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The Hero of Swine Pump Creek - Abridged
By: Barbara Cooley
Narrated by: AudioscapePlayers
Length: 46 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Nightshade Racoon and his merry friends Hayward Chipmunk and Nettley Mouse, are charmingly animated in this dramatisation of the trials and tribulations of Swine Pump Creek's creature residents. Read more
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A Room With a View
By: E.M. Forster
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 7 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Published in 1908, A Room with a View was one of Forster's earliest novels and it has become one of his most famous and popular. The story is set in Florence, Italy, and Surrey, England and centers on young Lucy Honeychurch's choice between propriety and love. It is an accomplished and beautiful love story, full of generous insights.
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Don Quixote de la Mancha - Abridged
By: Miguel Cervantes
Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Entranced by romantic tales of heroism and chivalry, Don Quixote— self-proclaimed knight errant— embarks on a delusional quest for fame and adventure. The eccentric Spanish country gentleman and his companion Sancho encounter an array of unforgettable characters and undertake some of the most famously foolhardy exploits... Read more
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The House of the Seven Gables - Abridged
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Narrated by: Joan Allen
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A dark, many-gabled mansion in a small New England village— haunted by fraudulent dealings, accusations of witchcraft, and sudden death— houses the distinguished Pyncheon family. They are plagued by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin on its last four members. The arrival of Phoebe Pyncheon from... Read more
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Visions of Cody - Abridged
By: Jack Kerouac
Narrated by: Graham Parker
Length: 3 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"What I'm beginning to discover now is something beyond the novel and beyond the arbitrary confines of the story. . . . I'm making myself seek to find the wild form, that can grow with my wild heart . . . because now I know MY HEART DOES GROW." —Jack Kerouac, in a letter to John Clellon Holmes
An underground legend by the time it was finally... Read more
Ellen Foster - Abridged
By: Kaye Gibbons
Narrated by: Kaye Gibbons
Length: 2 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy."
So begins the tale of Ellen Foster, the brave and engaging heroine of Kaye Gibbons's first novel, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Wise,... Read more
Sense and Sensibility
By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Glenda Jackson
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
In a timeless tale of misguided romance and heartbreak, Jane Austen's first novel of love and marriage is seen through the eyes of two very different heroines, the Dashwood sisters—cautious, level-headed Elinor and impulsive lively Marianne—one representing sense and the other sensibility. In order to achieve the love and happiness they seek,... Read more
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Hard Times - Abridged
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Paul Scofield
Length: 3 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In the squalor of a textile town, successful businessman and arch-pragmatist Thomas Gradgrind, proclaiming that he is a self-made man, teaches his children to suppress their imaginations and embrace hard facts. He arranges the marriage of his daughter Louisa to Josiah Bounderby, an unattractive, boastful manufacturer who is thirty years older... Read more
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Treasure Island - Abridged
By: Robert Stevenson
Narrated by: Michael York
Length: 1 hour 34 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Jim Hawkins, the son of an innkeeper, longs for adventure. One of the inn's guests, a coarse old bully named Billy Bones, reveals a map showing the whereabouts of buried treasure. After Bones dies, Jim and his mother flee with the map to Squire John Trelawney, outwitting other pirates who were chasing Bones. With Trelawney's friend Dr. Livesey,... Read more
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Stranger in a Strange Land
By: Robert A. Heinlein
Narrated by: Christopher Hurt
Length: 16 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Stranger in a Strange Land is the epic saga of an earthling, Valentine Michael Smith, born and educated on Mars, who arrives on our planet with “psi” powers—telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, telekinesis, teleportation, pyrolysis, and the ability to take control of the minds of others—and complete innocence regarding the mores of man.After... Read more
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Randall and The River of Tim - Abridged
By: C.S. Forrester
Narrated by: AudioscapePlayers
Length: 2 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In 1917, the Great War is in full swing. Young Randall is a second lieutenant, and is lucky enough to escape some of the consequences of the conflict by contributing to the invention of a flare, which will be of benefit to the allies. He falls in love with a woman a few years his senior, and with the imminence of death ever in a young man's... Read more
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Mark Twain’s Library of Humor
By: Mark Twain & various authors
Narrated by: Marni Webb, Richard Russ & others
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Master wit Mark Twain selected these twenty-seven stories himself by fifteen of his favorite nineteenth century authors. The order follows that which Twain placed them in in the original anthology, published in 1888. He indulged his comic fancy rather than making a textbook in which all themes or authors are placed together, saying that "This... Read more
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Emma - Abridged
By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Samantha Eggar
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Considered by many critics to be Jane Austen's finest achievement, Emma is the witty classic about youthful hubris and matchmaking gone awry. Emma Woodhouse, a privileged young lady with little to occupy her time, imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her inept matchmaking creates problems for herself... Read more
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Abridged
By: Victor Hugo
Narrated by: Julie Christie
Length: 5 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: Yes
When Quasimodo appears before the masses as the "Pope of Fools," the crowd beholds an enormous cyclops-like creature— the hunchback's whole body seems a twisted grimace. Yet, with all his deformity, there is a certain grace and agility in him, and he possesses an endearing passion. When Esmerelda, the beautiful Romani woman, stands... Read more
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Sights Unseen - Abridged
By: Kaye Gibbons
Narrated by: Kaye Gibbons
Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The bestselling author of Charms for the Easy Life reads "her best novel since Ellen Foster."
Kaye Gibbons' award-winning novels of Southern family life have won rave reviews coast to coast. Now, she tells the "story of family dislocation and crisis in restrained prose of unflinching clarity, with a honing eye for the small domestic details that... Read more
Mansfield Park - Abridged
By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: AudioscapePlayers
Length: 1 hour 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Fanny is brought up with her cousins, Tom, Edmund, Maria, and Julia. She is treated as an extra pair of hands - except that is, by Edmund. During her uncle's absence at his estates in the West Indeies, both Maria, (who is engaged to the stupid and wealthy Mr. Rushford), and Julia, fall in love with the fascinating Mr. Crawford, who is a man... Read more
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Ramona
By: Helen Hunt Jackson
Narrated by: Boots Martin
Length: 5 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
This extraordinarily popular novel weaves together romance, history, and a passionate protest against the oppression of Native Americans in the 1800s. Termed the Uncle Tom’s Cabin of the southwestern Indians and the first protest novel of California, the story vividly portrays three cultures—Indian, Mexican, and Anglo—locked in combat. The... Read more
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Jane Ey - Abridged
By: Charlotte Brontë
Narrated by: AudioscapePlayers
Length: 2 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: Yes
After an unhappy childhood, 16 year-old Jane Eyre acquires the post of governess to a young girl at Thornfield Hall. Plain and poor Jane may be, but she is not to be intimidated by the owner of Thornfield Hall, Mr. Rochester, who tries to goad her into defending herself against his verbal pinpricks. As a backdrop to this duel of minds, is... Read more
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Madame Bovary - Abridged
By: Gustave Flaubert
Narrated by: AudioscapePlayers
Length: 2 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Hoping to escape from a future without horizon, Emma marries the good and kind Charles Bovary, a doctor. Finding herslf in another sort of prison however, she seeks comfort in the arms of lovers, and plays into the hands of opportunists. She has not, after all, moved upwards, but rather sideways, into an even more claustrophobic existence.... Read more
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The Moonston - Abridged
By: Wilkie Collins
Narrated by: AudioscapePlayers
Length: 1 hour 42 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The Moonstone is a classic detective story. John Herncastle, an English officer, kills three guards, and steals a precious jewel from the head of a Hindu moon-god, during the battle of Seringapatam. It passes into the hands of Miss Verinder, on the celebration of her eighteenth birthday. The Brahmins then come to regain it. That night the... Read more
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The Woman in Whit - Abridged
By: Wilkie Collins
Narrated by: AudioscapePlayers
Length: 2 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Walter Hartright, a young Drawing teacher, encounters a woman at night, dressed in white, on his way to take up his post. He does not know that she has escaped from an asylum. She appeals to him for help - and then seems to vanish. An audio-dramatisation with full cast, sound effects, and 'audio-ambience' created for you by... Read more
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Pride and Prejudic - Abridged
By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: AudioscapePlayers
Length: 2 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
When Mrs. Fenwick learns of Mr.D'Arcy's income, she envisages the end to one of the five principle problems in her life. If her single-minded daughter Elizabeth can be married off to someone of means, her four remaining problems might be less daunting. However, Mr. D'Arcy and Miss Elizabeth appear to take an instant dislike to each other - not... Read more
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Abridged
By: Mark Twain
Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
Length: 3 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Pranks, adventures, fence painting, and murder— young Tom Sawyer and friends Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher encounter all of this and more in a small river town in the pre-Civil War South. Ever the mischief-maker, Tom is often on the wrong side of the rules at school and at home, under the watchful eye of his Aunt Polly. The Adventures... Read more
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Time and Again - Abridged
By: Jack Finney
Narrated by: Campbell Scott
Length: 4 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The 50th anniversary edition of the beloved classic that Stephen King has called “THE great time-travel story.” Featuring a brand-new introduction by the New York Times bestselling author of Recursion, Blake Crouch.
When advertising artist Si Morley is recruited to join a covert government operation exploring the possibility of time travel, he... Read more