The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning, along with the houses in which they were hidden. Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires. And he enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten ye...

The House of Mirth depicts the glittering salons of Gilded Age New York with precision and wit, even as it movingly portrays the obstacles that impeded women's choices at the turn of the century.

Winston Churchill knew the power of words. In public speeches and published books, in newspaper and magazine articles, he expressed his feelings and laid out his vision for the future. His wartime writings and speeches have fascinated...

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New, Unabridged on 2 CD's; Shrinkwrapped. Narrated by Ralph Cosham. With an unfailing eye for folly and pretentiousness, Wharton gives us four wonderful stories: 'The Eyes', 'The Daunt Diana', 'The Debt' and 'The Moving Finger'.

Joseph Conrad's multilayered masterpiece tells of one nation's violent revolution and one hero's moral degeneration. Conrad convincingly invents an entire country, Costaguana, and sets it afire as warlords compete for power and a fort...

A runaway planet hurtles toward Earth. As it draws near, massive tidal waves, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions wrack our planet, devastating continents, drowning cities, and wiping out millions. In central North America, a team of ...

Set against the tumultuous years of the post-Napoleonic era, The Count of Monte Cristo recounts the swashbuckling adventures of Edmond Dantes, a dashing young sailor falsely accused of treason. The story of his long imprisonment, dram...

The passionate Andre-Louis Moreau makes an unexpected entrance into the French Revolution when he vows to avenge his best friend's death. His target: Monsieur de La Tour d'Azyr, the aristocratic villain who killed his friend. Andre-Lo...

One of the most popular of Hardy's novels, this charming pastoral idyll is a lightly humorous depiction of life in an early Victorian rural community. The story delicately balances the concerns of the Mellstock parish choir with a rom...

Classics for young and old, including: 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' by Washington Irving, 'The Red Badge of Courage' by Stephen Crane, 'The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County' by Mark Twain, 'The Man of the Crowd' by Edgar Al...

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...

A masterpiece of modern Gothic literature, Something Wicked This Way Comes is the memorable story of two boys, James Nightshade and William Halloway, and the evil that grips their small Midwestern town with the arrival of a 'dark carn...

A story of survival and treachery, love and deliverance, James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans follows an adroit scout named Hawkeye and his companion Chingachgook, who weave through the spectacular and dangerous wilderness...

In three beautifully crafted, dramatic acts, James's little-known novel unravels the painfully complicated emotional bonds which exist within a group of friends and lovers connected by two neighboring homes as they fight publicl...

Swan Song is the sixth of the nine novels in The Forsyte Chronicles and the conclusion of the second trilogy, called A Modern Comedy. John Galsworthy's epic story of the moneyed Forsyte family is a fascinating study of the British pro...

Another thrilling mystery story in which the famous French investigative journalist Joseph Rouletabille, who was first introduced in Gaston Leroux's masterpiece The Mystery of the Yellow Room, makes his appearance before the public ag...

Charles Dickens was one of England's most highly celebrated authors, and during his lifetime he produced over a dozen novels, several nonfiction books, and a large number of short stories. Three of Dickens's best novels---Great Expect...

Memorable retelling of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, written for younger readers by Ireland's great poet and illustrator, recalls the perilous journey of Odysseus and his encounters with the horrid Cyclops, treacherous Sirens, and evil C...

A Yankee mechanic is knocked unconscious in a fight and awakens to find himself at Camelot in AD 528. Condemned to death by the knights of the Round Table, he saves himself through scientific knowledge.

Often considered a primary forerunner of existentialist philosophy, Notes from the Underground is a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, written in the form of a memoir by its central, unnamed character, a former civil servant in St. Petersbur...

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...

Joseph Conrads first novel charts the decline of a Dutch merchant in Malaya. Refusing to accept the financial ruin that he has precipitated, Almayer devolves into fantasies of wealth and renewed youth.

An illustrated collection of some of Poe's sinister tales, including "The Black Cat," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Premature Burial," and a few of his poems.

(Audio, 2006) Other Editions... Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett

In early 1901, fifteen years after Little Lord Fauntleroy, and ten years before the Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson wrote the Making of a Marchioness. She followed this short novel in the spring of the same year with the sequel, The M...

Here are the worlds most-loved stories, in a dynamic visual tour de force for todays readers. Each timeless myth is superbly presented in story form and enhanced with original art work by world-renowned artist Giovanni Caselli. Thou...

This version of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, masterfully narrated by Tim Curry, was available for a limited time last year, and now it's back. This one-of-a-kind performance puts a unique spin on a treasured classic, and serve...

Maid in Waiting is the beginning novel in the last trilogy of John Galsworthy's Forsyte Chronicles. In this seventh installment, the story continues of the lives and times, loves and losses, fortunes and deaths of the fictional but en...

While Europe drifts toward Nazism, four students share an apartment in Paris. Thackara brilliantly forges the stories of these four men whose lives mirror the larger picture, while the listener follows Hitler's rise from a dozen diffe...