I am Legend by Richard Matheson Unabridged read by Robertson Dean Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here I am Legend - Richard Matheson - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 5 Audio CDs 5.5 Hours I Am Legend is a 1954 science fiction novel by Richard Matheson about the last man alive in a future Los Angeles California. It is notable as influential on the developing modern vampire genre as well as the zombie genre in popularizing the fictional concept of a worldwide apocalypse due to disease and in exploring the notion of vampirism as a disease. The novel was a success and was adapted to film as The Last Man on Earth in 1964 as The Omega Man in 1971 and again in 2007 as I Am Legend. This release of the novel includes several of Matheson's short stories: Buried Talents The Near Departed Prey Witch War Dance of more details.....
Paradise Lost by John Milton Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Paradise Lost by John Milton - Unabridged AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 7 Audio CDs 9 Hours - read by Ralph Cosham Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books. A second edition followed in 1674 redivided into twelve books (in the manner of the division of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification. The poem concerns the Judeo-Christian story of the Fall of Man; the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton's purpose stated in Book I is to "justify the ways of God to men" and elucidate the conflict between God's eternal foresight and free will. In the early nineteenth century the Romantics began to regard Satan as the protagonist of the epic. Milton presents Satan as an ambitious and proud being who defies his creator omnipotent God and who wages war on Heaven only to be defeated and cast down. Indeed William Blake a great admirer of Milton and illustrator of the epic po extra info
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 contemporary idiom. This is an Odyssey to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. If the Iliad is the world's greatest wa more tips
Aesop's Fables - Audio Book MP3-CD Aesops Fables - Audio Book MP3-CD 284 Fables 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 (more information on MP3-CD click here) Aesop's Fables or Aesopica refers to a collection of fables credited to Aesop (620–560 BC) a slave and story-teller who lived in Ancient Greece. Aesop's Fables have become a blanket term for collections of brief fables usually involving anthropomorphic animals. The fables remain a popular choice for moral education of children today. Many stories included in Aesop's Fables such as The Fox and the Grapes (from which the idiom "sour grapes" was derived) The Tortoise and the Hare The North Wind and the Sun and The Boy Who Cried Wolf are well-known throughout the world. Apollonius of Tyana the 1st century AD philosopher is recorded as having said about Aesop: ...like those who dine well off the plainest dishes he made use of humble incidents to teach great truths and after serving up a find out more.....
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 Charlotte Bronte Charlotte Brontë was b click here.....
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 children with her. Recently his son Antipholus of Syracuse now grown and his son’s slave Dromio of Syracuse more tips
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 Unabridged 10 CDs Read by Michael Kitchen Lockwood the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before: of the intense passion between the foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw and her betrayal of him. As Heathcliff?s bitterness and vengeance is now visited upon the next generation their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the pa more info
Othello 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 Othello by William Shakespeare - Unabridged Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 3 Audio CDs 181 minutes The play opens with Roderigo a rich and dissolute gentleman complaining to Iago a high-ranking soldier that Iago has not told him about the secret marriage between Desdemona the daughter of a Senator named Brabantio and Othello a Moorish general in the Venetian army. He is upset by this development because he lusts for Desdemona and has previously asked her father for her hand in marriage. Iago is upset with Othello for promoting a younger man named Michael Cassio above him and tells Roderigo that he (Iago) is simply using Othello for his own advantage. Iago's argument against Cassio is that he more here.....
The Voice of the Poet by T.S. Eliot - read by the Author Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here The Voice of the Poet - T.S. Eliot - Audio CD and Book Brand New : 1Audio CD and Book of the Poems Featuring rare archival recordings of the featured poet reading his own work! Each program in Random House Audio Voices' exclusive THE VOICE OF THE POET series is accompanied by a book containing the text of the poems and a commentary by J.D. McClatchy. About the Author T.S. Eliot (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a poet dramatist and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Among his most famous writings are the poems The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock The Waste Land T click on
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Unabridged read by Christopher Hurt Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 4 Audio CDs 5 Hours Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian speculative fiction novel authored by Ray Bradbury and first published in 1953. The novel presents a future American society in which the masses are hedonistic and critical thought through reading is outlawed. The central character Guy Montag is employed as a "fireman" (which in this future means "book burner"). The number "451" refers to the temperature (in Fahrenheit) at which the books burn when the "firemen" burn them "for the good of humanity". Written in the early years of the Cold War the novel is a critique of what Bradbury saw as an increasingly dysfunctional American society. The concept began with Bradbury's short story "Bright Pho extra
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 an click to go
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Unabridged AudioBook Get other Fiction Classics on AudioBook - click here The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 4.5 hours 4 CDs The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published on April 10 1925 the story is set in New York City and Long Island during the summer of 1922. The novel chronicles an era that Fitzgerald himself dubbed the "Jazz Age." Following the shock and chaos of the First World War American society enjoyed unprecedented levels of prosperity during the 1920s as the economy soared. At the same time Prohibition the ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment made millionaires out of bootleggers and encouraged organized crime. Although Fitzgerald like Nick Carraway in his novel idolized the riches and glamour of the age click on
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 they try to kill Ralph before all being rescued by a naval of here
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 Terr additional info.....
The Caedmon Poetry Collection A Century of Poets reading their work Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Get other Poetry audio books on CD click here The Caedmon Poetry Collection - AudioBook CD Brand New : 3 Audio CDs 3.5 Hours A rare and thrilling listening experience. A choice gathering of some of the twentieth century's greatest poetry... read by the century's greatest poets - here available on CD A reawakened love for the sound of poetry has made modern poems subtly different from the poems of the eighteenth and nineteenth centures. We have only to listen to these poets reading their own works to know how important their interpretations are to a full comprehension of their poems. The ministerial intonations of Eliot the passionate orchestrations of Thomas the very very precise more advice
The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy Unabridged read by J Charles Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 13 Audio CDs 15 Hours Marko Ramius a Lithuanian who has risen to high levels of trust in the Soviet Navy intends to defect to the United States with his officers and the experimental nuclear submarine Red October a Typhoon-class submarine equipped with a revolutionary stealth propulsion system. The propulsion system is described as a pumpjet or magnetohydrodynamic system nicknamed "Caterpillar Drive" making sonar detection extremely difficult. The result as is immediately apparent to Jack Ryan and the admirals in the Joint Chiefs of Staff is a strategic weapon platform that is capable of sneaking its way into American home waters and launching nuclear missiles with little or no warning. It is also not lost upon Ramius whose defection is spurred by several other fact more advice
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville Unabridged 24 hours read by Anthony Heald Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Moby-Dick - Herman Melvilles - Read by Anthony Heald- AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 19 Audio CDs 24 Hours Moby-Dick is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville. The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab seeks one specific whale Moby Dick a white whale of tremendous size and ferocity. Comparatively few whaleships know of Moby Dick and fewer yet have encountered him. In a previous encounter the whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg. Ahab intends to take revenge. In Moby-Dick Melville employs stylized language symbolism and metaphor to explore numerous complex themes. Through the main character's journey the concepts of class and social status good and evil and the existence of gods are all examined as Ishmael speculates upon more tips
Sherlock Holmes - Radio Mysteries The History of Radio Unabridged 8 CD Audio Book Set Get other Sherlock Holmes AudioBooks click here Sherlock Holmes - Radio Mysteries - Audio Book CD Brand New (8 CDs - 6 Hours): About Sherlock Holmes - Radio Mysteries For the First time in half a century Sherlock Holmes returns to radio in a new series of broadcasts! Here is a collection of newly-conceived tales of the world's First consulting detective as told by his friend and associate Dr. John Watson portrayed by actor Lawrence Albert. Sherlock Holmes Radio Mysteries is produced under authority of the estate of Dame Jean Conan Doyle granddaughter of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Each episode is fully dramatized with a professional cast of actors realistic sound more.....
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh read by Jeremy Irons Get Other Classic AudioBook CD click here Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh - Audio Book CD 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 of Brideshead the author explains the circumstances in which the novel was written in the six months between December 1943 and June 1944 following a minor parachute accid extra info
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 thematic elements of the nov click
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 civilizatio here
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 roles it’s no mystery why this collection was so popular on cassette. Includes: “The Blue Carbuncle” “A Case of Identity” “Charles August Milverton” “The Dying Detective& click to go
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 English counties and London itself destroying all human resistance. Finding London an abandoned ruin and seeing little hope for humankind he decides to sacrifice himself to the invaders only to discover that they have su information
N Unabridged 22 CDs 25 hours Read by Richard Poe The masterpiece of Steinbeck's later years-a vastly ambitious novel that is at once a family saga and a modern retelling of the Book of Genesis In his journal Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book " and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families-the Trasks and the Hamiltons-whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Here is a work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity the inexplicability of love a more details.....
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 named Santiago (but only directly referred to outside of dialogue as "the old man") has gone 84 days without catching any lots more
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 State link here
Romeo and Juliet 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 Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare - Unabridged Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 3 Audio CDs The play starts with a street brawl between Montagues and Capulets. The Prince of Verona intervenes and declares that further breach of the peace will be punishable by death. Later Count Paris talks to Lord Capulet about marrying his daughter but Capulet is wary of the request because Juliet is still only thirteen. Capulet asks Paris to wait another two years and invites him to attend a planned Capulet ball. Lady Capulet and Juliet's nurse try to persuade Juliet to accept Paris' courtship. After the brawl Benvolio talks with his cousin Romeo Lord Montague's son about Romeo's recent depression. Benvolio discovers that it stems from unrequi information
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 influence on the popularity of vampires has been singularly responsible for many theatrical and film interpretations throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. The novel is mainly composed of here
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo Audio Drama Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Les Miserables - Victor Hugo - Audio Drama CD Brand New : Audio Drama 3 Audio CDs 169 minutes - not recommended for children under 8 The story that has thrilled millions comes to life in a brand new way in Focus on the Family Radio Theatre’s Les Miserables. This audio drama beautifully portrays the redeeming power of forgiveness through the story of Jean Valjean an embittered convict whose life is changed by a single act of kindness. Recorded in London with some of England’s finest actors it will mesmerize adults and families alike. About the Author Victor Hugo Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet playwright novelist essayist vis full details
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 Benedict Flynn Benedict Flynn's imaginative retellings of classic stories have reintroduced characters such as King Arthur and Robin Hood to a new generation of children. He lives in Great Britain. King Arthur and the K full details
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - Audio Book MP3 Read by Karen Savage Unabridged Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - Audio Book MP3 Unabridged 10.5 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 Pride and Prejudice first published on 28 January 1813 is the most famous of Jane Austen's novels and one of the first "romantic comedies" in the history of the novel. Its manuscript was first written between 1796 and 1797 initially called First Impressions but was never published under that title. Following revisions it was first published on 28 January 1813. Like both its predecessors Sense and Sensibility and Northanger Abbey it was written in Steventon Hampshire where Austen lived in the rectory. 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 pla more details.....
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Unabridged 20.5 hours read by Anthony Heald Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Read by Anthony Heald- AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 16 Audio CDs 20.5 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. Petersbur click on
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen read by Julie Christie Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - AudioBook CD Brand New : abridged 6 Audio CDs 5.5 Hours Sense and Sensibility is a novel by the English novelist Jane Austen. Published in 1811 it was the first of Austen's novels to be published under the pseudonym "A Lady". The story revolves around Elinor and Marianne two daughters of Mr. Dashwood by his second wife. They have a younger sister Margaret and an older half-brother named John. When their father dies the family estate passes to John and the Dashwood women are left in reduced circumstances. The novel follows the Dashwood sisters to their new home a cottage on a distant relative's property where they experience both romance and heartbreak. The contrast between the sisters' characters is eventually r more tips
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 postulant nun and asks her to intercede with Angelo on Claudio's behalf. Isabella obtains an audience with Angelo and pleads to him for mercy. Over the course of two scenes between Angelo and Isabella it becomes clear that more here.....
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne Abridged 2 CD Audio Book Set Get other Classic AudioBooks click here Around the World in Eighty Days - By Jules Verne - Audio Book CD Brand New (2 CDs - 2.5Hours): About Around the World in Eighty Days Phileas Fogg is a man of habit a Victorian gentleman who follows the same routine every day--until he accepts a wager that he can circle the globe within eighty days. Thus begins a hair-raising journey in which Fogg's obsession with his timetable is complemented by the dynamism and versatility of his French manservant Passepartout whose has a talent for getting into scrapes as the two dash across continents in a suspenseful race against time. The world's greatest works of literature are now avaialble in these beautiful keepsake volumes. Bound in real cloth and featuring gilt edges and ribbon markers these beautifully produced books are a wonderful way to build a handsome library of classic literature. These are the essential novels that belong in every home. They'll transport readers to imaginary worlds and provide excitement entertainment and enlightenment for years to c click