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The original American dramatization as broadcast on National Public Radio.From the wonderful landscapes of the Shire and Lothlorien, to the stark and sunless land of Mordor, the courageous Hobbits pursue their quest, bearing the aweso...

Though famous for the massive War and Peace, Tolstoy was equally adept at shorter forms as is shown by this novella. Ivan Ilyich Golovin is a high court judge in St Petersburg who lives a carefree life. One day, without warning, he is...

In 2010, we mark the centenary of Tolstoy's death with a number of Tolstoy recordings, starting with "The Cossacks". Naxos AudioBooks has developed a strong association with Tolstoy's writing, best represented by our landmar...

Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, Leo Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of h...

Power struggles among the clergy in a fictional cathedral town form the basis for this hilarious romp in which lively characterizations and ironic observations combine comedy with keen social and psychological insights.

A fitting conclusion to the Palliser novels, one of the most remarkable achievements in British fiction, The Duke's Children is a touching story of love, family relationships, loyalty, and principles, following the aging Duke of Omniu...

A 19th-century Russian masterpiece about love, politics, family, and the tension between the new generation and the old world. Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Children is a book full to bursting with life, both co...

'The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.' -- Mark TwainMark Twain (1835-1910) was the first American writer to capture the unique and colorful vernacular of his country's populace. Instead of striving to perfect any particula...

This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1...

Francois-Marie Arouet, known better as Voltaire, was hailed as a genius of the Enlightenment, a man dissatisfied with the religious and superstitious attitudes of his time, and a champion of sharp irony and logical reasoning. His most...

The Sorrows of Young Werther propelled Goethe to instant fame when it first appeared in 1774. Goethe's story of a sensitive young artist--an alienated youth of searching introspection and passionate intensity--captured the Romantic se...

The Sorrows of Young Werther brings to life an idyllic German village where a youth on vacation meets and falls for lovely Charlotte. The tragedy unfolds in the letters Werther writes to his friend about Charlotte's charms, even after...

Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century and called "Evelyn Waugh's finest achievement" by the New York Times, Brideshead Revisited is a stunningexploration of desire, duty, and memory. The wel...

Orson Welles's remarkable career as director, producer, screenwriter, author, and actor may have caused some to forget his days in radio theater. This set is a wonderful reminder. Welles's marvelous voice, moving in pitch and tone, ...

A scientist invents a machine that can travel through the fourth dimension - time. What will he find? And what will that tell him about man's inexorable pursuit of knowledge? What he discovers shocks him-and may have lessons for us al...

In this thought-provoking masterpiece, H. G. Wells predicts the invention of the atomic bomb, which inadvertently leads to mass destruction and forces the world to 'start over.

H. G. Wells sets forth an intriguing first-hand observation of Italy, France and Britain under severe duress during the 'War to End All Wars,' World War I. He insightfully examines the technological effects of modern warfare, particul...

This edition presents Wharton's two most controversial stories, which she considered inseperable, in one volume for the first time. Set in frigid New England, both deal with sexual awakening and appetite and their devastating consequ...

Wharton’s sly and delicious novel about the ambitious social ascent of Undine Spragg, now in a Penguin Vitae edition, with a foreword by Sofia Coppola A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Considered by many to be her master...

Ralph Waldo Emerson issued a call for a great poet to capture and immortalize the unique American experience. In 1855, an answer came with Leaves of Grass.  Today, this masterful collection remains not only a seminal event in Ame...

William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to a university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar's life. As the years...

Owen Wister's powerful story of the silent stranger who rides into the uncivilized West and defeats the forces of evil embodies one of the most enduring themes in American mythology.

Five of the earliest and freshest of the Jeeves and Bertie stories are collected in this volume. The titles are: "Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest," "Leave It to Jeeves," "Jeeves and the Hardboiled Egg," &qu...

One of the greatest comedy writers of all time for classic humor, pure nostalgia, and lovers of farceSince Lord Emsworth first appeared, his shambling gait, incoherent English, and lack of stomach for a fight have persuaded friends an...

"The funniest writer ever to put words to paper."  —Hugh Laurie The latest Jeeves offering from Martin Jarvis contains five unabridged stories starring Jeeves and Wooster: Jeeves and the Kid Clementia, The Love that Puri...

"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." First published in 1929, Virginia Woolf's pioneering work on women in literature is an accessible yet fiercely astute essay. It is a crystallizatio...

'Listen, Stranger!'Wordsworth and Coleridge's joint collection of poems has often been singled out as the founding text of English Romanticism. Within this initially unassuming, anonymous volume were many of the poems that came to de...

Set in the 1860s in northern France, Zola's masterpiece of naturalistic fiction portrays the hardships of a mining community in which backbreaking physical exertion is undertaken for starvation wages. Étienne Lantier, an unemployed m...

His Excellency Eugène Rougon is set in the world of high politics and low characters during the Second Empire. The main protagonist, Eugène Rougon, is an determined and ruthless politician surrounded by a coterie of ambitious and gr...