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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce, Flo Gibson (Narrator)
Audio CD (Audio Book Contractors, LLC, Feb. 23, 2013)The forerunner of Ulysses, this autobiographical novel deals with Stephen Dedalus childhood, adolescence, and early manhood. His growing rebellion against Catholicism and his family background, his first love affairs, and his interest in art, literature, metaphysics, and aesthetics are explored in stream-of-consciousness sequences. (Seven CDs)
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Billy Budd
Herman Melville, Flo Gibson (Narrator)
Audio CD (Audio Book Contractors, Inc., Dec. 13, 2007)Written some 40 years after "Moby Dick", Melville's "Billy Budd" is a moving tale of good versus evil. Set aboard a British navy ship at the end of the 18th century, the envious Master-at-Arms becomes obsessed with the destruction of the "Handsome Sailor", Billy Budd.
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An Eye For An Eye
Anthony Trollope, Flo Gibson (Narrator)
Audio CD (Audio Book Contractors, Inc, Aug. 14, 2008)The charming heir to an earldom has an affair with a sweet young lady of inferior background. She becomes pregnant - and the consequences may not be what one would usually expect from Mr. Trollope's pen.
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Orley Farm
Anthony Trollope, Flo Gibson (Narrator)
Audio CD (Audio Book Contractors, LLC, Aug. 3, 2012)Lady Mason s trial for forgery of her late husband's will shocks the neighborhood. A cast of unforgettable characters views her with both disdain and compassion. Intertwined with this plot are three separate love stories. (Twenty CDs)
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Selected Tales from The Arabian Nights
Anonymous, Mary Woods (Narrator)
Audio CD (Audio Book Contractors, LLC, Feb. 28, 2012)Titles include: The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the Golden Water, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, The Story of the Fisherman and the Genie, The History of the Young King of the Black Isles and The Story of the City of Brass. (Four CDs)
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Ragged Dick
Horatio Alger Jr., Flo Gibson (Narrator)
Audio CD (Audio Book Contractors, LLC, June 22, 2012)This is a rags-to-riches tale about an honest, ambitious, zesty and generous young bootblack from lower Manhattan in the late 1800 s. (Four CDs)
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The Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare, Flo Gibson (Narrator)
Audio CD (Audio Book Contractors, LLC, Sept. 12, 2013)Shylock demands a pound of flesh from Antonio's body in payment of a loan. Bassanio's wife Portia, disguised as a lawyer, defends Antonio with a surprising stipulation attached to Shylock s verdict. (Three CDs)
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New World, The
Winston Churchill, Christian Rodska
MP3 CD (The Classic Collection, March 24, 2015)Volume two of Churchill's famous account of English-speaking peoplesBetween 1485 and 1688, England became a Protestant country under Henry VIII. His daughter, Elizabeth I, battled for succession and supremacy at home, and the discovery of "the round world" enabled a vast continent across the Atlantic to be explored.While this new era was spawning the beginnings of modern America, England was engaged in a bloody civil war and sustained a Republican experiment under the leadership of Oliver Cromwell.This work is part of Brilliance Audio's extensive Classic Collection, bringing you timeless masterpieces that you and your family are sure to love.
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Lady Audley's Secret
M. E. Braddon, Flo Gibson (Narrator)
Audio CD (Audio Book Contractors, Inc., July 1, 2010)The mystery of a modern thriller pervades the twists of plot in this remarkable Victorian novel. The story revolves around the sudden disappearance of a young man and the dark secrets being held by the beautiful Lady Audley. (Eleven CDs)
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Mansfield Park
Jane Austen, Frances Barber
MP3 CD (The Classic Collection, Sept. 6, 2016)When Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relations at Mansfield Park she seems shy and withdrawn beside her witty and vivacious cousins. But Fanny's steadfast and purposeful character makes her an indispensable part of the household. As the others become entangled in a maze of flirtation and intrigue, it is only Fanny whose deep but secret love for Edmund Bertram remains true despite his fascination with her brilliant but frivolous cousin Mary."Frances Barber offers a sterling performance, bringing life and sparkle to each character....Barber convincingly shifts from lord of the manor to sniveling servitude at the change of a sentence. And her narrative passages transparently tie the whole family together into one beautiful package." —AudioFile
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Saviour Pirotta, Washington Irving, Jason Juta
Hardcover (QEB Publishing, Oct. 1, 2015)Ichabod Crane is the teacher in a little village called Sleepy Hollow. Everyone in Sleepy Hollow believes in ghosts and ghouls and loves to tell spooky stories, their favourite being the legend of the headless horseman. However, things become a little too real for Ichabod when that very ghost appears one night and chases him. Why is the horseman after Ichabod and will he escape? Carefully retold in clear contemporary language, and presented with stunning illustrations, these favourite horror classics will capture the hearts and imagination of young readers.
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Tender Is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Therese Plummer
Audio CD (Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio, Jan. 6, 2015)Published in 1934, Tender Is the Night was one of the most talked-about books of the year."It's amazing how excellent much of it is," Ernest Hemingway said to Maxwell Perkins. "I will say now," John O'Hara wrote to Fitzgerald, "Tender Is the Night is in the early stages of being my favorite book, even more than This Side of Paradise." And Archibald MacLeish exclaimed: "Great God, Scott.… You are a fine writer. Believe it—not me."Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise. A profound study of the romantic concept of character—lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative—Tender Is the Night, Mabel Dodge Luhan remarked, raised F. Scott Fitzgerald to the heights of a "modern Orpheus."