Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - Audio Book MP3 Read by Kristin Luoma Unabridged Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - Audio Book MP3-CD Unabridged 4.2 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 (more information on MP3-CD click here) Heart of Darkness is a novella by Polish-born writer Joseph Conrad. Before its 1902 publication it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon. This highly symbolic story is actually a story within a story or frame narrative. It follows Charles Marlow as he recounts from dusk through to late night his adventure into the Congo to a group of men aboard a ship anchored in the Thames Estuary. The story details an incident when Marlow an Englishman took a foreign assignment as a ferry-boat captain employed by a Belgian trading company on what readers may assume is the C more information.....
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; her suite of rooms never touched; her clothes still ready to be worn; and her servant the sinister Mrs. Danvers still royal. And as an eerie presentiment of evil tightened around her heart the second Mrs. de Winter began her search for the real fate of Rebecca - more information.....
Romeo and Juliet 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 Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare - Unabridged Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 3 Audio CDs The play starts with a street brawl between Montagues and Capulets. The Prince of Verona intervenes and declares that further breach of the peace will be punishable by death. Later Count Paris talks to Lord Capulet about marrying his daughter but Capulet is wary of the request because Juliet is still only thirteen. Capulet asks Paris to wait another two years and invites him to attend a planned Capulet ball. Lady Capulet and Juliet's nurse try to persuade Juliet to accept Paris' courtship. After the brawl Benvolio talks with his cousin Romeo Lord Montague's son about Romeo's recent depression. Benvolio discovers that it stems from unrequited love for a girl named Rosaline one of Lord Capulet's nieces. Persuaded by Benvolio and Mer more here.....
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 masterpiece to a new generation of fans. If you want Dune by Frank Herbert as a book more.....
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 75th Anniversary edition read by Michael York Get Other Science Fiction Audio Books CD click here Brave New World - Aldous Huxley- AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 7 Audio CDs 8.3 Hours Brave New World is a 1932 novel by Aldous Huxley. Set in the London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. in the book) the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology and sleep-learning that combine to change society. Huxley answers this book with a reassessment in an essay Brave New World Revisited (1958) and with his final work a novel titled Island (1962) both summarized below. Brave New World is Huxley's most famous novel. The ironic title ultimately derives from Miranda's speech in Shakespeare's The Tempest Act V Scene I: "O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world That hath such people in't!" However a derivation not only more recent but more apposite occurs in Rudyard Kipling's 1919 poem The Gods of the Copybook Headings: more.....
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Unabridged read by Christopher Hurt Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 4 Audio CDs 5 Hours Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian speculative fiction novel authored by Ray Bradbury and first published in 1953. The novel presents a future American society in which the masses are hedonistic and critical thought through reading is outlawed. The central character Guy Montag is employed as a "fireman" (which in this future means "book burner"). The number "451" refers to the temperature (in Fahrenheit) at which the books burn when the "firemen" burn them "for the good of humanity". Written in the early years of the Cold War the novel is a critique of what Bradbury saw as an increasingly dysfunctional American society. The concept began with Bradbury's short story "Bright Phoenix " written in 1947 but f click here.....
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen read by Julie Christie Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - AudioBook CD Brand New : abridged 6 Audio CDs 5.5 Hours Sense and Sensibility is a novel by the English novelist Jane Austen. Published in 1811 it was the first of Austen's novels to be published under the pseudonym "A Lady". The story revolves around Elinor and Marianne two daughters of Mr. Dashwood by his second wife. They have a younger sister Margaret and an older half-brother named John. When their father dies the family estate passes to John and the Dashwood women are left in reduced circumstances. The novel follows the Dashwood sisters to their new home a cottage on a distant relative's property where they experience both romance and heartbreak. The contrast between the sisters' characters is eventual find out more.....
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 P click here.....
The Caedmon Collection Dylan Thomas - Audio Book CD Introduced by Billy Collins Get other Poetry audio books on CD click here Dylan Thomas - The Caedmon Collection - Audio Book CD Brand New (still shrink wrapped): 11 CDs 12.5 Hours Beginning in February 1952 Dylan Thomas made a series of memorable and historic recordings for a new record label called Caedmon. In fact Dylan Thomas was the first to record for this new label started by two 22-year-old women Marianne Roney and Barbara Cohen. Little did they know that in addition to capturing a part of history they also launched an industry of spoken-word recording. This collection not only contains the incredible Caedmon recording sessions but also recordings from the BBC CBC and other archival material Caedmon originally published in the 1950s and 1960s. Highlights include: " more 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 begin more details.....
I Claudius by Robert Graves Read by Derek Jacobi Other Classic Audio Book CDs Click here Get the Odyessy by Homer on AudioBook click here I Claudius by Robert Graves - Read by Derek Jacobi AudioBook CD Brand New : 4 Audio CDs - 5 Hours I Claudius and Claudius the God were written as if they were the secret autobiography of Claudius the fourth emperor of Rome (r. 41-54 A.D.). The historical Claudius was kept out of public life by his family the Julio-Claudians until his sudden elevation at the age of 49. This was due to several disabilities—including a stammer a limp and various nervous tics—which made him appear mentally deficient to his relatives. This is how he was defined by scholars for most of history and Graves uses these peculiarities to develop a sympathetic character whose survival in a murderous dynasty depends upon the incorrect assumption that he is a harmless idiot. Robert Graves claimed that after he read Suetonius Claudius came to him in a dream one night and demanded that his real story be told. The life of Claudius provided Graves with a way to write about the first four emperors from an intimate point of view. In addition the real Claudius was a tr click here.....
The Iliad by Homer Read by Sir Derek Jacobi The Epic Story of Troy Translated by Robert Fagles See also Homers Oddessy on Audio Book click here The Iliad by Homer Read by Sir Derek Jacobi abridged Audio Book CD Brand New : 9 Hours 8 CDs abridged This groundbreaking English version by Robert Fagles is the most important recent translation of Homer's great epic poem. The verse translation has been hailed by scholars as the new standard providing an Iliad that delights modern sensibility and aesthetic without sacrificing the grandeur and particular genius of Homer's own style and language. The Iliad is one of the two great epics of Homer and is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time but to say the Iliad is a war story does not begin to describe the emotional sweep of its action and characters: Achilles Helen Hector and other heroes of Greek myth and history in the tenth and final year of the Greek siege of Troy. About Homer Tradition holds that Homer was blind and various Ionian citie extra info.....
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Unabridged read by David Case Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 4 Audio CDs 4 Hours Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Polish-born writer Joseph Conrad. Before its 1902 publication it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon. The story details an incident when Marlow an Englishman took a foreign assignment as a ferry-boat captain employed by a Belgian trading company. Although the river is never specifically named readers may assume it is the Congo River in the Congo Free State a private colony of King Leopold II. Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver; however his more p find out more.....
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 chance into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins. From his fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor Sauron's power spread far and wide. He gathere find out more.....
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 the essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent". Eliot was born in the United States moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at age 25) and became a British sub more.....
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett Unabridged 32 CDs Get Other Classic Audio Books click here Get Other Ken Follett AudioBooks click here The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett - Audio Book Unabridged CD Brand New (still shrink wrapped): . 41 hours 32 CDs The Pillars of the Earth is a historical novel by Ken Follett published in 1989 about the building of a cathedral in Kingsbridge England. It is set in the middle of the 12th century primarily during the time known as The Anarchy between the time of the sinking of the White Ship and the murder of Thomas Becket. The book traces the development of Gothic Architecture out of the preceding Romanesque Architecture and the fortunes of the Kingsbridge priory against the backdrop of actual historical events of the time. Although Kingsbridge is the name of an actual English town the Kingsbridge in the novel is actually a fictional location representative of a typical market town of the time. Until this novel was published Follett had previously more details.....
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. Muhammad Asad The Road To Mecca (1954) more details.....
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 excit more details.....
1984 by George Orwell read by Richard Brown Get Other George Orwell AudioBook CD click here Get Other Classic AudioBook CD click here 1984 - Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - Audio Book CD Brand New : (unabridged) 9 CDs - 11.5 hours Ministry of Truth bureaucrat Winston Smith is the protagonist; although unitary the story is three-fold. The first describes the world of 1984 as he perceives it; the second is his illicit romance with Julia and his intellectual rebellion against the Party; the third is his capture and imprisonment interrogation torture and re-education in the Ministry of Love. The plotline is therefore virtually identical to that of a 1921 Russian novel titled We which occurs in a world similar to that of Nineteen Eighty-Four. The intellectual Winston Smith extra info.....
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 bursting more.....
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne Abridged 2 CD Audio Book Set Get other Classic AudioBooks click here Around the World in Eighty Days - By Jules Verne - Audio Book CD Brand New (2 CDs - 2.5Hours): About Around the World in Eighty Days Phileas Fogg is a man of habit a Victorian gentleman who follows the same routine every day--until he accepts a wager that he can circle the globe within eighty days. Thus begins a hair-raising journey in which Fogg's obsession with his timetable is complemented by the dynamism and versatility of his French manservant Passepartout whose has a talent for getting into scrapes as the two dash across continents in a suspenseful race against time. The world's greatest works of literature are now avaialble in these beautiful keepsake volumes. Bound in real cloth and featuring gilt edges and ribbon markers more here.....
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte read by Joanna David Get Other Bronte Audio Books CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - AudioBook CD Brand New : abridged 6 Audio CDs Jane Eyre is not your typical romance. It is a story of a woman who struggles with a world in which she doesn’t quite fit. Once finished with her schooling and with no family that really cares for her she strikes out on her own as a governess. Jane Eyre searches for love someone to care for her and someone to care for and finds it in unexpected places. Jane Eyre is a young orphan being raised by Mrs. Reed her cruel wealthy aunt. A servant named Bessie provides Jane with some of the few kindnesses she receives telling her stories and singing songs to her. One day as punishment for fighting with her bullying cousin John Reed Jane's aunt imprisons Jane in the red-room the room in which Jane's Uncle Reed died. While locked in Jane believing that she sees her uncle's ghos more details.....
The Caedmon Poetry Collection A Century of Poets reading their work Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Get other Poetry audio books on CD click here The Caedmon Poetry Collection - AudioBook CD Brand New : 3 Audio CDs 3.5 Hours A rare and thrilling listening experience. A choice gathering of some of the twentieth century's greatest poetry... read by the century's greatest poets - here available on CD A reawakened love for the sound of poetry has made modern poems subtly different from the poems of the eighteenth and nineteenth centures. We have only to listen to these poets reading their own works to know how important their interpretations are to a full comprehension of their poems. The ministerial intonations of Eliot the passionate orchestrations of Thomas the very very precise formulations of Cummings the easy conversational inflection of Frost are integral lending subtle clarifications which go beyond the printed page. The fact that this recording includes the voice of Yeats is something of a miracle. In the early 1930's when the thought of recording poets occurred to few Yeats himse more details.....
The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare by William Shakespeare 38 Plays fully dramatised recording on Audio CD Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare - William Shakespeare - Unabridged Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 98 Audio CDs 101 hours 47 minutes The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare 38 Fully-Dramatized Unabridged Plays on CD Full Cast Production featuring nearly 400 actors almost all past or present members of the Royal Shakespeare Company including Eileen Atkins Joseph Fiennes Sir John Gielgud Ciaran Hinds Alan Howard Jane Lapotaire Amanda Root David Tennant Sophie Thompson Samuel West and Timothy West. Shakespeare for the 21st century. For the first time all of Shakespeare's plays are available on CD in a complete set produced by a single creative team with state-of-the-art technology and an extraordinary cast. Original music and subtle sound effects heighten the drama. Spanning the arc of human experience from broad comedy to heartfelt tragedy The Bard's timeless dramas become accessible natural and more details.....
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 ha find out more.....
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 t more details.....
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 worshipping the goddess Diana as a nun. (The word 'nun' in this sense is an anachronism.) Hermia and her lover Lysander decide to elope by escaping through the forest at night. Hermia informs her friend Helena but Helena has recen find out more.....
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen read by Joanna David Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - AudioBook CD Brand New : abridged 6 Audio CDs 5.5 Hours Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen. First published on 28 January 1813 it is her second published novel. Its manuscript was initially written between 1796 and 1797 in Steventon Hampshire where Austen lived in the rectory. Originally called First Impressions it was never published under that title and in following revisions it was retitled Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth Bennet is a country gentleman's daughter in 19th Century England. She is one of five daughters a plight that her father bears as best he can with common sense and a general disinterest in the silliness of his daughters. Elizabeth is his favorite because of her level-headed approach to life when his own wife's greatest concern is getting her more details.....
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 more information.....
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 more.....
Animal Farm by George Orwell read by Ralph Cosham Get Other George Orwell AudioBook CD click here Get Other Classic AudioBook CD click here Animal Farm - George Orwell - Audio Book CD Brand New : (unabridged) 3 CDs - 3 hours Old Major a prize-winning boar gathers the animals of the Manor Farm for a meeting in the big barn. He tells them of a dream he has had in which all animals live together with no human beings to oppress or control them. He tells the animals that they must work toward such a paradise and teaches them a song called “Beasts of England ” in which his dream vision is lyrically described. The animals greet Major's vision with great enthusiasm. When he dies only three nights after the meeting three younger pigs—Snowball Napoleon and Squealer—formulate his main principles into a philosophy called Animalism. Late one night the animals manage 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 precocious and beautiful Amy the baby of the family? Little Women was an instant success when first published in 1868 and click here.....
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Unabridged read by Juliet Mills Get Other Bronte Audio Books CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte - Unabridged AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 16 Audio CDs 19.5 Hours Orphaned at an early age Jane Eyre leads a lonely life until she finds work as a governess at Thornfield Hall where she meets the mysterious Mr. Rochester and sees a ghostly woman who roams the halls by night. This is a story of passionate love travail and final triumph. The relationship between the heroine and Mr. Rochester is only one episode albeit the most important in a detailed fictional autobiography in which the author transmuted her own experience into high art. In this work the plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance but possesses an indomitable spirit a sharp wit and great courage. She is forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian a harsh employer and a rigid social order which circumscribes her life and position. About the Author Charlotte Bronte Charlotte Bront&eum more.....
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville Unabridged 24 hours read by Anthony Heald Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Moby-Dick - Herman Melvilles - Read by Anthony Heald- AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 19 Audio CDs 24 Hours Moby-Dick is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville. The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab seeks one specific whale Moby Dick a white whale of tremendous size and ferocity. Comparatively few whaleships know of Moby Dick and fewer yet have encountered him. In a previous encounter the whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg. Ahab intends to take revenge. In Moby-Dick Melville employs stylized language symbolism and metaphor to explore numerous complex themes. Through the main character's journey the concepts of class and social status good and evil and the existence of gods are all examined as Ishmae more here.....
Emma - Jane Austen - Audio Book MP3 Read by Sherry Crowther Unabridged Emma - Jane Austen - Audio Book MP3 Unabridged 18 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 Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen first published in 1816 about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character Emma Woodhouse is described in the opening paragraph as "handsome clever and rich" but is also rather spoiled. Prior to starting the novel Austen wrote "I am going to take a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like." About the Author Jane Austen Jane Austen (16 Decem more.....
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 extra info.....
A Room with a View E.M Forster Unabridged Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here A Room with a View - E. M. Forster - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 7 Audio CDs The first part of the novel is set in Florence Italy and describes a young Englishwoman's confusion over her feelings for an Englishman staying at the same hotel. Lucy Honeychurch is touring Italy with her overbearing older cousin and chaperone Charlotte Bartlett and the novel opens with their complaints about the hotel 'The Pension Bertolini'. Their primary concern is that although a "room with a view" has been promised to each of them their rooms instead look over a courtyard. A Mr Emerson interrupts their "peevish wrangling" offering to swap rooms as he and his son George Emerson look over the Arno. This causes Miss Bartlett some consternation this behaviour being seen as impolite. Without letting Lucy speak Miss Bartlett refuses the offer looking down on the Emersons because of their unconventional behaviour and thinking it would place her under an &qu more details.....
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 Silmarillion tells a tale of the Elder Days when Elves and Men find out more.....
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Unabridged 61 hours read by Frederick Davidson Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - Read by Frederick Davidson - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 48 Audio CDs 61 Hours War and Peace is a novel by Leo Tolstoy first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russkii Vestnik which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoy's two major masterpieces (the other being Anna Karenina) as well as one of the world's greatest novels. War and Peace offered a new kind of fiction with a great many characters caught up in a plot that covered nothing less than the grand subjects indicated by the title combined with the equally large topics of youth marriage age and death. Though it is often called a novel today it broke so many conventions of the form that it was not considered a novel in its time. Indeed Tolstoy himself considered Anna Karenina (1878) to be his first attempt at a novel in the European sens click here.....
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 click here.....
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 compete for Bianca. One suitor Gremio is old and grey and the other one Hortensio is feisty and young. The plot becomes considerably more complex when two strangers Petruchio Guicciardini and Luc 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 find out more.....
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 more details.....
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 Légende des siècles stand particularly high in cr click here.....