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- Great Classic Stories III
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Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 9/01/11
Formats: Digital Audy
A great new collection of classic short fiction, brilliantly read by a selection of narrators
This recording includes the following stories:
• “The Lightening-Rod Man” by Herman Melville
• “One of the Missing” by Ambrose Bierce
• “The Leopard Man’s Story” by Jack London
• “Tennessee’s Partner” by Bret Harte
• “The New Catacomb” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• “A Pair of Silk Stockings” by Kate Chopin
• “My Watch” and “The Widow’s Protest” by Mark Twain
• “An Ideal Family” by Kate Mansfield
• “A Painful Case” by James Joyce
• “Small Fry” by Anton Chekhov
• “The Road from Colonus” by E. M. Forster
• “Silhouettes” by Jerome K Jerome
• “The Voice of the City” by O. Henry
• “Dalyrimple Goes Wrong” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• “The Diamond Mine” by Willa Cather
• “The Man with the Golden Brain” by Alphonse Daudet
• “Morella” by Edgar Allan Poe
• “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant
• “The Portrait” by Edith Wharton
• “The Philosopher in the Apple Orchard” by Anthony Hope
• “Monkey Nuts” by D. H. Lawrence
- Great Classic Stories III
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Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 9/01/11
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Where Angels Fear to Tread
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Read by Edward Petherbridge
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Release Date: 10/01/09
Formats: Digital Audy
When attractive, impulsive, English widow Lilia takes a holiday in Italy, she causes a scandal by marrying Gino, a dashing and highly unsuitable Italian twelve years her junior. Her prim, snobbish in-laws make no attempt to hide their disapproval, and when Lilia's decision eventually brings disaster, her English relatives embark on an expedition to face the uncouth foreigner. But when they are confronted by the beauty of Italy and the charm and vitality of the disreputable Gino, they are forced to examine their own narrow lives. Their reactions are emotional, violent, and unexpected.- Where Angels Fear to Tread
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Read by Edward Petherbridge
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Release Date: 10/01/09
Formats: Digital Audy
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- A Passage to India
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Read by Sam Dastor
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Release Date: 8/01/03
Formats: Digital Audy
When Adela and her elderly companion, Mrs. Moore, arrive in the town of Chandrapore, India, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community.
Determined to explore the “real India,” they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr. Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a mysterious incident occurs while they are exploring the Marabar caves with Aziz, and the well-respected doctor soon finds himself at the center of a scandal that rouses violent passions among both the British and their Indian subjects.
- A Passage to India
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Read by Sam Dastor
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Release Date: 8/01/03
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Longest Journey
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Read by Wanda McCaddon
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Release Date: 5/01/01
Formats: Digital Audy
Bookish, sensitive, and given to wild enthusiasms, Rickie Elliot is virtually made for a life at Cambridge, where he can subsist on a regimen of biscuits and philosophical debate. But the love-smitten Rickie leaves his natural habitat to marry the devastatingly practical Agnes Pembroke, who brings with her, as a sort of dowry, a teaching position at the abominable Sawston School.
Out of this misalliance comes Forster's most stylistically daring novel. As it follows Rickie from the comforts of Cambridge to the petty intrigues of Sawston to the lush, haunted environs of rural Wiltshire, The Longest Journey gives us a comic yet immensely moving vision of a country split between pragmatism and imagination, sober conformity and redemptive eccentricity, upright Christianity and delirious paganism.
This, the author's own favorite of his works, is an introspective novel of manners at once comic and tragic.
- The Longest Journey
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Read by Wanda McCaddon
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Release Date: 5/01/01
Formats: Digital Audy
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- A Room with a View
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Read by Frederick Davidson
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Release Date: 12/01/98
Formats: Digital Audy
E. M. Forster’s celebrated social comedy explores romantic intrigue and prim propriety among a colorful cast of Edwardian characters. Lucy Honeychurch, a young English woman traveling in Italy with her stuffy chaperone aunt, finds herself constrained by the claustrophobic influence of her British guardians and attracted to the free-spirited George Emerson, whose family’s radical politics make him entirely unsuitable. Sharing a spontaneous moment of passion with him in the Italian countryside, Lucy is soon at war with the snobbery of her class and her own conflicting desires. Back in England, she is courted by a more acceptable, if stifling, suitor and soon realizes she must make a final choice between convention and passion.
- A Room with a View
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Read by Frederick Davidson
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Release Date: 12/01/98
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Where Angels Fear to Tread
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Read by Frederick Davidson
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Release Date: 12/01/98
Formats: Digital Audy
E. M. Forster's first novel explores the comic and tragic effects of culture clash between insular, provincial British personalities and sensual Italian culture and atmosphere.
Lilia Herriton, an impulsive thirty-three-year-old widow from London, travels to Tuscany, where she falls in love with both Italy and the handsome, carefree Gino Carella, a dentist's son twelve years her junior. When news reaches the snobbish Herriton family that Lilia intends to marry again, this time to an unsuitable Italian, the domineering Mrs. Herriton sends her son, Philip, to prevent the catastrophe—but he arrives too late.
When tragedy strikes, the Herriton family decides to bring Lilia's infant son to England to be brought up properly—but not everyone is satisfied with the situation.
- Where Angels Fear to Tread
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Read by Frederick Davidson
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Release Date: 12/01/98
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Howards End
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Read by Nadia May
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Release Date: 9/01/92
Formats: Digital Audy
In this vibrant portrait of Edwardian England and the many intricacies of class relations in English society during the turn of the century, two families with conflicting values are brought together by an inheritance dispute over a charming country house called Howards End. Sisters Margaret and Helen Schlegel and their brother Tibby place their values in civilized culture, music, literature, and conversation with their friends. Henry Wilcox and his children, Charles, Paul, and Evie, are concerned with the business side of life and distrust emotions and imagination. Through a series of romantic entanglements, disappearing wills, and sudden tragedy, the conflict over the house emerges as a symbolic struggle for England's very future.
Regarded by many as Forster's masterpiece, Howards End concerns the nature of class and social status and how they affect one's relationships and well-being—for better or for worse.
- Howards End
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Read by Nadia May
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Release Date: 9/01/92
Formats: Digital Audy