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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
By: Mark Twain
Narrated by: Stuart Langton
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
In this mischievous yarn by Mark Twain, a Yankee mechanic named Hank Morgan is knocked unconscious in a fight and awakens to find himself at Camelot in AD 528. Brought before the knights of the Round Table, he is condemned to death but saves himself by using his nineteenth-century scientific knowledge to pose as a powerful magician. After... Read more
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Cleopatra
By: H. Rider Haggard
Narrated by: William Sutherland
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Cleopatra lies asleep. One white, rounded arm makes a pillar for her head. The web of her dark hair falls over her like lace. Her limbs are draped in a robe so thin that the gleam of her flesh shines through it. Her rich lips are parted in a smile.Harmachis looks down on her, and the sight of Cleopatra's beauty strikes the young Egyptian with... Read more
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The Children’s Homer
By: Padraic Colum
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 4 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Padraic Colum's classic retelling combines the immortal stories from Homer's Iliad and Odyssey into one glorious saga of heroism and magical adventure. Come voyage to ancient Greece with Achilles who, guided by the gods, seeks vengeance on the Trojans. And follow Odysseus on his perilous journey on the sea—through the land of the Cyclopes, past... Read more
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Felix Holt, the Radical
By: George Eliot
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 17 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
“If a woman really believes herself to be a lower kind of being, she should place herself in subjection….If not, let her show her power of choosing something better.” This is the challenge thrown down to George Eliot’s heroine, Esther Lyon, who dreams of marrying into a life of refinement. But as she struggles to make her choice between two men,... Read more
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Under the Greenwood Tree
By: Thomas Hardy
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the most popular of Hardy’s novels, this charming pastoral idyll is a lightly humorous depiction of life in an early Victorian rural community. Drawn from Hardy’s childhood memories, it represents, he said, “a true picture at first hand of the personages, ways, and customs which were common in the villages.”The story delicately balances... Read more
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Our Mutual Friend
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 31 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
This sinister masterpiece was Dickens’ last completed novel and perhaps his ultimate vision of a dark, macabre London and the corrupting power of money. Opening with a father and daughter scavenging for corpses on the Thames, this chilling tale unfolds around drownings, disguises and doubles, violence, murder, and triumphant love.Young John... Read more
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The Painted Veil
By: W. Somerset Maugham
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, this beautifully written character study is an affirmation of the human capacity to grow, change, and forgive.The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful but shallow young Kitty Fane, who marries for money rather than love. When her husband, a quiet doctor, discovers her adulterous affair, he forces... Read more
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The Time Machine
By: H. G. Wells
Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
Length: 3 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
The Time Traveler first steps out of his magnificent time-transport machine in the year 802,700—more than 800,000 years beyond his own era. The brave explorer finds himself on a slowly dying Earth populated by a race of slender pacifists called the Eloi and decides to study this lush land of flower people before returning to his own age. These... Read more
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His Last Bow
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
A body on the London Underground; the strange disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax; a parcel containing some coarse salt and two freshly severed human ears. This collection of eight world-famous cases from Doctor Watson’s portfolio illustrates the singular mental faculties of Sherlock Holmes. In the course of his investigations, Holmes himself... Read more
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The Gin Palace
By: Émile Zola
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 6 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
The Gin Palace is the seventh novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle, which follows two branches of a French family through several generations. It is also the work that made his reputation, introducing one of the most sympathetic heroines in nineteenth-century literature.Abandoned by her lover and left to bring up their two children alone,... Read more
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Ethan Frome
By: Edith Wharton
Narrated by: C. M. Hébert
Length: 3 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Often regarded as Edith Wharton's finest achievement,Ethan Fromecontrasts sharply with her usual ironic contemplation of fashionable New York society. Set in the bleak winter landscape of New England farmlands, this keenly-etched portrait of the simple inhabitants of a nineteenth-century village is a masterpiece of literary realism.Ethan is a... Read more
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Cabbages and Kings
By: O. Henry
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
O. Henry wove several stories together into this highly episodic narrative, taking his title and inspiration from Lewis Carroll’s poem “The Walrus and the Carpenter” in Alice in Wonderland.The stories are set in the fictional country of Anchuria in Central America, a banana republic where larceny is rampant and revolution is lurking in every... Read more
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Short Stories by Saki
By: Hector Hugh Munro
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson & Wanda McCaddon
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Hector Monro, writing under the pseudonym of Saki, is justly renowned for his urbane and witty short stories. His eccentric characters, humorous dialogue, and engaging domestic situations all reveal a penetrating and sometimes disturbing insight into human nature. As a quixotic tour guide, Saki leads the reader from garden party to pig sty to... Read more
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Villette
By: Charlotte Brontë
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 20 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Arguably Charlotte Brontë's most deeply felt work, Villette draws on her own profound loneliness following the deaths of her three siblings.Left to fend for herself after a family tragedy, Lucy Snowe flees from her unhappy past in England to begin a new life as a teacher at a French boarding school in the cosmopolitan capital of Villette.... Read more
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Don Quixote de la Mancha
By: Miguel de Cervantes
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 36 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
With a wealth of fancy and an irrepressible high spirit, this beloved adventure story pokes fun at the exaggerated social and literary conventions of Cervantes’ day. Driven mad by reading too many chivalric romances, Don Quixote decks himself out in rusty armor and a cardboard helmet, determined to become a knight-errant and roam the world... Read more
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The Classic Tales Podcast
By: Various
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
Length: 23 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
The first award-winning season of The Classic Tales Podcast, topping the iTunes charts as the #3 overall podcast. Here B.J. Harrison reintroduces the world to the greatest short fiction ever written, from Poe, Dickens, Hardy, Stevenson, Fitzgerald and many, many others.Titles include: "The Cask of Amontillado", by Edgar Allan Poe; "The Speckled... Read more
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Allan Quatermain
By: H. Rider Haggard
Narrated by: Fred Williams
Length: 11 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Thrilled by rumors of a lost civilization, three Englishmen decide to travel to the heart of Africa with their Zulu guide, where they meet with continual peril: an attack by a cruel warrior tribe, the scorch of underground volcanic fires, and an encounter with a huge species of ferocious black crab. Exhausted and depleted of supplies, the men at... Read more
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Good Wives
By: Louisa May Alcott
Narrated by: C. M. Hébert
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Three years after the close ofLittle Women, the March girls, four of the most beloved young women in American literature, are young adults carving out their futures. John Brooke is home and planning a life with Meg, despite his modest financial situation. The other girls see promises of fulfillment ahead as well, as they grow and develop a... Read more
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Scaramouche
By: Rafael Sabatini
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 12 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
With swordfights and romance, adventure and treachery set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, this is the book that made Rafael Sabatini famous.Andr├®-Louis Moreau has good prospects as a young lawyer, but an unfair duel with the ruthlessly cruel Count de La Tour d'Azyr leaves Andr├®-Louis' best friend dead and Andr├®-Louis himself a... Read more
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A Christmas Carol
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
Length: 3 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Ebeneezer Scrooge runs a tight shop with a tight fist and a sharp tongue. On Christmas Eve, he is visited by the ghost of his old partner, Jacob Marley. Marley relates that in order for Scrooge’s soul to be reclaimed, he must be haunted by three spirits. The first of the three appear, and Scrooge’s reclamation begins. Read more
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The Reef
By: Edith Wharton
Narrated by: Kristen Underwood
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
The Reef follows the fancies of George Darrow, a young diplomat en route from London to France, intent on proposing to the widowed Anna Leath. Unsettled by Anna's reticence, Darrow drifts into an affair with Sophy Viner, a charmingly naïve and impecunious young woman whose relations with Darrow and Anna's family threaten his prospects for... Read more
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The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories
By: Rudyard Kipling
Narrated by: Fred Williams
Length: 11 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
This collection brings together seventeen of Kipling’s early stories, written between 1885 and 1888, when he was working as a journalist in India. Wry comedies of British officialdom alternate with glimpses into the harsh lives of the common soldiers and the Indian poor, revealing Kipling’s legendary powers of observation. The title story, “The... Read more
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Bloomsday on Broadway XXIV: Love! Literature! Language! Lust! Leopold's Women Bloom
By: James Joyce
Narrated by: Stephen Colbert
Length: 4 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Bloomsday on Broadway celebrates June 16, 1904, the most famous fictional date in literature, when Leopold Bloom walked around Dublin in the pages of James Joyce's Ulysses. Since 1981, Hundreds of acclaimed actors have joined avid Joyceans, writers, critics and scholars on stage at Symphony Space to read selections from the book that heralded... Read more
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War and Peace
By: Leo Tolstoy
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 61 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once a historical war epic, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit.Noted for its mastery of realistic detail and psychological analysis, War and Peace follows the metamorphosis of five aristocratic families against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars.... Read more
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