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Three Men in a Boat is one of the most amusing and enduring books in the English language. Semi-autobiographical, it recounts the adventures and mishaps of George, Harris, J.(the narrator) and his remarkable dog Montmorency during a boat trip along the Thames from London to Oxford. Jerom...
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First published in 1914, Dubliners is an incomparable, highly individual collection of short stories. Depicting Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early 20th century, these stories begin with pieces narrated by children, and as the stories continue they deal with the liv...
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In the Inferno, the first of the three-part Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri is wandering through a dark wood on the evening of Good Friday in the year 1300. Losing his way and suddenly fearful, he looks up to see the sun shining on a mountain above. He tries to reach it, but is thw...
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This eclectic collection celebrates long-neglected short fiction by great women writers best known for their novels. Highlights include Jane Austen’s The Watsons, thought by many to be a study for her classic novel Emma; Elizabeth Gaskell’s The Half-Brothers, a hea...
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The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen: Their Race to the South Pole (CSA Word Recording)
מאת Roland Huntford This acclaimed dual biography charts both British Robert Scott's and Norwegian Roald Amundsen's race to the South Pole during 1911?12. Bizarrely, Scott died in his quest and became a tragic hero, whereas Amundsen, the victor, was largely forgotten. Reassessing the two explorers and their m...
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Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol made its first appearance in 1843, at a time when many social critics feared the old holiday traditions were dying out. This darkly comic tale tells the story of the penny-pinching banker, Ebenezer Scrooge, who believes Christmas to be little more tha...
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Most readers know at least some of Kipling — his immortal creations Mowgli and the Just So Stories. But Kipling’s range is far wider, encompassing poetry, journalism, children’s writing, and letters. This collection samples the best of Kipling's work in all these genres. Here ...
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Robert Graves’ stand-alone sequel to I, Claudius poses significant philosophical and sociological questions about power and people. As Rome begins its inevitable decline, the stuttering, crippled, bookish nobleman Claudius has somehow survived the purges and achieved the throne. T...
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In this sharply comic novel, Waugh fictionalizes his own life story in a richly fascinating manner. The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold recounts a period of mental confusion and breakdown in the life of Gilbert Pinfold, an established, middle-aged novelist. Brought to life by veteran actor Mic...
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Evelyn Waugh was known for his cutting critiques of English high — and low — society of the 1920s and '30s. Vile Bodies finds him at the peak of his form. This story of impoverished writer and high-society hanger-on Adam Fenwick-Symes recounts his endless attempts to wed heiress Nina...
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Melding the personal with the political, Robert Graves' Goodbye to All That is both a literary masterpiece and the definitive account of the horrors of World War I. Using anecdotes from his own life prior to his enlistment in the army — his upper-crust upbringing, his privileged p...
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Guaranteed to keep readers on the edge of their seats, Murder Most Foul collects the most thrilling and suspenseful short stories by the masters of mystery. In "Bluebeard’s Bathtub" a couple marries quickly, but is it for the right reasons? In Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the...
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Cassandra Mortmain is 17. Her journal describes the weird and wonderful world in which she lives: housed in a crumbling castle, with her writer father (who is “blocked”), her beautiful older sister Rose, her brainy younger brother and her unconventional artist stepmother, Topaz. The sudden ...
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This audio package brings readers three of Dickens’ most riveting works to life. Regarded by many as Dickens’ most thrilling novel, A Tale of Two Cities contrasts the orderly London with revolution-torn Paris. It follows the lives of Sydney Carton, an English lawyer and wastrel, and ...
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Galsworthy's trilogy The Forsyte Saga broke ground twice: first as a stunning portrait of a bourgeois British family circa 1906-1921, and again as the seminal mini-series of the 1960s. Readers and viewers were equally captivated by the first novel, which introduced the elder Forsytes, in...
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Bitter Lemons of Cyprus "is not a political book but simply a somewhat impressionistic study of the moods and atmospheres of Cyprus during the troubled years 1953–56." So wrote Lawrence Durrell in the preface to this longtime bestseller. Durrell brilliantly captures the romance, beauty...
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Plain Tales from the Hills conjures an intimate, evocative, often funny, and always vital portrait of India. Written by the much-loved Rudyard Kipling these stories comprise his unabridged observations of the British in India, originally commissioned for the Civil and Military Gazette...
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The works of the Brontë sisters — Charlotte, Emily, and Anne — caused an uproar during their day, and continue to captivate modern readers with their vivid characters, passionate romanticism, sinister atmosphere, and feminist strains. This audiobook collects four examples of the sisters at...
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The Voyage of the Beagle is the name commonly given to the book written by Charles Darwin and published in 1839 as his Journal and Remarks. It refers to the second survey expedition of the ship HMS Beagle, which set sail from Plymouth Sound on December 27, 1831 under the command o...
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Ghost stories have a timeless appeal for readers of all ages, and this audiobook collects 11 of the best ever written from the 19th and 20th centuries. Some of the authors here, like Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Guy de Maupassant, were masters of the spook story, while others, like Dickens, made...
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Bursting at the seam with twins, secret identities, and performers at every level from Shakespeare to strip shows, Wise Children is a sweeping and riotous account of the intermingled Chance and Hazard families. Dora and her twin sister, Nora, are the daughters of Shakespearean actor...
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Jimmy Crocker, aka Piccadilly Jim, is a lively young American ex-newspaper man who meets Ann Chester, the girl of his dreams, in London. The problem is that Jim once wrote a bad review of her first book of poetry. They set sail to New York together with Ann still not knowing her suitor is the d...
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A much-celebrated and surprisingly modern novel, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists tells the story of a group of decorators (Tressell was one himself) who cope reasonably with their impoverished life until one of them, Frank Owen, starts handing out regular attacks on the greed and di...
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Francois-Marie Arouet, known better as Voltaire, was hailed as a genius of the Enlightenment, a man dissatisfied with the religious and superstitious attitudes of his time, and a champion of sharp irony and logical reasoning. His most famous book follows Candide and his tutor, Pangloss, as they...
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At Blandings Castle, Lord Emsworth’s brother Sir Galahad Threepwood is penning his memoirs, much to the horror of his overbearing sister, Lady Constance, who fears salacious tales of his salad days will shame the family. She convinces Baxter, Lord Emsworth’s former secretary, to return...
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India, 1857. The year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers brutally rebelled against their British overlords. This time of conflict is the subject of The Siege of Krishnapur, widely considered to be one of the finest British novels of the last 50 years. A witty and individual take o...
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A perfect storm is brewing over Blandings Castle. As Lord Emsworth battles to prevent a pig-napping, Lord Tilbury lurks, desperate to filch Gally Threepwood’s sensational memoirs, and those formidable sisters, Julia and Constance, will stop at nothing to sabotage the nuptials of Ronnie Fish a...
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