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Oedipus the King
by Sophocles
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD ($14.38) | Audio Cassette
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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Hamlet: John Gielgud's Classic 1948 Recording
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD ($20.68)
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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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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Paradise Lost
by John Milton
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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...
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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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King Richard III
by William Shakespeare
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Written in 1593, King Richard III is one of Shakespeare's earliest plays...
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Grimm's Fairy Tales
by Brothers Grimm
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Here are some of the most enchanting fairy stories of all time. The Brothers Grimm conjure up a world of fantasy, hope and good fortune where the princess meets and marries the right prince (even if he once was a frog)...
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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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Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
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By the time Shakespeare came to write Macbeth - almost certainly in 1605/1606 - he had already completed three of the great tragedies with which modern audiences are so familiar...
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The Jungle Books
by Rudyard Kipling
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Kiplings' tales of Mowgli and his exciting life in the Indian jungle have been loved by children and adults alike ever since their publication in 1895. Mowgli the 'man-cub' must learn to fend for himself...
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A Study in Scarlet
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Available on: Audio Download ($23.18) | Audio CD ($26.08)
A Study in Scarlet was the very first Sherlock Holmes novel. Here, in the most remarkably precise manner, Doyle produced two of the most well-known characters in English fiction.
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The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Prince Lef Nikolayevitch Muishkin is one of the great characters in Russian literature. Is he a saint or just naive, an idealist or, as many in General Yepanchin's society feel, an 'idiot'?...
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The Adventures of Odysseus
by Benedict Flynn
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The Adventures of Odysseus is the story of what happened after the Trojan War when Odysseus, the most cunning of all the Greek heroes...
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King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
by Benedict Flynn
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These stories are about how, many years ago, Arthur the once and future King of England, set out to save his country from the troubles that plagued it, aided by the brave knights...
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The Phoenix and the Carpet
by Edith Nesbit
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This sequel to Five Children and It sees the four children finding a carpet and then being told by a phoenix that it is a magic carpet.
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin
by Jan Fielden
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Here are 60 of the finest and most entertaining poems for younger listeners...
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Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
by Jerome K. Jerome
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Three men, worried about their health and in search of different experiences, set off up the river in a boat. Jerome's delightful novel, dating from 1900 paints a vivid picture of innocent fun.
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Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
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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...
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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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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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The Psalms
Available on: Audio Download ($23.18) | Audio CD ($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".
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Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
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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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Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
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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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Beowulf
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD ($16.18)
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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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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