Product Description: Richard Adams, the author of Watership Down, creates a lyrical and engrossing tale, a remarkable journey into the hearts and minds of two canine heroes, Snitter and Rowf. After being horribly mistreated at a government animal-research facility, Snitter and Rowf escape into the isolation-and terror-of the wilderness...read more

Product Description: The story is introduced with the epigraph "Ce grand malheur, de ne pouvoir être seul" — a quote taken from The Characters of Man by Jean de La Bruyère. It translates to This great misfortune, of not being able to be alone. This same quote is used in Poe's earliest tale, "Metzengerstein"...read more

Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist Edith Wharton is best known for her novels that illuminated privileged life in the 19th century, such as The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth.In addition to her award-winning novels, she also wrote poetry and short stories. Collected here are some of her best works of short fiction, including: "The Eyes," a famous ghost story; "The Daunt Diana," which tells about the love of art; "The Moving Finger," an eerie story about a man clinging to his wife's memory; and "The Debt," a story of loyalty.This work is part of Brilliance Audio's extensive Classic Collection, bringing you timeless masterpieces that you and your family are sure to love.

Product Description: Prepare for marvelous adventure on the high seas.…The Book of Pirates features the rip-roaring fictional adventures of swashbuckling pirates and buccaneers of the Spanish Main. Thic collection includes "The Ghost of Captain Brand" and "The Treasure Box."

Product Description: The magic unfolds from the first lines of Water Rat's soliloquy about messing about in boats in this captivating version of Kenneth Grahame's classic.Although it's generally considered a children's book, get a copy for yourself as well as the child in your life, as you won't want to give this away...read more

Product Description: This enchanting collection of stories captures the adventures of the man-cub Mowgli as he struggles to find his place among the animals of the jungle and the humans of the nearby villages.Among these selections are stories from both the first and second volumes of Rudyard Kipling's beloved Jungle Books...read more

Product Description: Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Sûreté du Québec, has found a peace he'd only imagined possible. On warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a small book, The Balm in Gilead, in his large hands...read more

Product Description: "Cosham reads with a gentle accent that enhances Joyce's Dublin.…" ―Library JournalJames Joyce's Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories that focus on the lives of everyday Dublin residents at the turn of the 20th century...read more

Ten classic stories from authors who have masterfully captured the American experience.Irving's incredible and amusing tale of the archetypal "Rip Van Winkle" relates the story of a man who slept through history.Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge of Courage" tells of a young soldier who must struggle with his conscience no matter what the consequences."The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is Mark Twain's hilarious story of a contest to end all contests in the rowdy days of the Forty-Niners.Edgar Allan Poe's "The Man of the Crowd" tells of one man's strange fascination with another."The Ransom of Red Chief" is O. Henry's tale of a kidnapping that goes horribly, horribly, wrong."Miss Tempy's Watchers" by Sarah Orne Jewett speaks of the power of friendship.Kate Chopin's lovely "Desiree's Baby" tells the poignant story of one woman's search for her past.Jack London's acclaimed "The Call of the Wild" is a thrilling adventure of nature and survival.Edith Wharton pens a chilling ghost story in the atmospheric "The Eyes."And "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" is F. Scott Fitzgerald's wry and amusing tale of a young lady's struggle for social success.

Product Description: Agatha Christie launches the legendary career of Hercule Poirot with this classic tale of intrigue.Did one of the Cavendish brothers poison their stepmother, Mrs. Iglethorp, or was it her new husband?

Product Description: Hundreds of books and articles have been written about Edgar Allan Poe. Even so, no one is really sure who Poe was. Many people say that he was as crazy as the characters he wrote about. Others say that Poe was a driven man with a simple wish...read more

Product Description: The Cone is a short story by H. G. Wells. Herbert George "H. G." Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing textbooks and rules for war games...read more

Product Description: [Library Edition Audiobook CD format in sturdy Vinyl case with cloth sleeves that keep compact discs protected.] [Read by Ralph Cosham] In 48 BC the Roman generals Caesar and Pompey are engaged in a battle to rule the world. As Pompey plots a reckless stand on the banks of the Nile, Gordianus the Finder -- who has brought his dying wife, Bethesda, to the Nile seeking a cure from its sacred waters -- finds himself suddenly at the heart of a series of treacherous and history-altering events...read more

Product Description: [MP3-CD audiobook format in Vinyl case. NOTE: The MP3-CD format requires a compatible audio CD player.] [Read by Ralph Cosham] In 48 BC the Roman generals Caesar and Pompey are engaged in a battle to rule the world. As Pompey plots a reckless stand on the banks of the Nile, Gordianus the Finder -- who has brought his dying wife, Bethesda, to the Nile seeking a cure from its sacred waters -- finds himself suddenly at the heart of a series of treacherous and history-altering events...read more

Product Description: "This tale that I am about to tell is of a little boy who lived and suffered in those dark middle ages; of how he saw both the good and the bad of men, and of how, by gentleness and love and not by strife and hatred, he came at last to stand above other men and to be looked up to by all...read more

Product Description: In the rich turbulence of English history, one day stands magnificently apart: June 15, 1215, the day of the signing of the Magna Charta. On this day, the first blow for English freedom was struck and forever affected the Western world...read more

Product Description: It's autumn 1925, and a killer uncannily like England's Jack the Ripper is stalking the streets of Paris and preying on young women. Michael Ward is a journalist newly arrived to the Left Bank. When he falls in with Jason Waddington, an expatriate American writer who introduces him to the cafe scene and his crowd of writers and artists, Ward soon discovers that Jack de Paris is not the only trouble afoot in the City of Light...read more

Product Description: When US Navy Commander Roger Johnson happened upon a 1919 Parliamentary transcript dealing with the near sinking of a British man-of-war called the King James, he at first gave it only passing thought--until he came across the words to a sailors' ballad entitled "Fifteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest," and a description of events that matched in every detail the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson...read more

Product Description: The search for the Builders, the legendary alien race whose unfathomable constructs continued to perplex scholars and explorers alike, had led Builder expert Darya Lang, adventurer Hans Rebka, and treasure hunters Louis Nenda and Atvar H'sial to an unknown Builder artifact far outside the spiral arm...read more