Embittered by a false accusation, disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a long twilight life alone with his loom. . . and his gold.
Silas hoards a treasure that destroys his spirit until fate steals it from him and replaces it with a golden-haired child. Where she came from, who her parents were, and who really stole the gold are the secrets that fill this moving tale of guilt and innocence.
A moral allegory of the redemptive power of love, it is also a finely drawn portrait of early nineteenth-century England in the days when spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses, and of a simple way of life that was soon to disappear.
Louis L'Amour
Grover Gardner
Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Duration : 5 hours
Categories : Western
Action & Adventure
Historical
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Tom Kedrick is hired by a financial syndicate to run off a gang of "vagrants and outlaws" who are occupying a sizable strip of land. But the vagrants turn out to be hard working ranchers and farmer... More info... |
Pat Barker
Paul McGann
Publisher : Harper Collins UK
Duration : 3 hours
Categories : General
Historical
War & Military
Download Price : $12.75
The Eye in the Door was the richly deserving winner of the 1993 Guardian Fiction Prize, the second volume in Pat Barker's brilliant... More info... |
Bernard Cornwell
Jamie Glover
Publisher : Harper Collins UK
Duration : 5 hours 30 minutes
Categories : Historical
Download Price : $16.99
The Last Kingdom is set in the England of the ninth and tenth centuries. These were the years when the Danish Vikings had invaded and occupied three of England's four kingdoms... More info... |
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Elizabeth McGovern
Publisher : Harper Collins UK
Duration : 3 hours 11 minutes
Categories : Classics
Historical
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When Hester Prynne bears an illegitimate child she is introduced to the ugliness, complexity, and ultimately the strength... More info... |
Landon Jones
Peter Friedman and Tom Wopat
Publisher : Harper Collins US
Duration : 6 hours
Categories : Historical
Action & Adventure
American
Pre 1900
Download Price : $29.95 $16.95
The journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark remain the single most important document in the history of American exploration. More info...
Written By : Pete McCarthy
Narrated By : Pete McCarthy
Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Length : 2 hours
Type : Autobiography
Biographical
Travel
Price : $16.75
The audio of the million-selling book - Pete McCarthy's hilarious journey in search of his Irish roots.
McCarthy's tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world.
Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways.
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