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Almayer’s Folly
By: Joseph Conrad
Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
A tale of personal tragedy as well as a broader meditation on the evils of colonialism, Almayer’s Folly is Joseph Conrad’s first novel. Set in the lush jungles of Borneo in the late 1800s, it charts the decline of a Dutch merchant after a twenty-five year struggle against overwhelming odds.Despite the bitterness of his disillusioned wife,... Read more
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I Am Legend
By: Richard Matheson
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
The basis for the film starring Academy Award nominee Will Smith, I Am Legend is a classic of horror and suspense.In I Am Legend, a terrible plague has decimated the world, and those who were unfortunate enough to survive are transformed into bloodthirsty creatures of the night. Robert Neville is the last living man on earth. Every other man,... Read more
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The Three Musketeers
By: Alexandre Dumas
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 22 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
This historical romance, perhaps the greatest cloak-and-sword story ever written, relates the adventures of four fictional swashbuckling heroes who loyally served the French kings Louis XIII and Louis XIV.When the dashing young d’Artagnan arrives in Paris from Gascony, he becomes embroiled in three duels with the musketeers Athos, Porthos, and... Read more
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The Magnificent Ambersons
By: Booth Tarkington
Narrated by: Geoffrey Blaisdell
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 1919 Pulitzer Prize when it was first published, The Magnificent Ambersons chronicles the changing fortunes of three generations of an American dynasty. The family serves as a metaphor for the old society that crumbled after the Industrial Revolution while a middle-western town spread and darkened into a city.George Amberson... Read more
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
By: Anne Brontë
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson & Wanda McCaddon
Length: 15 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
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 as Anne had to use a male pseudonym in order to publish, Helen Graham, the novel’s protagonist and a... Read more
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Maid in Waiting
By: John Galsworthy
Narrated by: David Case
Length: 10 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Maid in Waiting is the first novel in the third and final trilogy of John Galsworthy's Forsyte Chronicles. In this seventh installment, the story continues the lives and times, loves and losses, and fortunes and deaths of the fictional but entirely representative family of propertied Victorians, the Forsytes. The trilogy here begun is called End... Read more
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Moll Flanders
By: Daniel Defoe
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 11 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Possibly the first novel in the English language, Moll Flanders is the fictional autobiography of a delightfully scandalous young female rogue. Born in Newgate Prison in seventeenth-century England, Moll is predestined to poverty and lawlessness, yet relentlessly driven to overcome her fate. Donning whatever mask suits her best in the moment,... Read more
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Doctor Thorne
By: Anthony Trollope
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 20 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Anthony Trollope once said, "A novel should give a picture of common life enlivened by humor and sweetened by pathos." Trollope admirably fulfills his own criteria in this charming third novel in the Chronicles of Barsetshire.When Doctor Thomas Thorne adopts his niece, Mary, he chooses to keep secret her illegitimate birth as he introduces her... Read more
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Le Morte d’Arthur, Vol. 1
By: Thomas Malory
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 15 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
This monumental work made the Arthurian cycle available for the first time in English. Malory took a body of legends from Celtic folklore that had been adapted into French literature, gave them an English perspective, and produced a work which ever since has had tremendous influence upon literature.The story begins with King Uther Pendragon’s... Read more
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The Touchstone
By: Edith Wharton
Narrated by: Grace Conlin
Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
This spare, mesmerizing novel is Edith Wharton’s money-can’t-buy-happiness tale. Young Stephen Glennard is poor, but he has an unanticipated gambling chip: a collection of love letters from a scorned but now famous lover, the distinguished novelist Margaret Aubyn. To raise money for his forthcoming wedding to another woman, Stephen stoops to... Read more
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Mildred Pierce
By: James M. Cain
Narrated by: Christine Williams
Length: 10 hours
Abridged: No
Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and poverty and to claw her way out of the lower middle class. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men and an unreasoning devotion to a monstrous daughter. Out of these elements, Cain... Read more
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Barchester Towers
By: Anthony Trollope
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 18 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
This magnificent sequel to The Warden satirizes the struggle for ascendancy among the clergy of a cathedral city as they contend for each newly vacant post within the archdiocese.The contest for power is between Archdeacon Grantly and his followers, who favor high-church tendencies, and the new bishop and his followers, with their distinctly... Read more
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Elmer Gantry
By: Sinclair Lewis
Narrated by: Anthony Heald
Length: 15 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Elmer Gantry is the portrait of a silver-tongued evangelist who rises to power within his church, yet lives a life of hypocrisy, sensuality, and ruthless self-indulgence.The title character starts out as a greedy, shallow, philandering Baptist minister, turns to evangelism, and eventually becomes the leader of a large Methodist congregation.... Read more
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In the Reign of Terror
By: G. A. Henty
Narrated by: Stuart Langton
Length: 8 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
When young Harry Sandwith, a Westminster boy, becomes a resident at the chateau of a French marquis, he begins a series of adventures with the family. One day, an ill-advised trip takes them to Paris at the height of the French Revolution. Suddenly Harry and his party are beset with perils at every turn. As they struggle to escape, imprisonment... Read more
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Kidnapped
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 7 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
In this spirited and romantic saga of high adventure, a young heir named David Balfour meets his miserly uncle Ebenezer, who has illegally taken control of the Balfour estate. Ebenezer kidnaps David and plots to have him seized and sold into slavery on a ship to the Carolinas.A couple of days into the voyage, a shipwreck throws David together... Read more
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The Castle of Otranto
By: Horace Walpole
Narrated by: Tony Jay
Length: 3 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed under mysterious circumstances. His calculating father, Manfred, fears that his dynasty will now come to an end and determines to marry his son’s bride himself—despite the fact he is already married. But a series of terrifying supernatural omens soon threaten this... Read more
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Thérèse Raquin
By: Émile Zola
Narrated by: Traci Svendsgaard
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Thérèse Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. The numbing tedium of her life is suddenly shattered when she embarks on a turbulent affair with her husband’s earthy friend, Laurent. But their passion for each other soon compels the lovers to commit a... Read more
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Rob Roy
By: Walter Scott
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 18 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Rob Roy MacGregor is the romantic outlaw who comes alive in Sir Walter Scott's classic epic of the passions and struggles of the Scottish border lands.In rich, vivid prose, Rob Roy follows the adventures of Frank Osbaldistone, who falls out of favor with his father after failing to measure up to his expectations in the world of business. Sent to... Read more
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Joan of Arc
By: Mark Twain
Narrated by: Michael Anthony
Length: 15 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Few people know that Mark Twain wrote a major work on Joan of Arc. Still fewer know that he considered it not only his most important but also his best work. Twain spent twelve years in research and many months in France doing archival work and then made several attempts until he felt he finally had the story he wanted to tell. He reached his... Read more
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Free Air
By: Sinclair Lewis
Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Free Air takes one by automobile in search of America, heading toward a West brimming with possibilities for suddenly mobile Americans at the end of a world war. Clair Boltwood and her father drive their Gomez-Dep roadster from Minnesota to Seattle, braving all the perils of early motoring. But the greatest distance to be overcome is the social... Read more
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Le Morte d’Arthur, Vol. 2
By: Thomas Malory
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 17 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
This monumental work made the Arthurian cycle available for the first time in English. Malory took a body of legends from Celtic folklore that had been adapted into French literature, gave them an English perspective, and produced a work which ever since has had tremendous influence upon literature.The story begins with King Uther Pendragon’s... Read more
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Elsie in New York and The Purple Dress
By: O. Henry
Narrated by: Susan McCarthy, David Thorn & Bobbie Frohman
Length: 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Two delightful tales by one of America’s favorite storytellers.In “Elsie in New York,” Elsie is an innocent young woman who, upon the death of her father, must look for work to make a living. Her father expected her to trust to the goodheartedness of his previous employer, but Elsie prefers to make her own way in life. Although she visits an... Read more
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The Screwtape Letters
By: C. S. Lewis
Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
Length: 3 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
A timeless classic on “Hell’s latest novelties and Heaven’s unanswerable answer”A masterpiece of satire, this classic work has entertained and enlightened readers the world over with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to “Our Father Below.” At once wildly comic,... Read more
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The Cossacks
By: Leo Tolstoy
Narrated by: David Thorn
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Olenin is an aimless young nobleman who is disenchanted with city life. Taking a post as a Cadet in the army, he finds himself assigned to the remote Cossack outpost in the Caucasus. It is here, among the Tatars, the Chechens, and the Old Believers, that he will fall in love with a beautiful Cossack girl. The only problem is that she is promised... Read more
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