Books in Classic Books on Cd Collection series

The Peerybingles, Caleb Plummer, his blind daughter and a cricket find truth, beauty and the spirit of Christmas through each other. This tale is coupled with The Signal Man, a strange ghost story. (Four CDs)

When an elderly spinster and her brother decide to adopt a boy to help with the farm chores, mischievous Anne arrives instead and soon no one can imagine Green Gables without her. Winner of the Parents Choice Award 1986. Selected a Notable Children s Recording 1987 by the American Library Association. (Nine CDs)

Considered Anderson s masterpiece, this series of short stories with recurring characters depicts the joy of love, the pain of loss, the prejudices and the secrets of a small town as seen through the eyes of its inhabitants. The main character, George Willard, is said to resemble the author in many ways. (Five CDs).

Henry VIII foils a plot by the scheming Cardinal Wolsey and rejects his twenty-year marriage to the tragic Katharine of Aragon, while all the time eying the beautiful Anne Boleyn. (Three CDs)

Anne s vivid imagination and romanticism lead to many embarrassing and amusing episodes as she begins her career as a teacher. (Eight CDs)

Mark Twain, Grover Gardner (Narrator)

After his parents die in the African jungle, their baby son, the rightful heir to the Greystoke estate, is raised by a tribe of apes. His strength and agility serve him well as he matures. And then he meets others of his own kind… (Caution, contains racial insensitivities and some scenes of violence.) (Seven CDs)

Set in the Yorkshire moors, the ill-fated, passionate love story of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff is beautiful, haunting and sometimes harrowing. (Nine CDs)

The narrow escape of Eliza, the brutality of Simon Legree, the sweetness of little Eva, and the kindness and Christianity of Uncle Tom are part of this remarkable and inspiring novel, which contributed greatly toward the arousal of anti-slavery sentiment before the Civil War and helped to pave the way for equal rights.

Emma Bovary s quest for love and romance leads her into deeper and deeper financial trouble and moral degradation. (Ten CDs)

This collection includes such old favorites as The White Snake, The Table, the Ass, and the Stick, How Mrs. Fox Married Again, Old Sultan, The Six Swans, The Golden Swan, The Queen Bee, The Frog Prince, Snow White and Rose Red, The Three Feathers, The Elves, The Angel Mother and Little Snow-White. (Three CD s)

This 1896 edition of a famous historical romance, full of narrow escapes and amazing exploits, tells of the adventures of D Artagnan and three valiant musketeers, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, as well as the evil machinations of a certain milady. (Fifteen CDs)