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The Best of Charles Dickens MP3 Boxed Set
by Charles Dickens
Formats: Audio Download | MP3 CD ($26.96)
Published:
June 2009
Of the dozen or so novels that Charles Dickens produced over his lifetime, three stand out as among the best: Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, and Oliver Twist. The unforgettable characters, the depictions of Victorian England, and the comic elements demonstrate why Dickens was the most celebrated author of his time and why he is still the best known and most popular of English authors.
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The Path of the King
by John Buchan
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($25.19) | MP3 CD ($17.99)
Published:
June 2009
What is the true root of royal blood? A young Viking prince is stranded in a strange world with nothing but a band of gold. Through the turmoil of history, the band of gold is passed from generation to generation.
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
by Baroness Emma Orczy
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($29.69) | MP3 CD ($20.69)
Published:
June 2009
In the year 1792, Sir Percy and Lady Marguerite Blakeney are the darlings of British society---he is known as one of the wealthiest men in England and a dimwit; she is French, a stunning former actress, and "the cleverest woman in Europe"---and they find themselves at the center of a deadly political intrigue.
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The Third Policeman
by Flann O'Brien
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($18.38)
Published:
June 2009
Flann O'Brien's most popular and surrealistic novel concerns an imaginary, hellish village police force and a local murder. Weird, satirical, and very funny, it is read by Irish master reader Jim Norton.
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The War of the Worlds
by H.G. Wells
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($26.99) | MP3 CD ($17.99)
Published:
June 2009
First published by H. G. Wells in 1898, The War of the Worlds is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice of a narrator intones, "No one would have believed in the last years of the 19th century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's."
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Favourite Essays
by Michel de Montaigne
Formats: Audio CD ($28.98)
Published:
May 2009
Here, in this unusual collection, are some of the greatest essays in Western literature. Witty, informative and imaginative; the topics vary from starvation in Ireland, fine China, the extension of railways in the Lake District and the tombs in Westminster Abbey.
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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
by Howard Pyle
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($17.96) | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
Published:
May 2009
Here are the beloved adventures of the mischievous hero Robin Hood and his brave and merry band of outlaws who forged a chivalrous code to protect the oppressed and despoil the oppressors.
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Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
by Lewis Carroll
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($29.70) | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
Published:
May 2009
Alice is back in her room, stroking her cats--but not for long. Slipping through the Looking-Glass she meets another wild collection of fantasy characters including the Red and White Kings and Queens, Tweedledum and Tweedledee and is entertained by the poems "Jabberwocky" and "The Walrus and the Carpenter." 3 CDs.
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David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($58.49) | MP3 CD ($40.49)
Published:
April 2009
David Copperfield is the quintessential novel by England's most beloved novelist. Based in part on Dickens's own life, it is the story of a young man's journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist.
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The Essential Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($27.98)
Published:
April 2009
The rich life Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is featured here: his work as a doctor, his novels and journalistic writings, his support of Spiritualism and his defense of fairies.
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Little Dorrit
by Charles Dickens
Formats: Audio CD ($23.96)
Published:
April 2009
William Dorrit has been a resident of the Marshalsea debtors prison for so many years that he has gained the nickname The Father of the Marshalsea.
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Barnaby Rudge
by Charles Dickens
Formats: Audio Download ($27.98) | Audio CD ($27.98)
Published:
March 2009
In a case of mistaken identity, Barnaby Rudge, an eccentric half-wit, is arrested as the leader of a mob of anti-Catholic rioters during the Gordon Riots, in this grand novel of private lives and public events.
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
by Edgar Allan Poe
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($34.98)
Published:
March 2009
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Poe's only full novel, is one of his most unusual works. A riveting story, in the first person, it tells of a disastrous sea voyage involving storms, mutiny, starvation, thirst and a mysterious conclusion.
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Enchanted Worlds
by Lewis Carroll
Formats: Audio CD ($15.99)
Published:
February 2009
Vivid sound effects together with music by Delius, Parry, Bruckner and others complete these delightful productions.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
by Vincente Blasco Ibanez
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($99.00) | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD ($29.95)
Published:
February 2009
Julio Desnoyers, a wealthy young Spanish American, tries to escape the dirt, blood, and horror of World War I. But everywhere he turns, war and its ravages follow Julio, changing everything.
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Happy Endings
by Hans Christian Andersen
Formats: Audio CD ($15.99)
Published:
February 2009
The world of Hans Christian Andersen is seen through the eyes of children. There is the everyday wonder of an ugly duckling being transformed into a swan; the puffed-up Emperor being fooled by his own importance…
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Formats: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD ($18.38)
Published:
February 2009
One of the most popular Sherlock Holmes stories presented in an abridged format; includes music, bonus CD-ROM with both abridged and unabridged searchable texts and exam-helpful notes from writer and teacher Francis Gilbert.
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Storytelling Magic
by Oscar Wilde
Formats: Audio CD ($15.99)
Published:
February 2009
Classic fairy stories from Oscar Wilde, sixty of the finest and most entertaining poems for younger listeners, plus two of the most vivid figures in children's fiction: The Little Princess and Pinocchio.
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Treasures and Adventures
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Formats: Audio CD ($15.99)
Published:
February 2009
Treasure Island must be the most enthralling adventure book ever written for children. As we listen to the voice of Jim Hawkins telling his extraordinary tale, and later that of his companion Dr Livesey, we are plunged into a world of pirates, buried treasure, mutiny and deceit.
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The Lost World
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Formats: Audio CD ($18.38)
Published:
January 2009
One of Doyle's most popular novels, a classic adventure of discovery now in abridged form with music. The precursor of Jurassic Park…
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
Formats: Audio CD ($19.96)
Published:
January 2009
A ne'er-do-well exploits his gentle daughter's beauty for social advancement in Thomas Hardy's compelling masterpiece of tragic fiction.
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Hard Times
by Charles Dickens
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($29.69) | MP3 CD ($20.69)
Published:
December 2008
Red brick, machinery, and smoke-darkened chimneys. Reason, facts, and statistics. This is the world of Coketown, the depressed mill town that is the setting for one of Charles Dickens's most powerful and unforgettable novels.
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Lewis Carroll Box Set
by Lewis Carroll
Formats: Audio CD ($22.46) | MP3 CD
Published:
December 2008
Alice has become one of the great characters of imaginative literature, as immortal as Don Quixote, Huckleberry Finn, or Dorothy Gale. Her adventures appeal to adults as well as children because they can be read on many levels: a satire on language, a political allegory, or a parody of Victorian childrens literature.
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An Old Man's Love
by Anthony Trollope
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($54.00) | Audio Cassette ($29.95) | MP3 CD
Published:
December 2008
50-year-old William Whittlestaff becomes guardian to the orphaned Mary Lawrie and gradually finds himself falling in love with her. But Mary has already given her heart to young John Gordon, who has gone to seek his fortune.
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