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Siddhartha
by Herman Hesse
Price: Audio CD | Digital Download ($9.95)
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.
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Paradise Lost
by John Milton
Price: Audio CD ($21.58) | Digital Download ($14.99)
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
Price: Audio CD ($14.38) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($14.38)
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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A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
Price: Audio CD | Audio Cassette ($15.20) | Digital Download
This is Jim Dale's incomparable telling of the beloved A Christmas Carol, a "little book," as Charles Dickens himself called it, which has been treasured by generations since December of 1843.
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Don Quixote
by Miguel Cervantes
Price: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($18.38)
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 Chronicles of Narnia CD Box Set
by C.S. Lewis
Price: Audio CD ($60.00)
Journeys to the end of the world, fantastic creatures, and epic battles between good and evil -- what more could any reader ask for? This timeless boxed set includes all seven unabridged recordings...
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Hamlet: John Gielgud's Classic 1948 Recording
by William Shakespeare
Price: Audio CD | Digital Download ($18.38)
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 Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan
Price: Audio CD ($64.80) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($19.95) | MP3 CD
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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Hard Times
by Charles Dickens
Price: Audio CD ($17.96) | Audio Cassette ($19.95) | Digital Download ($23.95) | MP3 CD
Thomas Gradgrind is an eminently practical man who believes in facts and statistics and has brought up his 2 children...
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Paradise Lost
by John Milton
Price: Audio CD ($20.68) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($18.38)
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...
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The Screwtape Letters
by C.S. Lewis
Price: Audio CD ($23.96) | Audio Cassette ($20.76)
Now available unabridged on cassette and CD--C.S. Lewis’ classic Screwtape Letters--the engaging correspondence between two devils.
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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte
Price: Audio CD ($18.38) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($18.38)
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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The War Of The Worlds
by H.G. Wells
Price: Audio CD ($17.96) | Audio CD ($48.00) | Audio Cassette | Audio Cassette ($19.95) | Digital Download ($19.95) | MP3 CD
This spellbinding tale describes the Martian invasion of earth.
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Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
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Here is the full-cast production of Shakespeare's classic love story, fully dramatized from the complete text...
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The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
Price: Audio CD ($14.38) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($14.38)
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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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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Emma
by Jane Austen
Price: Audio CD ($18.38) | Digital Download ($18.38)
Arrogant, self-willed, and egotistical, Emma is Jane Austen's most unusual heroine. Her interfering ways and inveterate matchmaking are at once shocking and comic...
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
by Thomas De Quincey
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Thomas De Quincey’s best-known work, is an account of his early life and opium addiction, in prose that is by turns witty, conversational, and nightmarish.
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Popular Poetry, Popular Verse
by William Shakespeare
Price: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($14.38)
With more than 80 of the most popular and loved poems in the English language, this collection is one of the most comprehensive anthologies of its kind. It covers a remarkable range...
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The Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan
Price: Audio CD ($15.18) | Digital Download ($25.98)
This is an updated version for all ages told in wonderful storytelling fashion. John Bunyan was a simple maker and mender of pots and pans who received very little education. In spite of that, he penned the most successful allegory ever written.
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Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Price: Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($16.95) | MP3 CD
Treasure Island is a story of good and evil. From the moment narrator Jim Hawkins meets the blind pirate Pew until the battle for hidden treasure on a tropical island…
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
Price: Audio CD ($15.99) | Digital Download
Albert Camus' The Stranger is one of the most widely read novels in the world, with millions of copies sold....
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Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
Price: Audio CD ($23.96) | Digital Download | MP3 CD
This immortal horror story, which has implications for modern science and genetic engineering...
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Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
Price: Audio CD ($18.38) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($18.38)
Gulliver's Travels is renowned as a playful and comic children's classic. The book itself, rather than the bowdlerized versions that have been derived from it, is a savage...
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Anton Chekhov
by Sherwin T. Wine
Price: Digital Download ($4.95)
Chekhov was the son of a liberated Russian serf who mirrored in his writing the world of the rising bourgeoisie in pre-revolutionary Russia. The times were tumultuous and the political issues were...
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