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Title: The Man in the Iron Mask

Author: Alexandre Dumas

Narrator: B.J. Harrison

Format: Unabridged

Length: 27 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-09-12

Publisher: B.J. Harrison

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 31 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Thirty years after their first adventures in The Three Musketeers, we find Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and D'Artagnan in very different situations. Athos has settled down at his own estate. Porthos married a rich widow, and is now a Baron. Aramis joined a monastery, and is now the Bishop of Vannes. D'Artagnan alone remains a Musketeer for the king, and is now captain of the very force he so longed to join all those years ago.

In The Man in the Iron Mask, Dumas develops his Musketeers into probing, multifaceted characters. Each now has a wealth of experience behind each of his actions. This is no simple adventure tale: It is political intrigue at its finest.

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Title: The Kreutzer Sonata

Author: Leo Tolstoy

Narrator: Simon Prebble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-21-12

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 50 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

One of the worlds greatest novelists, Leo Tolstoy was also the author of a number of superb short stories, one of his best known being The Kreutzer Sonata. This macabre story involves the murder of a wife by her husband. It is a penetrating study of jealousy as well as a piercing complaint about the way in which society educates men and women in matters of sex - a serious condemnation of the mores and attitudes of the wealthy, educated class.

Leo Tolstoy (18281910) was born in Russia. His parents, who died when he was young, were of noble birth. He served in the army in the Caucasus and Crimea, where he wrote his first stories. He is especially known for his masterpieces, War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877).

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Title: The Law

Author: Frederic Bastiat

Narrator: Erik Synnestvedt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-14-12

Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 90 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The Law was originally published as a pamphlet in French in 1850 by Frederic Bastiat. It is his most famous work and was written two years after the third French Revolution of 1848. It defines, through development, a just system of laws and then demonstrates how such law facilitates a free society. Bastiat was a French classical liberal theorist, political economist, and member of the French assembly. He was notable for developing the important economic concept of opportunity cost. He was the author of many works on economics and political economy, generally characterized by their clear organization, forceful argumentation, and acerbic wit.

Born in Bayonne, Aquitaine, France, Bastiat was orphaned at nine and became a ward of his paternal grandparents. At 17, he left school to work in his family's export business. Economist Thomas DiLorenzo suggests that this experience was crucial to Bastiat's later work since it allowed young Frédéric to acquire first-hand knowledge of how regulation can affect markets. When Bastiat was 25, his grandfather died, leaving the young man the family estate, thereby providing him with the means to further his theoretical inquiries. After the middle-class Revolution of 1830, Bastiat became politically active and was elected justice of the peace in 1831 and to the Council General in 1832. He was elected to the national legislative assembly after the French Revolution of 1848. His public career as an economist began in 1844 and was cut short by his untimely death in 1850.

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Title: Dead Souls [Russian Edition]

Author: Nikolai Gogol

Narrator: Vyacheslav Gerasimov

Format: Unabridged

Length: 20 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-02-11

Publisher: New Internet Technologies

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 24 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Dead Souls is a novel by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842, and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature. Gogol himself saw it as an "epic poem in prose", and within the book as a "novel in verse". Despite supposedly completing the trilogy's second part, Gogol destroyed it shortly before his death. Although the novel ends in mid-sentence (like Sterne's Sentimental Journey), it is usually regarded as complete in the extant form.

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Title: The Song of Roland

Author: Michael A. H. Newth (translator)

Narrator: Greg Marston, Summe Williams, Julian DouglasSmith

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-27-11

Publisher: Italica Press

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 29 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The Song of Roland is acknowledged today as the first masterpiece of French vernacular literature and one of the worlds greatest epic poems. Written down around the year 1090, The Song of Roland finely crafted verses tell of the betrayal and defeat of Charlemagnes beloved nephew at the Pass of Roncevaux in the Pyrenees and of the revenge subsequently sought on his behalf. Although the identity of the surviving works author cannot be known with certainty, his poetic genius cannot be doubted. His mastery of chanson de geste compositional techniques transformed an historically minor military setback - the ambush and slaughter of the great emperors rearguard by a band of Basque highlanders in August 778 - into the most immediately popular and subsequently cherished artistic expression of medieval chivalry, kingship, national pride, feudal and Christian service in the Western world. The earliest extant example of a medieval chanson de geste (song of deeds), The Song of Rolands 4,000 lines represent the most famous literary celebration of Carolingian mythology from the Middle Ages.

Michael Newths new verse translation of the Chanson de Roland - the first in English in over 50 years to preserve the full poetic diction of the medieval composition - recaptures the form, feel and flow of the original work in performance by restoring the genres verbal music to the The Song of Roland. This translation of the Chanson de Roland meets the need for a new version of the great poem for English readers of the 21st century, and it also highlights its potential as a viable piece of performance art. The audio book includes brief selections of medieval music interspersed between various sections.

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Title: Finnegans Wake

Author: James Joyce

Narrator: Jim Norton, Marcella Riordan

Format: Abridged

Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-11

Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Finnegans Wake, the greatest avant-garde novel of all time, was first published 70 years ago - and people are still trying to work out what it is about. There is Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker - aka HCE (Here Comes Everyone) - and Anna Livia Plurabelle, but also Finnegan the hod carrier (or was he a giant?), whose wake is the subject of the book. This is a masterly reading of the abridged version, with copious notes aiding comprehension.

Critic Reviews:

"Listening to Jim Norton and Marcella Riordan is a lot easier than trying to read the book." (The Guardian)

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Title: Demian

Author: Hermann Hesse

Narrator: Jason McCoy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-14-11

Publisher: BN Publishing

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 53 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth is a Bildungsroman by Hermann Hesse, first published in 1919; a prologue was added in 1960. Demian was first published under the pseudonym "Emil Sinclair", the name of the narrator of the story, but Hesse was later revealed to be the author.

Emil Sinclair is a young boy raised in a bourgeois home, amidst what is described as a Scheinwelt, a play on words that means "world of light" as well as "world of illusion". Emil's entire existence can be summarized as a struggle between two worlds: the show world of illusion (related to the Hindu concept of maya) and the real world, the world of spiritual truth. In the course of the novel, accompanied and prompted by his mysterious classmate 'Max Demian', he detaches from and revolts against the superficial ideals of the world of appearances and eventually awakens into a realization of self.

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Title: Purgatory: From The Divine Comedy

Author: Dante Alighieri

Narrator: Heathcote Williams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-24-11

Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 49 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Now of that second kingdom I shall sing where human souls are purified of sin and made worthy to ascend to Heaven Purgatory is the second part of Dantes The Divine Comedy ascending the terraces of the Mount of Purgatory inhabited by those doing penance to expiate their sins on earth. There are the proud forced to circle their terrace for aeons bent double in humility; the slothful running around crying out examples of zeal and sloth; while the lustful are purged by fire. Though less well-known than Inferno, Purgatory has inspired many writers including, in our century, Samuel Beckett, and has played a key role in literature.

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Title: Paradise: From The Divine Comedy

Author: Dante Alighieri

Narrator: Heathcote Williams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-24-11

Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 31 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

"I have been in the Heaven that takes up most of his light, and saw things there that those who descend from that height cannot speak of or forget."

Led by his guide, Beatrice, Dante leaves the Earth behind and soars through the heavenly spheres of Paradise. In this third and final part of The Divine Comedy, he encounters the just rulers and holy saints of the Church. The horrors of the Inferno and the trials of Purgatory are left far behind. Ultimately, in Paradise, Dante is granted a vision of Gods Heavenly court: the angels, the Blessed Virgin, and God Himself.

Editorial Reviews:

This last 33 cantos of THE DIVINE COMEDY are a peaceful completion of the journey, perhaps too peaceful. British actor and playwright Williamss narration of this section seems laid-back and somnolent. Heathcote Williams is solemn, his voice serious and low, as Dante and Beatrice ascend to Empyrean. The beauty of Paradise is subdued by Williams's quiet reverence but some lack of energy. Nevertheless, an audiobook edition is a welcome listening experience.

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Title: Fathers and Sons

Author: Ivan Turgenev

Narrator: Anthony Heald

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-16-11

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Classics, European Literature

Publisher's Summary:

One of the most controversial Russian novels ever written, Fathers and Sons dramatizes the volcanic social conflicts that divided Russia just before the revolution, pitting peasants against masters, traditionalists against intellectuals, and fathers against sons. It is also a timeless depiction of the ongoing clash between generations.

When a young graduate returns home, he is accompaniedmuch to his father's and uncle's discomfortby a strange friend who does not acknowledge any authority and does not accept any principle on faith. Bazarov is a nihilist, representing the new class of young radical intelligentsia that would come to overthrow the Russian aristocracy and its values. Uncouth and forthright in his opinions, Turgenevs hero is nonetheless susceptible to love and, by that fact, doomed to unhappiness.

Critic Reviews:

Vividly portrays the unsettled state of Russian peasantry before the revolution. (Masterpieces of World Literature)

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