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Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte
Available on: Audio Download ($13.00)
Heathcliff was to serve as the name for the ragged, dark-skinned orphan whom Mr. Earnshaw found abandoned in the streets of Liverpool and took home to live with his own children, Cathy and Hindley, at Wuthering Heights.
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Othello
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($13.00)
Because of its diverse subject, namely love, jealousy, racism and betrayal, Othello remains relevant and valid even today.
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Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($13.00)
Hamlet is one of the great classics, if not the greatest, of English drama.
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The Taming of the Shrew
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($11.00)
Petruchio arrives in Padua determined to gain his fortune by marrying the volatile Katherina. Their tempestuous meeting and marriage leads to a great love affair.
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Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
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Julius Caesar triumphantly returns Rome where he is met by betrayal, conspiracy and ultimately, assassination followed by Mark Antony’s revenge on the plotters.
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Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
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Here is the story of Pip and his mysterious rise from abused orphan to gentleman.
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Billy Budd
by Herman Melville
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Billy Budd, a paragon of simple goodness and virile beauty, is press-ganged into the crew of HMS Indomitable in 1797, soon after the mutiny in the British fleet.
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Much Ado About Nothing
by William Shakespeare
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Much Ado is a romantic comedy that revolves around obstacles presented to two young lovers as well as a "merry war" of the sexes.
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Donnie Brasco
by Joseph D. Pistone
Available on: Audio Download ($13.00)
Posing as a jewel thief Donnie Brasco, FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone worked undercover for six years to infiltrate the flamboyant and deadly community of Mafia wise guys, captains and bosses.
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The Tempest
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($13.00)
A magical tale of enchantment, retribution and love. Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, is betrayed by his brother and exiled to a desert island with his daughter Miranda.
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Antony and Cleopatra
by William Shakespeare
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Antony and Cleopatra is the tumultuous tragedy and love story played out against a backdrop of war and the vengeance of Octavius Caesar.
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King Lear
by William Shakespeare
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King Lear is one of Shakespeare’s greatest and darkest works. King Lear banishes his favorite daughter when she speaks out against him.
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Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
Available on: Audio Download ($13.00)
Jane Lapotaire reads one of the greatest of all English novels, a finely etched satire about the scatterbrained Mrs. Bennett whose aim in life is to see her five daughters married.
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A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
Available on: Audio Download ($13.00)
Set against the bloody background of the French Revolution, this is perhaps Dickens' most famous work.
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The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper
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In danger of Indian raids at all times, a small party of colonial Americans flee before the British and their Indian allies during the French and Indian wars.
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Richard II
by William Shakespeare
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Richard III tells the dramatic and bloody story of his fall and the ascension of Bolingbroke as Henry IV.
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Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
Available on: Audio Download ($13.00)
Jane Austen skewers the novelistic extremes of her day made popular in many 18th-century Gothic potboilers.
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Under the Volcano
by Malcolm Lowry
Available on: Audio Download ($13.00)
The horrors of alcoholism have never been so vividly, so comprehensively, or so sympathetically described as they are in Under the Volcano.
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The Sea Wolf
by Jack London
Available on: Audio Download ($13.00)
The is a tale of Humphrey Van Weydon, unwilling captive and crewman on a sealing ship of cutthroats...
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White Fang
by Jack London
Available on: Audio Download ($13.00)
His world was the cruel, savage world of the wild. His introduction to the "man-gods" was brutal and bloody.
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The Little Princess
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Sara Crew is the spoiled little daughter of rich parents. After her mother's death she is sent to a “Select Seminary For Young Ladies.”
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Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
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Ethan Frome is a lonely farmer trying to make a living while also tending to his frigid, demanding and ungrateful wife Zeena.
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David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
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David Copperfield was Dickens's favorite novel.
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Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
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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.
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The Day of The Locust
by Nathanael West
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Set in Hollywood during the Great Depression, The Day of the Locust depicts the estrangement and fears of a varied group who exist at the margins of the movie business, tensions exploding at the end with a riot during a film premiere.
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