Unabridged: Classics, Adventure, Suspense
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| EMILY BRONTE | WUTHERING HEIGHTS - A story of love turning in on itself and the violence and misery that result from thwarted longing. A book of immense power, it is filled with a raw beauty of the moors and a deep compassion for the destinies of men and women ... a compassion made all the more extraordinary by the fact that it came from the heart of a frail, inexperienced girl who lived out her lonely lfe in the moorland wilderness and died a year after this great novel was published. | (9T,13.5H) | $32 | No | T |
| G.K. CHESTERTON | THE NAPOLEON OF NOTTING HILL - First published in 1904, a time when Great Britain was at the height of its prosperity, Chesterton saw law and order as eventually swallowing up eccentricity and Jolly ol' puckish fun. Thus, with the Napoleon of Notting Hill, Chesterton creates a witty satire of staid government. Auberon Quinn, a common man who looks like a cross between a baby and an owl and is often seen in public places standing on his head and tossing his silk hat into the air, is one day told that he's been selected to be His Majesty the King. "Every page contains some delightful and pregnant phase: the vitality, energy, and exuberant delight in his own handiwork would to be difficult to over-praise." | Y
(4T,6H) | $16 | No | T |
| KATE CHOPIN | THE AWAKENING - First published in 1899, The Awakening shocked its readers because it was so far ahead of its time. It is the story of Edna Pontellier, a lovely young woman who marries into upper-class Creole society. She has a well-to-do and surprisingly understanding husband. She also loves and is proud of her sons. Yet within her is a conflicting need for independence and a desire to experience the full potential of life. Unable to control this passion, Edna abandons the decorous and conventional role common to society and makes for herself a controversial and ultimately destructive life. | Y
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| ALEXANDRE DUMAS | THE THREE MUSKETEERS (part 1) - The Three Musketeers are a symbol of loyalty. Their adventures, as they defend their Queen against the intrigues of the conspirator Richelieu, as they hunt down the beautiful spy De Winter, as they court danger and martial glory, form a rich tapestry of the brawling, turbulent France of Louis XIV. | Y
(10T,15H) | $32 | No | T |
| ALEXANDRE DUMAS | THE THREE MUSKETEERS (part 2) - Alexander Dumas was a successful playwright when The Three Musketeers was published in 1844. From that point on he devoted himself entirely to novels, and during his life published more than 300 titles, including the Count of Monte Cristo and The Man In the Iron Mask. His most popular book remains the Three Musketeers. | Y
(9T,13.5H) | $36 | No | T |
| ROBERT GRAVES | I, CLAUDIUS - Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus lived from 10 B.C. to 54 A.D. Physically weak, a stammerer, Claudius was ignored. He survived because of his infirmities. Imagine his agenda when he became emperor! Written in the form of Claudius' autobiograpy, this book recounts the events of a scandalous era. Public morality deteriorated and corruption flourished. Barbarians found Rome ripe for the picking. Robert Graves speaks to us from another era. He survived the trenches of WWI to create books of uncommon diversity and insight. | Y
(12T,18H) | $40 | No | T |
| ERNEST HEMINGWAY | GREEN HILLS OF AFRICA - In the winter of 1933 Ernest Hemingway and his wife Pauline set out on a two-month safari in the big game country of East Africa, camping out on the great Serengeti Plain at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro. "I had quite a trip." he told his friend Phillip Percival, and he later used these experiences to create Green Hills Of Africa. Rich in description and refreshingly alive to the character of the country, it is one of Heminway's most revealing aesthetic statements. His writing, as Carl Van Doren remarked, "sings like poetry without ever ceasing to be prose, easy, intricate and magical." | Y
(6T,9H) | $20 | No | T |
| RUDYARD KIPLING | THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING & OTHER STORIES - If the English Raj had a laureate Kipling would have held that post. In these stories of adventure in India under British rule, the author of Gunga Din is thoroughly in his element. "The Man Who Would Be King" is the tale of two English soldiers who leave behind their comfortable lives at camp to seek gold and power in the remote hills of Afghanistan. But greed and an unquenchable thirst for power lead to their undoing, and catastrophe soon follows. Marvelously told with a wry wit and an unerring ear for dialogue, these classic stories will enthrall listeners of all ages. The other stories include: "Wee Willie Winkie", "The Drums of the Fore and Aft", "Mary Postgate", and "The Maltese Cat" | Y
(4T,4H) | $12 | No | T |
| D.H. LAWRENCE | LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER - This is the story of Constance Chatterley, a lovely young woman whose parts are all in good working order. Not so her husband, Clifford. He wears repression like armor. So when Constance is thrown into contact with Oliver Mellors, her husband's gamekeeper, the results are explosive. He restores her sexuality and with it her zest in life and living. When the book was published in 1928, it caused a sensation. Lawrence wrote of physical love with a lack of inhibition that startled his readers, but his scenes evoked lyrical tenderness and joy. They still do. This edition, banned in the United States until 1959, was the first complete and unexpurated text of Lawrence's finest and most famous novel. | Y
(9T,13.5H) | $32 | No | T |
| D.H. LAWRENCE | WOMEN IN LOVE - Women in love is perhaps Lawrence's most profound statement about men and women and about man and nature. The story is a parable of two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, a study in contrasts. For example, their love affairs ... Gudrun and Gerald's, icy and sterile; Ursula and Birkin's fruitful and transcendent. One of the most controversial writers of the 20th century, Lawrence was born in England in 1885, the son of a coal miner and a school teacher. This misalliance was in some measure responsible for Lawrence's deeply divided nature. His relatively short life (On March 2, 1930 Lawrence died in Vence, France from complications of tuberculosis) was a search for meaning; his books reflect the intensity of his vision. | Y
(14T,21H) | $48 | No | T |
| SINCLAIR LEWIS | FREE AIR - Claire Boltwood and her father drive their Gomez-Dep roadster from Minnesota to seattle, exposing themselves to all the perils of early motoring. They encounter the upper-crust Boltwoods who are at once more noble and more insignificant. Other class barriers exist between Claire and a mechanic named Milt who, along with his cat, follows close behind. Free Air anticipates many of the themes of Lewis's later novels and john Steinbeck's Travels with Charley. Claire blazing her own trail West personifies the nineteenth-century pioneer woman and looks ahead to the independent minded 20th century woman like the heroines played by Katharine Hepburn. "An American story in every page... . amusing, interesting, alive to its final period."-New York Times
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| A.L. ROWES | MY VIEW OF SHAKESPEARE - For many years A.L. Rowse, a leading authority on the Elizabethan Age, conducted research on the life and work of Shakespeare. In this fascinating new biography he gives us the results of his scholarship in lively form, including the identity of Mr. W. H., the Rival Poet, and the mysterious Dark Lady of the sonnets. With his intimate knowledge of the Elizabethan period, combined with the perception of a practicing poet, Dr. Rowse also throws new light on many of the plays, clears up confusions that have hitherto prevailed, and solves the persistent difficulties surrounding Shakespeare's biograpy. Thanks to these efforts, we now know more about Shakespeare than about any other Elizabethan dramatist. This is perhaps the most illuminating biography of the Bard of Avon that exists. | Y
(4T,4H) | $12 | No | T |
| A.L. ROWES | PREFACES TO SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS - This book brings together in one volume A.L. Rowse's introductions to each of Shakespeare's plays. As the leading authority on the Elizabethan Age, Rowse throws new light on the circumstances in which the plays were written. Rowse is at home in Elizabethan England and with Shakespeare. He has solved numerous problems of dating, important if we are to understand the place of each play in Shakespeare's development. Rowse offers new and clarifying insights in the inspiration and character of each play. "Rowse writes with zest, his reading is vast and he knows his subject from end to end." | Y
(7T,10.5H) | $24 | No | T |
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| CHARLOTTE BRONTE | JANE EYRE (part 1) - Jane Eyre is an orphan child who knows only abuse and misery from her mistress. As a young girl she is sent off to boarding school where her good character and diligent habits win her friends and respect. In time, Jane herself becomes a teacher in the school. Seeking wider horizons, Jane takes employment at Thornfield where she comes under the spell of Edward Rochester, a man of savage temperament and desperate unhappiness. The reason for both is linked to a mysterious crone who is kept locked away on the third floor of the mansion. | Y
(8T,12H) | $28 | No | T |
| CHARLOTTE BRONTE | JANE EYRE (part 2) -
Charlotte Bronte's work reveals a passionate nature stifled by the social constraints of her time. The love Jane bore for Edward is essentially that of the author speaking though lips that were not hers, words to a man she would never meet. This is one of the great romances of all time. | Y
(8T,12H) | $28 | No | T |
| ERSKINE CALDWELL | TOBACCO ROAD - Set during the Depression in the depleted farmlands surrounding Augusta, Georgia, Tobacco Road was first published in 1932. It is the story of the Lesters, a family of white sharecroppers so destitute that most of their creditors have given up on them. Debased by poverty to an elemental state of ignorance and selfishness, the Lesters are preoccupied by their hunger, sexual longings and fear that they will some day descend to a lower rung on the social ladder than the black families who live near them. Erskine Caldwell was born in 1903 the son of an itinerant Presbyterian preacher and a schoolteacher in Newman, Georgia. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1984. By the time of his death in 1987, Caldwell's immensely popular books had sold a collective eighty million copies worldwide in more than forty languages. | Y
(4T,6H) | $16 | No | T |
| CHARLES DICKENS | A TALE OF TWO CITIES - "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." So begins one of the nineteenth century's enduring masterpieces, set amid the terror of revolutionary Paris and the relative safety of Georgian London. Travelling to England under the assumed name of Charles Darnay, a French aristocrat abandons his country. He is disgusted by the greed of the ancien regime, which feeds itself while the masses starve. Years later, the promise of a democratic revolution gives him reason to hope, and he returns to France to find that the new order is as contemptible as the old. Now Darnay must rescue his wife and father-in-law from blood-thirsty mobs and the guillotine. But will his unpredictable look-alike, Sydney Carton, destroy his chances? Or does Carton have something else in mind? | Y
(9T,13.5H) | $32 | No | T |
| ISAK DINESEN | OUT OF AFRICA - In 1921, the year that Baroness Karen Blixen found herself stranded by her divorce on a Kenyan mountain farm, most women in her circumstances would have fled back to civilization. But instead of returning to her native Denmark, the 35-year-old Blixen stayed on and ran the farm. In 1931 coffee prices collapsed and she was forced to leave. She returned to Denmark where she poured her memories into a passionate love letter about the life that would hold her in thrall till the end of her days. Out of Africa, published in 1937 under the pseudonym of Isak Dinesen, became a classic. | (9T,13.5H) | $32 | No | T |
| ALEXANDRE DUMAS | THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO - Set against the turbulent years of the Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas' thrilling adventure story is one of the most widely read novels of all time. In it the dashing young hero, Edmond Dantes, is betrayed by his enemies and thrown in a secret dungeon in the Chateau D'If ... doomed to spend his life in a dark prison cell. The story of his long, intolerable years in captivity, his miraculous escape, and his carefully wrought revenge creates a dramatic tale of mystery and intrigue, and paints a vision of France ... a dazzling, dueling, exuberant France ... that has become immortal | Y
(12T,18H) | $40 | No | T |
| DAPHNE DU MAURIER | REBECCA - A young woman, after a brief courtship, becomes the wife of an English aristocrat, Maxim de Winter. The two are deeply in love, but the memory of Max's first wife, Rebecca, still lingers on at Manderley, their country mansion. The beauty and charm of the first wife haunt the new wife, whose unfamiliarity with life in the grand manner makes her seem a poor choice in comparison. It is only in the revelaiton of Rebecca's death that the new mistress of Manderley finds the happiness which almost eluded her. | Y
(10T,15H) | $36 | No | T |
| C.S. FORESTER | LORD HORNBLOWER - This book concludes Hornblower's private war with Napoleon. Mutiny is the subject, but not by Hornblower's men. Before the problem is solved the audacious Admiral broadens the action and, immeasurably aided by his faithful captain, Bush, secures a breach in Napoleon's defenses. "No other contemporary writer can equal Forester at this kind of storytelling. It is not the action so much as the character of Hornblower that lifts the story up." | Y
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| E.M. FORSTER | HOWARDS END - Reflecting Forster's view of the moral and emotional weaknesses of the English upper class, this novel deals with a country house called Howards End and its influence on the lives of the wealthy and materialistic Wilcoxes; the cultured, idealistic Schlegel sisters; and the poor bank clerk Leonard Bast. Illustrating Forster's key aphorism, "Only connect," it brings together people from different classes and nations through sympathetic insight and understanding. As Lionel Trilling noted, it "eloquently addresses the question 'Who shall inherit England?'" | Y
(9T,13.5H) | $32 | No | T |
| WILLIAM GOLDING | LORD OF THE FLIES - Golding's classic novel of primitive savagery and survival is one of the most vividly realized and riveting works in modern fiction. At once a tale of adventure and a merciless allegory on the darker side of human nature, Lord of the Flies uses the full range of man's innocence and man's cruelty to expose the underpinnings of civilized society. The novel begins after a plane wreck deposits a group of boys, aged six to twelve on an isolated tropical island. Their struggle to survive and impose order on their existence quickly evolves from a battle against nature into a battle against their own primitive instincts. Golding's portrayal of the collapse of social order into chaos lays bare the fine line between innocence and savagery. Golding's true genius lies in his ability to conjure this malign vision of the human condition, while leaving open the possibility for self-awareness and ultimate salvation. | Y
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| ERNEST HEMINGWAY | FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS - In 1937 Hemingway arrived in Spain to cover the Civil War for the North American Newspaper Alliance. He filed his dispatches, but the real fruit of those years was For Whom The Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, an American fighting with anti-fascist guerillas in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, the tragic death of an ideal. It lives for us because of the great disillusionment that grew out of WW II, a war fought with such high hopes and concluded so cynically with a former ally gobbling up half of the Europe we hoped to liberate. "If the function of a writer is to reveal reality," Mawell wrote Hemingway after reading the manuscript, "no one ever so completely performed it." Great in power, broad in scope, intensely emotional, it stands as one of the best war novels of all times. | Y
(11T,16.5H) | $36 | No | T |
| VICTOR HUGO | LES MISERABLES (This recording has been abridged) - Few novels ever hit with such impact as Les Miserables. Within 24 hours, the first Paris edition was sold out. In other great cities of the world it was devoured with equal relish. Sensational, dramatic and passionate, Les Miserables is not only a superb adventure but a powerful social document. The story of Jean-Valjean, a convict struggling to escape his past, became a gospel of the poor and oppressed. | Y
(9T,13.5H) | $32 | No | T |
| HENRY JAMES | THE AMERICAN - Leon Edel writes of this novel: "Behind its melodrama and its simple romance is the history of man's dream of better worlds, travel to strange lands, and marriage to high and noble ladies. At the same time the book reveals a deep affection for American innocence and a deep awareness that such innocence carries with it a fund of ignorance. Its novelty lay in its 'international' character, and it is spoken of as the first truly international novel." Henry James was born into a distinguished New York family in 1843. From childhood his interests were more wordly and sophisticated than those held even by his peers. His eyes turned naturally to Europe, where he lived and wrote for a decade before settling in England in 1875. | Y
(11T,16.5H) | $36 | No | T |
| NORA ROBERTS | MONTANA SKY - When Jack Mercy dies, his three daughters -- unknown to each other and each conceived through different mothers -- gather at his Montana ranch to hear the reading of his will. They're shocked to learn that they must live together on the ranch for one year before they can inherit their shares. Sisteers yet strangers, they'll have to shelve their bitterness and unite like a family. If they don't, a wily enemy could destroy them -- and drain their newly found wealth. "Rich, passionate, suspenseful and sweeping." | Y
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| WILBUR SMITH | THE SOUND OF THUNDER - The Sound of Thunder continues the Courtney saga where When The Lion Feeds left off. Sean Courtney is off to fight the burghers in the Boer War -- first in harrowing missions on the front lines for the British Guides, then as the leader of commandos designed to fight the Boers on their own terms -- guerilla combat in the field. The peace that follows finds Sean with hopes of marriage and settling down to farming. But the hatred borne by his twin brother will not allow a peaceful life. Garry, who has been forced to live in the shadow of his twin's superiority since childhood, has vowed to pay him back for the wrongs done him. | Y
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