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narrator Peter Jay Fernandez author William Wells Brown publisher Audible, Inc audio_length 8 hours and 42 min. release_date 08-OCT-2010 William Wells Brown’s Clotel (1853), the first novel written by an African American, was published in London while Brown was still legally regarded as property within the borders of the United States. The novel [...]
narrator Michael Shallenberg, Andy Sirois, Kara Osborne, James Minter author Charles Dickens publisher ABN audio_length 14 hours and 47 min. release_date 11-MAR-2011 A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel by Charles Dickens; it is moreover a moral novel strongly concerned with themes of guilt, shame, redemption and patriotism. The plot centers [...]
narrator Peter Joyce author Captain Marryat publisher Assembled Stories audio_length 10 hours and 18 min. release_date 12-JUL-2011 An exciting… adventure indeed as the Seagrave family, en route to Australia, are shipwrecked and become castaways on a desert tropical island. Thankfully Masterman Ready, a good man to have in a crisis, is on hand [...]
narrator Rachel Bavidge author Anne Bronte publisher Naxos AudioBooks audio_length 7 hours and 33 min. release_date 18-NOV-2010 From its opening sentences Agnes Grey introduces a heroine who is honest, perceptive and charming. Unfortunately, the Bloomfields, who engage her as a governess, are rather less appealing, and the incarnation of the suppressed cruelties and [...]
narrator Juan McDonalds author Alexandre Dumas publisher ABN audio_length 49 hours and 13 min. release_date 15-JUN-2011 The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, pere. It is often considered, along with The Three Musketeers, as Dumas’s most popular work. The writing of the work [...]