Posted by Alana T.Recently, I was in a airplane flipping through Skymall, a catalog of items compiled from multiple companies. One entry caught my eye, a preloaded MP3 player with an entire library of classics. The description indicated that the purchaser would get 100 of the greatest literary works of all time - all for $169! One of my colleagues at the circulation desk opined the books were probably all in the public domain, and this could be true. Unfortunately, a list was not provided, so its impossible to know what books a purchaser would get.
The idea is a great one, however. Of course, a list featuring the best
100 of anything is subjective. To compile an equivalent list, I
searched for books on the Modern Library's List of 100 Best Novels, Goodreads Best of Classics and The Harvard Classics.
Sadly, quite a few things are not available in audio, but there is
still a lot to fill your brain with great stuff. Our fifth set of
audiobooks, presented in random order:
Persuasion by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Franke
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Visit our previous classics on audio lists:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Hi Alana,
ReplyDeleteThe product you saw in the airplane magazine is called the Library of Classics. It actually costs only $99 and contains 100 unabridged classics preloaded on an MP3 player. the complete list of titles can be found here: www.EnjoyTheClassics.com/titles.php.
More information about the product can be found at www.EnjoyTheClassics.com.
Thanks,
Phil