Classics
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Scenes of Clerical Life
Author: George EliotNarrator: Nadia MayRuntime: 14.5 Hrs. - UnabridgedRegular Price: $19.98 Member Price: $15.98 (or 4 credits)Regular Price: $19.98 Member Price: $15.98 (or 4 credits)George Eliot’s fiction debut work contains three stories of the lives of clergymen, with the aim of disclosing the value hidden in the commonplace. “The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton” portrays a character who is hard to like and easy to ridicule. “Mr. Gilfil’s Love-Story,” brings forth conflicting value systems revolving around a young woman, Caterina, and two men. “Janet’s Repentance” is an account of conversion from sinfulness to righteousness achieved through the selfless endeavors of a clergyman.Learn More -
Dorothy Day
Author: Robert ColesNarrator: C. M. HébertRuntime: 7 Hrs. - UnabridgedRegular Price: $13.98 Member Price: $11.18 (or 2 credits)Regular Price: $13.98 Member Price: $11.18 (or 2 credits)Robert Coles first met Dorothy Day when he worked in one of her Catholic worker soup kitchens. He remained close to this inspiring and controversial woman until her death in 1980. His book confronts candidly the central puzzles of her life.Learn More -
Heidi
Author: Johanna SpyriNarrator: Johanna WardRuntime: 7.5 Hrs. - UnabridgedRegular Price: $13.98 Member Price: $11.18 (or 2 credits)Regular Price: $13.98 Member Price: $11.18 (or 2 credits)High in the Swiss Alps, Heidi, a five-year-old orphan, comes to live with her grandfather. His neighbors say he is a fierce old hermit, of whom they are all afraid. Heidi, however, proves to be a remarkable, unaffected child, who quickly charms her grandfather.Learn More -
Black Beauty
The Autobiography of a Horse
Author: Anna SewellNarrator: Ralph CoshamRuntime: 13.95 - UnabridgedRegular Price: $13.95 Member Price: $11.16 (or 2 credits)Regular Price: $13.95 Member Price: $11.16 (or 2 credits)From its first publication in 1877, Black Beauty has been one of the best-loved animal stories ever written. The dramatic and heartwarming tale is told by the magnificent black horse himself, from his idyllic days on a country squire’s estate to his harsh fate as a London cab horse and his merciful rescue by two kindly old ladies.Learn More -
Beowulf
Author: AnonymousNarrator: Robertson DeanRuntime: 2.5 Hrs. - UnabridgedRegular Price: $8.98 Member Price: $7.18 (or 2 credits)Regular Price: $8.98 Member Price: $7.18 (or 2 credits)One of the most universally studied of the English classics, Beowulf is considered the finest heroic poem in Old English. Written ten centuries ago, it celebrates the character and exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman of the Geats, a people of southern Sweden.Learn More -
A Christmas Carol
Author: Charles DickensNarrator: Paul ScofieldRuntime: 3.1 Hrs. - AbridgedRegular Price: $10.98 Member Price: $8.78 (or 2 credits)Regular Price: $10.98 Member Price: $8.78 (or 2 credits)"Every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding," says Scrooge. Mean old Scrooge despises Christmas...until Christmas Eve, when a haunted voice from the past changes his life––overnight! You know the story; now experience the marvel of the book.Learn More -
The Call of the Wild
Author: Jack LondonNarrator: Ethan HawkeRuntime: 3 Hrs. - AbridgedRegular Price: $10.98 Member Price: $8.78 (or 2 credits)Regular Price: $10.98 Member Price: $8.78 (or 2 credits)In The Call of the Wild, a bold-spirited sheepdog is stolen from his comfortable home and thrust into the rugged, frozen terrain of the Alaskan Klondike. There he is made a sled dog and battles to become his team’s leader amid the bitter cold and the savage lawlessness of man and beast.Learn More -
Ethan Frome
Author: Edith WhartonNarrator: C. M. HébertRuntime: 4 Hrs. - UnabridgedRegular Price: $10.98 Member Price: $8.78 (or 2 credits)Regular Price: $10.98 Member Price: $8.78 (or 2 credits)Ethan Frome is a keenly etched portrait of the simple inhabitants of a nineteenth-century New England village. Ethan, a gaunt, patient New Englander, is a man tormented by a passionate love for his wife’s young cousin. His desperate quest for happiness ultimately leads to pain and despair.Learn More -
Odyssey: The Story of Odysseus
Author: HomerNarrator: Anthony HealdRuntime: 11.5 Hrs. - UnabridgedRegular Price: $18.98 Member Price: $15.18 (or 3 credits)Regular Price: $18.98 Member Price: $15.18 (or 3 credits)The Odyssey chronicles the many trials and adventures Odysseus must pass through on his long journey home from the Trojan wars to his beloved wife. Though the stormy god of the ocean has sworn vengeance against him, and witches and sirens try to lure him off course, Odysseus is clever and has the brilliant goddess Athena on his side.Learn More -
Man's Search for Meaning
Author: Viktor E. FranklNarrator: Simon VanceRuntime: 5.5 Hrs. - UnabridgedRegular Price: $12.98 Member Price: $10.38 (or 2 credits)Regular Price: $12.98 Member Price: $10.38 (or 2 credits)Man's Search for Meaning is more than a story of Viktor E. Frankl's triumph: it is a remarkable blend of science and humanism and an introduction to the most significant psychological movement of our day.Learn More -
The Painted Veil
Author: W. Somerset MaughamNarrator: Kate ReadingRuntime: 7.5 Hrs. - UnabridgedRegular Price: $13.98 Member Price: $11.18 (or 2 credits)Regular Price: $13.98 Member Price: $11.18 (or 2 credits)Set in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful but love-starved Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic, where she is compelled by her awakening conscience to reassess her life and learn how to love.Learn More -
The Golden Fleece
Author: Padriac ColumNarrator: Fred WilliamsRuntime: 10 Hrs - UnabridgedRegular Price: $17.98 Member Price: $14.38 (or 3 credits)Regular Price: $17.98 Member Price: $14.38 (or 3 credits)This is the story of Jason, the Argonauts, and their quest for the golden fleece. Along with Heracles and Theseus, Perseus and Atalanta, and the sorceress Medea, Jason travels on a wondrous journey in the ship Argo to strange lands populated by even stranger inhabitants. While they travel, Orpheus, the famous Greek storyteller, sings songs about the gods and goddesses and the creation of heaven and earth.Learn More -
The Land Of Oz
Author: L. Frank BaumNarrator: Anna FieldsRuntime: 5.5 Hrs. - UnabridgedRegular Price: $12.98 Member Price: $10.38 (or 2 credits)Regular Price: $12.98 Member Price: $10.38 (or 2 credits)In The Land of Oz, L. Frank Baum’s sequel to The Wizard of Oz, young Tip runs away from the witch Mombi, taking with him Jack Pumpkinhead and the wooden Saw-Horse, and flees to the Emerald City where he learns the incredible secret of his past.Learn More -
The Jungle
Author: Upton SinclairNarrator: Robert MorrisRuntime: 16 Hrs. - UnabridgedRegular Price: $23.98 Member Price: $19.18 (or 4 credits)Regular Price: $23.98 Member Price: $19.18 (or 4 credits)The Jungle is the dramatic exposé of the Chicago meat-packing industry at the turn of the century that prompted an investigation by Theodore Roosevelt, culminating in the pure-food legislation of 1906.Learn More -
Anne's House of Dreams
Author: L.M. MontgomeryNarrator: Susan O'MalleyRuntime: 8.5 Hrs. - UnabridgedRegular Price: $15.98 Member Price: $12.78 (or 3 credits)Regular Price: $15.98 Member Price: $12.78 (or 3 credits)Everyone who loves the irrepressible, red-haired Anne Shirley longs to know more about her. On the very eve of her wedding to Dr. Gilbert Blithe, Anne is about to leave Green Gables forever.Learn More