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81 Famous Poems
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William Shakespeare
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Audio CD ($24.95) | Audio Cassette
An anthology of 39 British and American poets, from Shakespeare and Dunne to Whitman and Yeats.
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A Christmas Carol
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Charles Dickens
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Audio Cassette
Through a series of visions in which ghosts reveal his past, present, and future, the miserly Scrooge is given the chance to review his life and to change its outcome.
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A Little Princess
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
Unabridged Edition
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Sarah Crewe is treated like a princess at Miss Minchin's boarding school - until her father dies...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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William Shakespeare
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Audio CD ($17.96) | Audio Cassette
Royalty, lovers, fools, fairies, and actors converge in the forest in one enchanted night of beauty, dreams, and romance. A wonderful comedy that convinces us of the magic of darkness and shadows. "Oh, what fools these mortals be!"
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A Passage to India
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E.M. Forster
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Centered around an incident between natives and English in the Marabar Caves, A Passage to India is a troubling portrait of colonialism at its worst.
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A Room with a View
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E.M. Forster
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This brilliant Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England.
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A Tale of Two Cities
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Charles Dickens
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A heartbreaking story of selfless love set within the historical drama of Paris and London at the height of the French Revolution.
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All's Well That Ends Well
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William Shakespeare
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The Bard's "dark" comedy in five acts concerns the efforts of Helena, daughter of a renowned physician, to make Bertram, the count of Rousillon, her husband.
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An Isak Dinesen Feast
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Isak Dinesen
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A sparkling anthology reveals Dinesen's passion and spirit. Includes "Babette's Feast", "Isak Dinesen Herself", and "Lucifer's Child".
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Antony and Cleopatra
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William Shakespeare
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Audio CD ($22.46) | Audio Cassette ($17.95)
One of the Bard's finest tragedies. This complex and moving account of a passionate love affair between a great general and the wily, capricious queen of Egypt explores the constant and eternal struggle between the private and the public, and the personal and the political.
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Art of Love
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Ovid
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This 2,000-year-old self-help guide is considered one of the most important and enduring works...
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As You Like It
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William Shakespeare
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This wisely funny comedy contains some of Shakespeare's loveliest poetry. In the Forest of Arden, the banished young heroine, Rosalind, disguised as a gentleman farmer, encounters an extraordinary assemblage of characters, including young man she loves.
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Barchester Towers
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Anthony Trollope
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Trollope combines humor with robust social commentary as he seizes on the great comic potential of the predicament of the Church of England in mid-Victorian society.
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Best Jazz Age Stories
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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F. Scott Fitzgerald brilliantly captures the Jazz Age of the 1920s in these stories...
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Complete Arkangel Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare
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Audio CD ($480.00)
The Complete Shakespeare for the 21st Century. This release is of major importance: for the first time all of Shakespeare's plays are available on CD in a single set.
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Coriolanus
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William Shakespeare
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An ambitious and intriguing story of ambition, politics, treachery, and politics. The Bard's last great tragedy explores the career and death of a brilliant and arrogant Roman general.
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Cymbeline
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William Shakespeare
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Shakespeare's classic, a tale of disguise, jealousy, and love. Imogen, the daughter of King Cymbeline, is suspected of being unfaithful to her husband Posthumus.
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David Copperfield
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Charles Dickens
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The fatherless David is continually beset by personal difficulties; he rises from a poverty-stricken, abusive childhood to a world of fame and fortune.
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Emma
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Jane Austen
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Emma starts matchmaking among her friends and acquaintances and finds that she herself has inadequacies in the art of love.
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Far from the Madding Crowd
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Thomas Hardy
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Audio Cassette
Though tragic, this novel is laced with fine comic observation, and presents a rich portrait of rustic, 19th-century British life.
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Fathers and Sons
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Ivan Turgenev
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When Arkady Kirasanov returns home from college, he brings his revolutionary friend, Bazarov, but Bazarov brings with him his new and cataclysmic views of political philosophy.
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Frenchman's Creek
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Daphne du Maurier
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Lady St. Columb, bored with life at Court, leaves for her husband's Cornwall estate but stumbles upon the mooring place of the mysterious Frenchman's pirate ship.
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
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Anita Loos
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When it was first published in 1926, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was considered a shocker...
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Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
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These 4 stories are infused with the wit and imagination, the humor and wisdom, that characterizes...
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Great American Humor
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John Irving
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Audio Cassette
Sixteen classic stories of humor: slapstick, sardonic narratives, satire, and wit abound. Authors include Twain, O. Henry, Robert Benchley, and Jean Kerr.
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