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Antony and Cleopatra
by William Shakespeare
Price: Audio Download ($13.00)
Antony and Cleopatra is the tumultuous tragedy and love story played out against a backdrop of war and the vengeance of Octavius Caesar.
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Paradise Lost
by John Milton
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This epic poem, considered the greatest in the English language, as John Milton seeks to “justify the ways of God to men” through relating the story of Satan’s rebellion in Heaven, the deception and fall of Man, and the presaged event of Redemption through Jesus, the Son of God…the “Second Adam.”
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Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
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The gothic tale of Frankenstein and his construction of a human being who runs amok has, with the help of numerous films, become one of the most vivid horror stories. But Mary Shelley's original novel, written in 1816...
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Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
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Franz Kafka's classic short novel tells the strange tale of put-upon salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes up one morning transformed into an insect.
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To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
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To the Lighthouse is Virginia Woolf's most accomplished novel, and her most autobiographical. It tells of one summer spent by the Ramsay family and their friends in their holiday home in Scotland...
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Hard Times
by Charles Dickens
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Thomas Gradgrind is an eminently practical man who believes in facts and statistics and has brought up his 2 children...
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Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte
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More than just a love story, this convincing, unsentimental novel is one of the classics of English...
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Othello
by William Shakespeare
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Shakespeare's legendary tragedy is revisited in this spirited and entertaining production that ran in London from November 2007 to February 2008. The flawless, talented cast features Ewan McGregor as the conniving Iago, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Othello (whose performance won him the Olivier Award as best actor) and Kelly Reilly as Desdemona.
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Shakespeare: The Seven Major Tragedies
by Harold Bloom
Price: Audio Download ($34.95)
Shakespeare's seven great tragedies contain unmistakable elements that set them apart from any other plays ever written. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare embodied in the character of Juliet the world's most impressive representation ever of a woman in love.
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Mere Christianity
by C.S. Lewis
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Mere Christianity brings together what Lewis sees as the fundamental truths of the religion.
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Dracula
by Bram Stoker
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For a century Bram Stoker's Dracula has reigned supreme as the undisputed masterpiece of horror writing. We have all grown up under the shadow of the elegant Count...
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A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
Price: Audio Download ($8.26) | Audio CD ($11.96)
The Grammy(-nominated, bestselling classic returns, just in time for the holiday season.
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Ivanhoe
by Sir Walter Scott
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Sir Walter Scott's most popular novel, and the first of his works to be set in England, Ivanhoe was first published in 1819.
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Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte
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Set amid the wild and stormy Yorkshire moors, Wuthering Heights, an unpolished and devastating epic of childhood playmates who grow into soul mates, is widely regarded as the most original tale of thwarted desire and heartbreak in the English language.
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Henry V
by William Shakespeare
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Henry V, which dates from 1599, is the last in Shakespeare's series of plays based on English history. It is also...
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A Study in Scarlet
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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A Study in Scarlet was the very first Sherlock Holmes novel. Here, in the most remarkably precise manner, Doyle produced two of the most well-known characters in English fiction.
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The Abolition of Man and The Great Divorce
by C.S. Lewis
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In The Abolition of Man, Lewis looks at the curriculum of the English prep school to see if it’s teachings discount man’s deeper nature.
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A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
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A Christmas Carol is the best-known and best-loved of Dickens' Christmas books, and the story of the miser Scrooge's redemption has become as much part of the Christmas tradition as...
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Saki: Short Stories
by Saki
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Hector Munro, writing under the pseudonym of Saki, is justly renowned for his urbane and witty short stories.
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Siddhartha
by Herman Hesse
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Siddhartha is the story of a man from the Indian Subcontinent who sets out on a spiritual quest of discovery. Rejecting conventional spiritual practices and teachings, he attempts to find his own path to enlightenment.
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Hamlet: John Gielgud's Classic 1948 Recording
by William Shakespeare
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This outstanding historical recording made in 1941 for radio is widely regarded as one of the finest Hamlet performances ever, and one of John Gielgud's greatest moments.
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The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
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The Count of Monte Cristo is a tale of revenge and retribution. Edmond Dantes, a young, energetic sailor, is falsely accused of treason on his wedding day and incarcerated in the forbidding Chateau d'If...
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Don Quixote
by Miguel Cervantes
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The first European novel, and one of the greatest, is a marvelously comic study of delusion and its consequences: Don Quixote, the old gentleman of La Mancha...
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The Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan
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Next to The Bible, The Pilgrim's Progress has probably been more widely read than any other book in the English language, and rightfully so....
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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte
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One of the greatest love stories ever written, Jane Eyre is the tale of a young woman entangled with the powerful Mr. Rochester.
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