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These heart-warming tales epitomize the gentility of their author. The first two tell of the joys, the loves and the heartbreaks of the March family. Eight Cousins involves the orphan Rose who goes to live with her seven boy cousins and Under The Lilacs relates the tale of a boy and his dog who run away from the circus. All titles are narrated by Flo Gibson (30 Cassettes). SAVE $56.85! If purchased separately. these four books would retail for $156.80!

Take a walk around the Secret Garden. Experience boarding school with A Little Princess. See life through a horse’s eyes with Black Beauty. Be enchanted by charming and hot-headed Anne of Green Gables. Carefully retold in clear contemporary language, and presented with delightful illustrations, these favorite classic stories will capture the heart and imagination of young readers. By retelling the story in a shorter, simpler form, children will find these books highly engaging, and the color illustrations help with both comprehension and interest level.

This novel tells the story of Catherine Sloper, the plain, obedient daughter of the widowed, well-to-do Dr. August Sloper of Washington Square. When a handsome, reckless man-about-town proposes to Catherine, her father forbids the marriage because he believes the man to be after Catherine's fortune and future inheritance. The conflict between father, daughter, and suitor provokes consequences in the lives of all three that make this story one of James's most piercingly memorable. James is the acknowledged master of the psychological novel. The power of his prose and the skill with which he marshals small details to accomplish his purpose, sustains the listener's attention.This novel is part of Brilliance Audio's extensive Classic Collection, bringing you timeless masterpieces that you and your family are sure to love.

“The danger lay in the heavy fog which blanketed the bay, and of which, as a landsman, I had little apprehension.”This is the first line in this tale of a man uprooted and thrust into the unfamiliar and dangerous world of the sealing sailor. Humphrey Van Weyden, a San Francisco sophisticate and an intellectual, finds himself the captive voyager aboard The Ghost, captained by the brutal and barbaric Wolf Larsen. Van Weyden’s rights disappear as the coast of California vanishes over the horizon.Almost immediately, the slave plots his freedom—and Van Weyden must confront the weakness in his soul, mind, and body.Generations have been spellbound by this harrowing story of danger on the sea, psychological confrontation, and the dual nature of humankind.This novel is part of Brilliance Audio’s extensive Classic Collection, bringing you timeless masterpieces that you and your family are sure to love.

Ben-Hur could be said to be the first American blockbuster. When it was published in 1880, it sold over two million copies and was translated into numerous languages. It combines all the best elements of popular classic, epic, and action stories against a background of authoritative historical detail. The pace and immediacy of Ben-Hur was the basis of its appeal to filmmakers—Charlton Heston's portrayal of the title role became one of the classics of the cinema. Wallace's original novel has been largely forgotten now, but as this reading shows, the story, together with the sweeping rhythm of the writer's prose, make it ideally suited to audio.This novel is part of Brilliance Audio's extensive Classic Collection, bringing you timeless masterpieces that you and your family are sure to love.

CLASSIC COLLECTION BOOK 6: FRANKENSTEIN.THE COMPLETE INFAMOUS FRANKENSTEIN NOVEL BY MARY SHELLEY PLUS THE ADDITIONS OF ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT THE BOOK TO ADD TO USER EXPERIENCE. ENJOY!Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is a Gothic novel first published in 1818 detailing a mad scientist, Victor Frankenstein who create a hideous monster in his laboratory. One of the most famous horror novels of all time, a riveting and complex read tackling themes of loss, guilt and renewal of life.

CLASSIC COLLECTION BOOK 3: THE WAR OF THE WORLDS. THE COMPLETE INFAMOUS THE WAR OF THE WORLDS NOVEL BY H.G. WELLS PLUS THE ADDITIONS OF ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT THE BOOK TO ADD TO USER EXPERIENCE. ENJOY! The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells in 1897 is a captivating science fiction thriller where man kind is faced with an attack of the extraterrestrial variety. Made famous in 1938 where it was read over the radio and caused widespread panic across the nation where many viewers believed what they were hearing to real news of an alien invasion!

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic American story of Hester Prynne, accused of adultery, ostracized by her Puritan community, and abandoned by both her lover and her husbandThe story opens in Puritan Boston, a settlement only fifteen or twenty years old. A young woman stands on a scaffold clasping a three-month-old baby. As a married woman with a missing husband and a new baby, Hester Prynne could have been sentenced to death for the crime of adultery. Instead she is condemned to always wear the letter A as a badge of her shame. As she stands there, she sees her long-missing husband, who has been held captive by Indians. While the town chorus is murmuring against her and her old and unattractive husband stares silently at her, the young and handsome clergyman publicly demands the name of her partner in crime—while desperately praying that she won't reveal him.The Scarlet Letter rightfully deserves its stature as the first great novel written by an American, the novel that announced American literature equal to any in the world.This novel is part of Brilliance Audio's extensive Classic Collection, bringing you timeless masterpieces that you and your family are sure to love.