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Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
Price: Audio Cassette ($20.80) | Digital Download
An adventure tale in its purest form. A thrilling and elegantly told account of a group of British schoolboys marooned on a tropical island.
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Caedmon Poetry Collection
by William Butler Yeats
Price: Audio CD ($23.96) | Audio Cassette
A rare and thrilling listening experience. A choice gathering of some of the twentieth century's greatest poetry... read by the century's greatest poets.
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A Child's Christmas in Wales
by Dylan Thomas
Price: Audio CD ($11.96) | Audio Cassette ($9.60) | Digital Download
The sights, smells and sounds of a long-ago Christmas come to life in Dylan Thomas's reading...
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Unleash The Book Inside You
by Zach Keyer
Price: Digital Download ($27.00)
Discover How to Write Your Own Outrageously Profitable Book & Become a Recognized Expert in Your Field of Choice!
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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
Price: Audio CD | Audio Cassette ($20.76)
Fahrenheit 451 is set in a grim alternate-future setting ruled by a tyrannical government in which firemen as we understand them no longer exist: Here, firemen don't douse fires, they ignite them.
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Caedmon Short Story Collection
by Eudora Welty
Price: Audio CD | Audio Cassette ($24.26)
Continuing and enhancing the Caedmon tradition of bringing the greatest literature to vibrant audio life, here are stories that have echoed though the years, brilliantly performed by an array of renowned actors, as well as the authors themselves.
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William Faulkner Reads
by William Faulkner
Price: Audio Cassette ($10.80)
"Rendered by the author with a rich deep-south accent that gives uncanny realism to each of the selections undertaken. His reading pace is neither slow nor fast and he conjures up many vivid, picturesque images for his listening audience.
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The John Updike Audio Collection
by John Updike
Price: Audio CD ($29.95) | Digital Download
he extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had.
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The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection
by Nikki Giovanni
Price: Audio CD ($17.60) | Audio Cassette ($18.95)
In a career that has spanned over three decades, Nikki Giovanni has perceptively recorded her observations of both the outside world and the gentle yet enigmatic territory of the self.
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Churchill in His Own Voice
by Winston Churchill
Price: Audio Cassette ($14.40)
Speeches of Winston Churchill, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Chamberlain and King George VI and others. With selections from his memoirs read by Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud.
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Dylan Thomas: The Caedmon Collection
by Dylan Thomas
Price: Audio CD ($23.96) | Audio Cassette
On February 22, 1952, Dylan Thomas made his first recording for Caedmon Records…
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Mark Twain Audio Collection
by Mark Twain
Price: Audio CD ($23.96) | Audio Cassette
Mark Twain (1835-1910) was the first American writer to capture the unique and colorful vernacular of his country's populace. Instead of striving to perfect any particular literary form…
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Run with the Hunted
by Charles Bukowski
Price: Audio Cassette ($10.80)
For five decades, Charles Bukowski's writing has depicted life on the edge with an unflinchingly mordant clarity that has earned him millions of devotees all over the world.
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Anne Sexton Reads
by Anne Sexton
Price: Audio Cassette ($10.80)
Anne Sexton's poems are brutally honest, often controversial, and always thought-provoking. Her work continues to dazzle new generations of readers and listeners.
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Donald Hall: Prose and Poetry
by Donald Hall
Price: Audio CD ($23.96) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download
Author of more than 30 books of poetry and prose, Donald Hall performs dozens of his best-loved...
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E.E. Cummings
by E.E. Cummings
Price: Audio Cassette ($19.80)
In asking "Who, as a writer, am I?" e.e. Cummings's affirmation of life resolved into serenity as he described himself as someone "whose only happiness is to transcend himself, whose every agony is to grow."
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Essential Anais Nin
by Anais Nin
Price: Audio CD ($10.36)
In this recording, Anas Nin reads excerpts from her diary and answers questions.
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Essential Cummings
by E.E. Cummings
Price: Audio CD ($10.36)
A master of experimental and abstract poetry reads a collection of some of his finest poems, now on CD for the first time.
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Essential Twain
by Mark Twain
Price: Audio CD ($10.36)
This CD features excerpts from "Life on the Mississippi: The Boy's Ambition" and "Speculations & Confusion."
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Ezra Pound Reads
by Ezra Pound
Price: Audio Cassette ($10.80)
Ezra Pound's inspirational sway over twentieth century poetry remains unquestioned to this day. Ezra Pound Reads offers a rare opportunity to witness the vision of this awe-inspiring, intensely polemical artist.
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Garrison Keillor: A Life in Comedy
by Garrison Keillor
Price: Audio CD ($18.36) | Audio Cassette ($17.06)
Recorded during his sold-out solo performances at Yale Repertory Theater in April 2002, this audio presentation features the host of NPR's "Prairie Home Companion" on his own, with readings, comedy, stories, musings, and much more.
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Gertrude Stein Reads
by Gertrude Stein
Price: Audio Cassette ($10.80)
"Rose is a rose is a rose"
Among the most influential writers of her time, Gertrude Stein created poetryand prose so radically experimental that her work stood out even in an eracharacterized by unconventional sentiments.
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WLT: A Radio Romance
by Garrison Keillor
Price: Audio CD ($21.56) | Audio Cassette
The comic saga of WLT, Minnesota's "Friendly Neighbor" radio station.
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Wobegon Boy
by Garrison Keillor
Price: Audio CD ($21.56) | Audio Cassette
From the millions of listeners who follow the tales of Lake Wobegon and A Prairie Home Companion every Saturday night on public radio, and for fans of Garrison Keillor's literary take on life in our times, this audiobook will be most welcome.
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