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Siddhartha
by Herman Hesse
Available on: Audio CD | Digital Download ($9.95)
Siddhartha is the story of an Indian man 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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Paradise Lost
by John Milton
Available on: Audio CD ($21.58) | Digital 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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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.
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Paradise Lost
by John Milton
Available on: Audio CD ($20.68) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($18.38)
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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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte
Available on: Audio CD ($18.38) | Audio Cassette | Digital 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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Alice in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
Available on: Digital Download ($9.95) | MP3 CD
An “excellent independent venture” (The Times), Oxfordstorypods’ Alice in Wonderland audiobook is a refreshing version of this popular classic.
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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...
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Don Quixote
by Miguel Cervantes
Available on: Audio CD ($18.38) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($18.38)
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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The Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan
Available on: Audio CD ($64.80) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($19.95) | MP3 CD
Next to The Bible, The Pilgrim's Progress has probably been more widely read than any other book in the English language, and rightfully so....
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Hard Times
by Charles Dickens
Available on: Audio CD ($17.96) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($23.95) | MP3 CD
Thomas Gradgrind is an eminently practical man who believes in facts and statistics and has brought up his 2 children...
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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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The Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan
Available on: Audio CD ($15.18) | Digital Download ($25.98)
This is an updated version for all ages told in wonderful storytelling fashion. John Bunyan was a simple maker and mender of pots and pans who received very little education. In spite of that, he penned the most successful allegory ever written.
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Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
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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...
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Available on: Audio CD | Digital 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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Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte
Available on: Audio CD ($20.68) | Digital Download ($23.18)
More than just a love story, this convincing, unsentimental novel is one of the classics of English...
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Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
Available on: Audio CD ($120.00) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($36.95) | MP3 CD
Great Expectations traces the development of Philip Pirrip, called Pip, from a boy of shallow aspirations to a man of depth and character.
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Hard Times
by Charles Dickens
Available on: Audio CD ($20.68) | Digital Download ($18.38)
In this, Dickens' most openly political novel, we discover the terrible human consequences of a ruthlessly materialistic philosophy in the lives of Thomas Gradgrind's family...
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Swann's Way
by Marcel Proust
Available on: Audio CD ($20.68) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($18.38)
Swann's Way is the first part of Marcel Proust's monumental, seven volume Remembrance of Things Past...
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Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
Available on: Audio CD ($38.38) | Digital Download ($38.38)
When Catherine Morland, a country clergyman's daughter, is invited to spend a season in Bath with the fashionable high society, little does she imagine the delights and perils that await her.
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The Sign of Four
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Available on: Audio CD ($26.98) | Digital Download ($23.18)
The Sign of Four is the second story by Conan Doyle about the exploits of Sherlock Holmes.
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Within a Budding Grove, Part 1
by Marcel Proust
Available on: Audio CD ($22.98) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($18.38)
Within a Budding Grove, Part 1 is the second volume of Proust's monumental, seven volume, quasi-autobiographical novel Remembrance of Things Past...
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The War Of The Worlds
by H.G. Wells
Available on: Audio CD ($48.00) | Audio CD ($17.96) | Audio Cassette | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($19.95) | MP3 CD
This spellbinding tale describes the Martian invasion of earth.
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
by Thomas De Quincey
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Thomas De Quincey’s best-known work, is an account of his early life and opium addiction, in prose that is by turns witty, conversational, and nightmarish.
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Emma
by Jane Austen
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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...
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Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Treasure Island is a story of good and evil. From the moment narrator Jim Hawkins meets the blind pirate Pew until the battle for hidden treasure on a tropical island…
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