Paradise Lost by John Milton Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Paradise Lost by John Milton - Unabridged AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 7 Audio CDs 9 Hours - read by Ralph Cosham Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books. A second edition followed in 1674 redivided into twelve books (in the manner of the division of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification. The poem concerns the Judeo-Christian story of the Fall of Man; the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton's purpose stated in Book I is to "justify the ways of God to men" and elucidate the conflict between God's eternal foresight and free will. In the early nineteenth century the Romantics began to regard Satan as the protagonist of the epic. Milton presents Satan as an ambitious and proud being who defies his creator omnipotent God and who wages war on Heaven only to be defeated and cast down. Indeed William Blake a great admirer of Milton a more tips

Little Women - Louisa May Alcott - Audio Book CD read by Sandra Burr Unabridged Little Women - Louisa May Alcott Audio Book CD Brand New: Unabridged Still shrink wrapped 16 CDs 18 hours Timeless in its evocation of idealized family life and robustly enduring Little Women is recognized as one of the best-loved classic children's stories of all time. Originally written as a "girls" story its appeal transcends the boundaries of time and age making it as popular with adults as it is with young readers. For this is a beguiling story of happiness and hope of the joys of companionship domestic harmony and infinite mother love all seen through the life of the March family. But which of the four March sisters to love best? For every reader must have their favorite. Independent tomboyish Jo; delicate loving Beth; pretty kind Meg or precocious and beautiful Amy the baby of the family? Little Women was an instant success when first published in 1868 and followed extra

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare A fully dramatised recording Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare - Unabridged Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 2 Audio CDs 137 minutes Prior to the first act an Induction frames the play as a "kind of history" played in front of a drunkard named Sly who thinks he is a Lord. The "Shrew" is Katherina Minola the eldest daughter of Baptista Minola a Lord in Padua. Her temper is extremely volatile and no man can control her. She ties her sister to a chair in one scene and in another attacks a music tutor with his own fiddle. Her younger sister Bianca Minola is nubile link here

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley read by Richard Pasco Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Frankenstein - Mary Shelley - AudioBook CD Brand New : abridged 3 Audio CDs 3 Hours Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus generally known as Frankenstein is a novel written by the British author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Shelley started writing Frankenstein when she was 18 and finished when she was 19. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley's name appears on the second edition published in 1831. The title of the novel refers to a scientist Victor Frankenstein who learns how to create life and creates a being in the likeness of man but larger than average and more powerful. In popular culture people have tended to refer to the Creature as "Frankenstein" despite this being the name of the scientist. Frankenstein is infused with some elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement. It was also a warning against the "over-reaching" of modern man and the Industrial Revolution alluded to in the no more advice

Animal Farm by George Orwell read by Ralph Cosham Get Other George Orwell AudioBook CD click here Get Other Classic AudioBook CD click here Animal Farm - George Orwell - Audio Book CD Brand New : (unabridged) 3 CDs - 3 hours Old Major a prize-winning boar gathers the animals of the Manor Farm for a meeting in the big barn. He tells them of a dream he has had in which all animals live together with no human beings to oppress or control them. He tells the animals that they must work toward such a paradise and teaches them a song called “Beasts of England ” in which his dream vision is lyrically described. The animals greet Major's vision with great enthusiasm. When he dies only three nights after the meeting three younger pigs—Snowball Napoleon and Squealer—formulate his main principles into a philosophy called Animalism. Late one night the animals manage to defeat the farmer Mr. Jones in a battle running him off the land. They rename the property Animal Farm and dedicate themselves to achieving Major's dream. The cart-horse Boxer devotes himself to the cause with particular zeal committing his gr extra

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen read by Julie Christie Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - AudioBook CD Brand New : abridged 6 Audio CDs 5.5 Hours Sense and Sensibility is a novel by the English novelist Jane Austen. Published in 1811 it was the first of Austen's novels to be published under the pseudonym "A Lady". The story revolves around Elinor and Marianne two daughters of Mr. Dashwood by his second wife. They have a younger sister Margaret and an older half-brother named John. When their father dies the family estate passes to John and the Dashwood women are left in reduced circumstances. The novel follows the Dashwood sisters to their new home a cottage on a distant relative's property where they experience both romance and heartbreak. The contrast between the sisters' characters is eventually resolved as they each find love and lasting happiness. This leads some to believe that the book's title describes how Elinor more information.....

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Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut or the Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death Get Other Science Fiction Audio Books CD click here Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 5 Audio CDs 6 Hours Slaughterhouse-Five; or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death is a 1969 novel by Kurt Vonnegut. One of his most popular works and widely regarded as a classic it combines science fiction elements with an analysis of the human condition from an uncommon perspective using time travel as a plot device. The bombing of Dresden in World War II the aftermath of which Vonnegut witnessed is the starting point. Slaughterhouse-Five spans the life of a man who has "come unstuck in time." It is the story of Billy Pilgrim experiencing different time periods of his life most notably his experience in World War II and his relationship with his family. The book is a series of seemingly random happenings that in combination present the thematic elements of the novel in an unraveling order. Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death by Kurt Vonnegut a fourth-generation G click on

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Rebecca - by Daphne du Maurier - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 12 CDs 14 hrs. 45minutes "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again." So begins the classic Rebecca the unsurpassed modern masterpiece of romantic suspense -- one of the bestselling novels of all time! And so begins the remembrances of the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter as she recalls the events that led her to the isolated gray stone manse on the windswept Cornish coast. With a husband she barely knew the young bride arrived at this immense estate only to be inexorably drawn into the life of the first Mrs. de Winter the beautiful Rebecca -- dead but never forgotten; her suite of rooms never touched; her clothes still ready to be worn; and her servant the sinister Mrs. Danvers still royal. And as an eerie presentiment of evil tightened around her heart the second Mrs. de Winter began her search for the real fate of Rebecca -- and for the secrets of Manderley. Anna Massey's dramatic voice provides just the right degree of drama and tension for Rebecca the ps click here

Hamlet by William Shakespeare A fully dramatised recording Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Hamlet by William Shakespeare - Unabridged Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 3 Audio CDs 3.4 Hours The protagonist of Hamlet is Prince Hamlet of Denmark son of the recently deceased King Hamlet. After the death of King Hamlet the King's brother Claudius hastily marries King Hamlet's widow (and Prince Hamlet's mother) Gertrude. In the background is Denmark's long-standing feud with neighbouring Norway and an invasion led by the Norwegian prince Fortinbras is expected. The play opens on a cold night at Elsinore the Danish royal castle. Francisco a sentinel is relieved of his watch by Bernardo another sentinel and exits while Bernardo remains. A third sentinel Marcellus enters with Horatio the best friend of Hamlet Prince of Denmark. The sentinels try to persuade Horatio that they have seen King Hamlet's ghost when it appears again. After hearing from Horatio of the Ghost's appearance Hamlet resolves to see the Ghost more here.....

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky abridged read by Alex Jennings Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Abridged - AudioBook CD Brand New : abridged 6 Audio CDs 5.5 Hours Crime and Punishment is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky that was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments in 1866. It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoevsky's full-length novels after he returned from his exile in Siberia and the first great novel of his mature period. Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov an impoverished St. Petersburg ex-student who formulates and executes a plan to kill a hated unscrupulous pawnbroker s click the link

Sherlock Holmes - Radio Mysteries The History of Radio Unabridged 8 CD Audio Book Set Get other Sherlock Holmes AudioBooks click here Sherlock Holmes - Radio Mysteries - Audio Book CD Brand New (8 CDs - 6 Hours): About Sherlock Holmes - Radio Mysteries For the First time in half a century Sherlock Holmes returns to radio in a new series of broadcasts! Here is a collection of newly-conceived tales of the world's First consulting detective as told by his friend and associate Dr. John Watson portrayed by actor Lawrence Albert. Sherlock Holmes Radio Mysteries is produced under authority of the estate of Dame Jean Conan Doyle granddaughter of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Each episode is fully dramatized with a professional cast of actors realistic sound effects and a special suite of music that was commissioned for this radio series. But most importantly the creator of the programs Jim French researched and took special care to abide by the Doyle canon: you will hear Holmes played by John Gilbert in all his changeable moodiness and Dr. Watson as his alert and outspoken assistant ­ the way Sir Art more info

Aesop's Fables - Audio Book MP3-CD Aesops Fables - Audio Book MP3-CD 284 Fables on MP3 CD - This will not play on a Car/Portable CD player unless it is plays MP3 disks - it is however suitable to be copied to iPOD portable mp3 player Mobile Phone or any other device that plays MP3s (more information on MP3-CD click here) Aesop's Fables or Aesopica refers to a collection of fables credited to Aesop (620–560 BC) a slave and story-teller who lived in Ancient Greece. Aesop's Fables have become a blanket term for collections of brief fables usually involving anthropomorphic animals. The fables remain a popular choice for moral education of children today. Many stories included in Aesop's Fables such as The Fox and the Grapes (from which the idiom "sour grapes" was derived) The Tortoise and the Hare The North Wind and the Sun and The Boy Who Cried Wolf are well-known throughout the world. Apollonius o more info

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen read by Joanna David Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - AudioBook CD Brand New : abridged 6 Audio CDs 5.5 Hours Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen. First published on 28 January 1813 it is her second published novel. Its manuscript was initially written between 1796 and 1797 in Steventon Hampshire where Austen lived in the rectory. Originally called First Impressions it was never published under that title and in following revisions it was retitled Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth Bennet is a country gentleman's daughter in 19th Century England. She is one of five daughters a plight that her father bears as best he can with common sense and a general disinterest in the silliness of his daughters. Elizabeth is his favorite because of her level-headed approach to life when his own wife's greatest concern is getting her daughters married off to well-established gentlemen. Only Jane Elizabeth's older sister is nearly as sensible and practical as Elizabeth but Jane is also the beauty of the family and therefore Mrs. Bennet's highes link here

The Complete Star Wars Trilogy The Original Radio Dramas - Audio CDs Get Other Star Wars Audio Books click here The Complete Star Wars Trilogy - The original radio drama audio CDs Brand New (still shrink wrapped): 15 CD 29 episodes. An expanded radio dramatization of the original Star Wars trilogy was produced in 1981 1983 and 1996. The first two radio series based on Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back were produced and broadcast by National Public Radio as part of NPR Playhouse. A dramatization of Return of the Jedi was produced by most of the same team and also broadcast on NPR. The radio serials were made with the full co-operation of George Lucas who for one dollar each sold the rights to KUSC-FM the public radio affiliate at his alma mater the University of Southern California. Lucas also allowed the use of original sound effects and music from the films. The adaptations for radio are part of Star Wars canon within its Expanded Universe. Star Wars Star Wars is a 13-part (6½ hour) radio serial first broadcast on National Public Radio in 1981. It was adapted find out more.....

I am Legend by Richard Matheson Unabridged read by Robertson Dean Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here I am Legend - Richard Matheson - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 5 Audio CDs 5.5 Hours I Am Legend is a 1954 science fiction novel by Richard Matheson about the last man alive in a future Los Angeles California. It is notable as influential on the developing modern vampire genre as well as the zombie genre in popularizing the fictional concept of a worldwide apocalypse due to disease and in exploring the notion of vampirism as a disease. The novel was a success and was adapted to film as The Last Man on Earth in 1964 as The Omega Man in 1971 and again in 2007 as I Am Legend. This release of the novel includes several of Matheson's short stories: Buried Talents The Near Departed Prey Witch War Dance of the Dead Dress of White Silk Mad House Funeral From Shadowed Places and Person to Person. I Am Legend is the story of Robert Neville - apparently the sole survivor of a Bacterial pandemic apocalypse the symptoms of which resemble vampirism. The author details Neville's daily life in Los Angeles f full details

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Unabridged read by Christopher Hurt Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 4 Audio CDs 5 Hours Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian speculative fiction novel authored by Ray Bradbury and first published in 1953. The novel presents a future American society in which the masses are hedonistic and critical thought through reading is outlawed. The central character Guy Montag is employed as a "fireman" (which in this future means "book burner"). The number "451" refers to the temperature (in Fahrenheit) at which the books burn when the "firemen" burn them "for the good of humanity". Written in the early years of the Cold War the novel is a critique of what Bradbury saw as an increasingly dysfunctional American society. The concept began with Bradbury's short story "Bright Phoenix " written in 1947 but first published in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1963. The original short story more advice

Under Milk Wood Dylan Thomas - Audio CD and other Plays - The 1954 Premiere Radio Recording Get other Poetry audio books on CD click here Under Milk Wood and other plays - Dylan Thomas - Audio CD Brand New (still shrink wrapped): 2 CDs The famous 1954 BBC radio recording of Thomas' 'play for voices' Under Milk Wood with Richard Burton as First Voice. Also starring Hugh Griffith and Rachel Roberts. "To begin at the beginning:" Under Milk Wood is one of Dylan's most famous works. It is a 'play for voices' telling the story of a day in the life of the inhabitants of the small Welsh village of Llareggub. There is Captain Cat surrounded by fish that "nibble him down to his wishbone" and dreaming of Rosie Probert; Mog Edwards "a considerably more details

The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy Unabridged read by J Charles Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 13 Audio CDs 15 Hours Marko Ramius a Lithuanian who has risen to high levels of trust in the Soviet Navy intends to defect to the United States with his officers and the experimental nuclear submarine Red October a Typhoon-class submarine equipped with a revolutionary stealth propulsion system. The propulsion system is described as a pumpjet or magnetohydrodynamic system nicknamed "Caterpillar Drive" making sonar detection extremely difficult. The result as is immediately apparent to Jack Ryan and the admirals in the Joint Chiefs of Staff is a strategic weapon platform that is capable of sneaking its way into American home waters and launching nuclear missiles with little or no warning. It is also not lost upon Ramius whose defectio click

1984 by George Orwell read by Richard Brown Get Other George Orwell AudioBook CD click here Get Other Classic AudioBook CD click here 1984 - Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - Audio Book CD Brand New : (unabridged) 9 CDs - 11.5 hours Ministry of Truth bureaucrat Winston Smith is the protagonist; although unitary the story is three-fold. The first describes the world of 1984 as he perceives it; the second is his illicit romance with Julia and his intellectual rebellion against the Party; the third is his capture and imprisonment interrogation torture and re-education in the Ministry of Love. The plotline is therefore virtually identical to that of a 1921 Russian novel titled We which occurs in a world similar to that of Nineteen Eighty-Four. The intellectual Winston Smith is a member of the Outer Party lives in the ruins of London (the "chief city of Airstrip One" a province of Oceania) who grew up in the post-World War II United Kingdom during the revolution and the civil war. As his parents disappeared in the civil war the click to go

N Unabridged 22 CDs 25 hours Read by Richard Poe The masterpiece of Steinbeck's later years-a vastly ambitious novel that is at once a family saga and a modern retelling of the Book of Genesis In his journal Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book " and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families-the Trasks and the Hamiltons-whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Here is a work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity the inexplicability of love and the murderous consequences of love's absence. more info

Great Classic Stories 22 Unabridged Classics 6 CDs - 7 Hours Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here 22 Great Classic Stories - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 6 Audio CDs A treasure-chest of the written and spoken word this collection is read by brilliant actors who make this audio anthology a genuine treat for the listener. Includes: * Reginald on House Parties by Saki read by Nigel Hawthorne * The Sphinx Without a Secret by Oscar Wilde read by Martin Jarvis * Tobermory by Saki read by Barbara Leigh-Hunt * On Being Idle by Jerome K. Jerome read by Hugh Laurie * For Better or Worse by W.W. Jacobs read by Joanna David * The Model Millionaire by Oscar Wilde read by T.P. McKenna * The Garden of Truth by E. Nesbit read by Harriet Walker * The Cat That Walked by Himself by Rudyard Kipling read by Liza Goddard * The Girl from Arles by Alphonse Daudet read by Stephen Fry * Mr. Mrs. Dove by Katherine Mansfield read by Rosalind Ayres * Georgie Porgie by Rud find out more.....

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Unabridged AudioBook Get other Fiction Classics on AudioBook - click here The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 4.5 hours 4 CDs The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published on April 10 1925 the story is set in New York City and Long Island during the summer of 1922. The novel chronicles an era that Fitzgerald himself dubbed the "Jazz Age." Following the shock and chaos of the First World War American society enjoyed unprecedented levels of prosperity during the 1920s as the economy soared. At the same time Prohibition the ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment made millionaires o additional info.....

Emma - Jane Austen - Audio Book MP3 Read by Sherry Crowther Unabridged Emma - Jane Austen - Audio Book MP3 Unabridged 18 Hours on MP3 CD - This will not play on a Car/Portable CD player unless it is plays MP3 disks - it is however suitable to be copied to iPOD portable mp3 player Mobile Phone or any other device that plays MP3s Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen first published in 1816 about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character Emma Woodhouse is described in the opening paragraph as "handsome clever and rich" but is also rather spoiled. Prior to starting the novel Austen wrote "I am going to take a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like." About the Author Jane Austen Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was a British novelist whose realism biting social commentary and masterful use of free indirect speech burlesque and irony hav more data

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Unabridged 20.5 hours read by Anthony Heald Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Read by Anthony Heald- AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 16 Audio CDs 20.5 Hours Crime and Punishment is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky that was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments in 1866. It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoevsky's full-length novels after he returned from his exile in Siberia and the first great novel of his mature period. Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov an impoverished St. Petersburg ex-student who formulates and executes a plan to kill a hated unscrupulous pawnbroker seemingly for her money thereby solvin extra info