Christmas Carol, A
Author : Charles Dickens
Performed By : Ralph Cosham
Publisher : In Audio
Runtime : 3 hours
Categories : Classic Literature
Classics
Short Stories
Horror & Suspense
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A wonderful reading of the story of Scrooge, Tiny Tim and the Ghosts of Christmas.
A Christmas Classic
from - 18 Dec 2006
I love this story and can't get enough of it. It is so great to hear it read to me.
If you have been saying you were going to start a family tradition, this would be the one to begin. Gather the family and listen to the telling of Dicken's classic!
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Glimpses of the Moon, The
Author : Edith Wharton
Performed By : Anna Fields
Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Runtime : 9 hours
Categories : Classic Literature
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"As Wharton tells [the] story, the sharp irony of both her prose and her characters
bleeds into pools of true feeling."Kirkus Reviews
"There are only three or four American novelists who can be thought of as 'major'and Edith
Wharton is one."Gore Vidal
Set in the 1920s, The Glimpses of the Moon details the romantic misadventures
of Nick Lansing and Susy Branch, a couple with the right connections but not much in the way of funds.
They devise a shrewd bargain: they'll marry and spend a year or so sponging off their wealthy friends,
honeymooning in their mansions and villas.
As Susy explains, "We should really, in a way, help more than we should hamper each other. We both
know the ropes so well; what one of us didn't see the other mightin the way of opportunities, I mean.
And then we should be a novelty as married people. We're both rather unusually popularwhy not be
frank?and it's such a blessing for dinner-givers to be able to count on a couple of whom neither one
is a blank."
The other part of the plan is that if either one of them meets someone who can advance them socially,
they're each free to dissolve the marriage. How their plan unfolds is a comedy of Eros that will charm
all fans of Wharton's work.
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