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A History of Music of the Western World
Credits: Audio Download
Explore the rudiments of music theory. Musical examples included.
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The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town.
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The Lord of the Rings
by J. R. R. Tolkien
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring...
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Tartuffe
by Moliere
Credits: Audio Download
Initially banned in France by King Louis, Molière's celebrated social satire Tartuffe exposes false piety and hypocrisy in the Catholic Church. When a pious fraud worms his way into a wealthy family
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Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
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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The Grapes of Wrath
Credits: Audio Download
Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression follows the western movement of one family and a nation in search of work and human dignity. Stars Jeffrey Donovan and Shirley Knight.
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The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
Simultaneously releasing with the 80th anniversary paperback edition, Hemingway's first great novel makes its regal debut in an all-new, unabridged recording.
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The Member of the Wedding
by Carson McCullers
Credits: Audio Download
One of the most beautiful plays ever written about loneliness and love.
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The Rivalry
by Norman Corwin
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
Academy Award-nominees Paul Giamatti and David Strathairn star in Norman Corwin's electrifying dramatization of the historymaking Lincoln-Douglas debates.
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Sing Your Heart Out
by Arthur Samuel Joseph
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
If you’ve ever been told you can’t even carry a tune think again.
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Broken Glass
by Arthur Miller
Credits: Audio Download
Though safe in Brooklyn, Sylvia suddenly becomes partially paralysed when reading about the events of Kristallnacht.
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Moliere
by Sherwin T. Wine
Credits: Audio Download
France under Louis XIV reached the peak of its power. Its culture bridged the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. Moliére was the son of a successful upholsterer who became...
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The House of Blue Leaves
by John Guare
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
This poignant Obie Award-winning comedy unfolds in New York City on the day the Pope is expected to visit.
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The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
by Herman Wouk
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
This acclaimed WWII psychological court room drama was the sensation of 1954.
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Lost in Yonkers
by Neil Simon
Credits: Audio Download
Set in Yonkers in 1942, two boys, aged 13 and 16, must spend one year with their austere and demanding grandmother.
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Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
Jane Austen’s classic romantic comedy is the sparkling tale of the Bennets, a family blessed with five daughters and a mother desperate to marry them off.
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The Oscar Wilde Collection
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
Four classic comedies from one of the greatest playwrights in Western literature: The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Windermeres Fan, An Ideal Husband, and A Woman of No Importance.
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The Man Called Cash
by Steve Turner
Credits: Audio Download
Johnny Cash is one of the most influential figures in music and American popular culture today....
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Chapter Two
by Neil Simon
Credits: Audio Download
Comedy and pathos mingle brilliantly in Neil Simon's portrait of a widowed New York novelist who fears he may never love again and has no interest in dating...
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Cronkite Remembers
by Walter Cronkite
Credits: Audio Download
No one is more identified with the great events of our times than the distinguished and highly honored former CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite.
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Dave Barry is Not Making This Up
by Dave Barry
Credits: Audio Download
Yes, it's true: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dave Barry's columns get out of the paper and sent...
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Pack of Lies
by Hugh Whitemore
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
Actual events during the Cold War inspired this thriller that takes place in a suburb of London during the autumn and winter of 1960-1961.
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Joseph Haydn: His Life and Works
by Jeremy Siepmann
Credits: Audio Download
No great composer's story is more predominantly happy than Haydn's, though even his has its share of clouds.
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Broadway Bound
by Neil Simon
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
YA The final play in Simon's autobiographical trilogy, this is nothing short of brilliant. The story is both rib-tickling and heart-wrenching; the Jerome family is troubled, warm, and funny.
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Rock 'n' Roll and American Society, Part 1
by William McKeen
Credits: Audio Download
An author and university professor whose books include scholarly works on The Beatles and Bob Dylan, William McKeen here tackles the role of popular music in American culture.
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