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This audiobook is about slavery in the 1850s and follows a man known as Uncle Tom through his struggles of being human under ownership in the south of the United States when slavery was still legal.

This classic novel is about a wolf dog and dog sledding. This audio classic novel has been carefully abridged and adapted into 10 short, easy-to-understand chapters. This format enables listeners of all ages and English language abilities to understand and enjoy the story. Composition includes original custom background music. This adventure tale is appropriate for children and adults.

This story is set in the American frontier in upstate New York in the early 1800s. A gritty old woodsman thinks there are better ways to treat the great outdoors. He has great skills and is called upon for his experience.

Tragedy and drama are deeply woven into this tale of Italian romance. Two lovers from feuding families fall in love and struggle to be together, but with dire consequences. This classic has been carefully abridged and adapted into 10 short, easy-to-understand chapters. This format enables listeners of all ages and English-language abilities to understand and enjoy the story.

A ship of whalers seeks the large white whale that caused the captain to lose his leg. This audio classic novel has been carefully abridged and adapted into 10 short, easy-to-understand chapters. This format enables listeners of all ages and English language abilities to understand and enjoy the story. This adventure tale is appropriate for children and adults.

Silas Marner, a weaver, is a good man but he is mistaken for a thief who stole donations at his church. He moves to the city and begins his new life weaving and saving gold which is then stolen. A forlorn child comes into his life and his life improves dramatically after suffering much sadness and loneliness.

This fictional audiobook is about a boy named Mowgli, who is an abandoned human taken in and raised by wolves. There is a struggle among the animals as to whether to encourage the child to go back to his own civilization of humankind or to stay and live in the jungle.

This novel is about a family from Switzerland who become shipwrecked on a tropical island and are forced to become resourceful in order to survive and adapt to a solitary family life removed from general civilization.

The hunchback of Notre Dame is a bell ringer who falls in love with a gypsy. After first trying to kidnap under orders, he is caught but shown kindness by Esmeralda the gypsy. Later, Esmeralda is caught and sentenced to hang, but Quasimodo swings down on his bell rope and saves her and gives her sanctuary in the church. She is later betrayed and sentenced to die once again.

Three people set out to research a large unknown sea animal that turns out to be an advanced submarine roaming the ocean. The three find the vessel and are taken aboard but are not allowed off since the captain does not want to be discovered. The three manage to escape after the captain becomes despondent and allows the craft to be caught in a whirlpool.

Victor Frankenstein is a talented scientist who creates what he sometimes refers to as a monster. The monster is a large creature made from human parts and comes to life, but feels rejected by his creator Victor, as well as most of the people with whom he comes in contact with. He winds up killing certain people in Victor's circle of family and friends, so Victor eventually pursues the monster to kill him.

An experienced man known as the Pathfinder helps others traverse dangerous territory on land and through the "inland sea" that is also known as Lake Ontario. This classic audio novel has been carefully abridged and adapted into 10 short, easy-to-understand chapters. This format enables listeners of all ages and English language abilities to understand and enjoy the story. Composition includes original custom background music. This adventure tale is appropriate for children and adults.

This audiobook is about a man known as Scrooge who is greedy. He is visited by spirits that show him the past, the present, and the future. This enlightenment causes Scrooge to realize that he must change his ways, and so he becomes a better person.

Enjoy a delightful excursion into the wonderful world of make-believe, where fairy tales and old favorite stories come vividly to life. Narration by expert storytellers, music, exciting sound effects, and dramatic dialogue will inspire children. This classic tale is sure to become a favorite pastime, treating children to a magical fantasy of entertaining enjoyment along with life lessons to which they can relate.

A man builds a time machine and tells his dinner guests that he can travel through time. He leaves from dinner in his machine for three hours and has adventures that include going back in time hundreds of years and forward in time millions of years, where he finds strange and dangerous places from which he is lucky to escape from. He returns and tells them of his adventures and shows proof of his travels by providing strange items from his pocket.

Harvey Cheyne falls overboard from a steamship and is rescued by a fisherman in the Newfoundland area. Harvey is the son of a wealthy railroad magnate and offers money to the captain whom rescued him, but the captain does not believe he is who he says. Harvey learns about fishing from the captain's son and begins to appreciate his new lifestyle while getting along with the crew he becomes part of. After the fishing schooner returns to port, Harvey contacts his parents, who reward the captain for caring for their son.

This audiobook is about a lieutenant in the US Navy who renounces his loyalty in front of a judge and is sentenced to live out his years on naval ships and to never be informed about his country again since he said he never wants to hear about it in front of the judge. This becomes extremely difficult for him, and he ultimately becomes very patriotic.

This is the famous tale of an outlaw who gives to poor people by taking from those who have more resources. This story is applicable to life, politics, and wealth today just as it was centuries ago.

This classic novel is the fictional story about Henry Fleming who was a soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War in the late 1800s. Initially Henry runs from the fight but is later consumed with shame and wishes to be wounded. Though he does receive a minor wound not from the enemy, he manages to return to the fight against the Confederate Army of the south and does act as a flag bearer during another skirmish.

A man is held prisoner for most of his life and is forced to wear a mask. There is much mystery surrounding the reason for the mask, but a likely reason is that the prisoner's true identity would threaten the reigning French King Louis XIV. This novel is thought to have some basis in fact, but as the situation was such a mystery at the time it is hard to speculate on what aspects of the current story might be accurate.