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Often considered to be Jane Austen's finest work, Emma is the story of a charmingly self-deluded heroine whose injudicious matchmaking schemes often lead to substantial mortification. Emma,... |
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Jay Gatsby is still in love with Daisy, whom he met during the war when he was penniless. Having made himself wealthy through illegal means, he now lives in a mansion across the bay from the home of... |
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Here is a wonderfully timeless collection from the best sources of fairy tales, including Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, and Antoine Galland (translator of The... |
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Next to The Bible, The Pilgrim's Progress has probably been more widely read than any other book in the English language-and rightfully so. It is considered by most critics as the... |
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Blackstone Audiobooks presents, from the unabridged collection "A.A. Milne's Pooh Classics," the ten stories of Winnie-the-Pooh performed by Peter Dennis. Come with us to an enchanted place, a... |
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Barrie works an indisputable magic on listeners of all ages in this classic tale of the "boy who wouldn't grow up." As a baby, Peter Pan fell out of his carriage and was taken by fairies to... |
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| Amelia Peabody, that indomitable Victorian, embarks on her first Egyptian adventure armed with unshakable self-confidence, a journal to record her thoughts, and her sturdy umbrella. On her way, Amelia... |
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In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the... |
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One of the great works of American literature, Moby Dick is the epic tale of one man's fight against a force of nature. The outcast youth Ishmael, succumbing to wanderlust during a dreary New... |
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This Pulitzer Prize-winning classic tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as it... |
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