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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Available on: Audio Download ($7.99)
When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote THE GREAT GATSBY in the early 1920s, the American Dream was already on the skids.
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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
Available on: Audio Download ($13.95) | Audio CD ($17.96) | Audio Cassette ($19.95) | MP3 CD ($26.96)
Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury's classic novel of censorship and defiance, as resonant today as it was when it was first published more than 50 years ago.
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
Available on: Audio Download ($13.99) | Audio CD ($15.99)
Albert Camus' The Stranger is one of the most widely read novels in the world, with millions of copies sold....
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The Go-Getter
by Peter B. Kyne
Available on: Audio Download ($9.95)
Originally published by William Randolph Hearst in 1921, Peter Kyne's The Go Getter has become a continual source of inspiration for salesman, entrepreneurs and employers.
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Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth
by Herman Hesse
Available on: Audio Download ($18.35) | Audio CD ($23.96)
A brilliant psychological portrait of a troubled young man's quest for self-awareness, this coming-of-age novel achieved instant critical and popular acclaim upon its 1919 publication.
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Siddhartha
by Herman Hesse
Available on: Audio Download ($9.95)
Siddhartha is the story of a man from the Indian Subcontinent who sets out on a spiritual quest of discovery. Rejecting conventional spiritual practices and teachings, he attempts to find his own path to enlightenment.
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Plato's Ion and Meno
by Plato
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Socrates questions Ion, an actor, about his ability to interpret the poetry of Homer. In the Meno, the topic is whether goodness can be taught. Both dialogues provide more questions than answers.
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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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An Introduction to English Literature
Available on: Audio Download ($7.99)
Literature is the history of ideas. It is a reflection of thoughts, feelings and culture of a time and a place. What better place to start when learning about the world we live in?
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Plato's Phaedrus
by Plato
Available on: Audio Download ($12.00)
Phaedrus treats the nature of love, mythical visions of human nature and destiny, and the essence of beauty. It ends with a penetrating discussion of speaking, writing, and the love of wisdom.
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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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Othello
by William Shakespeare
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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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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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I Want Burning
by Coleman Barks
Available on: Audio Download ($11.89) | Audio CD ($13.58)
Ecstatic Sufi Poetry Comes Alive! To fully experience the ecstatic poetry of the Middle and Near East, you must hear it as originally intended: read with passion and stirred ablaze by inspired music.
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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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Hedda Gabler
by Henrik Ibsen
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38)
Hedda Gabler, a deceased General’s daughter, marries dull George Tesman and foresees a life of middleclass tedium stretching ahead when they return from a honeymoon they could not afford to a house they cannot afford.
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The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Set in Puritan Massachusetts, Hawthorne's greatest novel is a philosophical exploration of sin...
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Popular Poetry, Popular Verse
by William Shakespeare
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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...
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Daniel's Story
by Carol Matas
Available on: Audio Download ($19.98) | Audio CD ($31.96)
Although Daniel is a fictitious character, his story was inspired by the real experiences of many of the more than one million children who died in the Holocaust.
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Trouble Is My Business
by Raymond Chandler
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Would you put your life on the line for 25 bucks a day, plus expenses? John Dalmas does. He's one of...
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Dante and His Divine Comedy
by Timothy B. Shutt
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
By near universal agreement, Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy stands very high among the greatest literary works ever written. This may come as a surprise, because Dante is best known for the Inferno, the first cantica of the Commedia, which is, by any standard, fairly grim in some respects.
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Sara, Book 2
by Esther Hicks
Available on: Audio Download ($12.32) | Audio CD ($15.96)
Simply put, these two adventurous, tree-climbing friends dialogue with their feathered mentor regarding their varied (and sometimes confusing) experiences with parents, teachers, other students, and neighbors.
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The Lady in the Lake
by Raymond Chandler
Available on: Audio Download ($11.86) | Audio CD ($15.26)
Hard-boiled detective Philip Marlowe follows the trail of a missing woman in Raymond Chandler's...
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The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Convicted and imprisoned because she is unwilling to name her partner in adultery, Hester Prynne is forced to wear a scarlet “A” on the breast of her gown for the rest of her life.
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