Jane Austen's last and most melancholy novel was published posthumously in 1818. In PERSUASION, Austen creates a strong, mature, and independent heroine, Anne Elliot. Having foolishly broken off an engagement eight years earlier to Fr...

An illustrated collection of some of Poe's sinister tales, including "The Black Cat," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Premature Burial," and a few of his poems.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is a powerful analysis of such issues as monarchy versus democracy and free will versus determinism, but it is also one of Mark Twain's finest comic novels, still fresh and funny after more ...

Every generation finds in The Way of All Flesh a reaffirmation of youth's rightful struggle against the tyranny of harsh parents and its admirable will for freedom of personal expression. This is a fascinating character study of a yo...

Jay Gatsby is still in love with Daisy, whom he met during the war when he was penniless. Having made himself wealthy through illegal means, he now lives in a mansion across the bay from the home of Daisy Buchanan, who has since marri...

This erotic work chronicles the lives, loves, obsessions, and struggles of the Brangwen sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, and their lovers, Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich, as they search for fulfillment in post-World War I society. Lawrence...

In the third installment in Sarah McCarty's Shadow Wranglers series, Jace must rescue his lover Miri and the daughter he never knew they had from the deadly grip of a merciless enemy.

A Yankee mechanic is knocked unconscious in a fight and awakens to find himself at Camelot in AD 528. Condemned to death by the knights of the Round Table, he saves himself through scientific knowledge.

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...

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.

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...

Rachel Innes believes that her summer house in the Adirondacks is haunted. Her niece and nephew arrive one night for an unexpected visit and then, the next night, they find a body at the bottom of the circular staircase. However, what...

Newland Archer is a young lawyer, a member of New York's high society, and engaged to be married to May Welland.Countess Ellen Olenska is May's cousin, and wants a divorce from the Polish nobleman she married. Intelligent and beautif...

After Jane Austen's earliest known writings, she began a more serious work, Lady Susan, in 1793 or 1794. It is a short, epistolary novel that portrays a woman bent on the exercise of her own powerful mind and personality to the point ...

A masterpiece of modern Gothic literature, Something Wicked This Way Comes is the memorable story of two boys, James Nightshade and William Halloway, and the evil that grips their small Midwestern town with the arrival of a 'dark carn...

Next to the Bible, The Pilgrim's Progress is one of the most widely read books in English and for good reason. Most critics consider it the greatest allegory in any language'yet its author was only a barely educated tinker, confined ...

In early 1901, fifteen years after Little Lord Fauntleroy, and ten years before the Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson wrote the Making of a Marchioness. She followed this short novel in the spring of the same year with the sequel, The M...

Memorable retelling of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, written for younger readers by Ireland's great poet and illustrator, recalls the perilous journey of Odysseus and his encounters with the horrid Cyclops, treacherous Sirens, and evil C...

Widely regarded as the first English novel, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe is one of the most popular and influential adventure stories of all time. This classic tale of shipwreck and survival on an uninhabited island was an instant s...

James Joyce's semi-autobiographical first novel follows Stephen Dedalus, a sensitive and creative youth who rebels against his family, his education, and his country by committing himself to the artist's life.

Ivanhoe brings to life twelfth-century England. This masterful story of courtly love and chivalry includes several unforgettable scenes: the rescue of Ivanhoe by Robin Hood, Richard the Lion-Hearted's aid at evil King John's tournamen...

When it was first erected, the House of Seven Gables typified the mechanical Colonel Pyncheon; but it developed through the years until, by Hepzibah's time, it has become humanized and almost organic. The history of the house is thus ...

While Europe drifts toward Nazism, four students share an apartment in Paris. Thackara brilliantly forges the stories of these four men whose lives mirror the larger picture, while the listener follows Hitler's rise from a dozen diffe...

The funny and heartwarming story of a young lady whose zeal, snobbishness, and self-satisfaction lead to several errors in judgmentEmma takes Harriet Smith, a young woman previously unknown to good society, under her wing, scheming fo...

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...

Through the Looking Glass is a sequel of sorts to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, published seven years after in 1872. Alice, now slightly older, walks through a mirror into the Looking-Glass House and immediately becomes involved i...