosperity Butler Tom Bowdon AudioBook Classics CD
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    50 Prosperity Classics by Tom Butler-Bowden Attract It Create it Manage it Share it - wisdom from the most valuable books on wealth creation and abudance. 50 Self Help Classics / 50 Success Classics / 50 Prosperity Classics/50 Spiritual Classics on Audio click here 50 Prosperity Classics - Tom Butler-Bowden - Audio-Book CD Brand New : Unabridged 9 CDs ( a summary and analysis of the 50 books and the key ideas -not a reading of all 50 books) # An introduction to the prosperity literature with list and thematic guide to the landmark works. # 50 commentaries on 50 classic works: the story of each book's writing their life-changing ideas their impact some representative quotes the meaning of each book 'in a nutshell' and cross-referencing to similar classics. # Includes 'quick tour of the literature' 'characteristics of successful people' and chronological list of titles. Read Tom Butler-Bowdon's summary of characteristics of successful people 50 Prosperity Classics Introduction 1. James Allen The Path to Prosperity (1905) 2. Robert G Allen Multiple Streams of Income (2000) 3. David Bach The Automatic Millionaire (2003) 4. PT Barnum The Art of Money Getting (1885) 5. Genevie more.....
  • Evelyn CD
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    Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh read by Jeremy Irons Get Other Classic AudioBook CD click here Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh - Audio Book CD Brand New : (unabridged) 10 CDs - 11.5 hours Brideshead Revisited The Sacred Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh first published in 1945. Waugh wrote that the novel "deals with what is theologically termed 'the operation of Grace' that is to say the unmerited and unilateral act of love by which God continually calls souls to Himself". This is achieved by an examination of the aristocratic Marchmain family as seen by the narrator Charles Ryder. Time Magazine included Brideshead Revisited in its list of "All-time 100 Novels". In various letters Waugh himself refers to the novel a number of times as his magnum opus; however in 1950 he wrote to Graham Greene saying "I re-read Brideshead Revisited and was appalled." In Waugh's preface to the 1959 revised edition more information.....
  • Pillars Ken Follett AudioBook CD ofEarth Unabridged
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    Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett Unabridged 32 CDs Get Other Classic Audio Books click here Get Other Ken Follett AudioBooks click here The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett - Audio Book Unabridged CD Brand New (still shrink wrapped): . 41 hours 32 CDs The Pillars of the Earth is a historical novel by Ken Follett published in 1989 about the building of a cathedral in Kingsbridge England. It is set in the middle of the 12th century primarily during the time known as The Anarchy between the time of the sinking of the White Ship and the murder of Thomas Becket. The book traces the development of Gothic Architecture out of the preceding Romanesque Architecture and the fortunes of the Kingsbridge priory against the backdrop of actual historical events of the time. Although Kingsbridge is the name of an actual English town the Kingsbridge in the no extra info.....
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    Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Unabridged read by David Case Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 4 Audio CDs 4 Hours Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Polish-born writer Joseph Conrad. Before its 1902 publication it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon. The story details an incident when Marlow an Englishman took a foreign assignment as a ferry-boat captain employed by a Belgian trading company. Although the river is never specifically named readers may assume it is the Congo River in the Congo Free State a private colony of King Leopold II. Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver; however his more pressing assignment is to return Kurtz another ivory trader to civilization in a cover up. Kurtz has a reputation throughout the region. This highly symbolic story is actually a story within a story or frame narrative. It follows Marlow as he recounts from dusk through to late night his adventure into the Congo to a group of men aboard a ship anchored in the Thames extra info.....