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	The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck (1942) This compelling, dignified and moving novel was inspired by and based upon the Nazi invasion of neutral Norway. Set in an imaginary European mining town, it shows what happens when a ruthless totalitarian power is up against an occupied democracy with an overwhelming desire to be free. Steinbeck explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors. As he delves into the emotions of the German commander and the Norwegian traitor, and depicts the spirited patriotism of the Norwegian underground. Despite Axis efforts to suppress it, The Moon is Down was secretly translated into French, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian and Russian; hundreds of thousands of copies circulated throughout Europe. >>> I N D E X >>>
North and South Elizabeth Gaskell (1854)
MORE CLASSIC AUDIOBOOKS FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS (Click on title to see information about the book)
CLASSIC LITERATURE CAN BE CHALLENGING FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS (SOMETIMES), BUT IF YOU FEEL AMBITIOUS, PLEASE GIVE THESE BOOKS A TRY — THERE ARE VERY GOOD REASONS THEY ARE CONSIDERED 'CLASSICS'.
—19th Century Classics—
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen (1813)
Emma Jane Austen (1815)
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1831)
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1843)
Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë (1847)
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray (1847-1848)
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (1850)
Hard Times by Charles Dickens (1854)
North and South Elizabeth Gaskell (1854)
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1856)
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens (1859)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll (1865)
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1866)
The Gambler Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1867)
Little Women Louisa May Alcott(1868)
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy (1869)
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope (1875)
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy (1877)
Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant (1885)
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1890)
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (1889-1890)
Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)
The Turn of the Screw Henry James (1898)
The Awakening Kate Chopin (1899)
—20th Century Classics—
White Fang by Jack London (1906)
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery (1908)
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster (1908)
Howards End by E.M. Forster (1910)
Demian Hermann Hesse (1919)
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson (1919)
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (1920)
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920)
The Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne (1922)
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1925)
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway (1926)
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1929)
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque (1929)
Brave New World Aldous Huxley (1932)
Tender Is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald (1934)
It Can't Happen Here Sinclair Lewis (1935)
In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck (1936)
For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway (1940)
Animal Farm George Orwell (1945)
Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh (1945)
1984 George Orwell (1949)
The Catcher in The Rye J.D. Salinger (1951)
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway (1952)
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury (1953)
Lord of the Flies William Golding (1954)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers (1940)
The Once and Future King T.H. White (1938-1941; 1958)
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee (1960)
Catch-22 Joseph Heller (1961)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1962)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey (1962)

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CLASSIC NOVELS

The Moon is Down

by John Steinbeck (1942)

This compelling, dignified and moving novel was inspired by and based upon the Nazi invasion of neutral Norway. Set in an imaginary European mining town, it shows what happens when a ruthless totalitarian power is up against an occupied democracy with an overwhelming desire to be free.

Steinbeck explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors. As he delves into the emotions of the German commander and the Norwegian traitor, and depicts the spirited patriotism of the Norwegian underground.

Despite Axis efforts to suppress it, The Moon is Down was secretly translated into French, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian and Russian; hundreds of thousands of copies circulated throughout Europe.

>>> I N D E X >>>

North and South
Elizabeth Gaskell (1854)

MORE CLASSIC AUDIOBOOKS FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS
(Click on title to see information about the book)

CLASSIC LITERATURE CAN BE CHALLENGING FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS (SOMETIMES), BUT IF YOU FEEL AMBITIOUS, PLEASE GIVE THESE BOOKS A TRY — THERE ARE VERY GOOD REASONS THEY ARE CONSIDERED 'CLASSICS'.

—19th Century Classics—

Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen (1813)

Emma
Jane Austen (1815)

Frankenstein
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1831)

A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens (1843)

Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë (1847)

Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray (1847-1848)

David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens (1850)

Hard Times
by Charles Dickens (1854)

North and South
Elizabeth Gaskell (1854)

Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert (1856)

A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens (1859)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll (1865)

Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1866)

The Gambler
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1867)

Little Women
Louisa May Alcott(1868)

War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy (1869)

The Way We Live Now
by Anthony Trollope (1875)

Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy (1877)

Bel-Ami
by Guy de Maupassant (1885)

The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde (1890)

The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins (1889-1890)

Dracula
by Bram Stoker (1897)

The Turn of the Screw
Henry James (1898)

The Awakening
Kate Chopin (1899)

—20th Century Classics—

White Fang
by Jack London (1906)

Anne of Green Gables
by Lucy Maud Montgomery (1908)

A Room with a View
by E.M. Forster (1908)

Howards End
by E.M. Forster (1910)

Demian
Hermann Hesse (1919)

Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson (1919)

Main Street
by Sinclair Lewis (1920)

The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton (1920)

The Red House Mystery
by A.A. Milne (1922)

An American Tragedy
by Theodore Dreiser (1925)

The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)

The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway (1926)

A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway (1929)

All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque (1929)

Brave New World
Aldous Huxley (1932)

Tender Is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1934)

It Can't Happen Here
Sinclair Lewis (1935)

In Dubious Battle
by John Steinbeck (1936)

For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway (1940)

Animal Farm
George Orwell (1945)

Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh (1945)

1984
George Orwell (1949)

The Catcher in The Rye
J.D. Salinger (1951)

The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway (1952)

Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury (1953)

Lord of the Flies
William Golding (1954)

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers (1940)

The Once and Future King
T.H. White (1938-1941; 1958)

To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee (1960)

Catch-22
Joseph Heller (1961)

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1962)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey (1962)

The audio and text presented here is formatted for the exclusive and non-profit purpose of teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language (ESL/EFL), also may be inclusively called English Language Learning (ELL)