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ID: 427751

Title: Age of Innocence

Author: Edith Wharton

Narrator: Elizabeth Klett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:53:25

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

Winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 'The Age of Innocence' is Edith Whartons masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the splendid Golden Age of Old New York. Everything in Newland Archers easy life seems to be perfectly on track; he has a comfortable position in society, a high-powered job and a beautiful and well-bred fiancée, May Welland. But when May's mysterious cousin Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after leaving a terrible marriage, Newland soon falls deeply in love with her. Torn between duty and passion, expectation and scandal, Newland struggles to make an impossible decision. Against a backdrop of a New York on the cusp of modernization, Whartons classic skewers the orchestrated customs and inflexible mores of the 1870s high society. Among the novels many film adaptations, Martin Scorseses 1993 film stands out, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder and Richard E. Grant.

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Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was an American author, best known for her sharp stories about the upper-class society into which she was born. Her major works include 'The Age of Innocence' (1920),'Ethan Frome' (1911), and'The House of Mirth' (1905). She wrote over 40 books, which beyond novels included authoritative works on architecture, gardens, interior design, and travel. She was the first woman awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for 'The Age of Innocence' in 1921.

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ID: 427766

Title: Roderick Hudson

Author: Henry James

Narrator: Nicholas Clifford

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:21:26

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

Originally published in 1875 as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly, Roderick Hudson is a One has the money but not the talent. One has the talent but not the money. It would seem that Rowland Mallet and Roderick Hudson were meant to meet. A rich and sensible man, Rowland is ecstatic when Roderick, a beautiful but somewhat selfish sculptor, accepts his offer of joining him in Rome for two years to develop his artistic talents. To complicate matters, however, Rowland has fallen in love for the first time right before their departure and did not get a chance to express his feelings. But, as it turns out, he may never get to, because Roderick has just asked the same woman to marry him. Influenced, as he was, by Nathaniel Hawthorne in this early period, Henry James wrote `Roderick Hudson (1879) in a much more accessible way than his later novels. In fact, this is perfect for the contemporary literature fan with an interest in good love stories and clever character development.

that traces the development of the title character, a sculptor. Roderick Hudson is James's first important novel. The theme of Americans in Europe, so important in much of James's work, is already central to the story. Hudson is a young law student in Northampton, Massachusetts, who shows such surprising ability as a sculptor that the rich Rowland Mallett, visiting a cousin in Northampton, decides to stake him to several years of study in Rome, then a center of expatriate American society. The story has to do not only with Roderick's growth as an artist and the problems it brings, but also as a man susceptible to his new environment, and indeed his occasional rivalries with his American friend and patron.

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Henry James (1843-1916) was an American author who already by his mid-20s was regarded as one of the most skilful short story writers of his time. Later he would write several classic novels including `Daisy Miller (1878) and `The Portrait of a Lady (1881). He spent much of his life in Europe and became and British citizen shortly before his death.

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ID: 427714

Title: Phantastes

Author: George MacDonald

Narrator: Brad Powers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:29:34

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

A young man named Anodos experiences dream like adventures in Fairy Land, where he meets tree spirits, endures the presence of the overwhelming shadow, journeys to the palace of the fairy queen, and searches for the spirit of the earth. The story conveys a profound sadness and a poignant longing for death.

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George MacDonald (1824-1905) was a Scottish author, poet and Christian minister. A pioneer of fantasy literature, he was the mentor of Lewis Carroll. Among his notable works are 'Phantastes' (1858), 'David Elginbrod' (1863), 'At the Back of the North Wind' (1871), 'The Princess and the Goblin' (1872), and 'Lilith' (1895).

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ID: 427768

Title: Heart of the World

Author: Henry Rider Haggard

Narrator: Paul Hansen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:07:25

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

This romance set in Mexico tells of the journey of a native and a white man in search of the fabled Golden City of the Indians.

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Henry Rider Haggaard (1856-1925) was an English author of Danish decent. Following his debut non-fiction book on South Africa, he helped introduce the 'Lost World' genre through his character of Allan Quatermain from the classic bestseller King Solomon's Mines. Haggaard has influenced many other Fantasy writers, among these J.R.R. Tolkien, and several of his books have been adapted to film as well as inspired the Indiana Jones movies.

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ID: 427728

Title: Expressman and the Detective

Author: Allan Pinkerton

Narrator: Pete Williams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:14:06

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Biography & Memoir, General

Summary:

'All history proves that no one can hug a secret to his breast and live (...) This is especially noticeable in persons who have committed criminal acts.' When a trusted employee is suspected of stealing from the Adams Express Company in Alabama, the organization reaches out to the Pinkertons, the worlds first private detective agency. Recounting true events, The Expressman and the Detective (1874) tells a fascinating and suspenseful story of an investigation in which all that can prove a persons guilt is a confession. Allan Pinkerton, the founder of the agency, assigned agents to shadow the suspect, others to gain his trust and he was among the first to hire a female detective. The London Times famously called him 'a man at once deeply admirable and quite obnoxious.'

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Allan J. Pinkerton(1819-1884) was a Scottish-American detective and founder of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. He recounted his first big investigation in The Expressman and the Detective. A dedicated abolitionist, he offered his Illinois home as a stop on the Underground railway for escaping slaves.

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ID: 427636

Title: In the Closed Room

Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett

Narrator: Linda Andrus

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:15:33

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Classics

Summary:

One summer, a fragile and shy little girl and her working-class parents move in as caretakers for a large house in the suburbs that has been hastily abandoned by its owners. After getting settled comfortably in the servants apartments, the girl sets out to explore the house. A single room is locked, however, but for some reason the girl has access to it. Inside, she meets another little girl ... just as delicate as herself ... In the Closed Room (1904) is an eerie ghost story by the author of The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett. A chilling and intense mystery for the not so faint at heart.

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Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) was born in Manchester, England, but emigrated to the United States after her fathers death. She wrote stories for magazines to help her family financially, and would later write plays and novels. Her most famous works are A Little Princess (1905) and The Secret Garden (1911).

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ID: 427693

Title: High Adventure

Author: James Norman Hall

Narrator: Mike Vendetti

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:47:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

For pilots in the First World War even getting through training was a matter of survival. Ashamed that the US was not yet in the war, American author James Norman Hall volunteered to fly for an American unit that fought for France, and his account was published while he was held captive in a German POW camp. An intersting character, Hall takes us through the terrifying early days of training through the even more terrifying days of being a pilot, making High Adventure (1918) one of the best books on the subject. James Norman Hall is best known for writing the Bounty Trilogy with former pilot Charles Nordhoff, the 1935 film adaptation of which starred Clark Gable.

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James Norman Hall (1887-1951) was an American author and a World War I pilot. He settled down in Tahiti after the war, and wrote the Bounty Trilogy and other successful adventure novels with fellow pilot Charles Nordhoff.

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ID: 427716

Title: Silas Marner

Author: George Eliot

Narrator: Tadhg Hynes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:40:47

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

'I thinkSilas Marnerholds a higher place than any of the author's works,' said Henry James of this classic George Eliot novel. When a little girl wanders into a random house one cold night, the lives of two different men are about to change dramatically. The house is owned by the town outsider, Silas Marner, and upon finding the girls mother dead in the snow, he decides to adopt her. Little does he know that the girls biological father is the rich Godfrey Cass, who now considers himself off the hook and free to marry the girl he loves. Published in 1862, Silas Marneris a simple and subtle story that explores the relationship between the individual and the community.

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George Eliot (1819-1880) is the pseudonym of the female writer Mary Ann Evans. She chose a male pen name in order to separate her fiction from her other writing and so it would be judged more objectively. Her novel Middlemarch (1871) is considered one the greatest in the English language.

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ID: 427688

Title: Enchanted Island of Yew

Author: L. Frank Baum

Narrator: Ted Delorme

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:36:55

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Kids, Classics

Summary:

Three young girls wander into an enchanted forest at meet a fairy woman, who is bored with her perfect, immortal life. She convinces them to turn her into a human and decides to become a prince because boys have more fun. His/her new existence exploring the surrounding kingdoms is fast and adventurous from the get-go. What unfolds in an interesting story of problems solved by a womans mind in the luxury of a mans body. The Enchanted Island of Yew (1903) was written by L. Frank Baum, the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but is separate from the Oz series. This story clearly comes from the same imagination, however, with the added bonus of some interesting gender-bender elements.

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L. Frank Baum (1956-1919) was an American author, actor, and filmmaker best known for his childrens books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and its thirteen sequels. He started writing young and created a journal with his brother, which they handed out for free.

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ID: 427726

Title: Eight Cousins

Author: Louisa May Alcott

Narrator: Maria Therese

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:09:46

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Kids, Classics

Summary:

Rose Campbell is having a hard time adjusting to her new life. Recently orphaned, she has been swept away from a strict girls boarding school and placed in the care of her six aunts and seven rowdy male cousins. When her guardian, Uncle Alec, returns from abroad, things are about to change once more. To her aunts alarm Alec has different ideas of what it means to raise a girl than most, but his unconventional approach might just be what gets Rose out of her shell. Just as author Louisa May Alcotts widely-read novel Little Women (1868), Eight Cousins (1875) is unusually forward-thinking and feminist for its time.

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Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was an American writer and feminist. She grew up poor, but among intellectualists, and started writing at an early age. Her most famous novel, Little Women (1868), was inspired by her upbringing.

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