| |
|
1. |
|
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
Available on: Audio CD ($14.38) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($14.38)
The gothic tale of Frankenstein and his construction of a human being who runs amok has, with the help of numerous films, become one of the most vivid horror stories. But Mary Shelley's original novel, written in 1816...
|
| |
|
2. |
|
The Psalms
Available on: Audio CD ($23.18) | Digital Download ($23.18)
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".
|
| |
|
3. |
|
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Available on: Audio CD | Digital Download ($14.38)
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...
|
| |
|
4. |
|
Don Quixote
by Miguel Cervantes
Available on: Audio CD ($18.38) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($18.38)
Average Rating:    (3.7 Stars)
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...
|
| |
|
5. |
|
The Odyssey
by Homer
Available on: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($18.38)
Average Rating: (4.5 Stars)
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...
|
| |
|
6. |
|
Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
Available on: Audio CD ($14.38) | Digital Download ($14.38)
Average Rating: (2.0 Stars)
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.
|
| |
|
7. |
|
Beowulf
Available on: Audio CD ($14.38) | Digital Download ($14.38)
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.
|
| |
|
8. |
|
Hamlet: John Gielgud's Classic 1948 Recording
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio CD ($18.38) | Digital Download ($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.
|
| |
|
9. |
|
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Available on: Audio CD ($15.98) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($18.38)
Average Rating: (3.0 Stars)
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...
|
| |
|
10. |
|
Paradise Lost
by John Milton
Available on: Audio CD ($20.68) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($18.38)
Average Rating: (4.7 Stars)
Paradise Lost is the greatest epic poem in the English language. In words remarkable for their richness of rhythm and imagery, Milton tells the story of Man's creation, fall, and redemption...
|
| |
|
11. |
|
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($23.18)
Average Rating: (4.5 Stars)
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.
|
| |
|
12. |
|
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte
Available on: Audio CD ($18.38) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($18.38)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
One of the greatest love stories ever written, Jane Eyre is the tale of a young woman entangled with the powerful Mr. Rochester.
|
| |
|
13. |
|
The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
Available on: Audio CD ($14.38) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($14.38)
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...
|
| |
|
14. |
|
Oedipus the King
by Sophocles
Available on: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($14.38)
Average Rating: (4.6 Stars)
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...
|
| |
|
15. |
|
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Available on: Audio CD ($18.38) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($18.38)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
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...
|
| |
|
16. |
|
The General Prologue & the Physician's Tale
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Available on: Audio CD ($14.38) | Digital Download ($14.38)
In an authoritative performance by actor Richard Bebb, two sections from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales are presented in Old English, under the advisement of the leading living scholar on Chaucerian pronunciation, Professor Derek Brewer.
|
| |
|
17. |
|
The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Available on: Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($43.95) | MP3 CD
Prince Myshkin, is thrust into the heart of a society more concerned with wealth, power, and sexual conquest than the ideals of Christianity...
|
| |
|
18. |
|
The Story of Classical Music
by Darren Henley
Available on: Audio CD ($15.98) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($15.98)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
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....
|
| |
|
19. |
|
Emma
by Jane Austen
Available on: Audio CD | Digital Download ($18.38)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
Arrogant, self-willed, and egotistical, Emma is Jane Austen's most unusual heroine. Her interfering ways and inveterate matchmaking are at once shocking and comic...
|
| |
|
20. |
|
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
Available on: Audio CD ($18.38) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($18.38)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
Gulliver's Travels is renowned as a playful and comic children's classic. The book itself, rather than the bowdlerized versions that have been derived from it, is a savage...
|
| |
|
21. |
|
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
by T.E. Lawrence
Available on: Audio CD ($18.38) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($18.38)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
Although Lawrence of Arabia died in 1935, the story of his life has captured the imagination of succeeding generations. The Seven Pillars of Wisdom is a monumental work...
|
| |
|
22. |
|
The Iliad
by Homer
Available on: Audio CD ($18.38) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($23.18)
Average Rating: (2.2 Stars)
Perhaps the greatest poem of the Western world, The Iliad tells the story of 50 critical days toward the end of the Trojan war...
|
| |
|
23. |
|
Popular Poetry, Popular Verse
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($14.38)
With more than 80 of the most popular and loved poems in the English language, this collection is one of the most comprehensive anthologies of its kind. It covers a remarkable range...
|
| |
|
24. |
|
Symposium
by Plato
Available on: Audio CD ($17.98) | Digital Download ($14.38)
In Symposium, a group of Athenian aristocrats attend a party held by Agathon to celebrate his victory in the drama festival of the Dionysia.
|
| |
|
25. |
|
The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
Available on: Audio CD ($14.38) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($14.38)
Living the good life in the South, Buck is transported to the savagery of the Northland, where the Klondike Gold Rush has brought out rough basic instincts of survival in men -- and dogs.
|