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The Importance of Being Earnest (Dramatized)

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 59 mins)
• By Oscar Wilde
• Narrated By James Marsters, Charles Busch, Emily Bergl, and others

This final play from the pen of Oscar Wilde is a stylish send-up of Victorian courtship and manners, complete with assumed names, mistaken lovers, and a lost handbag. Jack and Algernon are best friends, both wooing ladies who think their names are Ernest, "that name which inspires absolute confidence." Wilde's effervescent wit, scathing social satire, and high farce make this one of the most cherished plays in the English language.

The Undomestic Goddess

• ABRIDGED (6 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Sophie Kinsella
• Narrated By Katherine Kellgren

Workaholic attorney Samantha Sweeting has just done the unthinkable. She's made a mistake so huge, it'll wreck any chance of a partnership.

Going into utter meltdown, she walks out of her London office, gets on a train, and ends up in the middle of nowhere. Asking for directions at a big, beautiful house, she's mistaken for an interviewee and finds herself being offered a job as housekeeper. Her employers have no idea they've hired a lawyer and Samantha has no idea how to work the oven.

Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Nancy Isenberg
• Narrated By Scott Brick

Generations have been told that Aaron Burr was a betrayer: of Alexander Hamilton, of his country, of those who had nobler ideas. But that version has been shaped by historians and writers from the 18th century on who were blinded by tabloid reports and propaganda created by Burr's political enemies during his lifetime. It is time to discover the real Aaron Burr.

The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Melvyn Bragg
• Narrated By Robert Powell

This is the remarkable story of the English language; from its beginnings as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established global language. The Adventure of English is not only an enthralling story of power, religion, and trade, but also the story of people, and how their lives continue to change the extraordinary language that is English.

Carry On, Jeeves

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 52 mins)
• By P. G. Wodehouse
• Narrated By Martin Jarvis

Listen to hilarious unabridged stories starring the ever-popular Jeeves and Wooster from the master of great British comedy: P. G. Wodehouse. Stories featured: "Jeeves Takes Charge", "Jeeves and The Unbidden Guest", "The Artistic Career of Corky", "The Aunt and the Sluggard", "Clustering Round Young Bingo", "Jeeves and the Hard-boiled Egg", and "The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy".

Genghis Khan: Emperor of All Men

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 1 min)
• By Harold Lamb
• Narrated By Charlton Griffin

In the early 13th century, a simple nomad chieftain managed to cobble together a powerful kingdom in the highlands of northern Asia, which was subsequently to challenge the greatest powers of the day. He was triumphant in all directions. This leader was Timujin, whose name meant "Iron Man". He became Genghis Khan, "Universal Ruler", the greatest conqueror ever known - a warrior feared from the British Isles to the tip of the Korean peninsula.

Poland

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Victoria Varga
• Narrated By Peter Hackes

The breakdown of Europe's Eastern Bloc proves that the map of Europe cannot be redrawn merely to serve political ends. Perhaps no country illustrates this more clearly than Poland, whose borders often have been a negotiating tool of the Big Powers. These presentations enlighten our understanding of the current drama in Eastern Europe.

The Balkans [Modern Library Chronicles]

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Mark Mazower
• Narrated By Robert O'Keefe

In this fascinating work, winner of the Wolfson Prize for History Mark Mazower uncovers the history of the Balkans with detail and clarity. He explores the reasons for current conflicts and examines the Balkans as a religious, cultural, and economic melting pot for Europe and Asia. Through Robert O'Keefe's articulate narration, listeners will be absorbed by this rich world.

Europe Since 1815, Volume 2: Imperialism and Militarism

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Mitchell Garrett, James Godfrey
• Narrated By Charlton Griffin

19th century Europe produced some of the greatest soldiers, statesmen, scientists, artists, and thinkers of any period in recorded history. And by the middle of that century nationalism had emerged triumphant from Ireland to Greece, and many new nations, including Germany and Italy, had appeared. But nationalism was accompanied by a chauvinistic impulse toward militarism.

England, Their England

• ABRIDGED (3 hrs and 3 mins)
• By A. G. Macdonell
• Narrated By Martin Jarvis

Donald Cameron, a young Scotsman, is commissioned to write a book on the outsider's view of the English. He sets about his task with enthusiasm, encountering along the way an array of richly comical characters including civil servants, newspaper editors, minor poets, a glamourous movie star, politicians, and many more. This satire of English eccentricity has become a classic of 20th century literature.