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1. | | Aesop's Fables Podcast by Aesop Available on: PodcastAesop's Fables Podcast collects the timeless moral fables of the Greek storyteller Aesop. |
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2. | | The Confucian Analects by Confucius Available on: Audio Download ($9.95)The Confucian Analects (literally translated as "discussion over Confucius' words") collects a record of the philosophy, discussions and day to day life of the great chinese scholar Confucius (551-479 BCE). |
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3. | | Anton Chekhov Select Stories Podcast by Alan Davis Drake Available on: PodcastMaster of the stage, Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) gives us insightful moments in the everyday lives of 19th Century Russians. |
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4. | | Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Available on: Audio CD ($15.99)With over eight million copies in print, Chinua Achebe's work is perhaps the best-known novel in African literature. No other book so powerfully illuminates the African experience. |
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5. | | The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky Available on: Audio Download ($27.99) | Audio CD ($31.98) | MP3 CD ($29.98)Fyodor Dostoevsky's crowning life work, The Brothers Karamazov, stands among the greatest novels in world literature. His exploration of faith, doubt, morality, and the place of suffering in life are equaled in no other work of literature, save the Bible. |
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6. | | The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx Available on: Audio DownloadUndoubtedly one of the most influential writings of all time, the Communist Manifesto divided the globe for almost a century. |
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7. | | Introductions to World Literature by Peter Whitfield Available on: Audio DownloadWriter and cyclist Peter Whitfield discusses some of the gems of world literature. Do you want to know about Dante’s Divine Comedy or the novels of Jane Austen or Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick? |
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8. | | Dubliners: Araby by James Joyce Available on: Audio DownloadThe third coming-of-age story in James Joyce's collection Dubliners... |
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9. | | War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells Available on: Audio DownloadWar of the Worlds by Herbert George Wells (H.G. Wells) was published in 1898 at a time when he wrote a series of novels related to a number of historical events of the time. |
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10. | | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast by Miette Available on: PodcastLay yourself down to sleep with the soothing soporific of Miette's purring voice as she reads you classic works of short fiction. Sweet dreams. |
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11. | | Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Abridged Edition Available on: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD ($22.98) | Audio CassetteA century after it first appeared, Crime and Punishment remains one of the most gripping psychological thrillers. A poverty stricken young man, seeing his family making sacrifices for him... |
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12. | | Don Juan: Canto I by Lord Byron Available on: Audio DownloadDon Juan is a long narrative poem by Byron, based very loosely on the legend of the evil seducer, Don Juan. |
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13. | | The Madman by Kahlil Gibran Available on: Audio Download ($9.95)From the author of the timeless masterpiece The Prophet comes this sterling collection of short fables and reflections. |
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14. | | Aesop's Fables Available on: Audio DownloadA collection of one hundred fables from Aesop. |
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15. | | The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling Available on: Audio Download ($12.50) | Audio CD ($17.99) | MP3 CD ($17.99)Part silly, part serious, these delightful stories convey Kipling's message in a way that children and adults alike will appreciate time and time again. |
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16. | | Treasury of Classic Children's Stories by Oscar Wilde Available on: Audio Download ($12.60)Bedtime, playtime and long voyages in the car will never be the same again as families gather to listen to classic tales brought to life by award-winning performers. |
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17. | | Tolstoy On Death: The Death of Ivan Ilyich & Master Man Available on: Audio Download ($15.39) | Audio CD ($19.78)At the end of life worldly ambition offers no consolation for the spiritually empty soul. But Tolstoy is the master of themes of redemption. |
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18. | | Great Books - A Chapter a Day Podcast by Walter Burek Available on: PodcastListen to classic books from some of the world’s best known and respected authors – an ideal way to expand your horizons, catch up on your classics “reading” list, or listen to books everyone you know says they’ve already read. |
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19. | | Leo Tolstoy - What Men Live By and Other Tales Podcast by David Barnes Available on: PodcastAlthough Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a wealthy landowner, in his later life he had what was considered a "religious awakening." |
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20. | | Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Available on: Audio Download ($23.18) | Audio CD ($28.98) | Audio CassetteAnna Karenina has been described as the perfect Russian novel. Trapped in a loveless marriage, Anna Karenina is defenseless against the power of her passions... |
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21. | | Classic Chinese Short Stories, Volume 1 by Lin Yu Tang Available on: Audio Download | Audio CassetteChina has been a wellspring of storytelling for over 2,000 years.... |
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22. | | Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton Available on: Audio Download | Audio CD ($17.96) | Audio Cassette ($59.95) | MP3 CD ($29.95)This is the most distinguished novel that has come out of South Africa in the 20th century... |
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23. | | The Prophet and Other Stories by Kahlil Gibran Available on: Audio Download ($12.95) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 CDThis collection includes The Prophet, The Forerunner, and The Madman. Gibran’s mysticism, evident here as in all his works, reveals an intense preoccupation with the spiritual and visionary. |
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24. | | Sadhana, the Realisation of Life by Rabindranath Tagore Available on: Audio DownloadSadhana is a collection of essays... |
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25. | | Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya Available on: Audio CD ($23.99)With hundreds of thousands of copies in print, Bless Me, Ultima has been called the most widely read Mexican-American novel in the English language. |