Unabridged: Classics, Adventure, Suspense
Box 45, Box 45A, Box 45B
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| PAUL JOHNSON | A HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY (part 1) - "It is almost 2000 years since the birth of Jesus Christ ... during these two millennia Christianity has proved more influential in shaping himan destiny thananyother institutional philosophy, but there are now signs that its period of predominance is drawing to a close, thereby inviting a retrospective and a balance sheet. | Y
(11T,16.5H) | $40 | No | T |
| PAUL JOHNSON | A HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY (part 2) - "Int his book I have attempted to survey the whole history in one volume. This involves much compression and selection, but has the advantage of providing new and illuminating perspectives, and of demonstrating how the varied thees of Christianity repeat and modulate themselves through the centuries." | Y
(12T,18H) | $36 | No | T |
| PAUL JOHNSON | A HISTORY OF THE JEWS (part 1) - This brilliant book surveys the impact of Jewish genius and imagination on the world during the past 4000 years. The Jews played a major role in the creation of the modern world and its component parts: first the great religious themes ... monotheism, the concept of personal worth and the development of Christianity ... also in the evolution of capitalism and the revolutionary developments of 19th and 20th century Western culture. | Y
(12T,18H) | $40 | No | T |
| PAUL JOHNSON | A HISTORY OF THE JEWS (part 2) - "An absorbing, often moving book, an insightful and impassioned blend of history and myth, story and interpretation. A powerful analysis of Jewish emergence with all its strenths and contradictions." | Y
(11T,16.5H) | $36 | No | T |
| PAUL JOHNSON | THE BIRTH OF THE MODERN (part 1) - Between 1815 and 1830, the world suddenly came of age, the author asserts. It was then that world cultures experienced a simultaneous explosion of change and inventiveness. It covered all fields artistic, as well as technological.
It was the age of Beethoven and Mendelssohn. It was a time when steamboats plowed along the Mississippi, also when the first railroad webbed across England. It was a period of great explorations, from the Canadian wilderness to the reaches of the Himalayas; also an era that saw the U.S. reach true independence and saw Britain become the world's leading industrial power.
"An account fit for the era it describes."
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(13T,19.5H) | $44 | No | T |
| PAUL JOHNSON | THE BIRTH OF THE MODERN (part 2) - "This is the best of Paul Johnson's books that I have listened to, and I have listened to all of them,except the one about Napoleon. It will challenge your view of history and make you think twice about romanticism. It will also make you ponder the question 'What is the Modern?'" | (13T,19.5H) | $44 | No | T |
| PAUL JOHNSON | THE BIRTH OF THE MODERN (part 3) - "They say the young Winston Churchill complained that his pudding lacked a theme. But it may be that a pudding does not need a theme. If there is a unifying principle here, Johnson has failed to articulate it, but his stories are so odd and wonderful, so provocative and cantankerous and (sometimes, even) charming that you keep coming back for more." | (13T,19.5H) | $44 | No | T |
| JOHN KEEGAN | A HISTORY OF WARFARE - Based on the premise that all civilizations originate in conflict, this work is a sweeping view of the place of warfare in human culture and an exposition of the human impulse toward violence. It probes the motivations and methods of war over the centuries -- from the strangely ritualistic combat of Stone Age peoples to today's warfare of mass destruction.
In the process, it shows how war has maintained its singular hold on the imagination, reaching into "the most secret places of the human heart, places where self dissolves rational purpose, where pride reigns, where emotion is paramount, where instinct is king."
John Keegan is, according to Tom Clancy, "the best military historian of our generation."
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| SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON | THE GREAT EXPLORERS (part 1) - The great quesiton is: Why iddn't someone else discover America? For example, why not the Arabs or Asians, many of whose nations had large maritime fleets. The answer has to do with something in the European character. Glimpses show through in Samuel Eliot Morison's work as he takes us aboard those wooden ships that sailed west into an ocean that was larg, rough and unknown. | Y
(9T,13.5H) | $32 | No | T |
| SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON | THE GREAT EXPLORERS (part 2) - "A fine enlargement of our understanding of how America came to be reached, and of the part played by explorers who collectively filled in the blank spaes on the map." | Y
(10T,15H) | $36 | No | T |
| CHARLES NORDHOFF AND JAMES NORNMAN HALL | MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY - Captain Bligh and Christian on a collision course. The book is even better than the movie. THE BOUNTY TRILOGY is the perfect example of what the historical novel should be -- an important historical incident brought to life in a book. This novel retells the story of the mutiny aboard the English vessel Bounty on its return voyage from the South Seas in 1789. The first volume describes the actual mutiny against her captain, Mr. Bligh, and the subsequent trial of the mutineers in England. | Y
(8T,12H) | $28 | No | T |
| BENJAMIN QUARLES | BLACK ABOLITIONISTS - While Uncle Tom's Cabin was an important anti-slavery document, it portrays a white man as the activist, and a black man as passive and meek. But that's only one story, says Benjamin Quarles. No offense to Harriet Tubman fans, but scores of other blacks worked boldly to abolish slavery, many of them pioneers in the movement. By night, freeborn and former slaves alike moved runaways along the Underground Railroad and by day, delivered fervent speeches for their cause. Quarles explains: "The struggle to make man free was a grim business, but blacks were used to grim businesses." | Y
(7T,10.5H) | $24 | No | T |
| AYN RAND | ANTHEM - He lived in the dark ages of the future. In a loveless world he dared to love the woman of his choice. In an age that had lost all trace of science and civilization he had the courage to seek and find knowledge. But these were not the crimes for which he would be hunted. He was marked for death because he had committed the unpardonable sin: he had stood forth from the mindless human herd. He was a man alone.
Ayn Rand's classic tale of a future dark age of the great "We"-in which individuals have no name, no independence, and no values-anticipates her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.
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| JOHN KEEGAN | THE FIRST WORLD WAR - The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly ended the relative peace and prosperity of the Victorian era, unleashing such demons of the twentieth cetury as mechanized warfare and mass death. It also helped to usher in the ideas that have shaped our times ... modernism in the arts, new approaches to psychology and medicine, radical thoughts about economics and society ... and in doing so shattered the faith in rationalism and liberalism that had prevailed in Europe since the Enlightenment. As Keegan shows, the devastation of the war extended over the entirety of Europe, and still profoundly informs the politics and culture of the continent today. | N
(6T,9H) | $12 | No | T |
| TIME LIFE BOOKS | ANTIETAM - In early September, 1862, a freshly victorious Confederate Army led by master stategist General Robert E. Lee was poised at the doorstep of Washington D.C.. Lee was determined to play his position to fullest advantage by carrying the war onto Northern soil for the first time. With the battle cry of "On to Maryland," Lee's ragged troops crossed the Potomac. Letters, journal entries and reports chronicle the bloody battle which left 4.000 men from both armies killed, wounded or captured in the desperate struggle to repel the first Confederate invasion of Union territory. | N
(1T,1.5H | $10 | No | T |
| TIME LIFE BOOKS | ATLANTA - Fall of the South's Gate City. Based on personal letters, diaries and recollections, a dramatic recreation of the shattering experience that was the Atlanta campaign | N
(1T,1.5H) | $10 | No | T |
| TIME LIFE BOOKS | GETTYSBURG - The echoes of courage and cannons. Little Round Top; Pickett's Charge; Cemetery Ridge. These are names that will resound forever in the annals of American history. With sound effects, music and a full cast of voices recreating the scene, the battle of Gettysburg will come to life, both as a military milestone and as the poignant personal experience of those who lived and died there. | N
(1T,1.5H | $10 | No | T |
| TIME LIFE BOOKS | POMPEII - Today the remains of Pompeii's magnificent forum, streets and houses lie empty in the shadow of Mt. Vesuvius between the Bay of Naples and the Sarno River in Italy. But once the city bustled with the activity of its people, busy with commerce supported by its shipping trade and its role as a link between interior Italy and the outside world. Scores of artisans lived and worked there. There were theaters, bars, taverns, public baths, the spacious forum and a grand basilica. On August 24 and 25 in the year 79 AD, that life stopped. The volcanic Mt. Vesuvius spewed fire, lava, smoke and ash upon Pompeii, burying the city and many of its inhabitants. With dramatic sound effects and music, you'll join in the exploration of Pompeii: City Captured In Ash. | N
(1T,1.5H | $10 | No | T |
| GEOFFREY C. WARD | THE CIVIL WAR - A stunning evocation of one of the most crucial times in our history. Here are the events of a war that tore our nation asunder, from the firing of the first shot at Fort Sumter, to the siege of Vicksburg, the battles of Shiloh and Gettysburg, to Sherman's march to the sea, to the fall of Richmond. Here, too, is the story of the familiar figures who battled at the frontlines and behind the scenes. This is an extraordinary and spectacular account of a moment in history that dramatically and forever changed America | N
(2T,3H) | $10 | No | T |
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| BOX 45A, Unabridged |
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| JOSEPH C. GOULDEN | KOREA: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE WAR (part 1) - The definitive account of one of the great tragedies in modern U.S. history. It was America's first no-win, limited objective, undeclared war ... a police action. It cost 52,246 American lives, many of them veterans of WWII who were recalled to active service in emergency.
Korea covers every aspect of the war, political as well as military, including the peace negotiations and settlement, the consequences of which reverberate to this day. | Y
(14T,21H) | $48 | No | T |
| JOSEPH C. GOULDEN | KOREA: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE WAR (part 2) - "An essential and significant story of our transistion from the euphoria of WW II into the somber modern era of contending blocs, where war always broods on the horizon." | Y
(15T,22.5H) | $48 | No | T |
| NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE | THE HOUSE OF SEVEN GABLES - An old mansion in Salem, moss-covered and gabled, broods over the destiny of a distinguished but troubled New England family -- the Pynchons. A haunting centuries-old curse, a forceful probing of national and personal guilt, a romance between the young heroine and an attractive stranger -- all intertwine in this work that Henry James declared "the closest approach we are likely to have to the Great American Novel."
"The story moves in soft September light, melting like a happy dream of Shakespeare."
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(8T,12H) | $28 | No | T |
| PAUL JOHNSON | A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE (part 1) - "The creation of the Unites States of America is the greatest of all human adventures" begins Paul Johnson. Johnson grasps what makes America unique: a blend of moral fervor and an optimistic, pioneering spirit. He covers every aspect of U.S. history, from the first settlements to the Clinton Administration. | Y
(10T,15H) | $36 | No | T |
| PAUL JOHNSON | A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE (part 2) - Not one to conceal his opinions, he suggests: The First World War (1914-1918) was one of the primal tragedies of modern civilization; the robber barons got a bum rap; Harding and Coolidge were both underrated; Nixon was the victim of a witch hunt. Controversial and always provocative, Johnson is, above all, a strong believer in the history and destiny of the American people. | Y
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| PAUL JOHNSON | A HISTORY OF AMERICAN PEOPLE (part 3) - "A vast tour de force of research and writing" | (12T,18H) | $40 | No | T |
| JAMES JOYCE | DUBLINERS - These 15 stories, Joyce's first published prose, are complete in themselves, even though they got further development in ULYSSES. The author called them "a series of chapters in the moral history of his community." They bear the unmistakable stamp of Joyce's genius and are an augury of the masterworks which were to follow.
Joyce was born near Dublin in 1882 and educated in Jesuit schools in Ireland. Dissatisfied with the intellectual atmosphere, he left in 1902 and spent most of the remainder of his life abroad.
ULYSSES, his best-known work, was published in 1922. When he died 19 years later, his pioneering literary efforts were still the subject of intense debate, as they are to this day. No author could ask for more.
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(8T,8H) | $20 | No | T |
| FRANZ KAFKA / GUY MAUPASSANT | THE METAMORPHOSIS / SHORT STORIES - THE METAMORPHOSIS begins as its protagonist, Gregor Samsa, wakes up one morning to find that he has become a huge insect. This change is understandably difficult for Gregor, not to mention his family and business. It ends up costing him his life.
The story has been interpreted as everything from religious allegory to psychoanalytic case history, but works because, though written nearly a century ago, Kafka's fantastic imaginings convey a reality of their own. We surrender to Gregor's experience, which in a way becomes ours.
Also included are stories by Guy de Maupassant: "The Englishman," "The Piece of String", "The Necklace", "A Crisis", "The Will", "Love", "The Inn" and "Was it a Dream."
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(5T,5H) | $16 | No | T |
| ROBERT MIDDLEKAUFF | THE GLORIOUS CAUSE (part 1) - Over 20 years in the making, THE OXFORD HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES represents the best historical writing of our generation. The series consists of nine volumes. Each recounts the story of a particular period or era.
The first, THE GLORIOUS CAUSE, recalls the struggle for independence. It's not hard to imagine, a king who felt he could dictate to us, his local bureaucracy putting on the squeeze. It united us, and when you remember our regional differences, it was a miracle. An equal miracle is the way the author captures the times with their conflict, glory, opportunity and choices.
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| ROBERT MIDDLEKAUFF | THE GLORIOUS CAUSE (part 2) - "Robert Middlekauff's energy and clarity makes us read as if we did not know how this struggle will come out." (The New Yorker)
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(9T,13.5H) | $32 | No | T |
| RICHARD PIPES | THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION (part 1) - The first comprehensive history of an event of momentous importance for the entire world. Pipe's account embraces the revolution not only as a political and military struggle for power, but also as an unprecedented attempt, in Trotsky' words, to "overthrow the world." | Y
(15T,22.5H) | $48 | No | T |
| RICHARD PIPES | THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION (part 2) - Pipes depicts the struggle as a series of upheavals extending over two decades. It started late in the 19th century and initially had modest goals. But as it grew in authority, its aims broadened. Ultimately it tried to create a perfect society and a new type of human being. | (11T,16.5H) | $36 | No | T |
| RICHARD PIPES | THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION (part 3) - "An illuminating and authoritative history ... the result of 40 years of study ... that will stand as the definitive work." | (10T,15.5H) | $36 | No | T |
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| BOX 45B, Unabridged |
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| JANE AUSTEN | EMMA - Full of irony, this comedy of manners satirizes the self-deceptions of vanity. Emma presents a picture of mixed family and social life as did Pride And Prejudice, though mellowed by a riper humor. Emma is recognizable as a vamp, a pretty and capricious young woman who defines the limits of reality by banging against them. Because Jane Austen shares with us her sense of Emma's pretensions, we are amused and tolerant of this foolish but ripening girl. | Y
(13T,19.5H) | $44 | No | T |
| CHARLES DICKENS | DAVID COPPERFIELD (part 1) - It is not surprising that Charles Dickens thought of David Copperfield as his "favorite child": the book is Dickens' most autobiographical novel. The author drew many of the story's unique characters from his family and acquaintances. Numerous adventures in David's life are also products of Dickens' youthful experiences. | Y
(10T,15H) | $36 | No | T |
| CHARLES DICKENS | DAVID COPPERFIELD (part 2) - Dickens lived a life much like Copperfield. He came from a large family submerged in poverty and won his way up by great energy and effort. Thus the story has power and compassion and lives today as it did when it emerged fresh from the pen of its author. | Y
(12T,18H) | $40 | No | T |
| CHARLES DICKENS | THE PICKWICK PAPERS (part 1) - The adventures of the immortal Pickwick Club, headed by the good Mr. Pickwick himself, abetted by his faithful manservant, Sam Weller, are the basis of Dicken's first great literary achievement.
Following the intrepidly bumbling Pickwickians along the highways and byways of old England, Dickens creates a vivid world of highwaymen, duels, lawsuits, jails, romantic imbroglios -- but a world, too, of deeply affecting human warmth and generosity.
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| CHARLES DICKENS | THE PICKWICK PAPERS (part 2) - "Superbly vigorous, filled with a host of indelible character creations, THE PICKWICK PAPERS has never ceased to enjoy the popularity it won originally in 1838." (Publisher's Source) | Y
(8T,12H) | $28 | No | T |
| CHARLES DICKENS | THE PICKWICK PAPERS (part 3) - "This is one of my favorite books. I have read the print copy several times, but it was delightful to listen to a talented reader, although I would have loved to hear David Case do it. It is funny and warm with characters that will burn themselves into your memory." | Y
(9T,13.5H) | $28 | No | T |
| WILLIAM FAULKNER | AS I LAY DYING - Each member of the Bundren family ... including Addie, the dead wife and mother ... contributes to the story of Addie's death and the family's bizarre journey to Jefferson to bury her. As they talk they reveal what Addie calls their "secret and selfish thought" ... their private responses to Addie's life and their own reasons for undertaking the perilous journey. The novel is a dazzling display of Faulkner's virtuosity with the English language, as well as an extraordinary account of the essential loneliness at the core of this Mississippi family. | Y
(8T,8H) | $20 | No | T |
| TONY HORWITZ | CONFEDERATES IN THE ATTIC - After years of filing dispatches from foreign war zones, Tony Horwitz comes home to a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire and propelled by his boyhood passion for the Civil War, Horwitz embarks on an adventure into the soul of the unvanquished South, where the ghosts of the Lost Cause are resurrected through ritual and remembrance. In Virginia, Horwitz joins a band of "hard-core" reenactors who crash-diet to achieve the hollow-eyed look of starved Confederates; in Kentucky, he witnesses Klan rallies and calls for race war; and in the book's climax, Horwitz takes a marathon trek from Antietam to Gettysburg to Appomattox in the company of Robert Lee Hodge, an eccentric pilgrim who dubs their odyssey the "Civil Wargasm." Poignant and picaresque, haunting and hilarious, it speaks to anyone who has ever felt drawn to the dark romance of the Civil War.
"The freshest book about divisiveness in America that I have read in some time..." (Roy Blount, Jr., New York Times Book Review)
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(11T,16.5H) | $36 | No | T |
| WASHINGTON IRVING | RIP VAN WINKLE AND OTHER STORIES - The youngest of 11 children of a successful New York hardware merchant, Washington Irving ws born in 1783. While sometimes a biographer, he is best known for his short fiction. This collection includes: "Rip Van Winkle," "The Spectre Bridegroom," "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," "The Adventure of the German Student," "The Devil and Tom Walker," "The Adventure of the Mason," "Legend of the Rose of the Alhambra," "The Governor and the Notary" and "Governor Manco and the Soldier." | Y
(5T,5H) | $16 | No | T |
| THOMAS KENEALLY | SCHINDLER'S LIST - SCHINDLER'S LIST is the true story of Oskar Schindler, German Catholic, industrialist and prison camp director -- a man who saved more than a thousand Jews from extermination during WW II.
From the actual testimony of "Schindlerjuden," (Schindler's Jews), a picture of this remarkable man emerges. Not only did he put his life at risk protecting Jews, but he spent his entire fortune in the effort. As the war drew to a close, and as the Nazi administration pushed its extermination policies with incredible rigor, Schindler was able to safeguard more than a thousand otherwise doomed people.
"An astounding story...in this case the truth is far more powerful than anything the imagination could invent."
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| WALTER LORD | A NIGHT TO REMEMBER AND THE NIGHT LIVES ON - The story of the "unsinkable" Titanic, "The ship that God himself couldn't sink": built by the White Star Line and meeting destiny with an iceberg in mid-Atlantic on her maiden voyage in the morning of April 15, 1912.
The Night Lives On was prompted by the 1985 discovery of the Titanic's hulk on the ocean floor. Less than three hours later she disappeared below the surface taking with her 1500 souls. | Y
(10T,15H) | $36 | No | T |
| GARRETT MATTINGLY | THE ARMADA - Garrett Mattingly has written far more than a history of the defeat of the Spanish fleet in 1588. Meticulous in describing its disastrous fate, he also discusses the profound effects of Philip's decision on every kingdom in Europe. A Book Society choice in England, a selection of the History Book Club and Book-of-the-Month Club in the United States, The Armada received the National Book award for non-fiction and a Pulitzer special citation. | Y
(9T,13.5H) | $32 | No | T |
| ANAIS NIN | DELTA OF VENUS - In DELTA OF VENUS one encounters poetic pornography, if the two words can be joined. While the book must be classified triple-X for sex and language, the author communicates an authentic vision of crossing to paradise on a bridge of perversion.
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(7T,10.5H) | $36 | No | T |
| JASPER RIDLEY | HENRY VIII: THE POLITICS OF TYRANNY - Everyone knows about Henry VIII's problems with his wives .... and his drastic solutions. Yet the domestic tyranny of this English monarch pales in comparison with his genius for politically terrorizing an entire nation. Declaring himself supreme head of the church in England; defying the Pope, the Holy Roman Emperor and the King of France; using his ministers as the instruments of his own decisions and casting them aside or executing them later: this is what transformed Henry VIII from a "jovial bon vivant" into the most formidable ruler England has ever known. "...an extraordinarily vivid biography, in which the characters and the issues stand out, always sharply and subtly etched." | Y
(15T,22.5H) | $48 | No | T |
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