Classic Audio Books
Nostalgia packed Classic Audio Books on CD with most in MP3 format. Hours of listening pleasure per book, narrated in English with British and / or American reader dialect.
These are full version, quality narrated books, containing preface, chapters etc. Each disc or multi disc is supplied complete with relevant artwork, index and plastic protective case.
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Note: MP3 can be played on all computers, MP3 players, IPods and most modern CD / DVD players - Please check you can play MP3s before purchasing.
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Alexander the Great by Jacob Abbott (1803-1879)
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Alexander the Great by Jacob Abbott (1803-1879) Alexander the Great was one of the most successful military commanders in history, and was undefeated in battle. By the time of his death, he had conquered most of the world known to the ancient Greeks. Alexander the Great is one of many biographies aimed at young people written by Jacob Abbott and his brother. The biographies are written in such a way that makes them appealing and easily accessible to everyone
Audio CD - MP3 format total running time: 5:57:27
Read by Lizzie DriverPrice:4.99GBPAnne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942)
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Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) Lucy Maud Montgomery’s classic children’s novel, Anne of Green Gables tells the story of a red headed orphan girl with a personality you can’t help but love. Despite her “tragical” past, Anne’s optimism and imagination have helped her to always see the best in things. Anne’s life changes considerably when she is accidentally adopted by the Cuthberts, a brother and sister who thought they were getting a boy to help out on the farm. The Cuthberts decide Anne will have to be sent back to the orphange but before they know it, she has begun to work her way into their hearts.
CD Audio book total running time: 9:34:43 hours
Read by rachelellenPrice:4.99GBPBlack Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse by Anna Sewell (1820-1878)
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Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse by Anna Sewell (1820-1878)
Black Beauty is Anna Sewell’s first and only novel. The story is told in the “first person” (or first horse) as an autobiographical memoir of a highbred horse named Black Beauty, from his carefree days as a foal on an English farm, to his difficult life pulling cabs in London, to his happy retirement in the country. Along the way, he meets with many hardships and recounts many tales of cruelty and kindness. Each short chapter recounts an incident in Black Beauty’s life containing a lesson or moral typically related to the kindness, sympathy, and understanding treatment of horses.
Audio book CD total running time: 6:14:54 hoursPrice:4.99GBPCall of the Wild by Jack London (1876-1916)
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Call of the Wild by Jack London (1876-1916)
In this novel (often mistakingly classified a children’s book) the main protagonist Buck, a St. Bernard/Collie mix, is abducted and sold to a trainer of sled dogs in Alaska. He adapts to the brutal conditions and is finally acquired by a loving man. When this new owner is killed, Buck follows the ‘call of the wild’ and joins a pack of wolves.
Audio book CD total running time 3:00 approx
Price:4.99GBPCaptain Blood by Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950)
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Captain Blood is an adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1922. It concerns the sharp-witted Dr. Peter Blood, an Irish physician, who is convicted of treason in the aftermath of the Monmouth rebellion in 1685, and enslaved on the Caribbean island of Barbados. He escapes and becomes a pirate. [wikipedia] Captain Blood was the basis for the Academy Award-nominated swashbuckling film that rocketed Errol Flynn and Olivia de Haviland to stardom in Hollywood. The fast-paced historical fiction of Rafael Sabatini is often compared with that of Robert Louis Stevenson and Alexandre Dumas.
Audio CD Total running time: 12:11:54
MP3 FormatPrice:4.99GBPThe Children of the New Forest by Frederick Marryat (1792-1848)
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The children of Colonel Beverley, a Cavalier officer killed at the Battle of Naseby are believed to have died in the flames when their house, Arnwood, is burned by Roundhead soldiers. However, they escape and are raised by Joseph Armitage, a gamekeeper in his cottage in the New Forest. The story describes how the children adapt from anaristocratic lifestyle to that of simple cottagers. The children are concealed as the grandchildren of Armitage. Eventually after Armitage’s death, Edward Beverley leaves and works as a secretary for the sympathetic Puritan placed in charge of the Royal land in the New Forest. He then joins the army of the future King Charles II and after the Royalist defeat at the Battle of Worcester, he escapes to France and lives in exile until the Restoration. His brother and siblings continue to live in the New Forest and they are reunited on the King’s return.
Audio CD MP3 Format Total running time: 10:42:04 hoursPrice:4.99GBPA Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1812-1870
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A Christmas Carol (full title: A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas) is A Christmas Carol is a Victorian morality tale of an old and bitter miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, who undergoes a profound experience of redemption over the course of one evening.
Audio CD MP3 format total running time: 2:43:45 hours
Read by Glen HallstromPrice:4.99GBPDon Quixote, Volume 1 by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616). Translated by John Ormsby (1829-1895).
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This is volume 1 of 2.
Don Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in the character of the Morisco historian, Cide Hamete Benengeli, whom he claims to have hired to translate the story from an Arabic manuscript he found in Toledo’s bedraggled old Jewish quarter. The protagonist, Alonso Quixano, is a minor landowner who has read so many stories of chivalry that he descends into fantasy and becomes convinced he is a knight errant. Together with his companion Sancho Panza, the self-styled Don Quixote de la Mancha sets out in search of adventures. His “lady” is Dulcinea del Toboso, an imaginary object of his courtly love crafted from a neighbouring farmgirl by the illusion-struck “knight” (her real name is Aldonza Lorenzo, and she is totally unaware of his feelings for her. In addition, she never actually appears in the novel). Published in two volumes a decade apart, Don Quixote is the most influential work of literature to emerge from the Spanish Golden Age and perhaps the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature, it regularly appears at or near the top of lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published.
Audio CD in MP3 format total running time: 21:16:36 hoursPrice:4.99GBPDorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum (1856-1919)
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Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz was the fourth of 14 Oz books written by L. Frank Baum (1856-1919). Published in 1908, while Baum was resident in Coronado, California, it is considered one of the “darker” of the Oz tales. However, it also is enlivened by Baum’s considerable wit, penchant for puns, and dry social commentary. In this title, Dorothy, her kitten Eureka, Jim, a cab horse, and Zeb, a ranch hand, descend into the earth through a rift opened by an earthquake. There they encounter the “humbug” wizard who once ruled Oz. In their journey back to the earth’s surface, they meet a number of potentially dangerous magical peoples and creatures including the cold-blooded Mangaboos, invisible bears, the flying wooden Gargoyles, a den of dragonettes, and an eccentric inventor. With a little help from Ozma, the group end up in Oz where they are treated to feasts and celebrations. The animals end up humbled by a few of their experiences in Oz, where all animals can talk, and return home a little wiser.
Reader: Judy Bieber
MP3 format CDPrice:4.99GBPEl Dorado by Baroness Emmuska Orczy (1865-1947)
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El Dorado, by Baroness Orczy is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. It was first published in 1913. The novel is notable in that it is the partial basis for most of the film treatments of the original book.
Adio CD MP3 format total running time: 10:56:10 hours
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