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Title: Macbeth

Subtitle: Tales from Shakespeare

Author: Charles Lamb, Marry Lamb

Narrator: Phillip J. Mather

Format: Unabridged

Length: 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-09-15

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Tales from Shakespeare was originally written in 1807 by Charles Lamb and his sister, Mary, as more comprehensible (and enjoyable) versions of the original Shakespearian texts, specifically but not exclusively for children. The original preface to Lamb's work notes that Shakespeare's words "are used whenever it seemed possible to bring them in; and in whatever has been added to give them the regular form of a connected story, diligent care has been taken to select such words as might least interrupt the effect of the beautiful English tongue in which he wrote: therefore, words introduced into our language since his time have been as far as possible avoided." Two hundred years later, Lamb's writings continue to delight and educate.

Members Reviews:

A classic story presented in an easy to understand way - excellent!

Before reading this book my outstanding memory of Macbeth was having been given it as my first book to read for my English Literature classes at school many moons ago. I can remember my mum and I having a nightmare time trying to understand all the old English words - how I wish this eBook had been available then.

For those who wish (or have to) read the classics this little book is a must. It has plenty of the original quotes by Shakespeare but around them the story is written in straight forward, easy to understand English.

I can honestly say that I would have had a lot happier time reading this aged 14 than the daunting original. Well done to Phillip J. Mather, the author for presenting a classic story in a easy to read way.

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Title: Angela

Subtitle: An Inverted Love Story

Author: W. S. Gilbert

Narrator: Cameron Stewart

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-27-15

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

This is the sweet story of a paralyzed man in Venice who sees out of his window a young girl across the way. Unbeknownst to her, she brightens his days over the course of several years, and he begins to fall in love with her. One day he throws out a flower into the canal between them to say "good morning", and she responds in kind. They still haven't spoken a word, but his heart is lifted. Until, that is, the young maid grows up, and the gondolier boys start calling on her.

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Title: Treasure Island [Russian Edition]

Author: Robert Lewis Stevenson

Narrator: Egor Beroev, Lev Durov

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-24-15

Publisher: Interactive Media

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

A treasure map is found in old sailor's sea chest who once served under the pirate Captain Flint. Following the former pirate's death, young Jim Hawkins, Dr. Livesey, Squire Trelawney, and Captain Smollett set to sail aboard the Hispaniola to find Treasure Island off the coast of South America.

One of the world's most enduring adventure stories of pirates sailing to exotic islands, singing Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

Read in Russian.

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Title: The Canterville Ghost

Author: Oscar Wilde

Narrator: Natalya Varley, Aleksandr Lenkov

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-07-15

Publisher: Interactive Media

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

An amusing chronicle of the tribulations of the Ghost of Canterville Chase when his ancestral halls became the home of the American minister to the Court of St. James.

Read in Russian, unabridged.

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Title: An Alpine Divorce

Author: Robert Barr

Narrator: Mike Vendetti

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-01-15

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

They were married, but they hated and couldn't stand each other. Why not a divorce? Not that easy when there is a lot of money involved. Perhaps they could work things out on a trip to the Swiss Alps.

Members Reviews:

ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT

great story great text

i totally enjoyed the plot characters structure and twist. a great read.

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Title: The Long Voyage

Author: Charles Dickens

Narrator: Glenn Hascall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-09-15

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

This is a classic short story written by acclaimed author Charles Dickens about a significant shipwreck. However, perhaps this is more an allegory of life's journey than a maritime adventure. It may just be that listeners will think more about their own life courses and how they relate to others in the end.

Narrated by Glenn Hascall.

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Title: Silas Marner

Author: George Eliot

Narrator: John Peakes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-16-15

Publisher: The Classic Collection

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Embittered by a false accusation, disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner hoards a treasure that destroys his spirit until fate steals it from him and replaces it with a golden-haired child. Where she came from, who her parents were, and who really stole the gold are the secrets that fill this moving tale of guilt and innocence.

A moral allegory of the redemptive power of love, it is also a finely drawn portrait of early nineteenth-century England in the days when spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses and of a simple way of life that was soon to disappear.

This novel is part of Brilliance Audio's extensive Classic Collection, bringing you timeless masterpieces that you and your family are sure to love.

Members Reviews:

"Hope for the Hopeless . . ."

This was a fine story and novel, almost a novella as it is not lengthy. This is a story about a weaver and the weaving trade in days gone by.

It is a story about a steady personality (the protagonist) who overcomes devastating adversity and personal cruelty under small favourable circumstances which are both unpredictable for the reader and could be true to life. This novel, could be based on a true story for its detail and convincing authenticity of trade and character development. The storyline lent itself well to being dramatized with Sir Ben Kingsley playing "Silas"

in the 1980's BBC production which adheres well to the intention expressed in the novel by George Eliot

The paperback by George Elliot makes a fine gift for a young person starting life.

not just for high school students

Most of my friends read Silas Marner in high school English and still shudder, but my high school marched to a different drummer (or none) and I had never read it. No one would pretend that it is one of George Eilot's masterpieces -- it's no Middlemarch, not by a long shot. But even in its much smaller way, it has all the germs of her intelligence, literary style, and human compassion, even when tainted by a certain predictability and triteness of plot. It also has Eliot's greatest weakness, which is that she seems to lose interest in the central situation she creates once it has been fully developed, and as in many of her (greater) books, rushes to the end once it is in sight.

Still, no person who wishes to be thought literate in English literature should not have read Silas Marner. For whatever shortcomings it may have, it's a page turner by a literary master.

It's a classic!

I very much enjoyed this classic book. I was never required to read it in school, so had no preconceived opinion about it. It was a sad tale with a happy ending of the "and they lived happily ever after type." The only reasoning I rated it 4 stars instead of 5 is because of all the detail. Like a lot of classics, there was so much detail that I neither wanted nor understood. For the most part, I just skimmed over it. Nevertheless, I found it a good story, well worth the time to read.

Sorry I didn't read it earlier

I was supposed to read this book in 9th grade but didn't. Fudged my way through. Now, fifty-four years later, I regret not doing my assignments. Eliot accurately captures the lifestyle and culture of 19th century rural England. She also clearly demonstrates the unconscious loss a hoarder and a loner sustains.

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Title: In the Twilight

Author: Lord Dunsanay

Narrator: Mike Vendetti

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-03-15

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Did he drown? Is he dreaming? Did he almost drown? Only Lord Dunsany, aka Edward Plunkett, the eighteenth baron of Dunsany, knows for sure.

Read by award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti; he will transport you to a death or near-death experience.

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Title: The Kith of the Elf Folk

Author: Lord Dunsany

Narrator: Mike Vendetti

Format: Unabridged

Length: 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-03-15

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

This is a happy, feel-good tale by Lord Dunsany aka Edward Plunkett, the 18th Baron of Dunsany. Read by award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti, the wild things take you into their world. "The wild things are somewhat human in appearance, only all brown of skin and barely two feet tall. Their ears are pointed like the squirrels, only far larger, and they leap to prodigious heights. They live all day under deep pools in the loneliest marshes but at night they come up to dance. Each Wild Thing has over its head a Marsh light, which moves when the Wild Thing does, they have no souls and cannot die, and are of the kith of the Elf folk".

Members Reviews:

Parable about a magical being who is granted a soul because she loves beauty and desires to worship God, and yet comes to regret

Very engaging, and at the same time pretty story. It is written in a kind of "fine wtiting" style that does a great job of transporting the reader to a world where magic might be real.

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Title: Animal Farm: Abridged Play

Author: George Orwell

Narrator: Hayley Routley

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-27-15

Publisher: BN Publishing

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

A satirical creation by the renowned author George Orwell that largely and heavily portrays the days of the Russian revolution and the proponents of it. George Orwell's Animal Farm is one of the most popular books of fiction in the dystopian and allegory genres.