Wuthering Heights

Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Henry David Thoreau
• Narrated By Robin Field
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In the early spring of 1845, Henry David Thoreau built and lived in a cabin near the shore of Walden Pond in rural Massachusetts. For the next two years, he enacted his own Transcendentalist experiment, living a simple life based on self-reliance, individualism, and harmony with nature. The journal he kept at that time evolved into his masterwork, Walden, an eloquent expression of a uniquely American philosophy.

The Mysterious Island

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Jules Verne
• Narrated By Berny Clark
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Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne’s masterpiece. “Wide-eyed mid-nineteenth-century humanistic optimism in a breezy, blissfully readable translation by Stump” (Kirkus Reviews), here is the enthralling tale of five men and a dog who land in a balloon on a faraway, fantastic island of bewildering goings-on and their struggle to survive....

Mansfield Park

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Jane Austen
• Narrated By Wanda McCaddon
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Shy, fragile Fanny Price is the consummate "poor relation". Sent to live with her wealthy uncle Thomas, she clashes with his spoiled, selfish daughters and falls in love with his son. Their lives are further complicated by the arrival of a pair of witty, sophisticated Londoners, whose flair for flirtation collides with the quiet, conservative country ways of Mansfield Park.

The Scarlet Letter

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Narrated By Flo Gibson
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Little Women

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Louisa May Alcott
• Narrated By C. M. Hébert
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This favorite book for children, based on the author's own youthful experiences, describes the family life of the Marches in a small New England community. Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy are raised in genteel poverty by their loving mother, Marmee, while their father serves as a chaplain during the Civil War. The story explores their domestic adventures, their attempts to increase the family's income, their friendship with the neighboring Laurence family, and their later love affairs and destinies as women.