"May convincingly portrays the many moods and complex character of Charlotte Brontë's
heroine....Her many voices, with subtle timing, sweep us at a quick clip through a narrative of psychological
insight and vividly rendered places, people and landscapes."--AudioFile
"Villette! Villette! Have you read it? It is a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre.
There is something almost preternatural in its power."--George Eliot
"Brontë's finest novel."--Virginia Woolf
Arguably Brontë's most refined and deeply felt work, Villette draws on her profound loneliness following
the deaths of her three siblings.
Left by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe, the
narrator and heroine of Villette, achieves by degrees her independence from both outer necessity and
inward grief. Lucy flees from an unhappy past in England to begin a new life as a teacher at a French boarding
school in the cosmopolitan capital of Villette. But her struggle for independence is soon overshadowed by her
friendship with a worldly English doctor and her feelings for an autocratic schoolmaster. Brontë's strikingly
modern heroine must decide if there is any man in her society with whom she can live and still be free.
Written By : Lewis Carroll
Narrator : Fiona Shaw
Published By : Select Music & Distribution
Length : 2 hours 25 minutes
Type : Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Magic
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Price : $11.99
The fantasy worlds in which Alice finds herself introduce her to some well known characters! More... |
Written By : Baroness Orczy
Narrator : Johanna Ward
Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc
Length : 9 hours
Type : Classic Literature
Price : $19.95
In this sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel, Sir Percy Blakeney’s arch- enemy travels to England in pursuit of the impudent enemy of the French Republic. Monsieur Chauvelin devises a dastardly plot to annihilate, once and for all, both Sir Percy and his beautiful wife, Marguerite. More... |
Written By : Jules Verne
Narrator : Frederick Davidson
Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc
Length : 11 hours 30 minutes
Type : Classic Literature
Price : $23.95 $11.50
The year 1866 was marked by a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon. For some time, sea vessels had been threatened by “an enormous thing,” a long phosphorescent object, infinitely larger and more rapid in its movements than a whale—until Captain Nemo put his submarine, the Nautilus, into... More... |
Written By : Jonathan Swift
Narrator : Pamela Garelick
Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc
Length : 12 hours
Type : Classic Literature
Price : $49.95 $23.95
Swift’s masterpiece of satire tells of the fantastic voyages of the Englishman Lemuel Gulliver, whose travels take him to lands where the inhabitants are only six inches tall as well as to lands where they are sixty feet high, where horses have the capacity to reason, and where animals are... More... |
