The Last of the Mohicans is set during the French and Indian War, a time during which control of North America was being fought for. As troops from both armies fought through various territories of the continent, they each allied with different Native American groups to grow their armies and gain resources.The story follows two daughters of a military colonel being transported to a safe fortress alongside a caravan of frontiersmen and Native Americans. Their journey is fraught with ...

Anthony Patch is a young socialite living in the exciting world of New York City in the early years of the Jazz Age. He has graduated from Harvard, but has remarkably few accomplishments, and spends most of his time pretending to work on a novel rather than truly creating anything.When he is introduced to another socialite, Gloria Gilbert, he is inspired to jump into the next phase of his life by marrying her despite being hesitant to share his comfortable life with another. Their ...

Join in on one of the world’s most beloved jungle adventures in The Tarzan Collection. This collection includes the first three books of Edgar Rice Burrough’s Tarzan novels: Tarzan of the Apes, The Return of Tarzan, and The Beasts of Tarzan.Tarzan of the Apes – The story of Tarzan begins with a baby to orphaned and left in a jungle who is adopted by apes. The apes raise him as one of their own, and he learns to swing through the trees on vines and talk to the other inhabitants of t...

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”Paradise Lost is a well-known and integral part of the English literary canon. Told as an epic poem in blank verse, Paradise Lost is John Milton’s retelling of the biblical story of Satan’s fall from grace and the beginning of humanity.In the beginning of Paradise Lost, Satan has ben banished to Hell and is working to organize the angels who fell with him and create his new kingdom. Whil...

Continue the adventures of Tarzan in The Beasts of Tarzan, the 3rd entry in the Tarzan series by Edgar Rice Burroughs. This story picks up a year after the end of The Return of Tarzan, and finds Tarzan and Jane together with a son, beginning to build a life together in Africa.But of course, Tarzan doesn’t stay out of danger for long, and soon his previous enemies are back to haunt him and kidnap his son. As the villains carry out their evil plan, Tarzan has to rely on his jungle upb...

“April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain.”The Waste Land is a seminal work of modernist poetry by T.S. Eliot. Written in 1922, this five-part poem is a portrait of its time, a work that expresses the disillusionment of the modernist era and the desperation that the generation of writers of that time was feeling.This poem comes from the area just after the first wo...

The timeless tale of acceptance and identity comes to life in this InAudio production of Tarzan of the Apesby E.R. Burroughs. Enjoy the first novel in the exhilarating Tarzan saga.Tarzan of the Apes is the fascinating story of a family who tries to survive in the jungle after being stranded in Africa. The violence of nature causes the family’s baby to be orphaned and left to adopted by apes. The apes raise him as an ape child would be, learning to...

Embark on an epic fantasy adventure with reimagined divine beings in this alternate telling of one of humanity's famed creation stories.Adonai and Helel are equal and co-existing on their realm of Alegion. Together, they utilize a planetary dominion in the effort to grow an instinctual need to create and learn about their evolving powers. That is until an unforeseen clash of wills over how to govern humankind on Eden commences; and the one who remained on Alegion, is not the being w...

Explore the beginnings of the adventurous John Carter in A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs.John Carter is a veteran looking to make his way in the world after the Civil War. After finding gold in Arizona, he is chased into hiding in a cave which turns out to house a portal to Mars. He quickly discovers that Mars is inhabited by many intelligent lifeforms who have used advanced science to create a welcoming natural environment on the red planet. John is soon drawn into a tr...

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.” –Gregor Samsa, The MetamorphosisThe Metamorphosisis one of the most commonly referenced books when you talk about absurd literature. It is heralded as a masterpiece of the existential literature because of how it demands the reader to accept the absurdity of the world just as it is. Although some of the events o...

Experience the return of the man raised by apes in this unabridged InAudio production of The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs; Volume 2 in the Tarzan series.In the sequel to Tarzan of the Apes, Tarzan has given up on marrying Jane Porter, and is quickly dissatisfied with his life among human society. After facing several humans who scheme to kill him, he decides to return to the jungles of Africa to be in the environment he was raised in o...

“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” is an early Edgar Allan Poe short story, and one of the earliest modern detective stories.In Paris, two women have been brutally murdered, and newspapers report an assortment of clues and the arrest of a man with seemingly little link to the case. One man, C. Auguste Dupin, believes that the clues reported and the findings of the investigators assigned do not match up. Dupin takes the investigation upon himself, and begins to seek out the truth in th...