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 -
The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories
Author: Rudyard KiplingNarrator: Fred WilliamsRuntime: 13 Hrs. - UnabridgedRegular Price: $19.98 Member Price: $15.98 (or 4 credits)Regular Price: $19.98 Member Price: $15.98 (or 4 credits)This collection brings together seventeen of Kipling’s early stories, written between 1885 and 1888, when Kipling was working as a journalist in India. From Mrs. Hauksbee’s Simla drawing room to Mulvaney’s cot in the barracks to the wild hills of Kafiristan, Kipling recreates the India he knew.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 -
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 -
A Knight of the White Cross
Author: G.A. HentyNarrator: Jim HodgesRuntime: 12.8 Hrs. - UnabridgedRegular Price: $17.98 Member Price: $14.38 (or 3 credits)Regular Price: $17.98 Member Price: $14.38 (or 3 credits)The story begins during the War of the Roses in England, but our hero, Gervaise Tresham soon joins the Knights of St. John in Rhodes. Dedicated to God's service and pious in his personal life, Gervaise uncovers a plot, saves the coast of Italy from the Muslim corsairs, and is knighted by the Grand Prior.Learn More -
Gulliver’s Travels: Retold for Younger Listeners
Author: Jonathan SwiftNarrator: Benjamin SoamesRuntime: 2.3 Hrs. - AbridgedRegular Price: $17.98 Member Price: $14.38 (or 3 credits)Regular Price: $17.98 Member Price: $14.38 (or 3 credits)Lemuel Gulliver sets out on a series of travels, but each time he finds himself shipwrecked in new and unfamiliar lands. And how unfamiliar … In Lilliput, everyone is tiny, and it takes thousands of them to capture him; in Brodingnag, they’re huge and treat him as a sort of living toy; in Laputa, they live on a floating island inventing impossibly mad projects; and the Houyhnhnms are horses! But through all his adventures, Gulliver learns to see humans in a different way, too. One of the world’s great works of fiction, Gulliver’s Travels keeps all its humour and satire in this new retelling.Learn More -
Heidi
Author: Johanna SpyriNarrator: Teresa GallagherRuntime: 2.5 Hrs. - AbridgedRegular Price: $12.98 Member Price: $10.38 (or 2 credits)Regular Price: $12.98 Member Price: $10.38 (or 2 credits)The evergreen tale of the Swiss orphan girl Heidi has charmed and intrigued readers since its original publication in 1880. Heidi comes to live with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps where she befriends the animals and children – in particular the goatherd Peter.Learn More -
The Enchanted Castle
Author: Edith NesbitNarrator: Joanna PageRuntime: 2.5 Hrs. - AbridgedRegular Price: $12.98 Member Price: $10.38 (or 2 credits)Regular Price: $12.98 Member Price: $10.38 (or 2 credits)Three children – Jerry (bossy), Jimmy (hungry) and Kathleen (sensible) – find themselves standing in front of a bejeweled princess in the garden of an enchanted castle. It is the first day of their summer holidays. Is she really a princess? And if she isn’t, what about her ring which makes the wearer invisible?Learn More -
The Scarlet Letter
Author: Nathaniel HawthorneNarrator: Kristen UnderwoodRuntime: 9.5 Hrs. - UnabridgedRegular Price: $15.98 Member Price: $12.78 (or 3 credits)Regular Price: $15.98 Member Price: $12.78 (or 3 credits)Convicted and imprisoned because she is unwilling to name her partner in adultery, Hester Prynne is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on the breast of her gown for the rest of her life. This unending public reminder of sin torments her days and haunts her soul. Four people will be destroyed by a complex web of guilt and secrets, unless one of them reveals the truth behind the scarlet letter.Learn More -
Nancy Drew Girl Detective: Dressed to Steal
Author: Carolyn KeeneNarrator: Rebecca RogersRuntime: 3.5 Hrs. - UnabridgedRegular Price: $10.98 Member Price: $8.78 (or 2 credits)Regular Price: $10.98 Member Price: $8.78 (or 2 credits)Young designer Alicia Adams is opening a boutique in River Heights. On the day of the big event, crowds of people press forward, a store window is smashed, and people are injured. Then when an expensive dress is destroyed and the store vandalized, Nancy decides this is a case she’s ready to size up.Learn More -
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Author: Mark TwainNarrator: Tom ParkerRuntime: 9.3 Hrs. - UnabridgedRegular Price: $16.95 Member Price: $13.56 (or 3 credits)Regular Price: $16.95 Member Price: $13.56 (or 3 credits)Huck Finn is an orphaned drifter who loves freedom more than respectability. He isn’t above lying and stealing, but he faces a battle with his conscience when he meets up with a runaway slave named Jim, who provides him with his first experiences of love, acceptance, and a sense of responsibility.Learn More -
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
Author: Hugh LoftingNarrator: William SutherlandRuntime: 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)The good Doctor Dolittle, accompanied by his animal friends, sets sail once again on an amazing voyage. The jolly party meets with more adventures than they had anticipated, including surviving a shipwreck, exploring a floating island and journeying undersea with the Great Glass Sea-snail.Learn More -
An American Family Shakespeare Entertainment, Vol. 2
Author: Charles and Mary LambNarrator: A Full CastRuntime: 5 Hrs. - UnabridgedRegular Price: $12.98 Member Price: $10.38 (or 2 credits)Regular Price: $12.98 Member Price: $10.38 (or 2 credits)Blackstone Audio Presents An American Family Shakespeare Entertainment Based on Charles & Mary Lamb’s 20 Tales From Shakespeare, and augmented by miscellaneous scenes and soliloquies from Shakespeare’s plays, featuring Elizabethan songs and dances in new arrangements for stringed instrumentsLearn 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 -
Anna Karenina
Author: Leo TolstoyNarrator: Laura PatonRuntime: 5.1 Hrs. - AbridgedRegular Price: $11.98 Member Price: $9.58 (or 2 credits)Regular Price: $11.98 Member Price: $9.58 (or 2 credits)Human nature, with all its failings, is the fabric of which this great and passionate work is composed.Learn More