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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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Paradise Lost
by John Milton
Available on: Audio CD ($21.58) | Audio Download ($14.99)
This epic poem, considered the greatest in the English language, as John Milton seeks to “justify the ways of God to men” through relating the story of Satan’s rebellion in Heaven, the deception and fall of Man, and the presaged event of Redemption through Jesus, the Son of God…the “Second Adam.”
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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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The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Available on: Audio CD ($31.98) | Audio Download ($33.98) | MP3 CD ($26.98)
Fyodor Dostoevsky's crowning life work, The Brothers Karamazov, stands among the greatest novels in world literature. His exploration of faith, doubt, morality, and the place of suffering in life are equaled in no other work of literature, save the Bible.
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Nature
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Available on: Audio Download ($9.95)
Using bold imagery and beautifully written language to illustrate his points, Emerson formulates a belief system where nature itself is a divine entity that we can know directly.
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Plato's Gorgias
by Plato
Available on: Audio CD | Audio Download ($14.00)
Gorgias of Leontini, who teaches rhetoric, is in Athens, to instruct potential leaders in politics and business. A group has gathered at Callicles' house where Socrates questions him in his usual way.
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Plato's Symposium
by Plato
Available on: Audio CD | Audio Download ($10.00)
The dramatic nature of Plato's dialogues is delightfully evident in the Symposium. The marriage between character and thought bursts forth as the guests gather at Agathon's house and talk about love.
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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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The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Available on: Audio CD ($19.98) | Audio Cassette | Audio Download ($18.38)
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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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte
Available on: Audio CD ($20.68) | Audio Cassette | Audio Download ($18.38)
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 Princess Bride
by William Goldman
Available on: Audio CD ($13.46) | Audio Download ($10.47)
This adventure story has everything you could want: the good guy, some bad guys, the girl, sword...
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The Faerie Queene
by Edmund Spenser
Available on: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Audio Download ($18.38)
This remarkable poem, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I, was Spenser's finest achievement: the first epic poem in modern English. The Faerie Queene combines...
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I Want Burning
by Coleman Barks
Available on: Audio CD ($13.58) | Audio Download ($11.89)
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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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Available on: Audio CD ($23.18) | Audio Download ($23.18)
This was conceived and written by Friedrich Nietzsche during the years 1881-1885. The book formed part of his 'campaign against morality, ' in which Nietzsche explored the ethical consequences of the 'death of God'.
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Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
Available on: Audio CD ($13.46) | Audio Download ($10.47)
Zen is a way of life, a religion, and an aesthetic, as well as one of the oldest and most profound religious...
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The Iliad
by Homer
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Perhaps the greatest poem of the Western world, The Iliad tells the story of 50 critical days toward the end of the Trojan war...
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The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
Available on: Audio CD ($17.96) | Audio Cassette ($79.95) | Audio Download ($29.95) | MP3 CD ($29.95)
Perhaps no other work of literature has aroused so much admiration in so many countries and so many readers as The Divine Comedy.
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Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
Available on: Audio CD | Audio Download ($14.38)
Ethan Frome is an entrancing but sad story of a poverty-stricken Massachusetts farmer caught in a loveless marriage. An emerging love for his young cousin leads to one day of explosive...
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Seven Classic Plays
by Various Artists
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Here in one volume are seven great plays: Medea, The Tempest, The Imaginary Invalid, Camille, An Enemy of the People, Arms and the Man, and Uncle Vany.
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Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
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Pride and Prejudice captures the affectations of class-conscious eighteenth-century English families with matrimonial aims and rivalries.
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Voices of Black America
by Booker T. Washington
Available on: Audio CD ($12.78) | Audio Cassette | Audio Download ($12.78)
This unique collection, compiled especially for Naxos AudioBooks, features original recordings from 1908-1946 of Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition Address, the poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes…
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The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
Available on: Audio CD ($65.58) | Audio Download ($65.58)
Dante's vision, The Divine Comedy, has profoundly affected every generation since it first appeared in the early 14th century. This unabridged box set contains the trilogy of The Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise, plus a biography of Dante.
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Sister Carrie
by Theodore Dreiser
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Dreiser transforms the conventional "fallen woman" story into a genuinely original work of imaginative fiction.
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A Room With a View
by E.M. Forster
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Caught up in a world of social snobbery, Lucy Honeychurch finds herself constrained by its claustrophobic influences.
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The Arabian Nights
by Various Authors
Available on: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Audio Download ($23.95) | MP3 CD
Here is a selection of some of the best-known and best-loved tales of The Arabian Nights, including “Sinbad,” “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,” “Aladdin,” “The Talking Bird,” and “The Fisherman and the Genie.”
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