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Title: Study Guide: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Author: Robert Crayola

Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-21-17

Publisher: Robert Crayola

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Few novels have affected audiences (especially young people) like JD Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. With this new guide, you will have an even greater understanding of the book. Included in this guide: a biography of author JD Salinger, a look at the book's context, its literary elements, detailed chapter summaries, analysis, and suggestions for essays. This is the definitive guide to The Catcher in the Rye, concise, easy to understand, and guaranteed to add to your enjoyment of this classic story.

The second edition of this best-selling guide is completely revised and expanded with 20% more material than the first edition.

Members Reviews:

This time I loved ol' Caulfield

I first read this book sixty years ago and my recent reaction was completely different. As a teenager I was shocked by the language and that was about all that I remembered. I also missed the fact that he was in a mental institution talking to a psychoanalyst. In short, I didn't get it at all. This time I loved ol' Caulfield. Apart from being mixed up and needing to get his act together, he's the neatest kid in the world. Watch the news on TV a while. Everyone IS a moron. And when is the last time any of us has had an interesting face to face conversation? I was stunned at how contemporary this book seems and (for good or for ill) how engagingly authentic the teenage voice sounds. If you are like me and read this book ages ago, read it again and see if your reaction is different now.

nice summary of the classic novel about adolescent angst

This is a helpful summary and deconstruction of the classic coming of age novel by J.D. Salinger for those of us who read the novel many years ago and don't care to reread it in its entirety.

Good resource

This was very helpful in understanding some of the symbolism in the book.

Five Stars

This classic is always worth a re-visit. Some of the main characters phrases will stick with you.

He loved it

Classic. Still holds up. 12 year old son read it for school. He loved it

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Title: American History Stories

Subtitle: 200 Elementary Stories of American History

Author: Mara L. Pratt

Narrator: Jim Hodges

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-20-17

Publisher: Jim Hodges Productions

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges' historically accurate, exciting, and edifying audio recordings. The 200 chapters cover all of American History from the time of the explorers through the end of the Civil War - stories of conflicts over religion, troubles with the Indians, the French and Indian War, the causes of the American Revolution, the daring exploits of those defending liberty, the early battles and struggles of the army, the heroes who led the colonists to victory, anecdotes from the time Washington became president, the War of 1812, the rise of Andrew Jackson, the sectional differences leading to the Civil War, stories from the time of Lincoln and the southern states seceding, through the battles of Bull Run, Shiloh, Antietam, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, until the close of the war.

Written in the 1800s, the Young Listeners Collection features children's stories from yesterday's classics. Learn from our nation's founders whose Christian faith was lived out in the lives of the characters in these stories.

Members Reviews:

This is a horrible book very bigoted
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bigoted and rurocrntric this book is not to be taken seriously The author is inaccurate

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Title: Herland

Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Narrator: Joanna Bates

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-13-17

Publisher: A.R.N. Publications

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 20 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Herland takes the listener on a fascinating journey into a utopian society comprised entirely of women. A society with no men also means no conflict, resulting in a war-free existence. It is a perfect world, but only if you are female.

Three men set out on a journey into uncharted territory to discover for themselves if the legend of an all-female society is a myth or actually a reality. Tracking down the mythical realm of women poses plenty of challenges, but what they ultimately find is both enchanting and frightening.

In an age when feminism was still considered a fringe concept, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's many works ventured into unfamiliar territory. She was not only a novelist but wrote a number of nonfiction titles, as well as poetry. For feminists of the era, Mrs. Gilman was considered a role model due to her unorthodox and progressive ideas.

Members Reviews:

Is this even legal?

My received copy of Herland had many problems. First of all, they promote their book as being "illustrated" one of the reasons that I was most interested in this version. The pictures look like they were copied from google and are so blurry it is unable to make out what is pictured. The type is awful I was disgusted to find absolutely no insertions between paragraphs. Ultimately, this is not from a real publishing out, it was printed a couple of days before my order, is this even legal??

Not the worst thing I have ever read (but pretty close)

Not the worst thing I have ever read (but pretty close). A must read if you care to understand how far feminist theories have come since their beginnings, or if you are a misogynist....Gilman has a few golden moments, but overall this story is problematic. Interesting concept though. And far beyond her time!

Good, not great

Herland is a feminist utopia, and like all utopian novels, presents its arguments for the lifestyle it presents as a perfect world for its inhabitants. It's well-written, avoids didactic preaching, and presents an interesting story. It is a classic, in a sense, but it also tends to stereotyping its characters.

An interesting story about sex roles that anticipates Pohl's Day ...

An interesting story about sex roles that anticipates Pohl's Day Million and Sturgeon's Venus Plus X. Perhaps it is not as well known as those because a woman wrote it. The story is about a country where only women live. They reproduce without the aid of men (not really explained how). The country is cut off from the world until three men visit it in an airplane.

At the end of the book the three men marry women from Herland and have unexpected problems.

Great

Great

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Title: Self-Reliance

Author: American Renaissance Books, Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrator: Sam Torode

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-23-17

Publisher: American Renaissance Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string."

"Insist on yourself; never imitate."

"To be great is to be misunderstood."

A carefully produced edition of Emerson's most famous essay. Beware of other publishers' slapdash editions.

Members Reviews:

Read it and decide for yourself. I enjoyed it....

I definitely have to listen to it again. The writing is old and thus most of the words used are no longer used very much today.

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Title: Bartleby, the Scrivener

Author: Herman Melville

Narrator: Bob Neufeld

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-15-17

Publisher: Paperless

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 issues of Putnam's Magazine, and reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856. A Wall Street lawyer hires a new clerk who, after an initial bout of hard work, refuses to make copy and any other task required of him, with the words "I would prefer not to".

Numerous essays have been published on what, according to scholar Robert Milder, "is unquestionably the masterpiece of the short fiction" in the Melville canon.

Members Reviews:

Herman melville is a great writer for sure

this is a short story with with some complexity around character development. there were really only two characters in the story. the narrator who was the owner of the firm and bartleby, someone he hired. It has a sad ending. The author does leave a lot of questions unanswered, but the story still reads well.

Great Read and Test for Social Philosophy

When you say "Herman Melville", people groan and think of being made to read Moby Dick in high school and/or college. This is quick, interesting, and raises a lot of questions. I give it to my friends to see if they are a social conservative or a social liberal. The plot moves quickly, although the writing style is dated.

A must read

I love this book . . . encountered this character in a graduate level course of Melville's works for my Master's degree back in the '70s. What a great answer Bartleby gave when he "preferred not to"! I've used this myself--sometimes jokingly--in the years since I became acquainted with the scrivener.

Compassionate story

This was a very interesting and compassionate novella about a proof reader who basically prefers to do nothing. At times humorous, and very well written, it speaks plainly to the human condition.

A good exposure to Melville that has made it possible to ...

Enjoyable and a manageable length. A good exposure to Melville that has made it possible to finally digest Moby Dick.

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Title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Author: Mark Twain

Narrator: Gregg Rizzo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-09-17

Publisher: Essential Audiobooks

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - The fictional character's name may have been derived from a jolly and flamboyant fireman named Tom Sawyer with whom Twain was acquainted in San Francisco, California, while Twain was employed as a reporter.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel".

Members Reviews:

Great Bedtime Reader

All of the Illustrated Chosen Classics are great bedtime readers. My wife sits in the hall of the children's bedrooms and reads these stories to them at bedtime. The difference between these books and the traditional novels is that these stories move very fast. My son, in particular, will hear one of these abridged classic novels and, if he likes it, will then read the full unabridged version on his own. Kind of gives our kids a taste of the classics without having to start reading a really large and sometimes overwhelming looking book. My son is 10 and my daughter is 15. We have about 30 of these types of books in our library.

A Classic Still

Like many people of my age (62), I read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as a child because at that time it was widely perceived to be a child's or young adult's book. This is unfortunate as it is not nor has it ever been directed at the young. In my rereading I discovered for the first time why it is still called the original great American novel. Huckleberry, like Twain, is opinionated and perceptive. His narration and point of view drive the novel forward. Rather than relegate this work to the children's shelves or castigate it as racist, folks should embrace this novel for what it is, a bildungsroman that shows the growth of a country as well as the growth of its young protagonist.

It captivated a classroom full of surly teens

I teach English, and the junior year in North Carolina is devoted to American literature. I approached Huck Finn with no small amount of trepidation because of Twain's use of vernacular. I ran into the same problem with "Their Eyes Were Watching God" and solved that by listening to Ruby Dee's audio recording, which students loved. I purchased this recording of Huck Finn, and it was to die for fabulous. Students read along in their books as we listened to the recording, and it helped bring the characters and the story alive for them. They laughed when I hoped they would laugh, and they understood the novel so much better by being able to listen to it. This recording was invaluable.

Reading this book as an adult is a whole different ...

Reading this book as an adult is a whole different experience. I'm fairly sure the versions I read as a child were watered down. I don't have any memory of murder and mayhem in the versions I read as a child. All the same it was highly entertaining and deserving of being a classic.

Friendship and mischieviousness.

I grew up reading this book, a story about Huckleberry Finn and his adventurous life on the Mississippi River as a boy. He would be considered a hoodlum in this day and age, at the time it was written he was an orphan and had no one to help him grow with morals however he is a rather a good boy with pretty good morals and this story is a classic.

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Title: Americana

Author: Don DeLillo

Narrator: George Newbern

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-27-16

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 19 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

At 28, David Bell is the American dream come true. He has fought his way to the top, surviving office purges and scandals to become a high-powered television executive. David's world is made up of the images that flicker across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall America's imagination. And then the dream - and the dream making - become a nightmare. At the height of his success, David sets out to rediscover reality. Camera in hand, he journeys across the country in a mad and moving attempt to capture a sense of his own and his country's past, present, and future.

Members Reviews:

DeLillo's Grand First Step

Almost 25-years later, and DeLillo's first novel jumps from a quasi-normal narrative to almost a prose poem, from Mad Men to David Lynch. It is funky, infinitely quotable, and haunting in its strange awareness and paranoia. It is like Don Delillo wanted to describe a documentary of America verbally, but grew unsatisfied in just telling you what he was seeing. Soon, he switched to describing what America was saying/singing. After that he was licking the Acetate off the Super 16 and describing the trip. Funky.

I'm taking a road trip with my brother (a writer), his friend (a documentary filmaker and former CIA agent), and another freind (a literary American writer of both fiction and nonfiction) later this summer. I was teasing my brother that during the trip, I was going to literally EAT the author's book, page-by-page, while traveling with him on this road trip through the West. Perhaps, I need to switch books and eat 'Americana'. Our road trip is starting and ending in Dallas. Love Field. I feel like my Summer of 2017 started and will eventually end with the taste of 'Americana' in my mouth.ding in Dallas. Love Field. I feel like my Summer of 2017 started and will eventually end with the taste of 'Americana' in my mouth.

hypnotizing

the book is enhanced by the hypnotizing voice, when it was over I started it again, lost in the poem

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Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin

Subtitle: Life Among the Lowly

Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Narrator: Alan Munro

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-08-16

Publisher: Trout Lake Media

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 23 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible. It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. In 1855, three years after it was published, it was called "the most popular novel of our day". A thrilling and important piece of American literature!

Members Reviews:

Inspirational and uplifting in spite of the subject matter.

A sad but inspiring book masterfully written in a way that transports you back to the Civil War antebellum years.

Legend has it, upon meeting the author, President Lincoln said to her, "so you're the little old lady who wrote the book that started this great war?"

It may not be a actual quote, but considering this book was second only to the Bible in terms of distribution at the time of the Civil War, there's likely some truth to the statement.

Good story, but hard to keep my attention span

Any additional comments?

I love historical stories and non-fiction. With this one, I'm really having a tough time following it! I have to really concentrate to keep up with what's going on. I'm not sure if its the way it's read, or the way it's written, or both. A lot of the lingo and pronunciation loses me! So far (I'm not finished yet), I definitely find the story to be interesting, and want to finish it. I may check to see if there are other readers to choose from.

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Title: The Sea Wolf

Author: Jack London

Narrator: Will Patton

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-05-16

Publisher: Phoenix Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 15 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Jack London worshiped strong and virtuous heroes, and his stories give great weight to the inevitable triumph of good over evil. His telling of the adventures of Humphrey van Weydon in The Sea Wolf is in keeping with this theme of moral man. His powerful and gripping saga of van Weydon's capture by a seal-hunting ship and the ensuing tangles with its dreaded captain, Wolf Larsen, makes this a classic American tale of peril and victory.

Members Reviews:

I won the lottery!

The Audible lottery, that is! When I decided to look for a Jack London book that I hadn't already listen to, The Sea Wolf came to mind. I was disappointed at first, by the previews because of the narrators. Some I knew already and passed by because of past experiences with them, I listened to the rest and found them to be even worse. Thankfully I realized I was only looking at unabridged recordings, which is my usual preference. When the abridged options came up and I saw Will Patton as narrator of one of them, I couldn't wait to buy it and start listening! I wasn't disappointed, of course. I've never been disappointed by a Will Patton reading. Oh yes, and the story by Jack London was great too. All in all, this Audible book is AWESOME!

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Title: The Scarlet Letter

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrator: Nancy Peterson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-02-16

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 41 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

A tale of betrayal, revenge, loyalty and redemption, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a true classic.

Hester Prynne settles in a little town in Puritan-era Massachusetts while awaiting her husband's arrival from England. Hester becomes pregnant, exposing her sin in the eyes of the townsfolk. Her penalty: wearing an embroidered A on her bosom for the remainder of her life.

When Hester's husband arrives in the town anticipating a joyous reunion with his young wife, he instead begins a cankering quest to uncover the father of Hester's child.

Members Reviews:

The scarlet letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

This is a classic that I have read several times. The narration by Nancy Peterson was absolutely fabulous she did a nice job differentiating between the characters and the narrative. I highly recommend this version. I was voluntarily provided a review copy from the author publisher or narrator

Loved it!

I read The Scarlet Letter in high school. Dry.As.Dust.

Nancy Peterson breathed life and meaning into this old classic. I loved it from the second I heard her delightful rendition of the judgemental women in chapter one!

The narrator is stellar!

This was a "re-read" for me. I have found that I am much more motivated to revisit classics if I listen to an audiobook. I think I loved the story even more this time. It has a Feminist slant to it that, after reading many of the Goodreads reviews, I don't think a majority of people pick up on.

The narrator is stellar. Her pacing is spot on, and her character voices are distinct, but natural sounding. Her words are easily understood, and there were no annoying sounds (lip smacks, or loud breath intakes) present. I will be looking for other books she has narrated.

Scarlet..

Any additional comments?

Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is about forbidden love, crime, revenge, and is set in the

Puritan community.

Overall, The Scarlet Letter is well-written, thought-provoking, and definitely a book that should be read.

Nancy Peterson did really well with the narration.

Note:

"This audio book was provided by the author, narrator, or publisher at no cost in exchange for an unbiased review."

The Scarlet Letter

A classic story that is narrated so well by Nancy Peterson. I highly recommend this book!

I received this book in exchange for an unbiased review.