Classic Collection 600: 283 books

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: This is one of the oldest written collections of fairy tales. Although the names are different, listeners should recognise many of the stories as the basis of modern fairy tales. Be warned however,...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: With the exception of the terrible retreat from Afghanistan, none of England's many little wars have been so fatal--in proportion to the number of those engaged--as our first expedition to Burma....

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: A little boy, recuperating from a lengthy illness, is entertained by visits from the Counterpane Fairy, who treats him to stories associated with each of the squares in the counterpane (quilt)...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: The fathers and children of the novel refers to the growing divide between the two generations of Russians, and the character Yevgeny Bazarov has been referred to as the “first Bolshevik”,...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: Fanny Herself is the story of Fanny Brandeis, a sensitive, young Jewish girl coming of age in the Midwest at the turn of the 20th century. It is generally considered to have been based on Ferber’s...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: “Old Ralph Rinkelmann made his living by comic sketches, and all but lost it again by tragic poems. So he was just the man to be chosen king of the fairies…” George MacDonald (December...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: This is the first of three novels which Edith Somerville and her cousin Violet Martin wrote about the English Major Sinclair Yates who leaves the army to take up a position of Resident Magistrate...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: This book presents a number of short, comedic sketches of a country life in middle America in the late 1800s. The hilarious twists and turns endear our adorable, naive married couple to the reader;...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: During the last two years, Fate, Chance, and Destiny had been too busy to attend to Mike Clinch. But now his turn was coming in the Eternal Sequence of things. The stars in their courses indicated...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: Published in 1903, Gawayne and the Green Knight is a modern-language retelling of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a 14th-century verse romance following a young knight of the Round Table. During Christmas...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: The Drums of Jeopardy is a 1920 American novel by Harold MacGrath. The story was serialized by the The Saturday Evening Post beginning in January of 1920. In 1922 the book was made into a Broadway...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: With seven children and a home to take care of, Margaret wondered how her Mother could be so happy living a life that seemed all drudgery. As Margaret has new experiences, she comes to realize...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: The narrator dies in the first sentence. Through relating his travels in the afterlife, Henry Fielding, author of Tom Jones and Joseph Andrews, gently satirizes life here on earth. FIND AND ENJOY!

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: An English tourist in a small, rural town in the South of France discovers an ancient manuscript with a strange illustration on the last page. A young orphan is sent to live with his elderly cousin,...