A collection of BBC radio full-cast dramatisations of Jane Austen's six major novels Jane Austen is one of the finest writers in the English language, and this volume includes all six of her classic novels.Mansfield Park: On a quest t...

Experience four of Austen's classic novels as lively full-cast radio dramas! This gift collection includes Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park, and Northanger Abbey.

This 11 CD box set completes the main work of Jane Austen on Naxos AudioBooks. It features "Persuasion", "Pride and Prejudice", "Sense and Sensibility" and "Lady Susan".

Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin's now–classic narrative delves into ...

Mr. Artur Sammler is, above all, a man who has lasted, from the civilized pleasures of English life in the 1920s and 30s through the war and death camps in Poland. Moving now through the chaotic and dangerous streets of New York's Upp...

"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes."The carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour of a chill Midwestern October eve. Ushering in Halloween a week before its time, a calliope's shrill sire...

All seems well and good when young Lucy Graham marries Sir Michael Audley; she has married well and Sir Michael is thoroughly devoted to his new bride. His daughter Alicia, however, sees through her new stepmother's girlish ways. Shor...

Emily Bronte's time-tested story of love turned on itself and the violence and misery that result from thwarted passionA novel of immense power, Wuthering Heights is filled with the raw beauty of the English moors and a deep compassio...

Here are the worlds most-loved stories, in a dynamic visual tour de force for todays readers. Each timeless myth is superbly presented in story form and enhanced with original art work by world-renowned artist Giovanni Caselli. Thou...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a titanic figure among the world's great authors, and The Brothers Karamazov is often hailed as his finest novel. A masterpiece on many levels, it transcends the boundaries of a gripping murder mystery to become ...

Napoleon's presumptuous but unsung hero, the Brigadier Gerard, faces certain death at every turn while outwitting the enemies of France. Duels, espionage, and narrow escapes are all in a day's work for the faithful Gerard.

This third installment in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series contains six unabridged stories, including "A Scandal in Bohemia," "Silver Blaze," "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches," "The Adven...

Maid in Waiting is the beginning novel in the last trilogy of John Galsworthy's Forsyte Chronicles. In this seventh installment, the story continues of the lives and times, loves and losses, fortunes and deaths of the fictional but en...

The second in John Galsworthy's celebrated series of novels The second part of the Forsyte Saga chronicles the downfall of an upper middle class family in the turbulent period of social change at the end of the 19th and start of the ...

To Let is book three of the Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy's monumental chronicle of the lives of the moneyed Forsytes, a family whose values are at war with its passions. In To Let, Jon and Fleur, now both nineteen years old, fall in ...

Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowners to make each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from pay...

In a poor, remote section of southern Mexico, the Red Shirts have taken control. God has been outlawed, and the priests have been systematically hunted down and killed. Now, the last priest strives to overcome physical and moral cowar...