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"I don't make merry myself at Christmas, and I can't afford to make idle people merry," grumbles the patron saint of misers, Ebenezer Scrooge. Curmudgeonly Scrooge thinks Christmas is "humbug" with only one purpose - to cheat honest employers like himself out of a day's labor from his workers.

A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's best early works: an airy, romantic romp in the woods among bumbling rustics, temporarily star-crossed lovers, and the charming fairies who bewitch them all.

When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama.

Caedmon is proud to release this archival full-cast recording of Tennessee Williams's "A Streetcar Named Desire" on audio for the first time.

"A profoundly moving novel, and an honest and true one. It cuts right to the heart of life...If you miss A Tree Grows in Brooklyn you will deny yourself a rich experience…

"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn," Ernest Hemingway wrote, "It's the best book we've had."

One of the most significant occurrences in America during the 20th century was the rise of African-American writers to the forefront of literature.

The complete play in five acts....

The complete play in five acts....

All the world's a stage.... In the enchanted forest of Arden, everyone has their way. Sins are...

Breakfast of Champions is vintage Vonnegut....

A classic of our time, beautifully performed by Jeremy Irons and the basis of the award-winning television mini-series, Brideshead Revisited tells the story of the Marckmain family.

The myths created by the Greeks and Romans, and the tales of the heroes and heroines that emerged during the Age of Chivalry in Europe, reflect man's enduring emotions: jealousy and hatred, compassion and devotion.

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.

The Comedy of Errors is likely the very first play Shakespeare ever wrote, and for that reason alone it deserves a special place in literary history....

Shakespeare's last tragedy explores the career and death of a brilliant and arrogant Roman general. This is an ambitious and intriguing story of heroism.

One of Shakespeare's final works, Cymbeline uses virtuoso theatrical and poetic means to dramatize a story of a marriage endangered by mistrust and painfully rebuilt, in a context of international conflict.

James Joyce revolutionized twentieth-century writing with his "stream of consciousness" technique. While ingeniously innovative and experimental, he was also a...

Nobel Prize-winning giant Ernest Hemingway is widely considered one of the greatest American authors of the Twentieth Century. Here, listeners can experience his riveting style both from his own voice and from one of America's most esteemed actors.

A poem by Whitman may be whoops and hollers, or beating of drums, or the ebb of the tide singing to itself among the stones, or laments in the night or cries of ecstasy.

Every Tongue Got to Confess is the first new book by Zora Neale Hurston to be published in over 50 years.

Hamlet, Shakespeare's best-known and most profound creation, teems with life, death, and rich characterizations.

In Julius Caesar, there are no heroes, only heroic words spoken by men of ambition, arrogance, and jealousy.

The complete play in five acts....

A tragedy, a comedy, and a history all rolled into one, the story of the tyrannical Richard III ranks...