Classics
George Orwell Boxed Set (1984 and Animal Farm)
By: George Orwell
1984 Orwell depicts a gray, totalitarian world in which privacy does not exist, news is manufactured according to the authorities' will, and those with unorthodox ideas are brainwashed or put to death. Orwell's 1949 nightmare vision of the...
Published: May 2007
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Simon Prebble
Discs: 1
Barnaby Rudge
By: Charles Dickens
In a case of mistaken identity, Barnaby Rudge, an eccentric half-wit, is arrested as the leader of a mob of anti-Catholic rioters during the Gordon Riots, in this grand novel of private lives and public events.
Published: Apr 2008
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Version: Abridged
Narrator: Robert Whitfield
David Copperfield
By: Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens's most celebrated novel and the author's own favorite, David Copperfield is the classic account of a boy growing up in a world that is by turns magical, fearful, and grimly realistic.
Published: Jun 2002
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Simon Vance
The Count of Monte Cristo
By: Alexandre Dumas
Set against the tumultuous years of the post-Napoleonic era, The Count of Monte Cristo recounts the swashbuckling adventures of Edmond Dantes, a dashing young sailor falsely accused of treason. The story of his long imprisonment, dramatic escape, and...
Published: Aug 2008
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Version: Abridged
Narrator: David Case
The Call of the Wild (Classics for Young Adults and Adults)
By: Jack London
THE CALL OF THE WILD, Jack London's masterpiece, tells the gripping tale of a dog named Buck who is wrenched out of his life of ease and luxury to become a sled dog in Alaska. Drawing on his wolf heritage, Buck must fight for survival in an alien...
Published: Oct 2008
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Version: Unabridged
Discs: 1
Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
* Mp3 CD Format *. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of committed science student Victor Frankenstein, whose obsession with discovering 'the cause of...
Published: Feb 2008
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Simon Vance
Moll Flanders
By: Daniel Defoe
Moll Flanders, Defoe's 18th century classic novel, was "marketed" in its day in much the same way that a modern commercial novel might be - its title page promised the racy details of a woman's life spent in thievery and whoredom. The book is much...
Published: Jun 2006
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Laural Merlington
Discs: 1
The Return of Sherlock Holmes III
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
Once again Conan Doyle presents a series of cases which baffle the police, but are no match for Sherlock Holmes and his trusty companion Dr. Watson. In Black Peter, the peace of rural Sussex is disturbed by the discovery of a seafarer's body pinned...
Published: Oct 2005
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Version: Abridged
Narrator: David Timson
Discs: 4
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
By: Edwin Abbott
As a satire, Flatland offers pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture. However, the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions; in a foreword to one of the many publications of the novella, noted...
Published: Dec 2009
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: James Langton
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
By: Anne Bronte
Like her sisters Emily and Charlotte, Anne Brontë published under a male pseudonym, yet still this novel was scorned by many for its exposure of the abusive male chauvinism that was concealed, like all things sexual, during the Victorian Era.Just...
Published: Jun 2007
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Frederick Davidson
Discs: 1
Jane Eyre
By: Charlotte Bronte
With her 1847 novel, 'Jane Eyre', Charlotte Bronte created one of the most unforgettable heroines of all time. Not only is this the classic story of unforgettable love, but it is also the memorable tale of one woman's fight to claim her independence...
Published: Jun 2005
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Version: Abridged
Narrator: Joanna David
Discs: 6
The Last of the Mohicans
By: James Fenimore Cooper
A story of survival and treachery, love and deliverance, James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans follows an adroit scout named Hawkeye and his companion Chingachgook, who weave through the spectacular and dangerous wilderness of upstate New...
Published: May 2009
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: William Costello
The Count of Monte Cristo
By: Alexandre Dumas
Set against the tumultuous years of the post-Napoleonic era, The Count of Monte Cristo recounts the swashbuckling adventures of Edmond Dantes, a dashing young sailor falsely accused of treason. The story of his long imprisonment, dramatic escape, and...
Published: Aug 2008
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: David Case
The Three Musketeers
By: Alexandre Dumas
* Mp3 CD Format *. This swashbuckling tale, beloved around the world, follows the fortunes of D'Artagnan, a country boy who travels to Paris to join the Musketeers, save his queen from scandal, and outwit the devious Cardinal Richelieu.
Published: Jul 2005
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: John Lee
Discs: 3
Madame Bovary, with eBook
By: Gustave Flaubert
In this novel of French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, Emma Bovary, a bored provincial housewife, abandons her husband to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair. A succes de scandale in its day, Madame Bovary remains...
Published: Jan 2009
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Donada Peters
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
By: Ernest Hemingway
'It came with a rush; not as a rush of water nor of wind; but of a sudden evil-smelling emptiness. . .' A flamboyant, hard-drinking, ruthless, and womanizing world adventurer comes face-to-face with the one antagonist he cannot...
Published: Feb 2008
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Charlton Heston
Abram's Daughters
By: Beverly Lewis
ABRAM'S DAUGHTERS introduces readers to an Old Order family, a close-knit community and a devout people whose way of life and faith in God is as timeless as their signature horse and buggy. Set against the backdrop of post-World War II, this...
Published: Jul 2010
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Version: Abridged
Jace (Shadow Wranglers)
By: Sarah McCarty
In the third installment in Sarah McCarty's Shadow Wranglers series, Jace must rescue his lover Miri and the daughter he never knew they had from the deadly grip of a merciless enemy.
Published: Oct 2011
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Tavia Gilbert
Discs: 1
At the Back of the North Wind (Radio Theatre)
By: Paul McCusker
In this Radio Theatre audio drama adaptation of George MacDonald's classic story, a beautiful woman known as the North Wind blows through a small village in Victorian London, and everyday lives are mysteriously enveloped by a power and a glory. Along...
Published: May 2007
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Juliette Stevenson
Discs: 2
Paradise Lost
By: John Milton
Milton takes the traditional epic and transforms it with the clarity of his moral vision and with the power of his language, turning it into triumphant blank verse--seldom used in his day except in drama--that is moving, exciting, and full of the...
Published: Oct 2006
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Cosham Ralph
Discs: 7
The Grapes of Wrath
By: John Steinbeck
Unabridged, 17 CDs, 21 hours Read by Dylan Baker The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized-and sometimes outraged-millions of readers At once naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road...
Published: Jun 2011
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Version: Unabridged
Discs: 17
The Moon Is Down
By: John Steinbeck
Unabridged, 3 CDs, 4 hours Read by George Guidell Occupied by enemy troops, a small, peaceable town comes face-to-face with evil imposed from the outside-and betrayal born within the close-knit community Originally published...
Published: Jun 2011
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Version: Unabridged
Discs: 3
The Red Pony
By: John Steinbeck
Unabridged, 3 CDs, 3 hours Read by Frank Muller John Steinbeck's masterpiece celebrates the spirit and courage of adolescence. Steinbeck draws on his memories of childhood in these stories about a boy who embodies both the...
Published: Jun 2011
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Version: Unabridged
Discs: 3
Kidnapped (Classics for Young Adults and Adults)
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
In Stevenson's classic adventure tale, David Balfour is kidnapped by his grasping uncle who has usurped his inheritance. The ship on which David is to be transported is wrecked, and he escapes with the Jacobite rebel Alan Breck. The two flee across...
Published: Nov 2005
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Version: Unabridged
Discs: 1
Treasure Island, with eBook
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
The epic tale of a young man's quest to capture a hidden treasure on the open seas, Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island is one of the best-loved adventure stories of all time.
Published: Jan 2004
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Michael Prichard
The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit Set
By: J. R. R. Tolkien
Packaged in a beautifully designed slip-case gift box, The Tolkien Collection gathers for the first time both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings in audio format. These are the original American dramatizations as broadcast on public radio. The...
Published: Oct 2002
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Version: Abridged
Narrator: Ensemble Cast
Framley Parsonage Framley Parsonage
By: Anthony Trollope
Mark Robarts, a young vicar, is newly arrived in the village of Framley. With ambitions to further his career, he seeks connections in the county's high society. He is soon preyed upon by a local member of parliament to guarantee a substantial loan,...
Published: Apr 2007
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Simon Vance
Discs: 1
Huckleberry Finn
By: Mark Twain
Huckleberry Finn' is, among other things, a complex, serious book. And it should be taught as such--to children old enough to think and read with imagination. The supposedly racially insensitive tale, with its repeated use of the word 'nigger,' is...
Published: Oct 2008
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Version: Unabridged
Discs: 1
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, with eBook
By: Jules Verne
Trapped aboard a fantastic submarine with the deranged Captain Nemo, a French professor and his companions come face-to-face with exotic ocean creatures and strange, forbidden sights hidden from the world above.
Published: May 2003
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Michael Prichard
Candide, with eBook
By: Null Voltaire
Caustic and hilarious, Candide has ranked as one of the world's great satires since its first publication in 1759. It concerns the adventures of the youthful Candide, disciple of Dr. Pangloss.In the course of his travels in Europe and South America,...
Published: Feb 2009
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Tom Whitworth