The Final Days of Socrates

The Republic: Book VII

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 32 mins)
• By Plato
• Narrated By Adrian Cronauer

Victory

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Joseph Conrad
• Narrated By George Guidall
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From one of the greatest modern writers in world literature comes a magnificent story of love, adventure, and rescue played out against the shimmering South Seas. Alone on a tropical island, a Swedish baron and a beautiful violinist discover the long-lost joys of love. But when two treasure hunters arrive on the beach, the lovers know that evil has invaded their romantic paradise—an evil they are powerless to stop.

Candide

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Voltaire
• Narrated By Donal Donnelly

From the satirical pen of one of France's greatest cynics comes the story of Candide - young, innocent, guileless - who is cast upon the world after Baron Thunder-ten-trockh learns that his lusty daughter, Cunegonde, has tried to seduce the young man. The novel chronicles Candide's adventures with his blindly optimistic tutor, Dr. Pangloss, through any number of disastrous experiences, as they search for the answers to life's perennial questions.

Mansfield Park

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Jane Austen
• Narrated By Flo Gibson
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One of Jane Austen's most complex and mature works, Mansfield Park shows the writer at the top of her form, tackling the manners and customs of early 19th-century society with wit and irony that still resonate with readers two centuries after the book's initial publication. Flo Gibson's compelling narration gives perfect voice to the trials and tribulations of Fanny Price, sent at a young age to live with her rich relations.

The Return of the Native

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Thomas Hardy
• Narrated By Patrick Tull
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Virginia Woolf once called Thomas Hardy "the greatest tragic writer among English novelists". His atmospheric novels were often considered shocking upon their publication. In this classic, Clym Yeobright returns to Egdon Heath from Paris, intending to settle down and improve the lives of his townspeople. But the alluring and mysterious Eustacia Vye has other plans. Like so many of Hardy’s masterpieces, The Return of the Native is both a rich character study and a critical examination of Victorian society.