Literature Audio Books

An intense, chilling take on life behind bars, JESUS HOPPED THE 'A' TRAIN strikes a fine balance of "intellectual vigor and sophistication on the one hand and so much anguished passion on the other."

Ishmael, a sailor, recounts the ill-fated voyage of a whaling ship led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in search of the white whale that had crippled him.

His world was the cruel, savage world of the wild. His introduction to the "man-gods" was brutal and bloody.

Humphrey van Weyden led a privileged existence during his early life, but suddenly finds himself cast into the sea, fighting for survival.

In a contest of intellect and wills, Abby Gersten, a tenacious civil liberties attorney, defends a right-wing Holocaust denier, arguing her case against a young, committed Jewish federal prosecutor.

In a small and dark room, nine men are assembled under a shadowy pretext. As tension builds, the men are questioned: are they the sort of people that the new Nazi regime considers "inferior"?

The blowhards, the know-it-alls, the scrupulous and the impecunious are all targets for Shaw’s incisive wit in his classic satire of the medical profession.

War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit.

Pride and Prejudice captures the affections of class-conscious eighteenth-century English families with matrimonial aims and rivalries.

King Lear is one of Shakespeare’s greatest and darkest works. King Lear banishes his favorite daughter when she speaks out against him.