Showing results by publisher "Simply Media" in Classics

A reverse of normal hunting of man hunting an animal. This is a man hunting a man for sport. A rich aristocrat hunts a shipwrecked man. This short novel has grown more popular over time.

The perhaps greatest and most extensive collection of humor ever published.

The perhaps greatest and extensive collection of humor ever published.

A marvelous story of a share/carriage that lasts exactly 100 years. Told in elegant accessible poetry.

A Bret Harte Western story about an interesting child, seven-year-old Melons, and his goings-on.

Poet Jean Toomer’s short-story and poetry collection.

A hilarious romp from start to finish, with a lord and his man having a rollicking good time with subtlety of all kinds.

Moving philosophy and New Age insights given long ago. The Chicago Post reviewer said, “The words bring to one’s ears the magnificent myths of Ecclesiasticus. The work of a great man.”

Booktrack is an immersive listening experience that pairs traditional audiobook narration to complementary music and sound effects. The tempo and rhythm of the score are in perfect harmony with the action and characters throughout the audiobook. Gently playing in the background, the music never overpowers or distracts from the narration, so listeners can enjoy every minute. When you purchase this Booktrack edition, you receive the exact narration as the traditional audiobook available, with the addition of music throughout.

These are the 13 best known and respected short works of Stephen Crane. George's "Mother and The Monster" are particularly highly regarded but rarely read and almost never listened to. In addition, this audiobook includes "A Dark Brown Dog", "A Great Mistake", "An Experiment in Luxury", "An Experiment in Misery", "An Ominous Baby", "Flanagan", "His New Mittens", "The Five White Mice", "The Knife", "The Men in the Storm", and "The Veteran".

"The Nose" is the second best known story of Gogol, after "The Overcoat". A military major discovers his nose is missing and works to recover it. He finds the nose but it pretends to have a life of its own, as a fellow human. It in fact has a higher rank than the Major himself. The Major is perplexed, goes back to his apartment, and has the nose returned to him. With great joy he recovers his nose, only to find it won't reattach to his face. After much going on, he finds the nose reattached to his face.

This classic collection includes seven life-changing stories with ironic twists of fate, which can inform the young about their choices in life and recall the choices older people have made between success and happiness, duty and pleasure, and much more. Includes a short, final summing-up chapter, envoi.

Kiev suffers from abandonment by the Germans and takeover by the Soviet Bolsheviks. Streamlined for narration and the American ear.

The great 19th-century novel by the first important Irish novelist. The story of a girl whose father died young so the family was impoverished, she never learned to read, and was thrust into the servant class and occasionally into the workhouse. Becoming pregnant, she lost her position and struggled to bring up her son. A must-listen.

The story is set in an unnamed penal colony. In the Penal Colony describes the last use of an elaborate torture and execution device that carves the sentence of the condemned prisoner on his skin in a script before letting him die, all in the course of 12 hours. As the plot unfolds, the listener learns more and more about the machine, including its origin, and original justification.

The novel focuses on love, society norms, and freedom, centered on Anna’s affair with Count Vronsky.