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Title: Little Women

Author: Louisa May Alcott, Dove Audio - producer

Narrator: Jamie Lee Curtis

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-08-17

Publisher: Raffin

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The March family lives in a small New England community. Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March are raised in genteel poverty by their loving mother, Marmee, while their father serves as chaplain during the American Civil War. Jo, at 15, is ungainly, unconventional, and enterprising, with an ambition to be an author. Meg, a year older, is pretty and wishes to be a lady. Beth is a delicate child of 13, with a taste for music. Amy is a blonde beauty of 12. The story explores their domestic adventures, their attempts to increase the family's small income, their friendship with the neighboring Laurence family, and their later love affairs and destinies as women.

Members Reviews:

Four Stars

I just want to point out that this book is textbook size, not novel size

Five Stars

One of the very best classics! A Must Read for all!

Love it! <3

I began this book thinking I wouldn't like it, but ended up loving it!! I didn't really like the deaths, but I admit they did enrich the story. My favorite character is Joe, but I didn't really like her husband. She should have married Laurie. Except for a few personal things I might've changed, Perfection!!!

Five Stars

Great book

Only Half The Story

It's only the first 23 chapters of a 47 chapter book but for the full price.

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Title: The Blackboard Jungle

Author: Evan Hunter

Narrator: James Patrick Cronin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-06-17

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Written in 1954, this controversial story cracked down on the public school system and dramatized student violence as no other novel of its time did. Hunter used his own teaching experience to create protagonist Richard Dadier, who lands his first real job as an English teacher at North Manual Trades High School in New York City.

Dadier knows the students here will be tough, but nothing has prepared him for the world he enters. Hunter's popular and groundbreaking novel attracted much attention when it was first published, and it became a top best seller in 1955.

Set against the changing social culture of the 1950s, The Blackboard Jungle is a fascinating time capsule that brilliantly illuminates an issue still in the forefront of our minds.

Members Reviews:

Every aspiring teacher should read this book

I received a teaching degree in 1968, but I only taught one year before moving onto more lucrative employment. One comment from this book that I wholeheartedly agree with is that teacher colleges do NOT teach prospective teachers how to teach. Whatever I learned I learned from teachers I admired, talking to other teachers, or from my own research. I never watched the 1955 movie based on this book, but I think I'll check it out.

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Title: The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac: Summary & Analysis

Author: James Wallace

Narrator: Max Kleinman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-17

Publisher: James Wallace

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Note: This is a summary and analysis of The Dharma Bums and not the original book.

The Dharma Bums is a 1958 novel by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac. The basis for the novel's semi-fictional accounts are events occurring years after the events of On the Road. The main characters are the narrator Ray Smith, based on Kerouac, and Japhy Ryder, based on the poet and essayist Gary Snyder, who was instrumental in Kerouac's introduction to Buddhism in the mid-1950s. The book concerns duality in Kerouac's life and ideals, examining the relationship of the outdoors, mountaineering, hiking, and hitchhiking through the West with his "city life" of jazz clubs, poetry readings, and drunken parties. The protagonist's search for a "Buddhist" context to his experiences (and those of others he encounters) recurs throughout the story. The book had a significant influence on the hippie counterculture of the 1960s.

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Title: The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Author: Howard Pyle

Narrator: Gordon Griffin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-31-17

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Howard Pyle's heroic version of Robin Hood begins after a conflict with some foresters leads to Robin of Locksley becoming the outlaw famous for stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. Each chapter tells a different tale of Robin as he recruits Merry Men, resists the authorities, and aids his fellow man. Pyle's version includes the popular stories of Little John and Robin's staff fight, Friar Tuck's besting of Robin, Robin's collusion with Allan-a-Dale, and several of his conflicts with the Sheriff of Nottingham. Considered the best version of these classic stories, Pyle's The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood has been a favorite for generations.

Members Reviews:

Must have for every childâs library.

Mother read this book to us when we were very young(65 - 75 years ago. It is a true classic. Every child should be read this book. As the saying goes, read and the places you will go! This is a gift for my newest little grand nephew as is a copy of Ferdinand the

Bull.

What's not to like? Stories about Robin Hood for me to read ...

What's not to like? Stories about Robin Hood for me to read with my grandkids. The language is appropriate for 5- to 13-year-olds.

Good to finally read the original

I thoroughly enjoyed entire book. It was interesting reading original story. It has changed over the years but these are well written and fun stories.

This was great! We're all familiar with the Disney and other ...

This was great! We're all familiar with the Disney and other movie versions. There's something about this story that just makes you feel happy as you follow Robin and his men through their adventures.

Before Mordor and Narnia, there was Sherwood.

A right good tale, set in the days when men were men, women were women and the Sheriff was the bad guy. Pyle's version of the Robin Hood tale are the stories Tolkien and Lewis read as children. Find a comfortable chair, a good light, pour a pint of ale and sit yourself down for a good read. Go ahead, release your inner yeoman.

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Title: Life and Adventures of Jack Engle

Subtitle: An Auto-Biography; a Story of New York at the Present Time in Which the Reader Will Find Some Familiar Characters

Author: Walt Whitman, Zachary Turpin - introduction

Narrator: Jon Hamm

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-30-17

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

In 1852, young Walt Whitman - a down-on-his-luck housebuilder in Brooklyn - was hard at work writing two books. One would become one of the most famous volumes of poetry in American history, a free-verse revelation beloved the world over, Leaves of Grass. The other, a novel, would be published under a pseudonym and serialized in a newspaper. A short, rollicking story of orphanhood, avarice, and adventure in New York City, Life and Adventures of Jack Engle appeared to little fanfare.

Then it disappeared.

No one laid eyes on it until 2016, when literary scholar Zachary Turpin, at the University of Houston, followed a paper trail deep into the Library of Congress, where the sole surviving copy of Jack Engle has lain waiting for generations. Now, after more than 160 years, the University of Iowa Press is honored to republish this lost work, restoring a missing piece of American literature by one of the world's greatest authors, written as he verged on immortality.

Members Reviews:

Whitman at his best

I thoroughly enjoyed the words as written by Walt Whitman and the words as spoken by Jon Hamm. The narrative has not lost its relevance in the passage of 160+ years. I also was entranced by the afterword by Zachary Turpin and thank him for his scholarship and persistence in restoring Jack Engle to life.

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Title: Summary of 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Subtitle: Includes Analysis

Author: Blake Wallace

Narrator: Kevin Theis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-04-17

Publisher: Blake Wallace

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald's magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.

Fitzgeraldinspired by the parties he had attended while visiting Long Island's north shorebegan planning the novel in 1923, desiring to produce, in his words, "something newsomething extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." Progress was slow, with Fitzgerald completing his first draft following a move to the French Riviera in 1924. His editor, Maxwell Perkins, felt the book was vague and persuaded the author to revise over the next winter. Fitzgerald was repeatedly ambivalent about the book's title and he considered a variety of alternatives, including titles that referenced the Roman character Trimalchio; the title he was last documented to have desired was "Under the Red, White, and Blue".

First published by Scribner's in April 1925, The Great Gatsby received mixed reviews and sold poorly; in its first year, the book sold only 20,000 copies. Fitzgerald died in 1940, believing himself to be a failure and his work forgotten. However, the novel experienced a revival during World War II, and became a part of American high school curricula and numerous stage and film adaptations in the following decades. Today, The Great Gatsby is widely considered to be a literary classic and a contender for the title "Great American Novel".

Members Reviews:

The essence of Gatsby.

It is a short book but this is an excellent summary

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Title: "Old Christmas" and a Scene from "The Pickwick Papers"

Author: Washington Irving, Charles Dickens

Narrator: Flo Gibson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-12-17

Publisher: Audio Book Contractors, LLC

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

In "Old Christmas" we join in the celebrations of a Christmas Eve and a Christmas Day in Old England. The selection from The Pickwick Papers involves a Dickensian skating party.

Members Reviews:

A Pleasant Reading

This is a nice short work that is about the Christmas spirit or what should be the spirit of Christmas. You can see where Dickens used parts to develop his idea of the proper spirit of Christmas. I would say the difference is that Washington focuses on the spirit of happiness and community as an end whereas Dickens brings into the story redemption.

A quick read for the traditions of the holidays

This story was basically what reintroduced the celebration of Christmas to the United States. A lovely quick read for the holiday season that shares the traditions and customs of Christmas from ancient times and old English celebrations.

Five Stars

Excellent edition of Old Christmas with pictures. I gave it as a gift.

Dickens read this before incorporating the already expiring English country ...

Dickens read this before incorporating the already expiring English country traditions Irving encountered on his travels and detailed in this book into first Pickwick Papers and later into the urban setting of "A Christmas Carol". Much of what we American include in our holiday festivities from kissing under the MistleToe to drinking and playing games on Chritmas Eve is attributable to this book. This is not a long piece and well worth the read. This free Kindle edition is very readable.

Five Stars

Good Reading

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Title: Youth [Classic Tales Edition]

Author: Joseph Conrad

Narrator: B. J. Harrison

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-16-17

Publisher: B.J. Harrison

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Marlowe tells a tale of his youth before he ventured into the heart of darkness. After several false starts, he signs as second officer on a trading ship to Bangkok. Before their final disembarkation, he discovers that all the rats are abandoning ship before they had even left the dockyard. It isn't until Marlowe and his crew are halfway to Singapore that they discover the horror the rats have left behind.

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Title: Summary and Analysis of It Can't Happen Here

Author: Osmosis Jones

Narrator: Jack Nolan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-27-17

Publisher: The Six Figure Teen Trust

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

This is a summary and analysis of It Can't Happen Here and not the original book.

With news of the dictatorship Adolph Hitler is building in Germany and the fascist regime taking root in Italy, Lewis Sinclair attacks the basic American precept that something of that magnitude cannot happen here.

As the election of the century heats up, it becomes apparent to Doremus Jessup that Senator Berzelius Windrip was well on his way to defeating incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the entire Republican Party.

Upon his election, Windrip begins doing the unthinkable as he disbands the states and does away with all political parties except a new one entitled Corporate America Party.

As Windrip gains more and more power, a noble fight takes place as Doremus Jessup and others in the New Underground go to war to fight despotism.

Inside this Osmosis Jones summary:

Members Reviews:

My take on It can't happen here. (It could)

It is a frightening book, and one can well imagine something like this happening under the current admistration. Sinclair Lewis did a great job of predicting the future of America. Some of the material seems like it could have been ripped from today's headlines. One fault of this booklet is that it includes numerous typos.

The summary is good and gets the point of the book across

I tried to read "It Can't Happen Here" for class and I just couldn't. I'm not sure if it's Sinclair Lewis's writing style, or how he tends to introduce multiple characters that we don't see again for a long time in chapters, or it could be his obscene use of "and" instead of commas when listing things.

Either way, I couldn't read the book and opted for this summary. The summary is good and gets the point of the book across.

It loses stars because of the glaring typos and punctuation issues. I stopped reading the actual book because it was confusing and at parts this summary wasn't much better.

Sinclair Lewis, Literary Nostradamus

How amazing is it that Sinclair Lewis wrote the Trump story so many years before there even was a Trump, much less a Trump campaign. And he wrote it damn well.

I was interested in what the book had to say and how it could correlate with today's political atmosphere but when I looked at t

Throughout the voting season of 2016 I had heard some rumblings about the book It Can't Happen Here. I was interested in what the book had to say and how it could correlate with today's political atmosphere but when I looked at the length of the book I felt like I might purchase it and then never take the time to read it all and that is when I discovered this summary. Osmosis Jones gave me a chapter by chapter highlight of what I needed to know to fully understand the story. Instead of long chapter I was able to read one to two pages of each chapter. Now I can share my knowledge of It Can't Happen Here with my friends.

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Title: A Tramp Abroad

Author: Mark Twain

Narrator: Robin Field

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-07-16

Publisher: christianaudio.com

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

In A Tramp Abroad, the ever adventurous Mark Twain brings his wit and creativity to his travels in Europe. Twain takes fictional liberty, turning his travels into an entertaining journey as he visits many of the countries of Central Europe. Listeners are sure to be delighted and humored as they enjoy what is considered by many to be one of Mark Twain's best works.

Members Reviews:

Boring

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

I didn't realize this was just a journal of Mark Twain's travels....too slow, doesn't draw you in at all.

Fun slices of Twain's life

What made the experience of listening to A Tramp Abroad the most enjoyable?

I enjoyed the description of German opera.

Would you recommend A Tramp Abroad to your friends? Why or why not?

Only as a cure for insomnia. The descriptions were cute and quaint, but the highly detailed , pithy, precious and lengthy scenarios lost my interest quickly. The folksy narration was Twain-like, but very slow-paced. A deadly combination.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Robin Field?

Robin Williams

A Disappointment.

As you will see I found this narrative lacking in cohesian... The satire and irony were lost in poor humour and unfunny exaggeration...