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Great Classic Humor: Edited by Mark Twain
by Mark Twain
Formats: Audio Download ($18.35) | Audio CD ($19.96)
Published:
May 2009
This treasure trove of an anthology, an abridgment of the 1888 original, collects seven of Twain's own pieces, in addition to tall tales, fables, and satires by fourteen of Twain's contemporaries, including Artemus Ward, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and William Dean Howells.
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Great Classic Suspense
by Edgar Allan Poe
Formats: Audio Download ($13.75) | Audio CD ($15.96)
Published:
May 2009
This collection includes The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe; Ethan Brand by Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Yellow Sign by Robert W. Chambers; The Upper Berth by F. Marion Crawford; and An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce.
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Lorraine Hansberry Audio Collection
by Lorraine Hansberry
Formats: Audio CD ($23.99)
Published:
May 2009
Lorraine Hansberry wrote of Black consciousness before it was fashionable, but she bequeathed to all of us a legacy astounding in its richness and relevancy.
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Tropic of Capricorn
by Henry Miller
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($31.99)
Published:
May 2009
Banned in America for almost 30 years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume to Miller's Tropic of Cancer chronicles his life in 1920s New York City.
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Essential Thoreau
by Henry David Thoreau
Formats: Audio CD ($10.39)
Published:
March 2009
"'What are you doing now?' he asked. 'Do you keep a journal?' So I make my first entry today." With these words, in response to prodding from Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau embarked on a writing enterprise--his "Journal"
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The Great Poets: Oliver Wendell Holmes
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Formats: Audio Download ($11.98) | Audio CD ($11.98)
Published:
March 2009
Though by profession a doctor (he coined the word anesthesia) Oliver Wendell Holmes was one of the leading 19th century American poets and a member of the famous Saturday Club with Emerson, Longfellow and Lowell.
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The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
Formats: Audio CD ($12.76)
Published:
March 2009
Following its initial appearance in serial form, Stephen Cranes The Red Badge of Courage was published as a complete work in 1895 and quickly became the benchmark for modern anti-war literature.
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The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
Formats: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD ($18.38)
Published:
February 2009
Unabridged recording of one of the enduring American classics, a masterpiece of the inescapable laws of nature. Selected for NEA's Big Read project.
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Epic Adventures
by Mark Twain
Formats: Audio CD ($15.99)
Published:
February 2009
Enduring tales, such as Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court & The Prince and the Pauper, have delighted young and old for years and they continue to do so today.
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Tales of Friendship
by L.M. Montgomery
Formats: Audio CD ($15.99)
Published:
February 2009
Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea, the classic series set in Canada, is read by Liza Ross; Black Beauty, the touching portrait, full of drama and sadness, is performed by Jonathan Keeble; Jenny Agutter tells the charming journey into the magical garden, in The Secret Garden.
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The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($17.99) | MP3 CD ($17.99)
Published:
January 2009
Edna Pontellier is married, twenty-eight, and at the cross road of her life. She is passionate and artistic, but has no one who understands her deep yearnings. She jumps at the chance to spend a summer away from her husband and the heat of New Orleans at a small costal retreat.
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The Essential Abraham Lincoln
by Abraham Lincoln
Formats: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD ($18.38)
Published:
January 2009
Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth, The Essential Abraham Lincoln, views this key figure in Western history through his own word, complemented by a compact biography.
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Sister Carrie
by Theodore Dreiser
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($35.99) | MP3 CD ($26.99)
Published:
January 2009
Sister Carrie is about a young country girl who moves to the big city, where she begins to realize her own American Dream by embarking on a life of sin rather than hard work and perseverance.
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The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
by Mark Twain
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($25.19) | MP3 CD ($17.99)
Published:
January 2009
Two half brothers look so similar as infants that no one can tell them apart. One, the legitimate son of a rich man, is destined for a life of comfort; the other is condemned to be a slave, as he is part black.
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The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($31.49) | MP3 CD ($22.49)
Published:
December 2008
The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton's most famous novel, is a love story, written immediately after the end of the First World War. Its brilliant anatomization of the snobbery and hypocrisy of the wealthy elite of New York society in the 1870s made it an instant classic, and it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921.
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The Essential Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe
Formats: Audio CD ($27.98)
Published:
December 2008
Part of the Naxos AudioBooks Essential series, this CD combines some of Poes best-loved ghost stories, plus a selection of poetry including The Raven and an additional biography.
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The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($29.69) | MP3 CD ($20.69)
Published:
December 2008
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a vivid portrait of life and death in a turn-of-the-century American meat-packing factory. A grim indictment that led to government regulations of the food industry, The Jungle is Sinclair's extraordinary contribution to literature and social reform.
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Raintree County
by Ross Lockridge
Formats: Audio Download | MP3 CD ($59.95)
Published:
December 2008
Throughout a single day in 1892, one man recalls the great moments of his life, from the love affairs of his youth, to the battles of the Civil War, to the politics of the Gilded Age, to his homecoming as schoolteacher, husband, and father.
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The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($17.99) | MP3 CD ($17.99)
Published:
December 2008
In the spring of 1863, as he faces battle for the first time at Chancellorsville, Virginia, a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war.
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The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD | MP3 CD ($17.99)
Published:
December 2008
A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children abandoned by their uncle at his grand country house. She sees the figure of an unknown man on the tower and his face at the window. It is Peter Quint, the master's dissolute valet, and he has come for Miles. But Peter Quint is dead.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($35.99) | MP3 CD ($26.99)
Published:
December 2008
Uncle Tom's Cabin opens with a Kentucky farmer named Arthur Shelby facing the loss of his farm because of debts. Even though he and his wife, Emily Shelby, believe that they have a benevolent relationship with their slaves, Shelby decides to raise the needed funds by selling two of them...
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White Fang
by Jack London
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($25.19) | MP3 CD ($17.99)
Published:
December 2008
This is the story of a wild dog's journey toward becoming civilized in the Canadian Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush, at the end of the 19th Century.
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