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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 37 mins)
• By James Gleick
• Narrated By Rob Shapiro
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Ge­nius, brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality—the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world.

Middlesex

• UNABRIDGED (21 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Jeffrey Eugenides
• Narrated By Kristoffer Tabori

In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry-blonde classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them - along with Callie's failure to develop physically - leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all.

I, Claudius

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Robert Graves
• Narrated By Nelson Runger

Here is one of the best historical novels ever written. Lame, stammering Claudius, once a major embarrassment to the imperial family and now emperor of Rome, writes an eyewitness account of the reign of the first four Caesars: the noble Augustus and his cunning wife, Livia; the reptilian Tiberius; the monstrous Caligula; and finally old Claudius himself. Filled with poisonings, betrayal, and shocking excesses, I Claudius is history that rivals the most exciting contemporary fiction.

BBC Radio Shakespeare: Othello (Dramatized)

• ORIGINAL (3 hrs and 7 mins)
• By William Shakespeare
• Narrated By Ray Fearon, Anastasia Hille, Full Cast

BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly formed company broadcast its first full-length play, generations of actors and producers have honed and perfected the craft of making Shakespeare to be heard.

BBC Radio Shakespeare: King Lear (Dramatized)

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 37 mins)
• By William Shakespeare
• Narrated By Colin Redgrave, Geraldine James, Full Cast

BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly formed company broadcast its first full-length play, generations of actors and producers have honed and perfected the craft of making Shakespeare to be heard.

SmartPass Plus Audio Education Study Guide to Hamlet (Dramatised, Commentary Options)

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 9 mins)
• By William Shakespeare, Simon Potter
• Narrated By Joan Walker, Stephen Elder, Paul Clayton

The multi award-winning SmartPass study guide with and without commentary options. This is a full-cast, unabridged performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis for any student to fully understand and appreciate the play. Universally accepted as Shakespeare's finest play, we peel back the layers of Hamlet to discover how and why it deserves such a place of honour in world literature.

SmartPass Plus Audio Education Study Guide to Macbeth (Unabridged, Dramatised, Commentary Options)

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 7 mins)
• By William Shakespeare, Simon Potter
• Narrated By Full-Cast featuring Joan Walker, Nick Murchie, Coralyn Sheldon

Combined for great value! The multi-award-winning SmartPass study guide with and without commentary options. Full-cast, unabridged performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis for any student to fully understand and appreciate the play.

"And nothing is, but what is not." Macbeth may be mystified by the Weird Sisters' words but this intense performance with incisive commentary cuts to the heart of Shakespeare's complex psychological tragedy.

Middlemarch

• UNABRIDGED (32 hrs and 1 min)
• By George Eliot
• Narrated By Nadia May
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

At the center of Middlemarch is Dorothea Brooke, a thoughtful and idealistic young woman determined to make a difference with her life. Enamored of a man who she believes is setting this example, she traps herself into a loveless marriage. Her parallel is Tertius Lydgate, a young doctor from the city whose passionate ambition to spread the new science of medicine is complicated by his love for the wrong woman.

Heart of Darkness: A Signature Performance by Kenneth Branagh

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Joseph Conrad
• Narrated By Kenneth Branagh
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

A Signature Performance: Kenneth Branagh plays this like a campfire ghost story, told by a haunted, slightly insane Marlow.

Death in Venice and Other Tales

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Thomas Mann
• Narrated By Paul Hecht

Joachim Neugroschel’s brilliant new translation lets you enjoy the work of Nobel-Laureate Thomas Mann as never before. By using creative, contemporary language, Neugroschel reinterprets Mann for modern English-speaking readers. The author’s superb literary craftsmanship, his psychological insight, and the deeply erotic content of his work shine forth in this definitive English-language version of some of his most celebrated short works. This collection features the world masterpiece Death in Venice....

The Brothers Karamazov

• UNABRIDGED (37 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Narrated By Walter Covell

Dostoevsky studied human nature with passion and precision. He plumbed the depths and never winced at what he found, even when it was beyond his understanding. This extraordinary novel is a recital of his findings, told in the story of four brothers: Dimitri, pleasure-seeking, impatient, unruly; Ivan, brilliant and morose; Alyosha, gentle, loving, honest; and the illegitimate Smerdyakov, sly, silent, cruel. What give this story its dramatic grip is the part these brothers play in their father's murder.