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Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($23.18) | Audio CD ($23.18) | Audio Cassette
In writing this extraordinary play Shakespeare effectively re-invented tragedy after an interval of roughly two thousand years - you would have to go back to the Greek dramatists of 5th century Athens to find anything of comparable depth and maturity.
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The Psalms
Available on: Audio Download ($23.18) | Audio CD
The 150 Psalms contain some of the most inspiring lines in the Old Testament: Psalm 23 "The Lord is My Shepherd" and Psalm 121 "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills".
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The Sonnets
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
Everyone knows something of Shakespeare's sonnets, even if only in memorable fragments like "the darling buds of May," or "remembrance of things past," or "the marriage of true minds"...
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The Revelation of St. John the Divine
Available on: Audio Download ($7.98) | Audio CD
The theme of this audio book is the apocalypse: the end of the world and the coming of Christ in Judgement.
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Dangerous Liaisons
by Choderlos de Laclos
Available on: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD
Dangerous Liaisons is a gripping, unforgettable tale of passion, treachery and cruelty whose leading protagonists remain in the memory long after the story has been told.
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Joseph Haydn: His Life and Works
by Jeremy Siepmann
Available on: Audio Download ($28.79) | Audio CD
No great composer's story is more predominantly happy than Haydn's, though even his has its share of clouds.
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Oedipus the King
by Sophocles
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In the hands of Sophocles, the master dramatist, the anguished tale of a man fated to kill his father and marry his mother retains its power to shock and move beyond any Freudian reference...
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The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The Scarlet Letter is one of the great classics of American literature. Set in the harsh Puritan environment of the 17th century Boston, it describes the plight of Hester Prynne, an independent-minded woman...
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The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
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The Count of Monte Cristo is a tale of revenge and retribution. Edmond Dantes, a young, energetic sailor, is falsely accused of treason on his wedding day and incarcerated in the forbidding Chateau d'If...
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Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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A 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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Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD
There is now no doubt that not only is Waiting for Godot the outstanding play of the 20th century, but it is also Samuel Beckett's masterpiece.
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Hamlet: John Gielgud's Classic 1948 Recording
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD ($18.38)
This outstanding historical recording made in 1941 for radio is widely regarded as one of the finest Hamlet performances ever, and one of John Gielgud's greatest moments.
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To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
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To the Lighthouse is Virginia Woolf's most accomplished novel, and her most autobiographical. It tells of one summer spent by the Ramsay family and their friends in their holiday home in Scotland...
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The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
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This is the moving and powerful story of Edna Pontellier, a beautiful young wife and mother who discovers her true feelings and identity through her love for Robert Lebrun...
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The Story of Classical Music
by Darren Henley
Available on: Audio Download ($15.98) | Audio CD ($18.38) | Audio Cassette
The lives and music of the great composers of classical music unfold in this entertaining account, introduced by the conductor and musical personality Marin Alsop....
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Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw
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Pygmalion remains one of the most popular stories, but mainly in the medium of the musical; the evergreen My Fair Lady....
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Don Quixote
by Miguel Cervantes
Available on: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
The first European novel, and one of the greatest, is a marvelously comic study of delusion and its consequences: Don Quixote, the old gentleman of La Mancha...
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Beowulf
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD
The oldest long poem in Old English, written about 1000 AD, tells the story of a great warrior in Southern Scandinavia in both youth and maturity.
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Othello
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD ($18.38)
Shakespeare's legendary tragedy is revisited in this spirited and entertaining production that ran in London from November 2007 to February 2008. The flawless, talented cast features Ewan McGregor as the conniving Iago, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Othello (whose performance won him the Olivier Award as best actor) and Kelly Reilly as Desdemona.
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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte
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One of the greatest love stories ever written, Jane Eyre is the tale of a young woman entangled with the powerful Mr. Rochester.
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The Odyssey
by Homer
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Homer's Odyssey is the thrilling and moving tale of the wanderings of the hero Odysseus after the end of the Trojan war. For ten years he experiences storms, shipwrecks, and...
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King Richard III
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD ($18.38) | Audio Cassette
Written in 1593, King Richard III is one of Shakespeare's earliest plays...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD ($18.38) | Audio Cassette
This classic Shakespearean comedy is presented here in a colorful full-cast dramatization, drawn from the complete text...
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The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Available on: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
Chaucer's greatest work, written towards the end of the fourteenth century, paints a brilliant picture of medieval life, society and values. The stories range from the romantic...
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Jung
by Anthony Stevens
Available on: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
Anthony Stevens argues that Jung's visionary powers and profound spirituality have helped many to find an alternative set of values to the arid materialism prevailing Western society....
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