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Books published by publisher Babblebooks

  • A Pair of Blue Eyes

    Thomas Hardy

    (Babblebooks, July 1, 2013)
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  • The Enchanted April

    Elizabeth von Arnim

    Audio CD (Babblebooks, Jan. 31, 2009)
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  • The History of Henry Esmond

    William Makepeace Thackeray

    Audio CD (Babblebooks, )
    The unabridged classic on MP3 audio, narrated by Anais 9000. Three playback speeds on one disk; etext edition included. Running time: 17.3 hours (slow), 15.8 hours (medium), 14.4 hours (fast). Held to be "the most perfect historical novel" in English -- succeeds most fully in reconstructing the atmosphere of the period it depicts, including scenes of the Jacobite uprising of 1745.
  • The Odd Women

    George Gissing

    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: 14.3 hours (slow), 13.0 hours (medium), 11.9 hours (fast). Engaged with all the major sexual and social issues of the late-nineteenth century, Gissing's satire on the prevailing literary image of the 'New Woman,' remains an intensely modern work, and the subject of contemporary debate.
  • Far From The Madding Crowd

    Thomas Hardy

    Audio CD (Babblebooks, June 1, 2007)
    The unabridged classic on MP3 audio, narrated by Anais 9000. Three playback speeds on one disk; etext edition included. Running time: 13.4 hours (slow), 12.2 hours (medium), 11.1 hours (fast). Near Weatherbury (in Hardy's mythical Wessex), Bathsheba Everdene is loved by three men. Published anonymously in the Cornhill, it at once secured the writer a foremost position among popular authors.
  • Jennie Gerhardt

    Theodore Dreiser

    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: 12.8 hours (slow), 11.7 hours (medium), 10.7 hours (fast). Filled with details from his own life and those of his sisters, Dreiser's follow-up to Sister Carrie is full of a rugged sincerity, a fearless devotion to the truth, and undisguised pity for the impotence of human nature. Dreiser's second novel and his own personal favorite features an impoverished heroine who, in simply trying to make her way in the world, inadvertently defies a host of social conventions.
  • The Last of the Plainsmen

    Zane Grey

    Audio CD (Babblebooks, Feb. 11, 2013)
    The unabridged classic on MP3 audio, narrated by Alfred von Lecteur. Three playback speeds on one disk; etext edition included. Running time: 8.1 hours (slow), 7.4 hours (medium), 6.7 hours (fast).
  • Wessex Tales

    Thomas Hardy

    Audio CD (Babblebooks, March 18, 2013)
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  • Evelina

    Fanny Burney

    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: 15.7 hours (slow), 14.3 hours (medium), 13.1 hours (fast). A beautiful "country cousin" comes out in society, in this wickedly funny novel-in-letters. First-rate comic characters and lively action.
  • The Castle of Otranto

    Horace Walpole

    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: 3.5 hours (slow), 3.2 hours (medium), 2.9 hours (fast). Walpole introduced and named the genre with The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story which was to influence Matthew G. Lewis, Radcliffe and Shelley.
  • The Prisoner of Zenda

    Anthony Hope

    Audio CD (Babblebooks, Jan. 31, 2009)
    The unabridged classic on MP3 audio, narrated by Alfred von Lecteur. Three playback speeds on one disk; etext edition included. Running time: 5.9 hours (slow), 5.4 hours (medium), 4.9 hours (fast). Regarded by many critics as the finest adventure story ever written, this is the tale of Rudolf Rassendyll, an English gentleman who finds that he has -- not only the blood of kings in him -- but the stuff of kings. Save a kingdom and win the love of the fair Flavia: all this does Rudolf (on his holiday!) in a brilliant satire on late-nineteenth century European politics.
  • The Jewel of Seven Stars

    Bram Stoker

    Audio CD (Babblebooks, Jan. 31, 2008)
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