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Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
Price: Audio CD ($15.99)
With over eight million copies in print, Chinua Achebe's work is perhaps the best-known novel in African literature. No other book so powerfully illuminates the African experience.
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The Confucian Analects
by Confucius
Price: Audio 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 Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Price: Audio Download ($27.99) | Audio CD ($31.98) | MP3 CD ($29.98)
Fyodor Dostoevsky's crowning life work, The Brothers Karamazov, stands among the greatest novels in world literature. His exploration of faith, doubt, morality, and the place of suffering in life are equaled in no other work of literature, save the Bible.
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Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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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 Madman
by Kahlil Gibran
Price: Audio Download ($9.95)
From the author of the timeless masterpiece The Prophet comes this sterling collection of short fables and reflections.
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The Prophet and Other Stories
by Kahlil Gibran
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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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The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Prince Myshkin, is thrust into the heart of a society more concerned with wealth, power, and sexual conquest than the ideals of Christianity...
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The Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling
Price: Audio Download ($12.50) | Audio CD ($17.99) | 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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Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
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Anna Karenina has been described as the perfect Russian novel. Trapped in a loveless marriage, Anna Karenina is defenseless against the power of her passions...
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Bless Me, Ultima
by Rudolfo Anaya
Price: Audio CD ($23.99)
With hundreds of thousands of copies in print, Bless Me, Ultima has been called the most widely read Mexican-American novel in the English language.
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War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
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War and Peace is one of the greatest monuments in world literature. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars...
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The Iliad
by Homer
Price: Audio 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 Resurrection
by Leo Tolstoy
Price: Audio Download ($24.49) | Audio CD ($34.98) | MP3 CD ($29.98)
Leo Tolstoy stands tall among the great Russian novelists of the nineteenth century. In fact he fellowships with a handful of great story tellers of all time, the men and women who write literary masterpieces.
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The Art of War
by Sun Tzu
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The Art of War is undisputedly one of the best-selling leadership books of all time.
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Tolstoy: Father Sergius & Other Short Stories
by Leo Tolstoy
Price: Audio Download ($15.39) | Audio CD
Tolstoy is perhaps best recognized as the author of the classic novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina. While he was able to sustain complex and moving plots though large novels, his ability as a great writer also is demonstrated in his many short stories.
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Tolstoy On Death: The Death of Ivan Ilyich & Master Man
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At the end of life worldly ambition offers no consolation for the spiritually empty soul. But Tolstoy is the master of themes of redemption.
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The Bookseller of Kabul
by Asne Seierstad
Price: 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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Sufi Wisdom Tales
by M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
Price: Audio Download ($14.95)
Parables about life for children of all ages.
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Siddhartha
by Herman Hesse
Price: Audio Download ($13.75) | Audio Cassette ($17.95)
This compelling spiritual quest by Hermann Hesse, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946...
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Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
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Anna Karenina contains two plots: the tragedy of Madame Karenina, in love with a man who is not her husband, and the story of Konstantine Levin, a sensitive man whose personal philosophy is Tolstoy’s reason for writing about him.
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Treasury of Classic Children's Stories
by Oscar Wilde
Price: Audio Download ($12.60)
Bedtime, playtime and long voyages in the car will never be the same again as families gather to listen to classic tales brought to life by award-winning performers.
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The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Price: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD ($22.98) | Audio Cassette
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 Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD ($40.46) | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD ($54.95)
Dostoevsky's novel tells the stirring tale of four brothers who are behind the murder of one of literature's most despicable characters: their father.
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Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD ($17.96) | Audio Cassette ($59.95) | MP3 CD ($29.95)
This is the most distinguished novel that has come out of South Africa in the 20th century...
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Treasury of Animal Stories
by Various Authors
Price: Audio Download ($12.60)
Four original stories of heroism and courage are brought to life by four immense talents; Jack Lemmon, Burt Reynolds, Martin Short, and Jean Smart.
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