Othello by William Shakespeare A fully dramatised recording Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Othello by William Shakespeare - Unabridged Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 3 Audio CDs 181 minutes The play opens with Roderigo a rich and dissolute gentleman complaining to Iago a high-ranking soldier that Iago has not told him about the secret marriage between Desdemona the daughter of a Senator named Brabantio and Othello a Moorish general in the Venetian army. He is upset by this development because he lusts for Desdemona and has previously asked her father for her hand in marriage. Iago is upset with Othello for promoting a younger man named Michael Cassio above him and tells Roderigo that he (Iago) is simply using Othello related info

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare A fully dramatised recording Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare - Unabridged Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 2 Audio CDs 137 minutes Bassanio a young Venetian would like to travel to Belmont to woo the beautiful and wealthy heiress Portia. He approaches his friend Antonio a merchant for three thousand ducats needed to subsidize his traveling expenditures as a suitor for three months. As all of Antonio's ships and merchandise are busy at sea he promises to cover a bond so Bassanio turns to the moneylender/usurer Shylock and names Antonio as the loan’s guarantor. Shy considerably more details

The Iliad by Homer Read by Sir Derek Jacobi The Epic Story of Troy Translated by Robert Fagles See also Homers Oddessy on Audio Book click here The Iliad by Homer Read by Sir Derek Jacobi abridged Audio Book CD Brand New : 9 Hours 8 CDs abridged This groundbreaking English version by Robert Fagles is the most important recent translation of Homer's great epic poem. The verse translation has been hailed by scholars as the new standard providing an Iliad that delights modern sensibility and aesthetic without sacrificing the grandeur and particular genius of Homer's own style and language. The Iliad is one of the two great epics of Homer and is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time but to say the Iliad is a war story does not begin to describe the emotional sweep of its action and characters: Achilles Helen Hector and other heroes of Greek myth and history in the tenth and final year of the Greek siege of Troy. About Homer Tradition holds that Homer was blind and various Ionian cit more data

Aesop's Fables - Audio Book MP3-CD Aesops Fables - Audio Book MP3-CD 284 Fables on MP3 CD - This will not play on a Car/Portable CD player unless it is plays MP3 disks - it is however suitable to be copied to iPOD portable mp3 player Mobile Phone or any other device that plays MP3s (more information on MP3-CD click here) Aesop's Fables or Aesopica refers to a collection of fables credited to Aesop (620–560 BC) a slave and story-teller who lived in Ancient Greece. Aesop's Fables have become a blanket term for collections of brief fables usually involving anthropomorphic animals. The fables remain a popular choice for moral education of children today. Many stories included in Aesop's Fables such as The Fox and the Grapes (from which the idiom "sour grape click the link

I am Legend by Richard Matheson Unabridged read by Robertson Dean Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here I am Legend - Richard Matheson - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 5 Audio CDs 5.5 Hours I Am Legend is a 1954 science fiction novel by Richard Matheson about the last man alive in a future Los Angeles California. It is notable as influential on the developing modern vampire genre as well as the zombie genre in popularizing the fictional concept of a worldwide apocalypse due to disease and in exploring the notion of vampirism as a disease. The novel was a success and was adapted to film as The Last Man on Earth in 1964 as The Omega Man in 1971 and again in 2007 as I Am Legend. This release of the novel includes several of Matheson's short stories: Buried Talents The Near Departed Prey Witch War Dance of the Dead Dress of White Silk Mad House Funeral From Shadowed Places and Person to Person. I Am Legend is the story of Robert Neville - apparently the sole survivor of a Bacterial pandemic apocalypse the symptoms of which resemble vampirism. The author details Neville's daily life in Los Angeles from January of 1976 considerably more details

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Unabridged AudioBook Get other Fiction Classics on AudioBook - click here The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 4.5 hours 4 CDs The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published on April 10 1925 the story is set in New York City and Long Island during the summer of 1922. The novel chronicles an era that Fitzgerald himself dubbed the "Jazz Age." Following the shock and chaos of the First World War American society enjoyed unprecedented levels of prosperity during the 1920s as the economy soared. At the same time Prohibition the ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment made millionaires out of bootleggers and encouraged organized crime. Although Fitzgerald like Nick Carraway in his novel idolized the riches and glamour of the age he was uncomfortable with the unrestrained materialism and lack of morality that went with it. The Great Gatsby was not popular upon initial printing and sold fewer than 25 000 copies during the remaining fifteen years of Fitzgera come here

World without End by Ken Follett Unabridged AudioBook 36 CDs Get Other Classic Audio Books click here Get Other Ken Follett AudioBooks click here World Without End - Ken Follett - Audio Book Unabridged CD Brand New (still shrink wrapped): . 45.5 hours 36 CDs The novel begins in the fictional city of Kingsbridge England in the year 1327. Four children — Caris Gwenda Merthin and Ralph — go into the woods on All Hallows Day. Gwenda brings her three-legged dog Hop whom Ralph shoots with Merthin's home-made bow foreshadowing Ralph's later cruel behaviour. The children witness two men killed in the forest by Sir Thomas Langley aided by Ralph. The children then flee with the exception of Merthin. Sir Thomas asks him to help bury a letter and then flees to Kingsbridge and seeks refuge in the monastery where he joins the Order of Saint Benedict becoming a monk. Ten years later Caris and Merthin are in love. Gwenda is sold for a cow by her father to a chapman who intends to prostitute her at a woodsmen's camp. She kills one of the men while he is raping her and escapes. She is followed but she is able link here

King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Benedict Flynn Unabridged 2 CD Audio Book Set Get other Children's AudioBooks click here King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table - Benedict Flynn - Audio Book CD Brand New (2 CDs - 2.5 Hours): About King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table These stories are about how many years ago Arthur the once and future King of England set out to save his country from the troubles that plagued it aided by the brave knights of the Round Table and the most famous sword in the world Excalibur. How Merlin the Wizard fought against the wicked Morgana le Fay's enchantments and how Arthur loved and lost the beautiful Guinevere his Queen. About Benedict Flynn Benedict Flynn's imaginative retellings of classic stories have reintroduced characters such as King Arthur and Robin Hood to a new generation of children. He lives in Great Britain. King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table - Benedict Flynn - Audio Book C more details.....

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - Audio Book MP3 Read by Karen Savage Unabridged Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - Audio Book MP3 Unabridged 10.5 Hours on MP3 CD - This will not play on a Car/Portable CD player unless it is plays MP3 disks - it is however suitable to be copied to iPOD portable mp3 player Mobile Phone or any other device that plays MP3s Pride and Prejudice first published on 28 January 1813 is the most famous of Jane Austen's novels and one of the first "romantic comedies" in the history of the novel. Its manuscript was first written between 1796 and 1797 initially called First Impressions but was never published under that title. Following revisions it was first published on 28 January 1813. Like both its predecessors Sense and Sensibility and Northanger Abbey it was written in Steventon Hampshire where Austen lived in the rectory. Abou considerably more details

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare A fully dramatised recording Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare - Unabridged Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 2 Audio CDs 139 minutes The play features three interlocking plots connected by a celebration of the wedding of Duke Theseus of Athens and the Amazonian queen Hippolyta and set simultaneously in the woodland and in the realm of Fairyland under the light of the moon. In the opening scene Hermia refuses to follow her father's Egeus's instructions for her to marry his chosen man Demetrius. In response Egeus quotes before Theseus an ancient Athenian law where more information.....

Little Women - Louisa May Alcott - Audio Book CD read by Sandra Burr Unabridged Little Women - Louisa May Alcott Audio Book CD Brand New: Unabridged Still shrink wrapped 16 CDs 18 hours Timeless in its evocation of idealized family life and robustly enduring Little Women is recognized as one of the best-loved classic children's stories of all time. Originally written as a "girls" story its appeal transcends the boundaries of time and age making it as popular with adults as it is with young readers. For this is a beguiling story of happiness and hope of the joys of companionship domestic harmony and infinite mother love all seen through the life of the March family. But which of the four March sisters click here.....

Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens translated by Robert Whitfield Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 25 Audio CDs 31.5 Hours The most gorgeously theatrical of all Dickens’s novels Nicholas Nickleby follows the delightful adventures of a hearty young hero in nineteenth-century England. Nicholas a gentleman's son fallen upon hard times must set out to make his way in the world. His journey is accompanied by some of the most swaggering scoundrels and unforgettable eccentrics in Dickens’s pantheon. From the dungeon-like Yorkshire boys’ boarding school run by the cruel Wackford Squeers to the high-spirited stage of Vincent Crummles’s extraordinary acting troupe Nicholas Nickleby is a triumph of the imagination bursting with color humor and poignant social commentary. About the Author Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens additional info.....

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare A fully dramatised recording Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare - Unabridged Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 2 Audio CDs 137 minutes Prior to the first act an Induction frames the play as a "kind of history" played in front of a drunkard named Sly who thinks he is a Lord. The "Shrew" is Katherina Minola the eldest daughter of Baptista Minola a Lord in Padua. Her temper is extremely volatile and no man can control her. She ties her sister to a chair in one scene and in another attacks a music tutor with his own fiddle. Her younger sister Bianca Minola is nubile and much sought after by the nobles. Baptista has sworn not to allow his younger daughter to marry before Katherina is wed. Bianca has several suitors and two of them agree that they will work together to marry off Katherina so that they will be free to compete for Bianca. One suitor Gremio is old and grey and the other one Hortensio is feisty and young. The plot becomes considerably more complex when two str find out more.....

The Edgar Allan Poe Audio Collection Performed by Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here The Edgar Allan Poe Audio Collection - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 5 Audio CDs 6 Hours Universally acclaimed as the maestro of horror and the morbid Edgar Allan Poe's dark gift has for more than a century and a half set the standard for the genre. Here 20 of Poe's most chilling stories and poems are performed by two of his most brilliant interpreters: Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone. Included are The Tell-Tale Heart The Pit and the Pendulum The Cask of Amontillado The Fall of the House of Usher Bells The Gold Bug The Raven Annabel Lee The Black Cat Berenice The Imp of the Perverse The Masque of the Red Death and many more! Basil Rathbone reads: To- Alone The City By The Sea The Fall Of The House Of Usher The Haunted Palce The Pit and the Pendulum The Masque of the Red Death The Tell-Tale Heart The Black Cat The Raven The Facts of the click here

N Unabridged 22 CDs 25 hours Read by Richard Poe The masterpiece of Steinbeck's later years-a vastly ambitious novel that is at once a family saga and a modern retelling of the Book of Genesis In his journal Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book " and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families-the Trasks and the Hamiltons-whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Here is a work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity the inexplicability of love and the murderous consequences of love's absence. additional info.....

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Unabridged read by Juliet Mills Get Other Bronte Audio Books CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte - Unabridged AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 16 Audio CDs 19.5 Hours Orphaned at an early age Jane Eyre leads a lonely life until she finds work as a governess at Thornfield Hall where she meets the mysterious Mr. Rochester and sees a ghostly woman who roams the halls by night. This is a story of passionate love travail and final triumph. The relationship between the heroine and Mr. Rochester is only one episode albeit the most important in a detailed fictional autobiography in which the author transmuted her own experience into high art. In this work the plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance but possesses an indomitable spirit a sharp wit and gre more info

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Unabridged read by David Case Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 4 Audio CDs 4 Hours Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Polish-born writer Joseph Conrad. Before its 1902 publication it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon. The story details an incident when Marlow an Englishman took a foreign assignment as a ferry-boat captain employed by a Belgian trading company. Although the river is never specifically named readers may assume it is the Congo River in the Congo Free State a private colony of King Leopold II. more data

The Complete Star Wars Trilogy The Original Radio Dramas - Audio CDs Get Other Star Wars Audio Books click here The Complete Star Wars Trilogy - The original radio drama audio CDs Brand New (still shrink wrapped): 15 CD 29 episodes. An expanded radio dramatization of the original Star Wars trilogy was produced in 1981 1983 and 1996. The first two radio series based on Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back were produced and broadcast by National Public Radio as part of NPR Playhouse. A dramatization of Return of the Jedi was produced by most of the same team and also broadcast on NPR. The radio serials were made with the full co-operation of George Lucas who for one dollar each sold the rights to KUSC-FM the public radio affiliate at his alma mater the University of Southern California. Lucas also allowed the use of original sound effects and music from the films. The lots more

Baker Street Dozen - Sherlock Holmes Starring Sir John Gielgud Ralph Richardson and Orson Welles 12 Dramatized Episodes Get Other Classic Books on Audio click here Baker Street Dozen - Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Audio Book CD New 5.25 Hours 6 CDs The acclaimed exciting fully dramatized performances of twelve Conan Doyle classics. It’s elementary that any Conan Doyle fan will want this splendid set of Sherlock Holmes mysteries—twelve timeless classics performed as radio theater linked by violin music interludes. The great Sir John Gielgud stars as the sleuth of Baker Street with Ralph Richardson as his venerable companion Dr. Watson and Orson Welles as the nefarious Professor Moriarty. With three giants of the theater in such colorful role more data

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand - Audio Book CD Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand - Audio Book CD- Unabridged Brand New - Unbridged 50 CDs yes 50! - its 63 hours long!! - rare! Read by Scott Brick This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world-and did. Is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battle not against his enemies but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves? You will learn the answers to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the amazing men and women in this remarkable book. About the Author: Ayn Rand was born in Russia graduated from the University of Leningrad and in 1926 came to the United States where click here

Emma - Jane Austen - Audio Book MP3 Read by Sherry Crowther Unabridged Emma - Jane Austen - Audio Book MP3 Unabridged 18 Hours on MP3 CD - This will not play on a Car/Portable CD player unless it is plays MP3 disks - it is however suitable to be copied to iPOD portable mp3 player Mobile Phone or any other device that plays MP3s Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen first published in 1816 about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character Emma Woodhouse is described in the opening paragraph as "handsome clever and rich" but is also rather spoiled. Prior to starting the novel Austen wrote "I am going to take a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like." About the Author Jane Austen Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was a British novelist whose realism biting social commentary and masterful use of free indirect speech burlesque and irony have earned her a place as one of the most widely-read and best-loved writers in British literature. Austen lived her entire life as part of a large and close- click here.....

Dune - Frank Herbert Unabridged AudioBook Read by Scott Brick Orlagh Cassidy Euan Morton Simon Vance and Cast New Release 2007 Get Other Sci-Fi Audio Books click here Dune by Frank Herbert - Audio Book Brand New (still shrink wrapped): On CD - Unabridged -27 hours on18 CDs First published in 1965 Frank Herbert’s Dune has since become a Science Fiction phenomenon. After more than forty years fans are still captivated by Herbert’s interstellar saga of war politics and heroes. Dune won the very first Nebula Award and shared the Hugo Award. It was also the very first bestselling science fiction novel in hardcover. After his death in 1986 using Frank Herbert’s notes on the series his son Brian Herbert teamed up with writer Kevin J. Anderson to w more.....

Dracula by Bram Stoker read by Richard E. Grant Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Dracula - Bram Stoker - Read by Richard E. Grant - AudioBook CD Brand New : abridged 3 Audio CDs 3 Hours Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. Dracula has been attributed to many literary genres including vampire literature horror fiction the gothic novel and invasion literature. Structurally it is an epistolary novel that is told as a series of diary entries and letters. Literary critics have examined many themes in the novel such as the role of women in Victorian culture conventional and conservative sexuality immigration colonialism postcolonialism and folklore. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire the novel's influence on the popularity of vampires has been singularly responsible for many theatrical and film interpretations throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. The novel is mainly composed of journa further data

Under Milk Wood Dylan Thomas - Audio CD and other Plays - The 1954 Premiere Radio Recording Get other Poetry audio books on CD click here Under Milk Wood and other plays - Dylan Thomas - Audio CD Brand New (still shrink wrapped): 2 CDs The famous 1954 BBC radio recording of Thomas' 'play for voices' Under Milk Wood with Richard Burton as First Voice. Also starring Hugh Griffith and Rachel Roberts. "To begin at the beginning:" Under Milk Wood is one of Dylan's most famous works. It is a 'play for voices' telling the story of a day in the life of the inhabitants of the small Welsh village of Llareggub. There is Captain Cat surrounded by fish that "nibble him down to his wishbone" and dreaming of Rosie Probert; Mog Edwards "a draper mad with love"; Organ Morgan listening to the music in Coronation Street with "spouses...honking like geese and the babies singing opera". "And you alone can hear the invisible starfall..." of their hopes and dreams as the inhabitants of the town extra

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne Abridged 2 CD Audio Book Set Get other Classic AudioBooks click here Around the World in Eighty Days - By Jules Verne - Audio Book CD Brand New (2 CDs - 2.5Hours): About Around the World in Eighty Days Phileas Fogg is a man of habit a Victorian gentleman who follows the same routine every day--until he accepts a wager that he can circle the globe within eighty days. Thus begins a hair-raising journey in which Fogg's obsession with his timetable is complemented by the dynamism and versatility of his French manservant Passepartout whose has a talent for getting into scrapes as the two dash across continents in a suspenseful race against time. The world's greatest works of literature are now avaialble in these beautiful keepsake volumes. Bound in real cloth and featuring gilt edges and ribbon markers these beautifully produced books are a wonderful way to build a handsome library of classic literature. These are the essential novels that belong in every home. They'll transport readers to imaginary wor further data

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley read by Richard Pasco Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Frankenstein - Mary Shelley - AudioBook CD Brand New : abridged 3 Audio CDs 3 Hours Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus generally known as Frankenstein is a novel written by the British author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Shelley started writing Frankenstein when she was 18 and finished when she was 19. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley's name appears on the second edition published in 1831. The title of the novel refers to a scientist Victor Frankenstein who learns how to create life and creates a being in the likeness of man but larger than average and more powerful. In popular culture people have tended more info

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder Unabridged read by Cherry Jones Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Get Other Childrens Audio Books CD click here Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder - Unabridged AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 6 Audio CDs 5.5 Hours At the beginning of this story Pa Ingalls decides to sell the house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and move to the Indian Territory near Independence Kansas as there were widely circulating stories that the land (technically still under Osage ownership) would be opened to settlement by homesteaders imminently. So Laura along with Pa and Ma and Mary and baby Carrie move to Kansas. Along the way Pa trades his two horses for two Western mustangs which Laura and Mary name Pet and Patty. When the family reaches Indian Territory they meet Mr. Edwards who is extremely polite to Ma but tells Laura and Mary that he is "a wildcat from Tennessee." Mr. Edwards is an excellent neighbor and helps the Ingalls in every way he can beginning with helping Pa erect their house. Then Pa builds a roof and a floor for the more info

Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare A fully dramatised recording Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare - Unabridged Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 2 Audio CDs 149 minutes Vincentio the Duke of Vienna makes it known that he intends to leave the city on a diplomatic mission. He leaves the government in the hands of a strict judge Angelo. Under the Duke's government the city's harsh laws against fornication have been laxly enforced but Angelo who later reveals himself as a hypocrite is known to be a hard-liner on matters of sexual immorality. Claudio a young nobleman is betrothed to Juliet; having put off their wedding he makes her pregnant before wedlock. For this act of fornication he is punished by Angelo. Although he is willing to marry her he is sentenced to death. Claudio's friend Lucio visits click here

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Unabridged 20.5 hours read by Anthony Heald Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Read by Anthony Heald- AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 16 Audio CDs 20.5 Hours Crime and Punishment is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky that was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments in 1866. It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoevsky's full-length novels after he returned from his exile in Siberia and the first great novel of his mature period. Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov an impoverished St. Petersburg ex-student who formulates and executes a plan to kill a hated unscrupulous pawnbroker seemingly for her money thereby solving his financial problems and at the same time he argues ridding the world of an evil worthless parasite. Raskolnikov also strives to be an extraordinary being similar to Napoleon believing that murder is permissible in pursuit of a higher purpose. Dostoevsky conceived the idea of Crime an extra

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer translated by Burton Raffel Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 18 Audio CDs 22.3 Hours The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose the rest in verse). The tales some of which are originals and others not are contained inside a frame tale and told by a collection of pilgrims on a pilgrimage from London Borough of Southwark to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.[1] The Canterbury Tales are written in Middle English. The tales are considered to be his magnum opus influenced by the structure of The Decameron which Chaucer is said to have read on an earlier visit to Italy but Chaucer peopled his tales with 'sondry folk' rather than Boccaccio's fleeing nobles. On an April day a group of 29 pilgrims meet in Tabard Inn and are joi here