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The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
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Read by: Mike Vendetti
Length: 4:41 h - unabridged
Number of files: 18
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“The Red Badge of Courage” is regarded the first modern war novel
This very influential American novel about the cruelty in the American Civil War is noted for its realism and psychological insight of ordinary soldiers.
The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy
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Read by: Various
Length: 17:16 h
Number of files: 49
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The Return of the Native , published in 1878, is Thomas Hardy’s sixth novel and arguably his best known. The story focuses on the lives and loves of residents in the semi-fictional county of Wessex and includes his character Eustacia Vye, one of the most memorable in English literature.
Sarrasine
Honoré de Balzac
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Read by: Chip
Length: 1:39 h - unabridged
Number of files: 1
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A castrati opera singer captivates a young sculptor who is determined to possess him. He is set up with the castrati and the tragedy evolves. Sarrasine is the first work of the decadence.
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
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Read by: Mark F. Smith
Length: 13:20 h - unabridged
Number of files: 50
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Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
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Read by: Chip
Total Length: 17:32 h - unabridged
Number of files: 56
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One of Hardy’s major works, a great classic of English literature
Full of symbolism, biblical reference and in elaborated prose, “Tess” tells about the struggling against circumstances of a pretty country girl. Seduced and condemned Tess falls victim to sexual double standard in Victorian England.
Roman Polanski adapted the novel in film with Nastassja Kinski as Tess.
Tristan and Iseult
Joseph Bédier (1864-1938)
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Read by: Joy Chan
Length: 2:23 h
Number of files: 14
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A French Literature classic with Arthurian connections
The story of Tristan and Iseult is a romance and tragedy of the adulterous love between the Cornish knight Tristan and the Irish princess Iseult. The story first appeared in the 12th century and predates and most likely influenced the Arthurian romance of Lancelot and Guinevere
Typee
Herman Melville
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Read by: Michael Scherer
Length: 11:34 h
Number of files: 56
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Typee: A look at Polynesian Life
The adventure of a sailor who jumps ship at a Polynesia island.
He encounters cannibalism, colonialism, exoticism, eroticism, natural plenty and beauty, and simplicity of native lifestyle.
Typee is one of the first and arguably the most intelligent contemporary accounts of Western and Polynesian cultural interaction in the nineteenth century Pacific.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Read by: John Greenman
Length: 18:00 h
Number of files: 45
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Youth
Joseph Conrad
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Read by: Chris Hughes
Length: 1:15 h
Number of files: 3
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