Alice in Wonderland (California Artis...
Lewis CarrollOasis Audio's new Family Listening Series will take you back to the days of yesteryear, when the radio let your imagination paint the pictures. Listen with us, as a cast of well-known actors bring these beloved classics to life. Who a...
In this, the first of the Leatherstocking Tales, we meet Natty Bumppo as a young man living in upstate New York in the early 1740s. Bumppo, called Deerslayer, and his friend Hurry Harry approach Lake Glimmerglass, or Otsego, where the...
Dickens’s second novel was a far cry from THE PICKWICK PAPERS, his first. The story of an orphan who flees the workhouse only to fall in with a gang of thieves and prostitutes in London’s sleazy underworld, it was a trench...
A Portrait of the Artist As a Young M...
James JoyceJoyce’s bildungsroman--his first novel--traces the development of Stephen Daedalus, Joyce’s alter ego. In order to pursue his artistic calling, Stephen, like Joyce, must reject his family, religion, and native land. At the...
Louisa May Alcott's semiautobiographical story of a nurse's experiences in the Civil War. Alcott, most famous for her 'Little Women' novel, weaves a light but fulfilling story.
A Wonderful Welcome to Oz: The Marvel...
L. Frank BaumFor more than a century, L. Frank Baum’s kingdom of Oz and its delightful denizens have enchanted readers of all ages. In this illustrated Modern Library edition, the bestselling novelist and children’s book writer Gregory...
Listeners can follow the fortunes of the dashing young swordsman D'Artagnan and his daredevil companions, Athos, Aramis and Porthos. The reading is supplemented by music from Raff, Bruch and Nielsen.
Helen Keller at age 12 was like a wild animal. Deaf, blind and utterly unable to communicate, she went through her young life alienated and terrified, struggling against all who tried to help her. Annie Sullivan was half-blind herself...
Sons and Lovers (Naxos Complete Class...
D. H. LawrenceSons and Lovers, Lawrences third published novel, was written by the author at the height of his literary powers. The story of class differences (the relationship between a middle-class woman and a miner) in the tough world of coal mi...
That Machiavelli’s name has become synonymous with cold-eyed political calculation only heightens the intrinsic fascination of The Prince - the world’s pre-eminent how-to manual on the art of getting and keeping power, and...
In the second entry in the Shadow Wranglers series, when female vampire Raisa is forced to accept protection from tough, ruthless vampire Jared Johnson, she finds it increasingly difficult to resist his forbidden allure while keeping ...
The Scarlet Pimpernel (Book 1 of The ...
Emmuska Orczy OrczyFor the condemned nobles during the French Revolution, there is a ray of hope: rescue by the Scarlet Pimpernel. His identity remains a mystery to his sworn enemy, the ruthless Chauvelin, and to his devoted admirer, the beautiful Lady ...
Orwell depicts a gray, totalitarian world in which privacy does not exist, news is manufactured according to the authorities' will, and those with unorthodox ideas are brainwashed or put to death. Orwell's 1949 nightmare vision of the...
From a swashbuckling pirate fantasy to a meditation on American morality—two classic Steinbeck novels make their black spine debutsIN AWARDING John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with T...
John Updike takes the Hamlet story as the basis for this absorbing novel about power and lust in 12th-century Denmark. Using both Shakespeare's play and original historical sources, Updike concentrates his narrative on Danish history,...
Prendrick, a survivor of a shipwreck, is picked up by a schooner bound for Noble's Isle. On the island, Prendrick encounters the Beast People, roughly human but with animalistic traits. It turns out that Dr. Moreau, a scientist who ca...
Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and wo...
A Christmas Carol: Unabridged (Classi...
Charles DickensEyewitness Classics are expert abridgements and retellings matched with brilliant illustrations to create books that will capture the attention of today's visually sophisticated children. Rich factual content includes new photography,...
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing o...
Jerome K. JeromeJerome K. Jerome's comic masterpiece---and one of the best-known classics of English humor---follows the misadventures of three bungling, Victorian-era bachelors who take off on a rowing excursion up the Thames.
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jules VerneProfessor Lindenbrock and his nephew Axel, the story's narrator, on a quest to reach the very core of the earth, gain access to the interior by travelling north to cold and barren Iceland, where they enter the subterranean regions th...
Jane Austen's last and most melancholy novel was published posthumously in 1818. In PERSUASION, Austen creates a strong, mature, and independent heroine, Anne Elliot. Having foolishly broken off an engagement eight years earlier to Fr...
With her 1847 novel, 'Jane Eyre', Charlotte Bronte created one of the most unforgettable heroines of all time. Not only is this the classic story of unforgettable love, but it is also the memorable tale of one woman's fight to claim h...
The Heart of Darkness and The Secret ...
Joseph ConradTwo of Conrad's BEST-KNOWN works—in a single volume In this pair of literary voyages into the inner self, Joseph Conrad has written two of the most chilling, disturbing, and noteworthy pieces of fiction of the twentieth century.
The landmark novel that inspired Verdi's opera La Traviata, in a sparkling new translation "One of the greatest love stories of all time," according to Henry James, and the inspiration for Verdi's opera La Traviata, the ...
Rebellious and affectionate, Maggie Tulliver is always in trouble. Recalling her own experiences as a girl, George Eliot describes Maggie’s turbulent childhood with a sympathetic engagement that makes the early chapters of The M...
Take a journey into the life of a young black male who gets caught up in the fast lane?fast cars, fast women and fast money. Feeling cheated, betrayed and unloved, he makes up his mind not to love anybody. He sets his goal to become t...
The Forsyte Saga: Book 1: The Man of ...
John GalsworthyGalsworthy's trilogy The Forsyte Saga broke ground twice: first as a stunning portrait of a bourgeois British family circa 1906-1921, and again as the seminal mini-series of the 1960s. Readers and viewers were equally captivated by th...
CLASSIC SHORT STORIES FROM THE MASTER OF AMERICAN FICTIONFirst published in 1927, Men Without Women represents some of Hemingway's most important and compelling early writing. In these fourteen stories, Hemingway begins to examine the...
Great Classic Stories 2 (Great Classi...
Jerome K. JeromeThe 20 diverse stories collected here show why the short story continues to be one of the most popular of literary genres. Included are works by masters of the field, including one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best Pat Hobby stories, &quo...
The story of a lay community of mixed-up people encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns, follows the lives of Dora Greenfield, an erring wife who returns to her husband, and Michael Meade, who is confronted by...