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Siddhartha
by Herman Hesse
Formats: Audio Cassette ($17.95)
Average Rating:   (4.7 Stars)
This compelling spiritual quest by Hermann Hesse, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946...
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The Madman
by Kahlil Gibran
Formats: Digital Download ($4.95)
Average Rating: (4.3 Stars)
From the author of the timeless masterpiece The Prophet comes this sterling collection of short fables and reflections.
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Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Formats: Audio CD ($18.38) | Digital Download ($18.38)
Average Rating:  (4.0 Stars)
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 Girl Who Married a Lion and Other Tales from Africa
by Alexander McCall Smith
Formats: Audio CD ($18.39) | Audio Cassette ($19.99)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
From the author of the phenomenally successful, New York Times best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency mystery series, comes this spellbinding collection of African folktales....
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In the Ravine and Other Short Stories
by Anton Chekhov
Formats: Audio CD ($18.38) | Digital Download ($18.38)
Average Rating: (3.5 Stars)
Here are 11 short stories and one novella by Anton Chekhov, one of the finest masters of what is acknowledged as a difficult genre....
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The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Formats: Digital Download ($18.38)
Average Rating: (3.0 Stars)
Prince Lef Nikolayevitch Muishkin is one of the great characters in Russian literature. Is he a saint or just naive, an idealist or, as many in General Yepanchin's society feel, an 'idiot'?...
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The Koran
Formats: Digital Download ($7.99)
Average Rating: (2.8 Stars)
The Koran is not only one of the most influential books of prophetic literature but also a literary masterpiece in it’s own right.
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Aesop's Fables
Formats: Digital Download ($7.99)
A collection of one hundred fables from Aesop.
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Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
Formats: Audio CD ($19.95)
When beautiful, aristocratic, and married Anna falls madly in love with the dashing Count Vronsky, their affair shocks...
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The Bookseller of Kabul
by Asne Seierstad
Formats: Audio CD ($18.39)
With The Bookseller of Kabul, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad has given readers a first-hand look at Afghani life as few outsiders have seen it.
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Child of Storm
by Henry Rider Haggard
Formats: MP3 CD ($18.00)
In this sequel to Marie, Allan Quatermain helps his Zulu friend Saduko in a crazy battle to win 100 cattle for the dowry of his love Mameena.
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Classic Fairy Stories
by Various Authors
Formats: Digital Download ($14.38)
A selection of some of the most famous fairy stories which every child needs to foster their imagination.
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The Confucian Analects
by Confucius
Formats: Digital Download ($9.95)
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 Dead
by James Joyce
Formats: Digital Download ($4.99)
"The Dead" is the final short story in the 1914 collection Dubliners by James Joyce. It is the longest story in the collection and widely considered to be one of the greatest short stories in the Engl
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Diary of a Madman
by Nikolai Gogol
Formats: Audio CD ($12.76)
Dramatization of classic fiction describing character's gradual slide into insanity.
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Heroes and Heroines from Classic Tales
by Mark Twain
Formats: Digital Download ($11.98)
Exciting excerpts from some of the best classic stories for younger listeners, presented with classical music and, often, sound effects, to bring the characters vividly to life...
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The Horse and His Boy
by C.S. Lewis
Formats: Audio CD ($11.67)
This is an all-cast dramatization of the third book in Lewis's "Narnia" series.
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The Iliad
by Homer
Formats: Digital Download ($17.50)
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 Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling
Formats: MP3 CD ($17.99)
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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Lessons of the Animal
by Dovie Thomason
Formats: Audio CD ($11.96)
This winner of an ALA Notable Children's Recording and an Editor's Choice Award brings together two premier Native American artists to showcase -- in nine stories drawn from different tribes -- the vibrant Native American culture that is alive today.
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Poor People
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Formats: Digital Download ($14.95)
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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The Prophet & the Wanderer
by Khalil Gibran
Formats: Audio CD ($18.38)
Two celebrated statements about the experience of being human.
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The Prophet and Other Stories
by Kahlil Gibran
Formats: Digital Download ($12.95)
This collection includes The Prophet, The Forerunner, and The Madman. Gibran’s mysticism, evident here as in all his works, reveals an intense preoccupation with the spiritual and visionary.
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Rabbit Ears Treasury of World Tales, Volume 4: The Firebird & The Emperor's New Clothes
Formats: Audio CD ($9.56)
Rabbit Ears Treasury of World Tales Volume 4 enlightens and entertains with these classic stories read by your favorite stars and featuring original music by some of today's greatest artists.
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Rabbit Ears Treasury of World Tales: Pinocchio & Tom Thumb
Formats: Audio CD ($9.56)
Rabbit Ears Treasury of World Tales: Volume 5 enlightens and entertains with these classic stories read by your favorite stars and featuring original music by some of today’s greatest artists.
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