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Title: Dubliners

Author: James Joyce

Narrator: Tadhg Hynes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-06-13

Publisher: Victorian Classic Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 24 votes

Genres: Classics, World Literature

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Title: Love in the Time of Cholera

Author: Gabriel García Márquez

Narrator: Armando Durán

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-27-13

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1716 votes

Genres: Classics, World Literature

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Audie Award Finalist, Classic, 2014

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds two people's lives together for more than half a century.

In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career, he whiles away the years in 622 affairs - yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he does so again.

With humorous sagacity and consummate craft, Gabriel García Márquez traces an exceptional half-century of unrequited love. Though it seems never to be conveniently contained, love flows through the novel in many wonderful guises - joyful, melancholy, enriching, and ever surprising.

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Title: The History of World Literature

Author: The Great Courses

Narrator: Professor Grant L. Voth

Format: Original Recording

Length: 24 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-08-13

Publisher: The Great Courses

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 227 votes

Genres: Classics, World Literature

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Whether around the campfire, between the covers of a great book, or in the theater, the desire to tell stories has been a common human impulse for thousands of years. These 48 lectures take you on a journey through time and around the world- from the enormous auditoriums of ancient Greece to a quiet study in the home of a 19th-century New England spinster- to introduce the history of world literature.

In this course, you'll sample some of the greatest literary expressions the world has known and experience storytelling in its many forms, including poetry, drama, and narrative. You'll explore: the ancient world, where tribal bards created national myths and founded religious texts out of legends, history, philosophy, and local lore; the countryside and aristocratic courts of India and the Middle East, collecting stories and folklore of magical men, terrifying beasts, alluring women, and conniving tricksters that live on in today's fairy tales and bedtime stories; the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Enlightenment to trace the evolution of storytelling from the poetic masterpiece of Dante's Inferno to the great drama pioneered by Shakespeare to sophisticated narratives such as Wu Ch'eng-en's Monkey and Voltaire's Candide; and the rise of Realism in the works of Flaubert, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov and the development of experimental modes by Brecht, Beckett, and Borges.

Offering concise summaries and thought-provoking interpretations of some of the world's greatest literary masterpieces, this course gives you the tools you need to appreciate these great literary works and understand how authors, playwrights, and poets throughout the centuries have practiced their craft.

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Title: Life Lessons from the Great Books

Author: The Great Courses

Narrator: Professor J. Rufus Fears

Format: Original Recording

Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-08-13

Publisher: The Great Courses

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 122 votes

Genres: Classics, World Literature

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Study more than three dozen works that span the timelines of Western history, from ancient Greece and Rome to the modern age. Whether written 2,000, 200, or 20 years ago, the enduring works of literature still speak to us and place our unique experiences into a larger perspective, offering invaluable lessons for every important moment in life.

Every Great Book you explore over these 36 insightful lectures-from the Odyssey and the Gospel of John to Hamlet and Animal Farm - is a unique expression of the human spirit and a fountain of advice, from how to conduct yourself in times of trouble to how to better appreciate the simple moments in your life.

You'll discover six broad themes that run through history's most compelling stories: the unconquerable human spirit, youth and old age, romance and love, adventure and courage, laughter and irony, and patriotism. In exploring these themes within the context of these Great Books, you learn new ideas about both the works themselves and the broad scope of the human condition.

If you haven't read these Great Books before, the warmth of Professor Fears's storytelling and his insightful approach to literature will have you heading to the library to learn more. And if you've already read these works, you'll discover new themes and ideas that will help you get more out of them.

Regardless of your previous familiarity with these works, you'll come to understand why these masterpieces remain eternal testaments to the variety of human experience and the powerful ways in which literature can guide and inspire us.

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Title: Vintage Reading: From Plato to Bradbury

Subtitle: A Personal Tour of Some of the World's Best Books

Author: Robert Kanigel

Narrator: Denise Washington Blomberg

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-17-13

Publisher: Bancroft Press

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, World Literature

Publisher's Summary:

A friendly literary companion, Kanigel shares the books he loves best. Vintage Reading is like those samples that seduce you into tasting because Kanigels enthusiastic eclecticism makes it clear that a good listener is really someone ready to venture between the covers, and Kanigels mini-forays between those covers seem cozy not intimidating. The antidote to Cliffs Notes, Vintage Readings unpretentious appetite for literature will inspire listeners young and old to new adventures and, most importantly, a confidence in themselves.

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Title: The General's Daughter [Russian Edition]

Author: Lidiya Charskaya

Narrator: Gulnaz Nasyrova

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-25-13

Publisher: New Internet Technologies

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, World Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Prichudlivye, polnye intrig priklyucheniya geroev povestej Charskoj perepletayutsya s ih vysokimi, blagorodnymi chuvstvami i postupkami. V tom mire, kotoryj sozdala Lidiya Charskaya, negodyayam i merzavcam ne udaetsya vzyat' verh nad svetlymi, chestnymi, chistymi dushami. Ee geroi takie, kakimi v glavnom navernyaka hotelos' by stat' i tebe: chtoby, nesmotrya na prepyatstviya, vse udavalos', chtoby tebya lyubili horoshie lyudi, a tvoya dusha otzyvalas' na etu lyubov', beskorystno ipredanno.

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Title: Devils

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Narrator: George Guidall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 28 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-20-13

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 132 votes

Genres: Classics, World Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Exiled to four years in Siberia, but hailed by the end of his life as a saint, prophet, and genius, Fyodor Dostoevsky holds an exalted place among the best of the great Russian authors. One of Dostoevskys five major novels, Devils follows the travails of a small provincial town beset by a band of modish radicals - and in so doing presents a devastating depiction of life and politics in late 19th-century Imperial Russia. Both a grotesque comedy and a shocking illustration of clashing ideologies, Dostoevskys famed novel stands as an undeniable masterpiece.

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Title: Moby Dick or The Whale

Author: Herman Melville

Narrator: Hayward Morse

Format: Abridged

Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-18-13

Publisher: Books Be Spoken

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Classics, World Literature

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Herman Melville was born on August 1, 1819 in New York City. He became a bank clerk, but in search of adventure, later worked on several ships, including the whale-ship "Acushnet". Not only Melville's early novels were inspired by his journeys, but above all his most extraordinary literary work "Moby Dick". But literary success soon faded and so after 1857 he published only some poetry. Herman Melville died on September 28, 1891 in New York.

Hayward Morse has appeared in innumerable stage, radio, TV and film productions in the United States, Britain, Canada and Europe. Successfully working at London's West End, he later received a Tony award nomination for his performance in "Butley" on Broadway. Very experienced with recording Audio Books, Hayward Morse shows his theatrical grandeur in playing different characters, credibly and most impressingly.

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Title: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Narrator: Frank Muller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-13-13

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 253 votes

Genres: Classics, World Literature

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Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyns startling book led, almost 30 years later, to Glasnost, Perestroika, and the "Fall of the Wall". One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich brilliantly portrays a single day, any day, in the life of a single Russian soldier who was captured by the Germans in 1945 and who managed to escape a few days later. Along with millions of others, this soldier was charged with some sort of political crime, and since it was easier to confess than deny it and die, Ivan Denisovich "confessed" to "high treason" and received a sentence of 10 years in a Siberian labor camp.

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Title: The Arabian Nights Entertainments

Author: Louis Rhead

Narrator: Charlton Griffin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-13

Publisher: Audio Connoisseur

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 206 votes

Genres: Classics, World Literature

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The central core of the stories concerns a Persian king and his new bride. The king has a brother who is a vizier in faraway Samarcand, and he invites him to come to the palace for a visit. Just before his departure, the vizier is shocked to discover his wife's infidelity. Enraged, he kills her. Full of pain and grief, the vizier continues on to the court of his brother, the king. But, once arrived at his brother's palace, the vizier soon discovers the king's wife is also involved in an even more flagrant infidelity, which he reluctantly reports to him.

The maddened king, Shahryar, then kills his wife, too. The distrustful king next decides to marry an endless succession of virgins only to execute each one the next morning before she has a chance to dishonor him. Weeks go by. Eventually, Scheherazade, the vizier's daughter, offers herself as the next bride. She is convinced she knows how to stop the slaughter. Her father reluctantly agrees to the marriage.

On the night of their marriage, Scheherazade begins to tell the king a tale, but does not end it. The king, curious about how the story ends, is thus forced to postpone her execution in order to hear the conclusion. The next night, as soon as she finishes the tale, she begins (and only begins) a new one, and the king, eager to hear the conclusion, postpones her execution once again. And so it goes on for 1,001 nights....

Listen as the fabulous tales of Alladin, Sindbad the Sailor, Ali Baba, and many others sweep you away to the Golden Age of Islam.

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