According to legend, Sweeney Todd had his barber shop at number 186 Fleet Street, next door to St. Dunstan's Church, just a few blocks away from the Royal Courts of Justice. On this site, they say, he robbed and murdered more than 150...

Banned in America for almost thirty years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume to Miller's Tropic of Cancer chronicles his life in 1920s New York City. Famous for its frank portrayal of life in Brooklyn's eth...

First published in 1935, when Americans were still largely oblivious to the rise of Hitler in Europe, this prescient novel tells a cautionary tale of the fragility of democracy and offers an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fasci...

Barnaby Rudge, set against the background of the anti-catholic riots of the 1780s, follows the plight of young Barnaby and his widowed mother. Martin Chuzzlewit is a darkly comic masterpiece in which a disinherited Martin sets sail fo...

Three of Charles Dickens's much-loved Christmas novellas---The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man---are brought to life in this classic audiobook collection.

Les Miserables is primarily a great humanitarian work that encourages compassion and hope in the face of adversity and injustice. It is also a historical novel of great scope, and provides a detailed vision of nineteenth-century Frenc...

The works collected here span the early and late periods of Henry James' career. Widely considered the finest of his early novels, The Portrait of a Lady exemplifies a familiar theme in James' writing: the meeting of Europe and Americ...

Indoors are her duties. There, too, is The Man of Wrath, her upright Teutonic husband. But outdoors, Elizabeth can escape her domestic routine to read books, play with her three babies, and garden to her hearts content.

In his National Book Award winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher's Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America.It...

When a jealous Zeus discovers that the compassionate Titan, Prometheus, has introduced the gift of fire to liberate mere mortals from oppression and servitude, he has Prometheus bound to a rocky prison in the Scythian desert, where th...

The only complete trilogy to survive from the ancient Greek theater is here presented in the first sound recording of all three plays: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides. In the Oresteia, Aeschylus dramatizes the myth ...

A collection of BBC radio full-cast dramatisations of Jane Austen's six major novels Jane Austen is one of the finest writers in the English language, and this volume includes all six of her classic novels.Mansfield Park: On a quest t...

Experience four of Austen's classic novels as lively full-cast radio dramas! This gift collection includes Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park, and Northanger Abbey.

This 11 CD box set completes the main work of Jane Austen on Naxos AudioBooks. It features "Persuasion", "Pride and Prejudice", "Sense and Sensibility" and "Lady Susan".

• Pride and Prejudice was only half the story • If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah often thought, she'd most likely be a sight more careful with them.  In this irresistibly imagined belowstairs answ...

Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin's now–classic narrative delves into ...

Mr. Artur Sammler is, above all, a man who has lasted, from the civilized pleasures of English life in the 1920s and 30s through the war and death camps in Poland. Moving now through the chaotic and dangerous streets of New York's Upp...

"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes."The carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour of a chill Midwestern October eve. Ushering in Halloween a week before its time, a calliope's shrill sire...

All seems well and good when young Lucy Graham marries Sir Michael Audley; she has married well and Sir Michael is thoroughly devoted to his new bride. His daughter Alicia, however, sees through her new stepmother's girlish ways. Shor...

Emily Bronte's time-tested story of love turned on itself and the violence and misery that result from thwarted passionA novel of immense power, Wuthering Heights is filled with the raw beauty of the English moors and a deep compassio...

This delightful tale follows the adventures of the endearing young rogue, Frank, who has failed to commit to a single enterpriseuntil he meets Alicia Dulcifer and her inexplicably wealthy father.

In early America, the French and Indian War pits English colonists against France's Indian allies. Natty Bumppo and his friends fight to protect the daughters of an English commander from the evil Magua and his Iroquois thugs.

Baree was the son of a grey wolf and a black dog, born in the vast Canadian wilderness. He learns about nature and his fellow animals by trial and error - Fighting with owls and playing with beavers. Being alone in the wild, he desper...

Honore de Balzac, who is generally regarded as a founding father of realism in European fiction, first entered the mainstream with The Magic Skin, a fable-like tale delineating the excesses and vanities of contemporary life.

Bleak House opens in a London shrouded by fog a fog that swirls most densely about the Court of Chancery, where the obscure case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce lies lost in endless litigation, slowly devouring an inheritance in legal costs. ...

Full of suspense, humor, and tenderness, Hard Times is a brilliant defense of art in an age of mechanism and a blistering portrait of Victorian England as it struggles with the massive economic turmoil brought on by the Industrial Rev...

This third installment in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series contains six unabridged stories, including "A Scandal in Bohemia," "Silver Blaze," "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches," "The Adven...

The second in John Galsworthy's celebrated series of novels The second part of the Forsyte Saga chronicles the downfall of an upper middle class family in the turbulent period of social change at the end of the 19th and start of the ...

To Let is book three of the Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy's monumental chronicle of the lives of the moneyed Forsytes, a family whose values are at war with its passions. In To Let, Jon and Fleur, now both nineteen years old, fall in ...

In a poor, remote section of southern Mexico, the Red Shirts have taken control. God has been outlawed, and the priests have been systematically hunted down and killed. Now, the last priest strives to overcome physical and moral cowar...