Classics
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McGuffey's Eclectic Readers: Second
Author: William McGuffeyNarrator: Robin FieldRuntime: 2.2 Hrs. - UnabridgedRegular Price: $10.98 Member Price: $8.78 (or 2 credits)Regular Price: $10.98 Member Price: $8.78 (or 2 credits)Born in 1800, William Holmes McGuffey had a remarkable ability to memorize, and could commit to mind entire books of the Bible. After becoming a teacher at the age of 14, classroom size was just one of several challenges faced by McGuffey.Learn More -
Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings
Author: Joel Chandler HarrisNarrator: Robin FieldRuntime: 5.75 Hrs. - UnabridgedRegular Price: $14.98 Member Price: $11.98 (or 3 credits)Regular Price: $14.98 Member Price: $11.98 (or 3 credits)Working at a plantation in his youth, Joel Chandler Harris found that much of his shyness disappeared in the slave QTLYters, and his background as the illegitimate son of an Irish immigrant helped fuse a close bond with the slaves. The language of his new friends and the African-American animal tales they shared later became the inspiration for Joel’s beloved Uncle Remus stories. When Harris recorded the many Brer Rabbit stories from the African-American oral tradition, little did he know that it would revolutionize children’s literature. As an adult, Harris committed to healing post-Civil War America, stressing regional and racial reconciliation during and after the Reconstruction era.Learn More -
Uncle Wiggily's Adventures
Author: Howard GarisNarrator: Robin FieldRuntime: 4.1 Hrs. - UnabridgedRegular Price: $12.98 Member Price: $10.38 (or 2 credits)Regular Price: $12.98 Member Price: $10.38 (or 2 credits)Beginning in 1910, Howard Roger Garis penned an Uncle Wiggily tale every day (except Sundays) for 30 years, much to the delight of both children and adult fans of the elderly gentleman rabbit.Learn More -
The Prince and the Pauper
Author: Mark TwainNarrator: Robin FieldRuntime: 12 Hrs. - UnabridgedRegular Price: $14.98 Member Price: $11.98 (or 3 credits)Regular Price: $14.98 Member Price: $11.98 (or 3 credits)Originally published in 1881, The Prince and the Pauper is one of Mark Twain's earliest social satires. With his caustic wit and biting irony, Twain satirizes the power of the monarchy, unjust laws and barbaric punishments, superstitions, and religious intolerance. Although usually viewed as a child's story, The Prince and the Pauper offers adults critical insight into a people and time period not really all that different from our own.Learn More -
Uncle Wiggily & Mother Goose
Author: Howard GarisNarrator: Robin FieldRuntime: 6.7 Hrs. - UnabridgedRegular Price: $16.98 Member Price: $13.58 (or 3 credits)Regular Price: $16.98 Member Price: $13.58 (or 3 credits)Beginning in 1910, Howard Roger Garis penned an Uncle Wiggily tale every day (except Sundays) for 30 years, much to the delight of both children and adult fans of the elderly gentleman rabbit.Learn More -
Treasure Island
Author: Robert Louis StevensonNarrator: Robin FieldRuntime: 7.5 Hrs. - UnabridgedRegular Price: $12.98 Member Price: $10.38 (or 2 credits)Regular Price: $12.98 Member Price: $10.38 (or 2 credits)The classic story, told in the first person by Jim Hawkins, whose mother kept the Admiral Benbow Inn, and who shared in the adventures from start to finish. An old sea dog comes to this peaceful inn one day, apparently intending to finish his life there. He hires Jim to keep a watch out for other sailors, but despite all precautions, he is hunted out and served with the black spot that means death. Jim and his mother barely escape death when Blind Pew, Black Dog, and other pirates descend on the inn in search of the sea dog’s papers. Jim snatches up a packet of papers to square the sailor’s debt, when they were forced to retreat from the inn. The packet contains a map showing the location of the pirate Flint’s buried treasure, which Jim, Doctor Livesey, and Squire Trelawney determine to find. Fitting out a ship, they hire hands and set out on their adventure.Learn More -
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
And Other Sketches
Author: Mark TwainNarrator: Robin FieldRuntime: 5 Hrs. - UnabridgedRegular Price: $12.98 Member Price: $10.38 (or 2 credits)Regular Price: $12.98 Member Price: $10.38 (or 2 credits)The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is a wild yarn involving a case of mistaken identity, a gambler who’d bet on anything, and a very unusual frog named Daniel Webster. First published in The Saturday Press in 1865, the tale was immensely popular, and in 1867 an expanded version was published with 26 additional short stories, told as only Mark Twain could tell them.Learn More -
The Arabian Nights Entertainment
Author: Jonathan ScottNarrator: Robin FieldRuntime: 8.9 Hrs. - UnabridgedRegular Price: $14.98 Member Price: $11.98 (or 3 credits)Regular Price: $14.98 Member Price: $11.98 (or 3 credits)In an attempt to win the heart of her king and a nightly stay of execution, the beautiful and wise Scheherazade spares her life and enchants her husband with exotic tales of jinn, magic lamps, daring heroics and true love.Learn More -
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Author: Mark TwainNarrator: Robin FieldRuntime: 7.5 Hrs - UnabridgedRegular Price: $12.98 Member Price: $10.38 (or 2 credits)Regular Price: $12.98 Member Price: $10.38 (or 2 credits)Huckleberry Finn may be the greater book, but Tom Sawyer has always been more widely read. Moreover, it is a book that can be enjoyed equally by both children and adults. Twain, who called it a "hymn" to boyhood.Learn More -
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Author: L. Frank BaumNarrator: Robin FieldRegular Price: $12.98 Member Price: $10.38 (or 2 credits)Regular Price: $12.98 Member Price: $10.38 (or 2 credits)Dedicating the book "to my good friend & comrade, My Wife," L. Frank Baum published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900 and it went on to become perhaps one of the most successful tales in the history of American children’s literature.Learn More -
Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
Author: Lewis CarrollNarrator: Robin FieldRuntime: 6.3 Hrs. - UnabridgedRegular Price: $14.98 Member Price: $11.98 (or 3 credits)Regular Price: $14.98 Member Price: $11.98 (or 3 credits)Many a day we rowed together on that quiet stream…and many a fairy tale had been extemporized…yet none of these tales got written down: they lived and died…each in its own golden afternoon until there came a day when, as it chanced, one of the listeners petitioned that the tale might be written down for her.Learn More -
McGuffey's Eclectic Readers: Fifth
Author: William McGuffeyNarrator: Robin FieldRuntime: 9.3 Hrs. - UnabridgedRegular Price: $16.98 Member Price: $13.58 (or 3 credits)Regular Price: $16.98 Member Price: $13.58 (or 3 credits)Born in 1800, William Holmes McGuffey had a remarkable ability to memorize, and could commit to mind entire books of the Bible. After becoming a teacher at the age of 14, classroom size was just one of several challenges faced by McGuffey.Learn More -
Mother Goose in Prose
Author: Frank BaumNarrator: Robin FieldRuntime: 4.75 Hrs. - UnabridgedRegular Price: $12.98 Member Price: $10.38 (or 2 credits)Regular Price: $12.98 Member Price: $10.38 (or 2 credits)Sing a song o' sixpence, a handful of rye, Four-and-twenty blackbirds baked in a pie; When the pie was opened the birds began to sing, Was not that a dainty dish to set before the King? If you have never heard the legend of Gilligren and the King's pie, you will scarcely understand the above verse; so I will tell you the whole story…Learn More -
Gulliver's Travels
Author: Jonathan SwiftNarrator: Simon VanceRuntime: 2.1 Hrs. - AbridgedRegular Price: $10.98 Member Price: $8.78 (or 2 credits)Regular Price: $10.98 Member Price: $8.78 (or 2 credits)Travelers visit many strange places. They see very many wonderful things. When they return home they tell wonderful stories about what they have seen.Learn More -
The Art of War
Author: Sun TzuNarrator: P.J. OchlanRuntime: 1.68 Hrs. - UnabridgedRegular Price: $10.98 Member Price: $8.78 (or 2 credits)Regular Price: $10.98 Member Price: $8.78 (or 2 credits)The Art of War was written in the 6th century B.C. by the high-ranking military general and strategist, Sun Tzu. Though it is most commonly known as an ancient Chinese military treatise, The Art of War has become more versatile and is currently being used worldwide in business management.Learn More