One of the great masters of the short story, Tolstoy called Chekhov an 'incomparable artist of life,' who wrote about the everyday world with humor, insight, and honesty.

What makes his work great is that it can be felt and understood...by anybody,' said Leo Tolstoy of Chekhov's plays, which express life through subtle construction, everyday dialogue, and an electrically charged atmosphere.

Listeners will delight in these masterful chronicles of the adventures and mishaps of Father Brown. Small, round-faced and engagingly innocent, Brown is a Roman Catholic priest from East Anglia. He also happens to be a top-notch detec...

This collection of twenty-five Hercule Poirot adventures is compiled from short stories written by Agatha Christie for The Sketch magazine in 1923 from March to December. In these stories, including 'ÄúThe Disappearance of Mr. Daven...

Volume two of Churchill's famous account of English-speaking peoplesBetween 1485 and 1688, England became a Protestant country under Henry VIII. His daughter, Elizabeth I, battled for succession and supremacy at home, and the discover...

This is the novelization of the upcoming film (May 2010) in which Oscar winner Russell Crowe stars as the legendary figure known by generations as Robin Hood, whose exploits have endured throughout popular mythology. In 13th century ...

This delightful tale follows the adventures of the endearing young rogue, Frank, who has failed to commit to a single enterpriseuntil he meets Alicia Dulcifer and her inexplicably wealthy father.

Joseph Conrads first novel charts the decline of a Dutch merchant in Malaya. Refusing to accept the financial ruin that he has precipitated, Almayer devolves into fantasies of wealth and renewed youth.

Horror awaits Marlow, a seaman assigned by an ivory company to retrieve a cargo boat and one of its employees, Mr. Kurtz who is stranded in the heart of the Africa, deep in the Belgian Congo. Marlow's journey up the brooding dark rive...

First serialized in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899, "Heart of Darkness" is the story of steamboat captain Charlie Marlow's voyage into the primitive interior of the Congo of Africa. As a manager of a Belgian ivory company, Mar...

Joseph Conrad's classic novel about a man's lifelong efforts to atone for an act of instinctive cowardice set the style for a whole class of literature.

Joseph Conrad's multilayered masterpiece tells of one nation's violent revolution and one hero's moral degeneration. Conrad convincingly invents an entire country, Costaguana, and sets it afire as warlords compete for power and a fort...

One of Joseph Conrad's greatest works, Nostromo is a gripping tale of capitalist exploitation and rebellion that employs flashbacks and glimpses of the future to depict the lure of silver and its effects on men.

Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent is a tale of anarchism, espionage, and terrorism.Our agent, a man named Mr. Verloc, minds his own business while he tends to his shop in London's Soho district, alongside his wife, who attends to her a...

Set during the French and Indian Wars, The Deerslayer vividly captures the essence of both the murderous humanity and the natural beauty that distinguished America's founding. The last of Cooper's famous Leatherstocking Tales, it is f...

The Last of the Mohicans is a story of romance and adventure on the American frontier. It is a story of love and loyalty, and of America's coming of age. While the French and Indians besiege Fort William Henry, Cora and Alice Munro, d...

In early America, the French and Indian War pits English colonists against France's Indian allies. Natty Bumppo and his friends fight to protect the daughters of an English commander from the evil Magua and his Iroquois thugs.

In the spring of 1863, as he faces battle for the first time at Chancellorsville, Virginia, a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war.

Baree was the son of a grey wolf and a black dog, born in the vast Canadian wilderness. He learns about nature and his fellow animals by trial and error - Fighting with owls and playing with beavers. Being alone in the wild, he desper...

Honore de Balzac, who is generally regarded as a founding father of realism in European fiction, first entered the mainstream with The Magic Skin, a fable-like tale delineating the excesses and vanities of contemporary life.

One man can be an island The classic tale of a man shipwrecked on a remote island, and his struggle to retain his humanity against the forces of nature, as well as do battle with his own fears and loneliness.

This version of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, masterfully narrated by Tim Curry, was available for a limited time last year, and now it's back. This one-of-a-kind performance puts a unique spin on a treasured classic, and serve...

In the fog of London, lawyers enrich themselves with endless litigation over a dwindling inheritance. A sterling example of Dickens's genius for character, dramatic construction, and social satire, this novel was hailed by Edmund Wils...

Bleak House opens in a London shrouded by fog a fog that swirls most densely about the Court of Chancery, where the obscure case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce lies lost in endless litigation, slowly devouring an inheritance in legal costs. ...

A savage but often comic indictment of a society that is rotten to the core, Bleak House is one of Charles Dickens's most ambitious novels, with a range that extends from the drawing rooms of the aristocracy to the poorest of London s...

Full of suspense, humor, and tenderness, Hard Times is a brilliant defense of art in an age of mechanism and a blistering portrait of Victorian England as it struggles with the massive economic turmoil brought on by the Industrial Rev...

The story of William Dorrit, imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea Prison, and his daughter and helpmate, Amy, this Charles Dickens classic charts the progress of the Dorrit family from poverty to riches.

Charles Dickens was one of England's most highly celebrated authors, and during his lifetime he produced over a dozen novels, several nonfiction books, and a large number of short stories. Three of Dickens's best novels---Great Expect...

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby combines comedy and tragedy in a tale of triumph over adversity, where Nickleby succeeds despite social injustice---a story that mirrors Charles Dickens's own rise from poverty to great suc...

Diderot's The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders. A novel mingling mysticism, madness, sadistic cruelty and nascent sexuality, it gives a sc...