50 Success Classics by Tom Butler-Bowden Winning Wisdom for Life and Work 50 Self Help Classics / 50 Success Classics / 50 Prosperity Classics/50 Spiritual Classics on Audio click here 50 Success Classics - Tom Butler-Bowden - Audio-Book CD Brand New : Unabridged 9 CDs ( a summary and analysis of the 50 books and the key ideas -not a reading of all 50 books) # An introduction to the success literature with list and thematic guide to the landmark works. # 50 commentaries on 50 classic works: the story of each book's writing their life-changing ideas their impact some representative quotes the meaning of each book 'in a nutshell' and cross-referencing to similar classics. # Includes 'quick tour of the literature' 'cha more information.....
Othello by William Shakespeare A fully dramatised recording Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Othello by William Shakespeare - Unabridged Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 3 Audio CDs 181 minutes The play opens with Roderigo a rich and dissolute gentleman complaining to Iago a high-ranking soldier that Iago has not told him about the secret marriage between Desdemona the daughter of a Senator named Brabantio and Othello a Moorish general in the Venetian army. He is upset by this development because he lusts for Desdemona and has previously asked her father for her hand in marriage. Iago is upset with Othello for promoting a younger man named Michael Cassio above him and tells Roderigo that he (Iago) is simply using Othello for his own advantage. Iago's argument against Cassio is that he is a scholarly tactician more information.....
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare A fully dramatised recording Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare - Unabridged Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 2 Audio CDs 149 minutes Vincentio the Duke of Vienna makes it known that he intends to leave the city on a diplomatic mission. He leaves the government in the hands of a strict judge Angelo. Under the Duke's government the city's harsh laws against fornication have been laxly enforced but Angelo who later reveals himself as a hypocrite is known to be a hard-liner on matters of sexual immorality. Claudio a young nobleman is betrothed to Juliet; having put off their wedding he makes her pregnant before wedlock. For this act of fornication he is punished by Angelo. Although he is willing to marry her he is sentenced to death. Claudio's friend Lucio visits Claudio's sister Isabella a postulant nun and asks her to intercede with Angelo on Claudi extra info.....
50 Selp-Help Classics by Tom Butler-Bowden 50 Inspirational books to transform your life 50 Self Help Classics / 50 Success Classics / 50 Prosperity Classics/50 Spiritual Classics on Audio click here 50 Self-Help Classics - Tom Butler-Bowden - Audio-Book CD Brand New : Unabridged 9 CDs ( a summary and analysis of the 50 books and the key ideas -not a reading of all 50 books) 50 Self-Help Classics : 50 Inspirational Books to Transform Your Life * An introduction to the self-help phenomenon with list and thematic guide to the best works. * 50 commentaries on 50 classic works: the story of each book's writing their life-changing ideas their impact representative quotes the meaning of each book 'in a nutshell' and cross-referencing to similar classics. (Note - these are summaries of the 50 Books NOT the whole 50 books) * Includes a further list '50 More Classics' * Named by Shape magazine (US) as one of the 'Ten best self-help guides' along with titles by Stephen Covey Dale Carnegie and Miguel Ruiz. * Winner 2004 Benjamin Franklin Award (US) Finalist 2004 Foreword Magazine Book of the Yea click here.....
Under Milk Wood Dylan Thomas - Audio CD and other Plays - The 1954 Premiere Radio Recording Get other Poetry audio books on CD click here Under Milk Wood and other plays - Dylan Thomas - Audio CD Brand New (still shrink wrapped): 2 CDs The famous 1954 BBC radio recording of Thomas' 'play for voices' Under Milk Wood with Richard Burton as First Voice. Also starring Hugh Griffith and Rachel Roberts. "To begin at the beginning:" Under Milk Wood is one of Dylan's most famous works. It is a 'play for voices' telling the story of a day in the life of the inhabitants of the small Welsh village of Llareggub. There is Captain Cat surrounded by fish that "nibble him down to his wishbone" and dreaming of Rosie Probert; Mog Edwards "a draper mad with love"; Organ Morgan listening to the music in Coronation Street with "spouses...honking like geese and the babies singing opera". "And you alone can hear the invisible starfall..." of their hopes and dreams as the inhabitants of the town awake and a new day begins.Under Milk Wood opens as a small village sleeps and quietly almost covertly an more here.....
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Unabridged 16 CD Audio Book Set Get other Fiction AudioBook CDs click here Get other Classic AudioBook CDs click here Great Expectations - by Charles Dickens - Audio Book CD Brand New (16 CDs - 20 hours): About Great Expectations Great Expectations chronicles the progress of Pip from childhood through adulthood. as he moves from the marshes of Kent to London society he encounters a variety of extraordinary characters: from Magwitch the escaped convict to Miss Havisham and her ward the arrogant and beautiful Estella. In this fascinating story Dickens shows the dangers of being driven by a desire for wealth and social status. Pip must establish a sense of self against the plans which others seem to have for him - and somehow discover a firm set of values and priorities. About Charles Dickens Dickens was born on February 7 1812 the son of a clerk at the Navy Pay Office. His father John Dickens continually living beyond his means was imprisoned for debt in the more information.....
World without End by Ken Follett Unabridged AudioBook 36 CDs Get Other Classic Audio Books click here Get Other Ken Follett AudioBooks click here World Without End - Ken Follett - Audio Book Unabridged CD Brand New (still shrink wrapped): . 45.5 hours 36 CDs The novel begins in the fictional city of Kingsbridge England in the year 1327. Four children — Caris Gwenda Merthin and Ralph — go into the woods on All Hallows Day. Gwenda brings her three-legged dog Hop whom Ralph shoots with Merthin's home-made bow foreshadowing Ralph's later cruel behaviour. The children witness two men killed in the forest by Sir Thomas Langley aided by Ralph. The children then flee with the exception of Merthin. Sir Thomas asks him to help bury a letter and then flees to Kingsbridge and seeks refuge in the m find out more.....
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott - Audio Book CD read by Sandra Burr Unabridged Little Women - Louisa May Alcott Audio Book CD Brand New: Unabridged Still shrink wrapped 16 CDs 18 hours Timeless in its evocation of idealized family life and robustly enduring Little Women is recognized as one of the best-loved classic children's stories of all time. Originally written as a "girls" story its appeal transcends the boundaries of time and age making it as popular with adults as it is with young readers. For this is a beguiling story of happiness and hope of the joys of companionship domestic harmony and infinite mother love all seen through the life of the March family. But which of the four March sisters to love best? For every reader must have their favorite. Independent tomboyish Jo; delicate loving Beth; pretty kind Meg or precocio more information.....
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Unabridged 20.5 hours read by Anthony Heald Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Read by Anthony Heald- AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 16 Audio CDs 20.5 Hours Crime and Punishment is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky that was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments in 1866. It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoevsky's full-length novels after he returned from his exile in Siberia and the first great novel of his mature period. Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov an impoverished St. Petersburg ex-student who formulates and executes a plan to kill a hated unscrupulous pawnbroker seemingly for her money thereby solving his financial problems and at the same time he argues ridding the world of an evil worthless parasite. Raskolnikov also strives to be an extraordinary being similar to Napoleon believing that murder is permissible in pursuit of a higher purpose. Dostoevsky conceived the id more.....
The Odyssey by Homer Read by Sir Ian McKellen Translated by Robert Fagles See also Homers The iliad on Audio Book click here The Odyssey by Homer Read by Sir Ian McKellen Unabridged Audio Book CD Brand New : 13 Hours 11 CDs Unabridged When Robert Fagles' translation of the Iliad was published in 1990 critics and scholars alike hailed it as a masterpiece. Now one of the great translators of our time presents us with the Odyssey Homer's best-loved poem recounting Odysseus' wanderings after the Trojan War. With wit and wile the 'man of twists and turns' meets the challenges of gods and monsters only to return after twenty years to a home besieged by his wife's suitors. In the myths and legends retold in this immortal poem Fagles has captured the energy of Homer's original in a bold contemporary idiom. This is an Odyssey to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. If extra info.....
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare A fully dramatised recording Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare - Unabridged Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 2 Audio CDs 137 minutes Prior to the first act an Induction frames the play as a "kind of history" played in front of a drunkard named Sly who thinks he is a Lord. The "Shrew" is Katherina Minola the eldest daughter of Baptista Minola a Lord in Padua. Her temper is extremely volatile and no man can control her. She ties her sister to a chair in one scene and in another attacks a music tutor with his own fiddle. Her younger sister Bianca Minola is nubile and much sought after by the nobles. Baptista has sworn not to allow his younger daughter to marry before Katherina is wed. Bianca has several suitors and two of them agree that they will work together to marry off Katherina so that they will be free to compet click here.....
The Voice of the Poet by T.S. Eliot - read by the Author Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here The Voice of the Poet - T.S. Eliot - Audio CD and Book Brand New : 1Audio CD and Book of the Poems Featuring rare archival recordings of the featured poet reading his own work! Each program in Random House Audio Voices' exclusive THE VOICE OF THE POET series is accompanied by a book containing the text of the poems and a commentary by J.D. McClatchy. About the Author T.S. Eliot (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a poet dramatist and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Among his most famous writings are the poems The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock The Waste Land The Hollow Men Ash Wednesday and Four Quartets; the plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party; and t more details.....
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut or the Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death Get Other Science Fiction Audio Books CD click here Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 5 Audio CDs 6 Hours Slaughterhouse-Five; or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death is a 1969 novel by Kurt Vonnegut. One of his most popular works and widely regarded as a classic it combines science fiction elements with an analysis of the human condition from an uncommon perspective using time travel as a plot device. The bombing of Dresden in World War II the aftermath of which Vonnegut witnessed is the starting point. Slaughterhouse-Five spans the life of a man who has "come unstuck in time." It is the story of Billy Pilgrim experiencing different time periods of his life most notably his experience in World War II and his relationship with his family. The book is extra info.....
Baker Street Dozen - Sherlock Holmes Starring Sir John Gielgud Ralph Richardson and Orson Welles 12 Dramatized Episodes Get Other Classic Books on Audio click here Baker Street Dozen - Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Audio Book CD New 5.25 Hours 6 CDs The acclaimed exciting fully dramatized performances of twelve Conan Doyle classics. It’s elementary that any Conan Doyle fan will want this splendid set of Sherlock Holmes mysteries—twelve timeless classics performed as radio theater linked by violin music interludes. The great Sir John Gielgud stars as the sleuth of Baker Street with Ralph Richardson as his venerable companion Dr. Watson and Orson Welles as the nefarious Professor Moriarty. With three giants of the theater in such colorful roles it’s no mystery why this collection was so popular on cassette. Includes: “The Blue Carbuncle” “A Case of Identity” “Charles August Milverton” “The Dying Detective” & more here.....
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky abridged read by Alex Jennings Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Abridged - AudioBook CD Brand New : abridged 6 Audio CDs 5.5 Hours Crime and Punishment is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky that was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments in 1866. It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoevsky's full-length novels after he returned from his exile in Siberia and the first great novel of his mature period. Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov an impoverished St. Petersburg ex-student who formulates and executes a plan to kill a hated unscrupulous pawnbroker seemingly for her money thereby solving his financial problems and at the same time he argues ridding th click here.....
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley read by Richard Pasco Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Frankenstein - Mary Shelley - AudioBook CD Brand New : abridged 3 Audio CDs 3 Hours Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus generally known as Frankenstein is a novel written by the British author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Shelley started writing Frankenstein when she was 18 and finished when she was 19. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley's name appears on the second edition published in 1831. The title of the novel refers to a scientist Victor Frankenstein who learns how to create life and creates a being in the likeness of man but larger than average and more powerful. In popular culture people have tended to refer to the Creature as "Frankenstein" despite this being the name of the scientist. Frankenstein is infused with some elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement. It was also a warning against the "over-reaching" of modern man and the Industrial Revolution alluded to in the novel's subtitle The Modern Prometheus. The sto more here.....
The Lord of the Rings BBC Dramatisation - Audio CD This trilogy of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth is presented in dramatisation from the BBC with original music and sound effects Get Other Middle Earth Audio Books click here The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien - BBC - Audio Book CDs Brand New (still shrink wrapped): 13 Hours 12 CDs This trilogy of Tolkien's Middle Earth is presented in dramatisation from the BBC with original music and sound effects. It has actors playing the parts of the stories characters - it is not a reading of the book. In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths and Sauron The Dark Lord forged the One Ring filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell by chan more here.....
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo Audio Drama Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Les Miserables - Victor Hugo - Audio Drama CD Brand New : Audio Drama 3 Audio CDs 169 minutes - not recommended for children under 8 The story that has thrilled millions comes to life in a brand new way in Focus on the Family Radio Theatre’s Les Miserables. This audio drama beautifully portrays the redeeming power of forgiveness through the story of Jean Valjean an embittered convict whose life is changed by a single act of kindness. Recorded in London with some of England’s finest actors it will mesmerize adults and families alike. About the Author Victor Hugo Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet playwright novelist essayist visual artist statesman human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France. In France Hugo's literary reputation rests primarily on his poetic and dramatic output and only secondarily on his novels. Among many volumes of poetry Les Contemplations and La Lég click here.....
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery Unabridged read by Susan O'Malley Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Get Other Kids AudioBooks CD click here Anne of Green Gables by L.M Montgomery - Unabridged - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 9 Audio CDs 10.5 Hours Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert unmarried middle-aged siblings who live together at Green Gables a farm in the town of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island decide to adopt a boy from an orphan asylum in Nova Scotia as a helper on their farm. Through a series of mishaps the person who ends up under their roof is a precocious girl of eleven named Anne Shirley. Anne is bright and quick eager to please and talkative but dissatisfied with her name her pale countenance dotted with freckles and with her long brai more details.....
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand - Audio Book CD Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand - Audio Book CD- Unabridged Brand New - Unbridged 50 CDs yes 50! - its 63 hours long!! - rare! Read by Scott Brick This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world-and did. Is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battle not against his enemies but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves? You will learn the answers to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the amazing men and women in this remarkable book. About the Author: Ayn Rand was born in Russia graduated from the University of Leningrad and in 1926 came to the United States where she was naturalized. Her first novel We the Living was published in 1936. With the publication of The Fountainhead in 1943 she achieved a spectacular and enduring success and her unique philosophy objectivism gained a more information.....
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare A fully dramatised recording Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare - Unabridged Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 2 Audio CDs 137 minutes Bassanio a young Venetian would like to travel to Belmont to woo the beautiful and wealthy heiress Portia. He approaches his friend Antonio a merchant for three thousand ducats needed to subsidize his traveling expenditures as a suitor for three months. As all of Antonio's ships and merchandise are busy at sea he promises to cover a bond so Bassanio turns to the moneylender/usurer Shylock and names Antonio as the loan more here.....
The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien (Read by Martin Shaw) Prequel to Lord of the RIngs More Lord of the Rings Audio click here The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien (Read by Martin Shaw) Brand New: unabridged. 13 CDs The Silmarillion is J.R.R. Tolkien's tragic operatic history of the First Age of Middle-Earth essential background material for serious readers of the classic Lord of the Rings saga. Tolkien's work sets the standard for fantasy and this audio version of the "Bible of Middle-Earth" does The Silmarillion justice. Martin Shaw's reading is grave and resonant conveying all the powerful events and emotions that shaped elven and human history long before Bilbo Frodo Gandalf and all the rest embarked on their quests. Beginning with the Music of the Ainur The Silmarill more.....
50 Spritual Classics by Tom Butler-Bowden Timeless wisdom from 50 great books 50 Self Help Classics / 50 Success Classics / 50 Prosperity Classics/50 Spiritual Classics on Audio click here 50 Spritual Classics - Tom Butler-Bowden - Audio-Book CD Brand New : Unabridged 9 CDs ( a summary and analysis of the 50 books and the key ideas -not a reading of all 50 books) # An introduction to the success literature with list and thematic guide to the landmark works. # 50 commentaries on 50 classic works: the story of each book's writing their life-changing ideas their impact some representative quotes the meaning of each book 'in a nutshell' and cross-referencing to similar classics. # Includes 'quick tour of the literature' 'characteristics of successful people' and chronological list of titles. Read Tom Butler-Bowdon's summary of characteristics of successful people 1. Muhamma click here.....
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller Unabridged read by Jay O. Sanders Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Catch 22 by Joseph Heller - Unabridged AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 16 Audio CDs 19.5 Hours During the second half of World War II a soldier named Yossarian is stationed with his Air Force squadron on the island of Pianosa near the Italian coast in the Mediterranean Sea. Yossarian and his friends endure a nightmarish absurd existence defined by bureaucracy and violence: they are inhuman resources in the eyes of their blindly ambitious superior officers. The squadron is thrown thoughtlessly into brutal combat situations and bombing runs in which it is more important for the squadron members to capture good aerial photographs of explosions extra info.....
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Get Other Bronte Audio Books CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Wuthering Heights - by Emily Bronte - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 12 CDs - 14.25 hours Somber tale of consuming passions and vengeance — played out amid the lonely English moors — recounts the turbulent and tempestuous love story of Cathy and Heathcliff. Poignant and compelling. In early nineteenth-century Yorkshire the passionate attachment between a headstrong young girl and a foundling boy brought up by her father causes disaster for them and many others even in the next generation. Includes explanatory notes throughout the text an introduction discussing the author and the background of the story and a study guide. About the Author Emily Bronte Emily Brontë was born in Thornton near Bradford in Yorkshire to Patrick Brontë and Maria Branwell. She was the younger sister of Charlotte Brontë and the fifth of six children. In 1824 the family moved to Haworth where Emily's father was perpetual curate and it was in these surroundings that their literary oddities flouris more details.....
50 Psychology Classics - by Tom Butler-Bowden A thinking persons guide to Popular Psychology 50 Self Help Classics / 50 Success Classics / 50 Prosperity Classics/50 Spiritual Classics on Audio click here 50 Psychology Classics - Tom Butler-Bowden -Audio-Book CD Brand New : Unabridged 10 CDs ( a summary and analysis of the 50 books and the key ideas -not a reading of all 50 books) If you have always been fascinated by the human mind and what makes people behave the way they do this audio-book is for you. In a journey that spans 50 books hundreds of ideas and over a century in time 50 Psychology Classics looks at some of the most intriguing questions relating to what motivates us what makes us feel and act in certain ways how our brains work and how we create a sense of self. 50 Psychology Classics explores writings from some iconic figures such as Freud Adler Jung skinner James Piaget and Pavolv but also highlights the work of contemporary thinkers such as Gardner Gilbert Goleman and Seligman. We all need a personal theory of what makes people tick. To survive and thrive we have to know who and what we are and to be canny about the motivations of others. The common r more information.....
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Unabridged - Read by Donald Sutherland Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 3 Audio CDs The Old Man and the Sea is a novella (just over 100 pages in length) by Ernest Hemingway written in Cuba in 1951 and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction to be produced by Hemingway and published in his lifetime. One of his most famous works it centers upon Santiago an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.The Old Man and the Sea recounts an epic battle between an old experienced fisherman and a giant marlin said to be the largest catch of his life. It opens by explaining that the fisherman who is named Santiago (but only directly referred to outside of dialogue as "the old man") has gone 84 days without catching any fish at all. He is apparently so unlucky that his young apprentice Manolin has been forbidden by his parents more.....
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey Unabridged read by Tom Parker Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 9 Audio CDs 10 Hours One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) is a novel written by Ken Kesey. It is set in an Oregon asylum and serves as a study of the institutional process and the human mind. The novel was written in 1959 by Kesey although it wasn't published until 1962. The novel was such a success that it was later adapted into a 1975 film which won five Academy Awards. Although the novel was controversial when it was released due to the fact that it contained much sexual content it later became known as a classic American novel. Time Magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 more here.....
Sherlock Holmes - Radio Mysteries The History of Radio Unabridged 8 CD Audio Book Set Get other Sherlock Holmes AudioBooks click here Sherlock Holmes - Radio Mysteries - Audio Book CD Brand New (8 CDs - 6 Hours): About Sherlock Holmes - Radio Mysteries For the First time in half a century Sherlock Holmes returns to radio in a new series of broadcasts! Here is a collection of newly-conceived tales of the world's First consulting detective as told by his friend and associate Dr. John Watson portrayed by actor Lawrence Albert. Sherlock Holmes Radio Mysteries is produced under authority of the estate of Dame Jean Conan Doyle granddaughter of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Each episode is fully dramatized with a professional cast of actors realistic sound effects and a special suite of music that was commissioned for this radio series. But most importantly the creator of the programs Jim French researched and took special care to abide by the Doyle canon: you will hear Holmes played by John Gilbert in all his changeable moodiness and Dr. Watson as his alert and outspoken assistant the way Sir Arthur wrote them. In a review of radio dramatic programs worldwide the BBC's Channel 4 more.....
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Unabridged - Read by Sissy Spacek Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 11 Audio CDs 12 hrs The story takes place during three years of the Great Depression in the fictional "tired old town" of Maycomb Alabama. The narrator six-year-old Scout Finch lives with her older brother Jem and their widowed father Atticus a middle-aged lawyer. Jem and Scout befriend a boy named Dill who visits Maycomb to stay with his aunt for the summer. The three children are terrified of and fascinated with their neighbor the reclusive "Boo" Radley. The adults of Maycomb are hesitant to talk about Boo and for many years few have seen him. The children feed each other's imaginations with rumors about his appearance and reasons for remaining hidden and they fantasize about how to get him out of his house. Following two summers of friendship with Dill Scout and Jem find tha more.....
Dracula by Bram Stoker read by Richard E. Grant Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Dracula - Bram Stoker - Read by Richard E. Grant - AudioBook CD Brand New : abridged 3 Audio CDs 3 Hours Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. Dracula has been attributed to many literary genres including vampire literature horror fiction the gothic novel and invasion literature. Structurally it is an epistolary novel that is told as a series of diary entries and letters. Literary critics have examined many themes in the novel such as the role of women in Victorian culture conventional and conservative sexuality immigration colonialism postcolonialism and folklore. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire the novel's influence on the popularity of vampires has been singularly responsible for many theatrical and film interpretations throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. The novel is mainly composed of journal entries and letters written by several narrators who also serve as the novel's extra info.....
Dune - Frank Herbert Unabridged AudioBook Read by Scott Brick Orlagh Cassidy Euan Morton Simon Vance and Cast New Release 2007 Get Other Sci-Fi Audio Books click here Dune by Frank Herbert - Audio Book Brand New (still shrink wrapped): On CD - Unabridged -27 hours on18 CDs First published in 1965 Frank Herbert’s Dune has since become a Science Fiction phenomenon. After more than forty years fans are still captivated by Herbert’s interstellar saga of war politics and heroes. Dune won the very first Nebula Award and shared the Hugo Award. It was also the very first bestselling science fiction novel in hardcover. After his death in 1986 using Frank Herbert’s notes on the series his son Brian Herbert teamed up with writer Kevin J. Anderson to write two prequel trilogies and the completion of the original Dune series.Now fans can experience an all-new recording of Dune on audio. With a talented cast and a beautiful new production Dune is an exciting revitalization of an enduring classic… bringing Herbert’s master extra info.....
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Unabridged - Read by Gary Sinise Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 3 Audio CDs Two migrant field workers in California during the Great Depression – George Milton an intelligent and cynical man; and Lennie Small an ironically named man of large stature and immense strength but limited mental abilities – come to a ranch near Soledad southeast of Salinas California to "work up a stake". They hope to one day attain their shared dream of settling down on their own piece of land. Lennie's part of the dream which he never tires of hearing George describe is merely to tend to (and touch) soft rabbits on the farm. George protects Lennie at the beginning by telling him that if Lennie gets into trouble George won't let him "tend them rabbits"; they are fleeing from their previous employment in Weed where they were run out of town after Lennie's love of stroking soft things resulted in an accusation of attempted rape when he touched a young woman's dress. At the ranch the dream appears to move closer more.....
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Unabridged read by Alfred Molina Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson - Unabridged AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 6 Audio CDs 7 Hours Jim Hawkins is a young boy who lives at his parents’ sleepy seaside inn the "Admiral Benbow" near Bristol England in the 18th century (Stevenson writing "in the year of grace 17--") some time following the year 1745. One day an old and menacing sea captain referred to as Billy Bones appears and takes a room at the inn. The captain paying "three or four gold pieces" in advance stays for "month after month so that all the money had been long exhausted". One day an equally menacing figure named Black Dog arrives at the Inn looking for Bill. When the two pirates meet Jim overhears them arguing in the parlour and finally the two begin fighting. Billy wounds Black Dog who flees but immediately afterwards falls to the ground from a stroke. Bill tells Jim that B click here.....
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens translated by Robert Whitfield Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 25 Audio CDs 31.5 Hours The most gorgeously theatrical of all Dickens’s novels Nicholas Nickleby follows the delightful adventures of a hearty young hero in nineteenth-century England. Nicholas a gentleman's son fallen upon hard times must set out to make his way in the world. His journey is accompanied by some of the most swaggering scoundrels and unforgettable eccentrics in Dickens’s pantheon. From the dungeon-like Yorkshire boys’ boarding school run by the cruel Wackford Squeers to the high-spirited stage of Vincent Crummles’s extraordinary acting troupe Nicholas Nickleby is a triumph of the imagination bursti more information.....
The Edgar Allan Poe Audio Collection Performed by Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here The Edgar Allan Poe Audio Collection - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 5 Audio CDs 6 Hours Universally acclaimed as the maestro of horror and the morbid Edgar Allan Poe's dark gift has for more than a century and a half set the standard for the genre. Here 20 of Poe's most chilling stories and poems are performed by two of his most brilliant interpreters: Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone. Included are The Tell-Tale Heart The Pit and the Pendulum The Cask of Amontillado The Fall of the House of Usher Bells The Gold Bug The Raven Annabel Lee The Black Cat Berenice The Imp of the Perverse The Masque of the Red Death and many more! Basil Rathbone reads: To- Alone The City By The Sea The Fall Of The House Of Usher The Haunted Palce The Pit and the Pendulum The Masque of the Red Death The Tell-Tale Heart The Black Cat The Raven The Facts of the Case of M.Valdemar The Cask of more here.....
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Rebecca - by Daphne du Maurier - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 12 CDs 14 hrs. 45minutes "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again." So begins the classic Rebecca the unsurpassed modern masterpiece of romantic suspense -- one of the bestselling novels of all time! And so begins the remembrances of the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter as she recalls the events that led her to the isolated gray stone manse on the windswept Cornish coast. With a husband she barely knew the young bride arrived at this immense estate only to be inexorably drawn into the life of the first Mrs. de Winter the beautiful Rebecca -- dead but never forgotten; h more information.....
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - Audio Book MP3 Read by Karen Savage Unabridged Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - Audio Book MP3 Unabridged 10.5 Hours on MP3 CD - This will not play on a Car/Portable CD player unless it is plays MP3 disks - it is however suitable to be copied to iPOD portable mp3 player Mobile Phone or any other device that plays MP3s Pride and Prejudice first published on 28 January 1813 is the most famous of Jane Austen's novels and one of the first "romantic comedies" in the history of the novel. Its manuscript was first written between 1796 and 1797 initially called First Impressions but was never published under that title. Following revisions it was first published on 28 January 1813. Like both its predecessors Sense and Sensibi extra info.....
The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare A fully dramatised recording Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare - Unabridged Play on Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 2 Audio CDs 88 minutes Egeon faces execution unless he can pay a fine of a thousand marks. He tells his sad story. In his youth he married and had twin sons. On the same day a poor woman also gave birth to twin boys and he purchased these as slaves to his sons. Soon afterwards the family made a sea voyage and was hit by a tempest. Egeon lashed himself to the main-mast with one son and one slave while his wife was rescued by one boat Egeon by another. Egeon never again saw his wife or t more information.....
Lord of the Flies by William Golding Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Lord of the Flies by William Golding - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 6 Audio CDs 6.9 Hours Lord of the Flies is an allegorical novel by Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding. It discusses how culture created by man fails using as an example a group of British school-boys stuck on a deserted island who try to govern themselves with disastrous results. The key idea that William Golding focuses on in The Lord of the Flies is when removed from civilised society people will devolve and return back to being primitive creatures. Golding portrays this idea throughout the whole book by using different characters. The book is about a group of boys who are stranded on a tropical island without any adults. At first they seem very excited about the situation and votes for one of the boys Ralph as a leader. Anothe more here.....
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare A fully dramatised recording Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare - Unabridged Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 2 Audio CDs 139 minutes The play features three interlocking plots connected by a celebration of the wedding of Duke Theseus of Athens and the Amazonian queen Hippolyta and set simultaneously in the woodland and in the realm of Fairyland under the light of the moon. In the opening scene Hermia refuses to follow her father's Egeus's instructions for her to marry his chosen man Demetrius. In response Egeus quotes before Theseus an ancient Athenian law whereby a daughter must marry the suitor chosen by her father or else face death. Theseus does not want this young girl to die and offers her another choice lifelong chastity wo click here.....
50 Prosperity Classics by Tom Butler-Bowden Attract It Create it Manage it Share it - wisdom from the most valuable books on wealth creation and abudance. 50 Self Help Classics / 50 Success Classics / 50 Prosperity Classics/50 Spiritual Classics on Audio click here 50 Prosperity Classics - Tom Butler-Bowden - Audio-Book CD Brand New : Unabridged 9 CDs ( a summary and analysis of the 50 books and the key ideas -not a reading of all 50 books) # An introduction to the prosperity literature with list and thematic guide to the landmark works. # 50 commentaries on 50 classic works: the story of each book's writing their life-changing ideas their impact some representative quotes the meaning of each book 'in a nutshell' and cross click here.....
Paradise Lost by John Milton Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Paradise Lost by John Milton - Unabridged AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 7 Audio CDs 9 Hours - read by Ralph Cosham Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books. A second edition followed in 1674 redivided into twelve books (in the manner of the division of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification. The poem concerns the Judeo-Christian story of the Fall of Man; the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton's purpose stated in Book I is to "justify the ways of God to men" and elucidate the conflict between God's eternal foresight and free will. In the early nineteenth century the Romantics began to regard Satan as the protagonist of the epic. Milton presents Satan as an ambitious and proud being who defies his creator omnipotent God and who wages war on Heaven only to be defeated more information.....
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein Read by Christopher Hurt Get Other Sci-Fi Audio Books click here Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein - Audio Book Brand New : (still shrink wrapped) Unabridged 16 hours 13 CDs The most famous science fiction novel written Stranger in a Strange Land is the epic saga of an earthling born and educated on Mars who arrives on our planet with superhuman powers and a total ignorance of the mores of man. His name is Valentine Michael Smith and he is destined to become a freak a media commodity a scam artist a searcher a sexual pioneer a neon evangelist a martyr and finally a messiah. This novel became not only the bible of the "love generation " it managed to transcend the science fiction genre to achieve the status of a modern classic; or as others put it Heinlein's earthly "divine comedy." If you want Stranger in a Strange extra info.....
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Benedict Flynn Unabridged 2 CD Audio Book Set Get other Children's AudioBooks click here King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table - Benedict Flynn - Audio Book CD Brand New (2 CDs - 2.5 Hours): About King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table These stories are about how many years ago Arthur the once and future King of England set out to save his country from the troubles that plagued it aided by the brave knights of the Round Table and the most famous sword in the world Excalibur. How Merlin the Wizard fought against the wicked Morgana le Fay's enchantments and how Arthur loved and lost the beautiful Guinevere his Queen. About Benedict Flynn Benedict Flynn's imaginative retellings of classic stories have reintroduced characters such as King Arthur and Robin Hood to a new generation of children. He lives in Great Britain. King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table - Benedict Flynn - Audio Book CD click here.....