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Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, A

Author : Mark Twain

Performed By : Stuart Langton

Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc

Runtime : 11 hours

Categories : Classic Literature

Our Price : $23.95

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An ingenious Yankee mechanic, knocked unconscious in a fight, awakens to find himself at

Camelot in A.D. 528. Imprisoned by Sir Kay the Seneschal and exhibited before the knights of the Round

Table, he is condemned to death but saves himself by posing as a magician like Merlin, correctly predicting

an eclipse, and becoming minister to King Arthur. He increases his power by applying nineteenth-century

knowledge of gunpowder, electricity, and industrial methods. However, when he attempts to better the

condition of the peasantry he meets opposition from the church, the knights, Merlin, and the sorceress

Morgan le Fay.

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Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories, The: by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald

Performed By : various readers

Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc

Runtime : 3 hours

Categories : Classic Literature

Our Price : $12.95

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This collection of stories, originally published in 1922, is the basis for an upcoming major motion picture starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett.

F. Scott Fitzgerald makes anti-bellum Baltimore his setting for "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," a fantastical tale with some Poe-like overtones about a baby born at age seventy who then lives life in reverse, his hair turning "in the dozen years of his life from white to iron-gray, the network of wrinkles on his face becoming less pronounced."

This collection also includes "The Lost Decade," "Three Hours between Planes," "The Bridal
Party," and "Babylon Revisited."