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The Cave Girl
By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
"In an instant there sloughed from the heart and mind and soul of Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones every particle of civilization and culture and refinement that had required countless ages in the building, stripping him naked, age on age, down to the primordial beast that had begot his first human progenitor. He saw red as he leaped for the throat of... Read more
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Tales of the Alhambra
By: Washington Irving
Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
Length: 8 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Written in 1831, Washington Irving’s dreamlike description of the Alhambra, the beautiful Moorish castle that defined the height of Moorish civilization, and of the surrounding territory of Granada remains one of the most romantic and entertaining travelogues ever written of this region in Spain.Enhanced here with exquisite Spanish guitar music,... Read more
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Daniel Deronda
By: George Eliot
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 30 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the masterpieces of English literature, Daniel Deronda tells the intertwined stories of two different characters as they each come to discover of the truth of their natures.Gwendolen Harleth is the high-spirited beauty of an impoverished upper-class family. In order to restore their fortunes, she unwittingly traps herself in an oppressive... Read more
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The Shadow-Line
By: Joseph Conrad
Narrated by: William Sutherland
Length: 4 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Written at the start of the Great War, when his son Borys was at the Western Front, The Shadow-Line is Conrad's supreme effort to open man's eyes to the meaning of war through the stimulus of art. In many ways an autobiographical narrative, this masterpiece relates the story of a young and inexperienced sea captain whose first command finds him... Read more
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Poor People
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Narrated by: John Lescault & Julia Emlen
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Both a masterpiece of Russian populist writing and a parody of the entire genre, Poor People is an early example of Dostoevsky’s genius.Written as a series of letters, Poor People is the tragic tale of a petty clerk and his impossible love for a young girl. Longing to help her and her family, he sells everything he can, but his kindness leads... Read more
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Dracula
By: Bram Stoker
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 14 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
This blood-curdling tale of thirsty vampires continues to hold audiences spellbound more than a century after its publication.Summoned to assist with legal matters regarding a real estate transaction, young Englishman Jonathan Harker journeys to the dismal, dreary castle of Count Dracula in Transylvania. The fledgling solicitor is completely... Read more
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The Good Earth
By: Pearl S. Buck
Narrated by: Anthony Heald
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
This Pulitzer Prize–winning classic tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as it nurtures him and his family. Nearby, the nobles of the House of Hwang consider themselves above the land and its workers, but they will soon meet their... Read more
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Wives and Daughters
By: Elizabeth Gaskell
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 25 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Set in nineteenth-century England, Wives and Daughters centers on the story of the youthful Molly Gibson, raised by her doctor father. When he remarries, a new stepsister enters Molly’s quiet life, the loveable but worldly and troubling Cynthia. The narrative traces the development of the two girls into womanhood within the gossiping and... Read more
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Cranford
By: Elizabeth Gaskell
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 6 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Cranford is Elizabeth Gaskell’s gently comic picture of life and manners in an English country village during the 1830s. It describes the small adventures in the lives of two middle-aged sisters in reduced circumstances, Matilda and Deborah Jenkyns, who do their best to maintain their standards of propriety, decency, and kindness. At the center... Read more
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The Lost Girl
By: D. H. Lawrence
Narrated by: Johanna Ward
Length: 15 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Perhaps D. H. Lawrence’s most beautiful, thoroughly contemporary love story, The Lost Girl charts the journey of a woman caught between two worlds and two lives: one mired in convention in industrial England, the other promising sensual liberation in the vibrant landscape of Italy. Alvina Houghton, the daughter of a widowed Midlands draper,... 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 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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Vanity Fair
By: William Makepeace Thackeray
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 29 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
“Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?”Generally considered to be Thackeray’s masterpiece, Vanity Fair is a resplendent social satire that exposes the greed and corruption raging in England during the turmoil of the Napoleonic wars. Subtitled A Novel without a Hero, it traces the changing... 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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Little Dorrit
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 31 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Little Amy Dorrit was born in debtor’s prison, where her father, an aristocrat by birth, has been an inmate for the past twenty years.Though her father is too proud to acknowledge their reduced status, Amy secretly works as a seamstress to support her family. In this way she meets and befriends Arthur, her employer’s son, who wants to help.When... Read more
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Mr. Standfast
By: John Buchan
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 11 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
In this third novel following the espionage exploits of war hero Richard Hannay, the successful brigadier general is recalled from active service on the Western Front for another round in the spy game. His mission: infiltrating an antiwar league to bring down a network of German spies. Reluctantly posing as a pacifist, Hannay takes up his old... Read more
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Scenes of Clerical Life
By: George Eliot
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 14 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
George Eliot's brilliant fiction debut contains three stories from the lives of clergymen, with the aim of disclosing the value hidden in the commonplace."The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton" portrays a character who is hard to like and generally despised—until his suffering shocks others into fellowship and sympathy.In "Mr. Gilfil's... Read more
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The Talisman
By: Walter Scott
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 11 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Encamped in the Holy Land, the crusaders are torn by the dissensions and jealousies of their leaders. The army’s impotence is accentuated by the illness of their chief, Richard I of England. Meanwhile, a poor but doughty Scottish crusader known as Sir Kenneth, on a mission far from the camp, encounters a Saracen Emir. After an inconclusive... Read more
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One of Ours
By: Willa Cather
Narrated by: Kristen Underwood
Length: 14 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Willa Cather’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel tells of the making of a young American soldier.Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his crass father and pious mother, all but rejected by... Read more
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The Deerslayer
By: James Fenimore Cooper
Narrated by: Raymond Todd
Length: 20 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Set during the French and Indian Wars, The Deerslayer vividly captures the violence and rugged beauty of the American frontier. In the wilds of New York, where tensions rage between tribal Indians and white pioneers, a white hunter known as Deerslayer is initiated into the moral codes of wilderness society. When he and his loyal Mohican friend... Read more
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The Christmas Stories
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 4 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
No writer is more identified with the modern idea of Christmas than Charles Dickens. In some ways, Dickens helped define the holiday that we now celebrate by immortalizing it as a time of warmth and sharing, with an emphasis on family and friends.Dickens wrote all the stories presented here during the 1850s as contributions to the special... Read more
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