Audio Editions - NEH Summertime Favorites: Grades 9 to 12

            The National Endowment for the Humanities
            list of classic literature recommendations for
            young people.

Grades 9 to 12

Pride and Prejudice
Author: Jane Austen, Reader: Irene Sutcliffe

Austen's most popular novel, containing some of her most stinging comments on manners and morals in early 19th-century England. It's the story of the initial misunderstandings and mutual enlightenment between witty Elizabeth Bennet and haughty Mr. Darcy. The movie Becoming Jane focuses on this delightful author. "Richly presented by Irene Sutcliffe... [Her] gravity conveys the importance of the eventual humbling and self-awareness attained by Elizabeth and her intended."—AudioFile
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Unabridged, 9 CDs, Fiction-Classic, F95500, 9781572705005, $37.95
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Wuthering Heights
Author: Emily Bront<\#235>, Reader: Michael Page

The story of wild, fierce Heathcliff and willful Catherine. Considered to be one of the finest English novels because of its breadth, imagery, and layers of conflict. The PBS Masterpiece Theatre production stars Tom Hardy and Charlotte Riley. "A fully realized dramatic performance. With consummate artistry she creates each character to sound perfectly faithful to the author's vision... If there is a better reading of Bront<\#235>'s great classic, I have not heard it, nor can I imagine how it could be done."—AudioFile

Unabridged, 10 CDs, Fiction-Classic, F9N614, 9781587886140, $44.95
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Unabridged, 10 cassettes, Fiction-Classic, F91068, 9781572700680, Now ~~$39.95~~ $14.95
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My Antonia
Author: Willa Cather, Reader: Kathryn Yarman

"There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made." Cather's voice is the voice of the Great Plains, and her heroine, Antonia, is a woman made of the stuff it takes to survive in this unforgiving, expansive, beautiful territory. A stirring classic of a courageous woman. "No romantic novel ever written in America... is one half so beautiful as My Antonia."—H.L. Mencken

Unabridged, 7 cassettes, Fiction-Classic, F9B144, 1446, Now ~~$49.95~~ $32.47
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The Canterbury Tales
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer, Reader: Fred Williams

Dubbed the "well of English undefiled" by Edmund Spenser, Chaucer is the pure embodiment of our language's essential power. In modern English, these tales told by the Knight, the Miller, the Pardoner, the Merchant, and the Franklin reflecton life as the characters travel from Southwark to Canterbury. Lively, absorbing, and often outrageously funny, these stories manifest an astonishing diversity of tone and subject matter.

Unabridged, 16 CDs, Fiction-Classic, F9B497, 9780786194971, Now ~~$128.00~~ $115.20
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Unabridged, 13 cassettes, Fiction-Classic, F9B239, 9780786122394, Now ~~$85.95~~ $77.35
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The Canterbury Tales, Volume II Audio Book

The Canterbury Tales, Volume II
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer, Readers: Frances Jeater, Charles Simpson, John Rowe, and John Moffatt with Philip Madoc as Host

A brilliant picture of medieval life, society, and values. Chaucer is the pure embodiment of our language's essential power. In modern English, the tales include The Clerk's Prologue and Tale, The Nun's Priest's Prologue and Tale, The Prioress's Prologue and Tale, The Reeve's Prologue and Tale, and The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale. All are told with freshness and vigor.

Abridged, 3 CDs, Fiction-Classic, F3E256, 9789626342565, $22.98
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Abridged, 3 cassettes, Fiction-Classic, F3E756, 9789626347560, Now ~~$17.98~~ $8.95
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Moll Flanders
Author: Daniel Defoe, Reader: Nadia May

Immortal, immoral, and never, ever dull. The classic fortunes and misfortunes of the irresistible young Irish lass who struggles through poverty and sin in search of property and power. Her brutal and colorful life includes prostitution, five marriages, and imprisonment for thievery. Written as if her own memoirs. The first picaresque novel by the author that James Joyce considered "the father of the English novel."

Unabridged, 10 CDs, Fiction-Classic, F9B941, 9780786159413, Now ~~$90.00~~ $81.00
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Unabridged, 9 cassettes, Fiction-Classic, F9B647, 1647, Now ~~$62.95~~ $56.65
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays Audio Book

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Reader: Jim Killavey

Radiating sensitivity and wonder, Emerson's essays focus on self-reliance, the contemplation of the sublime, and retirement from life. America's most famous philosopher was influenced by personal contact with Coleridge, Carlyle, and Wordsworth, and in turn he influenced Thoreau, Whitman, and Emily Dickinson.

Unabridged, 7 cassettes, Nonfiction, General, E7B209, 9780786106080, Now ~~$49.95~~ $44.95
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The Great Gatsby
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Reader: Alexander Scourby

Hear the epitome of the glamour and recklessness, promise and despair of the Jazz Age. Golden boy Jay Gatsby, the big dreamer, must confront the pettiness and cruelty of society, which corrupts everything he is faced with and believes in. Scourby's reading of this classic is magnificent. "Memorable... certainly one of the finest readings ever recorded."—The New York Times

Unabridged, 4 CDs, Fiction-Classic, F4K412, 9781602834125, $19.95
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Unabridged, 3 cassettes, Fiction-Classic, M30341, 9780945353416, Now ~~$19.95~~ $7.95
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Madame Bovary
Author: Gustave Flaubert, translated by Gerard Hopkins, Reader: Ronald Pickup

This exquisite novel that ushered in a new age of realism in literature paints a brilliant psychological portrait of a troubled middle-class woman. Emma, married to a clumsy country doctor, revolts against her ordinary life. As she pursuesher dreams of ecstasy and love, her desires lead only to tragedy. A great reading.
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Unabridged, 10 cassettes, Fiction-Classic, F91056, 9781572700567, Now ~~$39.95~~ $12.95
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The Scarlet Letter
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Reader: Dick Hill

The classic tale of shame, hypocrisy, and courage. Accused of adultery, ostracized by her Puritan community, Hester Prynne is abandoned by both her lover and her husband. This novel rightfully deserves its stature as the first great novel written by an American, the novel that announced American literature equal to any in the world.

Unabridged, 8 CDs, Fiction-Classic, F8N610, 9781587886102, $37.95
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