The Beautiful and Damned

Nicholas Nickleby

• UNABRIDGED (31 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Charles Dickens
• Narrated By Simon Vance
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The most gorgeously theatrical of all Dickens's novels, Nicholas Nickleby follows the delightful adventures of a hearty young hero in 19th-century England. Nicholas, a gentleman's son fallen upon hard times, must set out to make his way in the world. His journey is accompanied by some of the most swaggering scoundrels and unforgettable eccentrics in Dickens's pantheon.

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 Scarlet Letter

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Narrated By Flo Gibson
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The Last Trail

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Zane Grey
• Narrated By Michael Prichard
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The American Revolution is over, but the violence continues in the Ohio Valley. Jonathan Zane and Lewis Wetzel face constant action, trying turn the tide. But just when the beautiful Betty Sheppard has convinced Jonathan to give up his lonely war, she is captured, and taken into the unknown wilderness. Jonathan and Lewis set out on their last desperate journey to save her.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Robert Louis Stevenson
• Narrated By Scott Brick
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When a brute of a man tramples an innocent girl, apparently out of spite, two bystanders catch the fellow and force him to pay reparations to the girl's family. The brute's name is Edward Hyde. A respected lawyer, Utterson, hears this story and begins to unravel the seemingly manic behavior of his best friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and his connection with Hyde.