| |
|
1. |
|
Anthem
by Ayn Rand
Formats: Audio CD ($18.36)
Average Rating:  (5.0 Stars)
Ayn Rand's classic bestseller, Anthem, is the unforgettable tale of a nightmarish totalitarian future--and the ultimate triumph of the individual spirit.
|
| |
|
2. |
|
The Celestine Prophecy
by James Redfield
Formats: Audio CD ($19.98)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
In the rain forests of Peru, an ancient manuscript has been discovered. Within its pages are 9 key...
|
| |
|
3. |
|
The Allen Ginsberg Audio Collection
by Allen Ginsberg
Formats: Audio CD ($17.60)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
Upon the release of his first published work, Howl and Other Poems, in 1956, Allen Ginsberg became the unlikely force of a movement that would change a generation....
|
| |
|
4. |
|
A Child's Christmas in Wales
by Dylan Thomas
Formats: Audio CD ($11.96) | Audio Cassette ($9.60)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
The sights, smells and sounds of a long-ago Christmas come to life in Dylan Thomas's reading...
|
| |
|
5. |
|
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
Formats: Audio CD ($17.95)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
Will there ever be a time that listeners will not want to hear the story of Scrooge, Tiny Tim and the Ghosts of Christmas?
|
| |
|
6. |
|
Grimm's Fairy Tales
by Brothers Grimm
Formats: Audio CD ($14.38) | Digital Download ($14.38)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
Here are some of the most enchanting fairy stories of all time. The Brothers Grimm conjure up a world of fantasy, hope and good fortune where the princess meets and marries the right prince (even if he once was a frog)...
|
| |
|
7. |
|
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
Formats: Audio Cassette ($10.80)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
Awe and exhiliration—along with heartbreak and mordant wit—abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze.
|
| |
|
8. |
|
A Lover's Gift from Him to Her
by D. H. Lawrence
Formats: Digital Download ($11.98)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
Some of the greatest poets and lovers in the English language speak of their love in this seductive and romantic collection...
|
| |
|
9. |
|
Peter Pan
by J.M. Barrie
Formats: Audio CD ($17.98) | Digital Download ($14.38)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
I'm youth, I'm joy...I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg. The story of the little boy who refused to grow up has captured the imagination of generations of children...
|
| |
|
10. |
|
Tarzan of the Apes
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Formats: MP3 CD ($18.00)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
Born of noble stock to parents marooned on the savage West African coast, the young Lord Greystoke is orphaned in his first year of life...
|
| |
|
11. |
|
The Voices of Love
Formats: Audio CD ($14.36)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
Love: it is the single human emotion that has inspired the most passionate and despairing poems in the language....
|
| |
|
12. |
|
Beowulf
Formats: Audio CD ($19.96)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney's translation of "Beowulf" comes to life in this gripping rendition that reminds listeners that the work was truly meant to be heard not read.
|
| |
|
13. |
|
Billy Budd
by Herman Melville
Formats: Audio CD ($18.38)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
Written some 40 years after "Moby Dick", Herman Meville's "Billy Budd" is a moving tale of good versus evil.
|
| |
|
14. |
|
The Inferno from The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
Formats: Digital Download ($18.38)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
Abandon all hope you who enter here. Dante's Hell is one of the most remarkable visions in Western literature. An allegory for his and future ages...
|
| |
|
15. |
|
A Reader's Guide Through the Wardrobe
by Leland Ryken
Formats: Digital Download ($16.98)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
A Reader's Guild Through the Wardrobe helps ou examine the story from Lewis's point of view, shedding light on his imagination and use of literary forms.
|
| |
|
16. |
|
South Sea Tales
by Jack London
Formats: Digital Download ($16.95)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
Most readers are familiar with Jack London's stories of the frozen northland, but many critics feel he should be equally acknowledged for his fascinating stories of the South Pacific....
|
| |
|
17. |
|
Tales of Beatrix Potter
by Beatrix Potter
Formats: Audio Cassette ($16.16) | MP3 CD ($17.96)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
This collection of twenty-two of Beatrix Potter's charming stories about Peter Rabbit, Tom Kitten, Squirrel Nutkin, Mrs. Tittlemouse, Ribby the pussy-cat, Duchess the dog, Jemima Puddle-duck, and the others…
|
| |
|
18. |
|
Anthem
by Ayn Rand
Formats: Audio Cassette ($16.95)
Average Rating:  (4.8 Stars)
This gripping tale of the future anticipates Ayn Rand's later masterpieces, The Fountainhead...
|
| |
|
19. |
|
Siddhartha
by Herman Hesse
Formats: Audio Cassette ($16.16)
Average Rating: (4.7 Stars)
This compelling spiritual quest by Hermann Hesse, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946...
|
| |
|
20. |
|
Paradise Lost
by John Milton
Formats: Digital Download ($18.38)
Average Rating: (4.7 Stars)
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...
|
| |
|
21. |
|
Siddhartha
by Herman Hesse
Formats: Digital Download ($9.95)
Average Rating: (4.6 Stars)
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.
|
| |
|
22. |
|
Oedipus the King
by Sophocles
Formats: Audio CD ($14.38) | Digital Download ($14.38)
Average Rating: (4.6 Stars)
In the hands of Sophocles, the master dramatist, the anguished tale of a man fated to kill his father and marry his mother retains its power to shock and move beyond any Freudian reference...
|
| |
|
23. |
|
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
by Benedict Flynn
Formats: Audio CD ($14.38)
Average Rating: (4.5 Stars)
These stories are about how, many years ago, Arthur the once and future King of England, set out to save his country from the troubles that plagued it, aided by the brave knights...
|
| |
|
24. |
|
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes II
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Formats: Audio CD ($18.38)
Average Rating: (4.5 Stars)
In this collection are four of the finest cases of Mr. Sherlock Holmes, narrated by his faithful friend and admirer Dr. Watson. What was the mystery of the engineer's thumb?...
|
| |
|
25. |
|
Anne of Green Gables
by L.M. Montgomery
Formats: MP3 CD ($18.00)
Average Rating: (4.5 Stars)
When Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert of Green Gables send for a boy orphan to help them out at their farm, they mistakenly get Anne Shirley, a feisty, independent but warm-hearted 11 year-old girl.
|