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The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD | MP3 CD
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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Tolstoy: Father Sergius & Other Short Stories
by Leo Tolstoy
Credits: Audio Download
Tolstoy is perhaps best recognized as the author of the classic novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina. While he was able to sustain complex and moving plots though large novels, his ability as a great writer also is demonstrated in his many short stories.
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The Confucian Analects
by Confucius
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The Confucian Analects (literally translated as "discussion over Confucius' words") collects a record of the philosophy, discussions and day to day life of the great chinese scholar Confucius (551-479 BCE).
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The Madman
by Kahlil Gibran
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From the author of the timeless masterpiece The Prophet comes this sterling collection of short fables and reflections.
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Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
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With over eight million copies in print, Chinua Achebe's work is perhaps the best-known novel in African literature. No other book so powerfully illuminates the African experience.
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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 Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Prince Myshkin, is thrust into the heart of a society more concerned with wealth, power, and sexual conquest than the ideals of Christianity...
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Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
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Anna Karenina has been described as the perfect Russian novel. Trapped in a loveless marriage, Anna Karenina is defenseless against the power of her passions...
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The Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling
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Part silly, part serious, these delightful stories convey Kipling's message in a way that children and adults alike will appreciate time and time again.
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Tolstoy On Death: The Death of Ivan Ilyich & Master Man
by Leo Tolstoy
Credits: Audio Download
At the end of life worldly ambition offers no consolation for the spiritually empty soul. But Tolstoy is the master of themes of redemption.
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War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
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War and Peace is one of the greatest monuments in world literature. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars...
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The Giants of Russian Literature: Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Chekhov
by Liza Knapp
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Russian literature of the 19th century is among the richest, most profound, and most human traditions in the world. This course explores this tradition by focusing on four giants: Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, and Anton Chekhov.
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The Art of War
by Sun Tzu
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The Art of War is undisputedly one of the best-selling leadership books of all time.
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The Iliad
by Homer
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Homer has been hailed as the father of all poetry, and The Iliad has survived as a masterpiece of all time.
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The Resurrection
by Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy stands tall among the great Russian novelists of the nineteenth century. In fact he fellowships with a handful of great story tellers of all time, the men and women who write literary masterpieces.
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Sufi Wisdom Tales
by M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
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Parables about life for children of all ages.
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Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
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This compelling spiritual quest by Hermann Hesse, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton
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This is the most distinguished novel that has come out of South Africa in the 20th century...
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War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation features a star cast including Leo McKern, Simon Russell Beale, Emily Mortimer, and Nicola Pagett, and over two hours of specially composed music.
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
by Leo Tolstoy
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The subject of this well-known Tolstoy novella is a high court judge in St. Petersburg who lives a carefree life. One day, without warning, he is beset by pains and soon has to come to terms with the fact that he is going to die. The judge has to learn to face death without fear and yet feel compassion for the family he is leaving behind.
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Treasury of Classic Children's Stories
by Oscar Wilde
Credits: Audio Download
Bedtime, playtime and long voyages in the car will never be the same again as families gather to listen to classic tales brought to life by award-winning performers.
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Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales
by Nelson Mandela
Credits: Audio Download
Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales is an audiobook benefiting children orphaned and impacted by HIV/AIDS in South Africa.
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Aesop's Fables
Credits: Audio Download
A collection of one hundred fables from Aesop.
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Tales from the Arabian Nights
by Andrew Lang
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
Sheherezade, night after night, weaves her tales and Aladdin and his Magic Lamp, Sinbad the Sailor, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and other tales come alive.
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Poor People
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Credits: Audio Download
This work is remarkable for the vivid characterizations, especially of Dievushkin, solely by means of his letters to his love Barbara and her answers to him.
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