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The Untamed
Max Brand
Audio CD (Babblebooks, Aug. 31, 2009)Even to a high-flying bird this was a country to be passed over quickly. It was burned and brown littered with fragments of rock whether vast or small as if the refuse were tossed here after the making of the world.
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The First Men in the Moon
H. G. Wells
Audio CD (Babblebooks, Jan. 31, 2008)The unabridged classic on MP3 audio, narrated by Anais 9000. Three playback speeds on one disk; etext edition included. Running time: 6.7 hours (slow), 6.1 hours (medium), 5.6 hours (fast). The anti-gravity metal developed by a brilliant, but abstracted, scientist leads to a hazardous interplanetary jaunt for himself and a neighbor.
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Sketches By Boz
Charles Dickens
Audio CD (Babblebooks, Jan. 31, 2008)The unabridged classic on MP3 audio, narrated by Anais 9000. Three playback speeds on one disk; etext edition included. Running time: 24.2 hours (slow), 22.1 hours (medium), 20.2 hours (fast). Dickens first attracted attention with these descriptive essays and tales, originally written for newspapers; facts noted down as they occurred "by an intelligence of quite exceptional vivacity"; and farces, romances, stories with a poetical justice - it is with these two types of narrative that the young Dickens enters English literature.
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Hero Tales from American History
Henry Cabot Lodge and Theodore Roosevelt
Audio CD (Babblebooks, July 1, 2013)To you we owe the suggestion of writing this book. Its purpose, as you know better than any one else, is to tell in simple fashion the story of some Americans who showed that they knew how to live and how to die; who proved their truth by their endeavor; and who joined to the stern and manly qualities which are essential to the well-being of a masterful race the virtues of gentleness, of patriotism, and of lofty adherence to an ideal.
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Waverley
Walter Scott
Audio CD (Babblebooks, Jan. 31, 2008)The unabridged classic on MP3 audio, narrated by Anais 9000. Three playback speeds on one disk; etext edition included. Running time: 16.2 hours (slow), 14.8 hours (medium), 13.5 hours (fast). A prepossessing youth has a series of misadventures in Scotland during the Jacobite uprising of 1745.
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Joseph Andrews
Henry Fielding
Audio CD (Babblebooks, Jan. 31, 2008)The unabridged classic on MP3 audio, narrated by Anais 9000. Three playback speeds on one disk; etext edition included. Running time: 11.8 hours (slow), 10.8 hours (medium), 9.8 hours (fast). Fielding turns the brand-new conventions of the novel on their head with this tale of a hero ever on guard to protect his chastity.
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Scaramouche
Rafael Sabatini
Audio CD (Babblebooks, Jan. 31, 2008)The unabridged classic on MP3 audio, narrated by Anais 9000. Three playback speeds on one disk; etext edition included. Running time: 12.3 hours (slow), 11.3 hours (medium), 10.3 hours (fast). A young attorney, with a wit as sharp as his steel, becomes an itinerant player to elude his enemies on the eve of the French Revolution.
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The Story of a Bad Boy
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Audio CD (Babblebooks, Jan. 31, 2008)The unabridged classic on MP3 audio, narrated by Anais 9000. Three playback speeds on one disk; etext edition included. Running time: 5.4 hours (slow), 4.9 hours (medium), 4.5 hours (fast). A semi-autobiographical memoir and realistic portrayal of an all-American, New England boyhood, based on the author's upbringing in Portsmouth.
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Domestic Manners of the Americans
Fanny Trollope
Audio CD (Babblebooks, April 1, 2012)None
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The Night Horseman
Max Brand
Audio CD (Babblebooks, Aug. 31, 2009)Accordingly at this point Randall Byrne removed from his nose his thick glasses and holding them poised he stared through the window at the view without. He had quite changed his appearance by removing the spectacles for the owlish touch was gone and he seemed at a stroke ten years younger.
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The Rise of David Levinsky
Abraham Cahan
Audio CD (Babblebooks, Jan. 31, 2008)The unabridged classic on MP3 audio, narrated by Anais 9000. Three playback speeds on one disk; etext edition included. Running time: 16.6 hours (slow), 15.1 hours (medium), 13.8 hours (fast). Chronicle of a sad success, by someone who knew his own times: editor for more than 40 years of the Jewish Daily Forward, which helped newly-arrived immigrants adapt to American culture. Fun fact -- was later made into a musical by Isaiah Sheffer of Symphony Space.
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Typee: A Romance of the South Seas
Herman Melville
Audio CD (Babblebooks, Aug. 31, 2009)General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1920 Original Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Howe Subjects: Indigenous peoples Captivity Sailors Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) Marquesas Islands Marquesas islands Fiction / Action