Tadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sle...

First published in 1865, these endearing tales of an imaginative child's dream world by Lewis Carroll, pen name for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, are written with charming simplicity. While delighting children with a heroine who represent...

This collection of four of F. Scott Fitzgerald's most memorable short stories begins with 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,' in which the protagonist is born an old man and ages in reverse until he becomes a baby, and then finally...

THE YELLOW WALLPAPER is a story by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating atti...

Howard Phillips Lovecraft's unique contribution to American literature was a melding of traditional supernaturalism (derived chiefly from Edgar Allan Poe) with the genre of science fiction that emerged in the early 1920s. This new Pen...

This classic story of high adventure, manic obsession, and metaphysical speculation was Herman Melville's masterpiece.

Set in the aftermath of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, Kidnapped (1886) sustains a gripping narrative. It is told by David Balfour, a young Whig and Lowlander, who is tracked by his miserly uncle, survives attempted murder, kidnap an...

Robert Louis Stevenson's rousing seafaring classic. "Fifteen men on a dead man's chest—Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!"  For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From yo...

Set in 1831, The Confessions Of Nat Turner tells--in his own words--of a black man who awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. His name is Nat Turner and he is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in th...

In Jonathan Swift's bitter, witty, and utterly brilliant satire of the state of England in the early 18th century, his hero, Lemuel Gulliver (the epitome of the average man), becomes, as he travels, increasingly frustrated by the corr...

Twain's two characters, 'Mr. Brown' and himself, tour Europe and send home a series of raucous, deadpan, hilarious reports that serve both to declare the independence of American writers from their European models, and to initiate the...

Considered one of the greatest works of Chinese literature, this five-part story charts the changing fortunes of the Jia family. It sets worldly events - love affairs, sibling rivalries, even murder - within the context of the Buddhis...

My antonia, considered the greatest novel written by American writer Willa Cather, tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America, with a particular focus on a Bohemian fam...

Winston Churchill knew the power of words. In public speeches and published books, in newspaper and magazine articles, he expressed his feelings and laid out his vision for the future. His wartime writings and speeches have fascinated...

Collins' most financially successful novel, The Evil Genius, opens with a jury determining the fate of a sea captain whose ship allegedly facilitated a diamond theft. The story develops into a powerful novel of Victorian private life,...

In HEART OF DARKNESS, Conrad's most existential hero, Marlow, is the commander of a riverboat looking for ivory to trade in the Belgian Congo. His journey into the heart of the Congo is both a thrilling adventure and a symbolic excurs...

His last and greatest work Driven by intense passion, four brothers become involved in the brutal murder of their own father, one of the most loathsome characters in all literature.

SILAS MARNER, George Eliot’s timeless tale of simple people in small-town England, has the unwarranted reputation of being moralistic and saccharine; it is, in fact, one of George Eliot’s most comic, balanced, and moving w...

A young man falls victim to his own obsession with an amorous farm girl in Thomas Hardy's classic novel of fate and unrequited love.

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. The story delicately balances the concerns of the Mellstock parish choir with a rom...

Following on the heels of The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables was intended to be a far sunnier book than its predecessor and one that would illustrate “the folly” of tumbling down on posterity “an avalanche of ill-...

Hemingway's Classic Novel About Smuggling, Intrigue, and LoveTo Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling...

A Nobel prize–winning masterpiece, Siddhartha chronicles the spiritual evolution of a man living in India at the time of the Buddha—a spiritual journey that has inspired generations of readers. This audio edition presents ...

Kate Croy's mother was born to wealth and privilege, but she threw it all away to marry Kate's father, a penniless opium addict who admits to having stolen from his wife. After her mother's death, Kate is offered an opportunity to ret...

Joyce's bildungsroman--his first novel--traces the development of Stephen Daedalus, Joyce's alter ego. In order to pursue his artistic calling, Stephen, like Joyce, must reject his family, religion, and native land. At the end of the ...

Based on Kipling's own adolescent experiences, Stalky & Co. is a cunning story of mischievous 19th century British schoolboys attempting scholastic mutiny. The faculty and headmaster of a boys' private school repeatedly pursue a trio ...

Its famous opening line, "Call me Ishmael," dramatic in its stark simplicity, begins an epic that is widely regarded as the greatest novel ever written by an American. Labeled variously a realistic story of whaling, a romanc...

* Mp3 CD Format *. The time has finally arrived for Anne to leave Green Gables in order to attend Redmond College, where romance and adventure await. Adulthood brings many challenges both happy and sad, but everyone's favorite redhead...

Classics for young and old, including: 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' by Washington Irving, 'The Red Badge of Courage' by Stephen Crane, 'The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County' by Mark Twain, 'The Man of the Crowd' by Edgar Al...

This title includes: "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Cask of Amontilado", "The Black Cat", "The Masque of the Death", "The Pit and the Pendulum"...