Books in Classic Collection series

A classic romance and social critique by the acclaimed author of Howard's End and A Passage to India Originally published in 1908, A Room with a View was one of E. M. Forster's earliest works and today has become one of his most famous. Set in Florence, Italy, and Surrey, England, this accomplished and beautiful novel centers on the young lady Lucy Honeychurch. Her choice between the propriety of her social class and the chance for an unconventional love affair will decide the course of her future.

Anne Bronte’s heart-breaking tale of a woman's struggle for independence.Helen "Graham" has returned to Wildfell Hall in flight from a disastrous marriage. Exiled to the desolate moorland mansion, she adopts an assumed name and earns her living as a painter.This novel is part of Brilliance Audio's extensive Classic Collection, bringing you timeless masterpieces that you and your family are sure to love.

Henry Fleming is primed to prove his patriotism and to earn that “red badge of courage.”Bored with farm life, and anxious for some excitement, Henry Fleming sets off to join the Union troops fighting the Civil War. An inexperienced fighter, he is anxious to get into battle to prove his worth. He swaggers to keep up his spirits waiting for battle, but when suddenly thrust into the slaughter, he is overcome with blind fear and runs from the field of battle.He is ashamed when he joins the wounded, for he has not earned their "red badge of courage" and becomes enraged when he witnesses the death of his terribly maimed friend. In a confused struggle with his own army’s retreating soldiers, he is wounded but not by enemy gunfire. In an effort to redeem himself in his own eyes, he begins to fight frantically and, in the heat of battle, automatically seizes the regiment’s colors in a daring charge that proves him truly courageous.This novel is part of Brilliance Audio's extensive Classic Collection, bringing you timeless masterpieces that you and your family are sure to love.

“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own.…”So begins The War of the Worlds, the novel that made Wells famous and has enthralled and terrified readers and listeners for almost 100 years. Ten huge and tireless creatures land in England and, using their deadly rays and crushing strength, threaten the very existence of humankind. Wells' classic is not just groundbreaking science fiction, it is a shocking social parable about man’s inhumanity to man.This novel is part of Brilliance Audio's extensive Classic Collection, bringing you timeless masterpieces that you and your family are sure to love.

2013 Audie Award Nominee, Short Stories/CollectionsUniversally acclaimed from the time it was first published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been admired for decades as a stylistic masterpiece. Academy Award-winning actress Diane Keaton (Annie Hall, The Family Stone) performs these classic essays, including the title piece, which will transport the listener back to a unique time and place: the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco during the neighborhood’s heyday as a countercultural center.This is Joan Didion’s first work of nonfiction, offering an incisive look at the mood of 1960s America and providing an essential portrait of the Californian counterculture. She explores the influences of John Wayne and Howard Hughes, and offers ruminations on the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room. Taking its title from W. B. Yeats’ poem "The Second Coming," the essays in Slouching Towards Bethlehem all reflect, in one way or another, that "the center cannot hold."Slouching Towards Bethlehem is part of Audible’s A-List Collection, featuring the world’s most celebrated actors narrating distinguished works of literature that each star had a hand in selecting.

[This is the Audiobook MP3CD format in vinyl case][Read by Nadia May]Four very diverse women, all seeking revitalization from the dreary February rains of 1920s London, rent the small medieval castle of San Salvatore, nestled high above the bay of Portofino, Italy. Arriving at San Salvatore, they find it awash with the scent of flowers, its olive groves terracing down to the sun-warmed sea. Each has her reasons for desiring escape. Mrs. Wilkins and Mrs. Arbuthnot are glad to leave behind their insipid duties and unresponsive husbands. The elderly Mrs. Fisher wishes only to sit in the sun and replay her youthful memories, and the bewitchingly beautiful Lady Caroline Dester desires to have seclusion from all her adoring suitors. Amid the canopies of fragrant wisteria, in the sweet sunshine and melodious silence, fate has some surprises in store for all of them.

From the author of Tess of the D’Urbervilles comes a fascinating novel, as powerful today as it was controversial during its original publicationThomas Hardy's last and arguably most controversial novel, Jude the Obscure is the story of a young country workman who is thwarted in his efforts for advancement at every turn. Hopelessly obsessed with becoming an Oxford student, Jude is also desperately lost and barred from good society because of his unconventional and complicated relationships with two different women. A sincere indictment of the day's societal norms, Jude the Obscure remains a powerful novel and an unforgettable literary experience.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 Story of KeeshThis story recounts the legend of Keesh, an Eskimo boy who used "brains not brawn" to defeat a powerful polar bear and save his people from starvation.The White SilenceIn London's naturalistic story, "The White Silence," a trio of characters have to cope with the cruel laws of nature in order to survive in the remote, vast land of the Yukon. This suspenseful story highlights both London's versatility and his accuracy in describing the natural world and his characters' reactions to it.The Man with the GashHere is one of London's famous stories of the Klondike, where men had to battle the elements, and often each other, to survive.This novel is part of Brilliance Audio's extensive Classic Collection, bringing you timeless masterpieces that you and your family are sure to love.

Anne Brontë's first novel, boldly drawn from her own experiences as a governessAnne Brontë wrote Agnes Grey out of an urgent need to inform her contemporaries about the desperate position of unmarried, educated women driven to take up the only "respectable" career open to them—that of a governess. Struggling with the monstrous Bloomfield children and then disdained in the superior Murray household, Agnes tells a story that is a compelling inside view of Victorian chauvinism and ruthless materialism.This novel is part of Brilliance Audio's extensive Classic Collection, bringing you timeless masterpieces that you and your family are sure to love.

[Volume 1][Audio Theater] The detective series Let George Do It came to radio in 1946. It starred Bob Bailey as George Valentine, ex-GI and detective for hire. Clients came to Valentine's office after reading a newspaper carrying his classified ad:Personal notice: Danger's my stock-in-trade. If the job's too tough for you to handle, you've got a job for me, George Valentine. Write full details.Valentine's secretary was Claire Brooks, a.k.a. Brooksie. Other regulars included Brooksie's kid brother, Sonny; George's nemesis on the police force, Lieutenant Riley; and elevator operator and handyman in George's apartment building, Caleb.Casts came from radio's top tier of actors, including William Conrad, John Dehner, Lurene Tuttle, Harry Bartell, and Hans Conreid, to name a few. Don Clark directed scripts by David Victor and Jackson Gillis. Sponsored by Standard Oil, Let George Do It was last heard in 1955.The twelve exciting episodes in this collection aired in 1948 and 1949:CD 1. ''The Body in the Closet'' (12 Apr 48), ''The Penthouse'' (19 Apr 48)CD 2. ''The Pack of Boys'' (26 Apr 48), ''The Tunnel'' (3 May 48)CD 3. ''The Island in the Lake'' (31 May 48), ''Have Some Excitement'' (7 Jun 48)CD 4. ''The Bodyguard'' (14 Jun 48), ''The Unfit Mother'' (21 Jun 48)CD 5. ''One against the City'' (7 Feb 49), ''Destination Dead End'' (14 Feb 49)CD 6. ''The Roundabout Murder'' (7 Mar 49), ''The Motive Is Murder'' (14 Mar 49)