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The Other House
By: Henry James
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 7 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
This terse and startling novel is the story of a struggle for possession—and of its devastating consequences. Three women seek to secure the affections of one man, while he, in turn, tries to satisfy them all. But in the middle of this contest of wills stands his unwitting and vulnerable young daughter. The conclusion of The Other House makes it... Read more
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The Man of Property
By: John Galsworthy
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 13 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
John Galsworthy’s epic Forsyte Saga follows the fortunes of the venerable Forsyte family, a moneyed clan whose passions are ever at war with its values. Galsworthy won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932 “for his distinguished art of narration, which takes its highest form in the Forsyte Saga.”The Man of Property, the first novel in the... Read more
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Under Drake’s Flag
By: G. A. Henty
Narrated by: Fred Williams
Length: 12 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
In the days when England and Spain struggled for the supremacy of the sea, a young lad sails with Sir Francis Drake, the daring sixteenth-century privateer, in this action-packed story based on true historical events. Drake’s superb navigational skill enabled him to outrun or outmaneuver his incessant pursuers. He escaped so often and so... Read more
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Daisy Miller
By: Henry James
Narrated by: Susan O’Malley
Length: 2 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
“What the European male fails to understand is that the American Girl is innocent by definition, mythically innocent; and that her purity depends upon nothing she says or does…”—Leslie FiedlerWhen Frederick, an American expatriate traveling in Europe, meets the newly rich Miller family from New York, he is charmed by the daughter, Daisy, and her... Read more
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Miss Mapp
By: E. F. Benson
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 8 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Miss Elizabeth Mapp, magnificent grande dame and heiress, is always on the lookout lest her neighbors fall outside the bounds of perfect, exemplary manners. Opera glasses and notebook in hand, she gazes out her window, ever the vigilant sentinel. But her tightly controlled world is soon beset on all sides by interlopers, first in the... Read more
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Washington Square
By: Henry James
Narrated by: Lloyd James
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
On New York City’s Washington Square lives Catherine Sloper, a shy and plain young woman who is tyrannized by her wealthy, overbearing father. When young Morris Townsend begins to court her, Dr. Sloper distrusts his motives, believing that the young man could not possibly love his daughter. Both lovers are obstinate in their affections; but when... Read more
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Captain David Grief
By: Jack London
Narrated by: Brian Emerson
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Captain David Grief, South Pacific tycoon, owns plantations and trading stations from New Guinea to Samoa, pearling fisheries in the Paumotus, and rubber acreages in the Louisiades. His own vessels recruit contract labor, and he operates three steamers on ocean runs. He came to the South Seas at the age of twenty and, blessed with a blond skin... Read more
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Looking Backward
By: Edward Bellamy
Narrated by: Edward Lewis
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The time is tomorrow. The place: a utopian America. The hero: anyone who has ever longed for escape to a better life. This is the backdrop for Edward Bellamy’s prophetic novel about a young Boston gentleman who is mysteriously transported from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century—and from a world of war and want to a world of peace and... Read more
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The Land That Time Forgot
By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Narrated by: Raymond Todd
Length: 3 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
When adventurer Bowen Tyler is taken aboard an enemy submarine, he never dreams that his voyage will end in a land where time itself is prisoner. But in the uncharted seas at the bottom of the world, Tyler and the crew of the U-33 discover the mysterious forgotten continent of Caspak, where the savage denizens of a thousand lost ages roam vast... Read more
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Main Street
By: Sinclair Lewis
Narrated by: Brian Emerson
Length: 16 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
When Carol Milford, a young, liberated woman from St. Paul, Minnesota, marries small-town doctor Will Kennicott, she suddenly finds herself transplanted to Gopher Prairie. Horrified by her new home, an ugly backwater community, she decides it's time the town made a few changes.The story of an idealistic young woman's frustrated attempts to... Read more
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The Longest Journey
By: E. M. Forster
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Bookish, sensitive, and given to wild enthusiasms, Rickie Elliot is virtually made for a life at Cambridge, where he can subsist on a regimen of biscuits and philosophical debate. But the love-smitten Rickie leaves his natural habitat to marry the devastatingly practical Agnes Pembroke, who brings with her, as a sort of dowry, a teaching... Read more
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Alexander’s Bridge
By: Willa Cather
Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
Length: 2 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
There is a pleasure in listening to the imagery of Alexander’s Bridge that is similar to viewing a beautiful watercolor, as in the following description of a Boston street in late afternoon: “The sun sank rapidly; the silvery light had faded from the bare boughs and the watery twilight was setting in when Wilson at last walked down the hill,... Read more
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The House of Mirth
By: Edith Wharton
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 13 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Set among the elegant brownstones and opulent country houses of turn-of-the-century upper-class New York, Edith Wharton’s first great novel is a precise, satiric portrayal of what the author herself called “a society of irresponsible pleasure-seekers.”Her brilliantly complex characterization of the doomed Lily Bart, whose stunning beauty and... Read more
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In Chancery
By: John Galsworthy
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 10 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
John Galsworthy’s epic Forsyte Saga follows the fortunes of the venerable Forsyte family, a moneyed clan whose values are ever at war with its passions. In Chancery, the second novel in the trilogy, follows the events of A Man of Property.After suffering the death of her lover and abuse from her husband, Soames, Irene Forsyte finally leaves her... Read more
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The Way of All Flesh
By: Samuel Butler
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 15 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
This brilliant satirical novel traces the life and loves of Ernest Pontifex, a young man who survives the baleful influence of a hateful, hypocritical father, a doting mother, and a debauched wife to emerge as a decent, happy human being. A fascinating character study, it is also a stinging satire of the Victorian gentry's pomposity,... Read more
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Ben-Hur
By: Lew Wallace
Narrated by: Lloyd James
Length: 23 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the most popular American novels of all time, Ben-Hur vividly reimagines the oppressive Roman occupation of ancient Palestine and the rise of Christianity. The saga of Judah Ben-Hur’s spiritual journey from slavery to vengeance to redemption is both a vivid historical adventure and a powerful story of one man’s religious awakening.Born... Read more
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To Let
By: John Galsworthy
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
To Let concludes John Galsworthy’s Forsyte Saga, the first trilogy of his epic nine-volume Forsyte Chronicles, which follows the fortunes of the venerable Forsyte family, a moneyed clan whose values are ever at war with its passions.In To Let, Irene’s son, Jon, and Soames’ daughter, Fleur, now both nineteen years old, fall in love. But when Jon... Read more
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Little Women
By: Louisa May Alcott
Narrated by: C. M. Hébert
Length: 18 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
This favorite book for children, based on the author’s own youthful experiences, describes the life of the March family in a small New England community in the 1800s.Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March are raised in genteel poverty by their loving mother while their father serves as chaplain during the American Civil War. Jo at fifteen is ungainly,... 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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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 White Monkey
By: John Galsworthy
Narrated by: David Case
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
The White Monkey is the fourth of the nine novels in the Forsyte Chronicles and marks the opening of the second trilogy in the series, called A Modern Comedy. In this new chapter, Fleur and Michael Mont begin to question their marriage when their good friend, author Wilfred Desert, can no longer contain his passion for Fleur. Fleur finds herself... Read more
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A Rogue’s Life
By: Wilkie Collins
Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
Length: 5 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
This delightful tale of thwarted ambition and forbidden love follows the adventures and fortunes of an endearing young rogue, Frank Softly. Originally appearing serialized in Household Words in 1859, the rogue is one of Collins' most richly comic creations.Propelled into society by his ever-hopeful father, Frank is introduced to a variety of... Read more
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The Silver Spoon
By: John Galsworthy
Narrated by: David Case
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
The Silver Spoon is the fifth of the nine novels in the Forsyte Chronicles, John Galsworthy’s epic story of the moneyed Forsyte family during the decline of the Victorian age. It is part of the second trilogy, called A Modern Comedy, and continues his fascinating study of the British propertied class in a changing society.In this novel, Soames... Read more
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The Sea Wolf
By: Jack London
Narrated by: Brian Emerson
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
He is a man capable of abandoning two sailors in an open boat, yet he is an avid and thoughtful reader of the moral philosophers. He is Wolf Larsen: captain of the seal-hunting Ghost, the unforgettable protagonist of one of the world's great sea novels. Tormented by his own convictions, Larsen is an enigma both fascinating and repellent to his... Read more
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