Guy de Maupassant is revered for his naturalistic fiction, which brilliantly captures flesh-and-blood characters as it evokes the most telling details of everyday life. Considered one of the finest French novels ever written, Bel Ami...
Classic fiction
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Author:De Maupassant, GuySummary: - Author:Wallace, LewSummary:
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace published on November 12, 1880 by Harper & Brothers. Considered "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century", it was the best-selling American novel from the...
- Author:Melville, HermanSummary:
DescriptionBenito Cereno is a novella by Herman Melville, a fictionalized account about the revolt on a Spanish slave ship captained by Don Benito Cereno, first published in three installments in Putnam's Monthly in 1855.
- Author:Burroughs, Edgar RiceSummary:
In 1940, as the world hurtled into the darkness of global conflict, Edgar Rice Burroughs turned his legendary writing talents toward an interstellar tale of wonder and adventure set on a war-racked planet-one whose star was so distant...
- Author:Tolstoy, LeoSummary:
Tolstoy's first published novel and the beginning of his Autobiographical Trilogy. Written when he was just twenty-three years old and stationed at a remote army outpost in the Caucasus Mountains, Childhood won Leo Tolstoy...
- Author:Trollope, AnthonySummary:
Trollope examines the Victorian woman and her predicament. "What should a woman do with her life?" asks Alice Vavasor, who vacillates between two suitors, and each woman has her own answer.
- Author:VoltaireSummary:
Caustic and hilarious, Candide has ranked as one of the world's great satires since its first publication in 1759. It concerns the adventures of the youthful Candide, disciple of Dr. Pangloss. In the course of his travels in Europe and...
- Author:Steinbeck, JohnSummary:
Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as is--both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. Creating characters based on his memories of real inhabitants of Monterey, California, Steinbeck interweaves the...
- Author:Heller, JosephSummary:
Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American literature and one of the funniest--and most celebrated--books of all time. In recent years it has been named to "best novels" lists by Time,...
- Author:Silko, LeslieSummary:
Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of...
- Author:Dahl, RoaldSummary:
"Roald Dahl sometimes shared a tonal kinship with Ogden Nash, and he could demonstrate a verbal inventiveness nearly Seussian ... [His] stories work better in audio than in print."--The New York TimesWilly Wonka's famous...
- Author:Dahl, RoaldSummary:
Taking up where Charlie and the Chocolate Factory leaves off, Charlie, his family, and Mr. Wonka find themselves launched into space in the great glass elevator.
- Author:Dahl, RoaldSummary:
"Moi, Willy Wonka, j'ai décidé de permettre à cinq enfants de visiter ma chocolaterie cette année. Ces cinq chanceux seront initiés à tous mes secrets, à toute ma magie." Willy Wonka est le plus grand inventeur de...
- Author:Dahl, RoaldSummary:
Charlie est de retour ! Et avec lui, tous les héros de Charlie et la chocolaterie : Grand-Maman Joséphine, Grand-Maman Georgina et Grand-Papa George, sans oublier l'imprévisible Monsieur Wonka. Ce dernier a fait construire un...
- Author:White, E. B.Summary:
For decades, E.B. White's charming, bittersweet tales of friendship and adventure have enchanted audiences young and old alike. The magic of "Charlotte's web" comes to life in a delightful-and completely unabridged-...
- Author:White, E. B.Summary:
Brought to life by Meryl Streep and a full cast, this beloved book by E.B. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children's literature that is "just about perfect."*Some Pig. Humble....
- Author:Tolstoy, LeoSummary:
Tolstoy's first published novel and the beginning of his Autobiographical Trilogy. Written when he was just twenty-three years old and stationed at a remote army outpost in the Caucasus Mountains, Childhood won Leo Tolstoy...
- Author:Trollope, AnthonySummary:
Originally published in the 1876 Christmas edition of The Graphic, Christmas at Thompson Hall is a Victorian tale concerning the proper Mr. and Mrs. Brown and their journey from southern France to Thompson Hall to celebrate Christmas...
- Author:Stowe, Harriet BeecherSummary:
This Christmas tale set in Colonial New England was originally published in the 1895 collection A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others. The short story takes place in a fictionalized version of Litchfield, Connecticut...
- Author:Dickens, CharlesSummary:
Charles Dickens is known for writing the greatest of all Christmas stories -- A Christmas Carol, but few know that he wrote a number of other short stories for that holiday season. Here in one wonderful audio collection are six short...
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