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	Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray (1848) "The novel chronicles the fortunes and mishaps of two childhood friends, Amelia Sedley and Rebecca Sharpe: one a hopeless romantic, the other an incorrigible opportunist. Come along with them on their unforgettable journey as they graduate from charm school, marry, endure the Battle of Waterloo, bear children and much more! Of course, no Victorian novel of this magnitude would be complete without a diverse cast of supporting characters: the dutiful Capt. Dobbin, the narcissistic civilian Jos Sedley, the petulant and slowly-dying Miss Crawley, the reproachable Lord Steyne, the vociferous Mrs. Peggy O’Dowd and many others." "This is a classic that has not lost its vigor, humor, and romance. It has one of the first anti-heroines in the history of literature in the person of Becky Sharp. I must admit I am smitten by this heroine who is beautiful, heartless, selfish, irresponsible, wily and damn good company." >>> Table of Contents >>>
MORE CLASSIC AUDIOBOOKS FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS (Click on title to see information about the book)
A Fine and Private Place by Peter S. Beagle (1960)
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler (1953)
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton (1948)
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)
CLASSIC NOVELS CAN BE CHALLENGING FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS (SOMETIMES), BUT IF YOU FEEL AMBITIOUS, PLEASE GIVE THESE BOOKS A TRY — THERE ARE GOOD REASONS THEY ARE CONSIDERED TO BE 'CLASSICS'. * THE BOOKS BELOW ARE LISTED BY THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION *
—19th Century Classics—
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen (1811)
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen (1813)
Emma Jane Austen (1815)
Persuasion Jane Austen (1817)
Northanger Abbey Jane Austen (written 1803 - published 1817)
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1831)
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1843)
Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë (1847)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847)
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray (1847-1848)
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (1850)
North and South Elizabeth Gaskell (1854)
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1856)
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens (1859)
Great Expectations Charles Dickens (1861)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs (1861)
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)
Black Beauty The Autobiography of a Horse by Anna Sewell (1877)
Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant (1885)
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K.Jerome (1889)
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1890)
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (1889-1890)
The Time Machine H. G. Wells (1895)
Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)
The Turn of the Screw Henry James (1898)
The Awakening Kate Chopin (1899)
—20th Century Classics—
Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser (1900)
The Call of the Wild by Jack London (1903)
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)
The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame (1908)
Howards End by E.M. Forster (1910)
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis (1911)
Ethan Frome Edith Wharton (1911)
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911)
The Lost World Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1912)
My Ántonia by Willa Cather (1918)
Demian The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth by Hermann Hesse (1919)
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson (1919)
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (1920)
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920)
Three Soldiers John Dos Passos (1921)
The Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne (1922)
A Passage to India E.M. Forster (1924)
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1925)
The Great Gatsby *Newer Rendition* F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
The Great Gatsby *Older Rendition* F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway (1926)
Elmer Gantry Sinclair Lewis (1927)
Steppenwolf Hermann Hesse (1927)
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque (1928)
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1929)
Brave New World Aldous Huxley (1932)
Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons (1932)
Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie (1934)
Tender Is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald (1934)
It Can't Happen Here Sinclair Lewis (1935)
The African Queen by C.S. Forester (1935)
In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck (1936)
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie (1937)
The Hobbit (Prequel to The Lord of the Rings) J.R.R. Tolkien (1937)
Out of the Silent Planet C.S. Lewis (1938) — Book One of The Space Trilogy
The Once and Future King T.H. White (1938-1941; 1958)
Coming Up For Air by George Orwell (1939)
Johnny Got His Gun Dalton Trumbo (1939)
The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler (1939)
For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway (1940)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers (1940)
The Moon is Down John Steinbeck (1942)
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis (1942)
Perelandra C.S. Lewis (1943) — Book Two of The Space Trilogy
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (1943)
Animal Farm George Orwell (1945)
Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh (1945)
That Hideous Strength C.S. Lewis (1945) — Book Three of The Space Trilogy
The Space Trilogy C.S. Lewis (1945) — Book One : Out of the Silent Planet — Book Two : Perelandra — Book Three : That Hideous Strength
Hiroshima John Hersey (1946)
The Street by Ann Petry (1946)
The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank (1947)
1984 George Orwell (1949)
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart (1949)
The Third Man Graham Greene (1950)
End of the Affair Graham Greene (1951)
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier (1951)
The Catcher in The Rye J.D. Salinger (1951)
The Day of the Triffids John Wyndham (1951)
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison (1952)
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut (1952)
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway (1952)
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury (1953)
The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham (1953)
Lord of the Flies William Golding (1954)
The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien (1954) The Fellowship of the Ring (Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings) The Two Towers (Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings The Return of the King (Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings) ------------------------------------------- The Hobbit (Prequel to The Lord of the Rings) J.R.R. Tolkien (1937)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers Jack Finney (1955)
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham (1955)
On the Beach Nevil Shute (1957)
The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham (1957)
The Once and Future King T.H. White (1938-1941; 1958)
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank (1959)
A Separate Peace by John Knowles (1959)
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1959)
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee (1960)
Trouble With Lichen John Wyndham (1960)
Catch-22 Joseph Heller (1961)
Island Alous Huxley (1962)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1962)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey (1962)
A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway (1964)
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Kurt Vonnegut (1965)
The Mind Parasites Colin Wilson (1967)
Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier (1969)
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CLASSIC NOVELS

Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray (1848)

"The novel chronicles the fortunes and mishaps of two childhood friends, Amelia Sedley and Rebecca Sharpe: one a hopeless romantic, the other an incorrigible opportunist. Come along with them on their unforgettable journey as they graduate from charm school, marry, endure the Battle of Waterloo, bear children and much more! Of course, no Victorian novel of this magnitude would be complete without a diverse cast of supporting characters: the dutiful Capt. Dobbin, the narcissistic civilian Jos Sedley, the petulant and slowly-dying Miss Crawley, the reproachable Lord Steyne, the vociferous Mrs. Peggy O’Dowd and many others."

"This is a classic that has not lost its vigor, humor, and romance. It has one of the first anti-heroines in the history of literature in the person of Becky Sharp. I must admit I am smitten by this heroine who is beautiful, heartless, selfish, irresponsible, wily and damn good company."

>>> Table of Contents >>>

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

A Fine and Private Place
by Peter S. Beagle (1960)

The Long Goodbye
by Raymond Chandler (1953)

Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton (1948)

Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison (1952)

CLASSIC NOVELS CAN BE CHALLENGING FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS (SOMETIMES),
BUT IF YOU FEEL AMBITIOUS, PLEASE GIVE THESE BOOKS A TRY —
THERE ARE GOOD REASONS THEY ARE CONSIDERED TO BE 'CLASSICS'.
*** THE BOOKS BELOW ARE LISTED BY THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION ***

—19th Century Classics—

Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen (1811)

Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen (1813)

Emma
Jane Austen (1815)

Persuasion
Jane Austen (1817)

Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen (written 1803 - published 1817)

Frankenstein
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1831)

A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens (1843)

Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë (1847)

Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë (1847)

Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray (1847-1848)

David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens (1850)

North and South
Elizabeth Gaskell (1854)

Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert (1856)

A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens (1859)

Great Expectations
Charles Dickens (1861)

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
by Harriet Jacobs (1861)

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)

Black Beauty
The Autobiography of a Horse
by Anna Sewell (1877)

Bel-Ami
by Guy de Maupassant (1885)

Three Men in a Boat
by Jerome K.Jerome (1889)

The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde (1890)

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

The Time Machine
H. G. Wells (1895)

Dracula
by Bram Stoker (1897)

The Turn of the Screw
Henry James (1898)

The Awakening
Kate Chopin (1899)

—20th Century Classics—

Sister Carrie
Theodore Dreiser (1900)

The Call of the Wild
by Jack London (1903)

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)

The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame (1908)

Howards End
by E.M. Forster (1910)

Babbitt
by Sinclair Lewis (1911)

Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton (1911)

The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911)

The Lost World
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1912)

My Ántonia
by Willa Cather (1918)

Demian
The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth
by Hermann Hesse (1919)

Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson (1919)

Main Street
by Sinclair Lewis (1920)

The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton (1920)

Three Soldiers
John Dos Passos (1921)

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

A Passage to India
E.M. Forster (1924)

An American Tragedy
by Theodore Dreiser (1925)

The Great Gatsby ***Newer Rendition***
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)

The Great Gatsby ***Older Rendition***
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)

The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway (1926)

Elmer Gantry
Sinclair Lewis (1927)

Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse (1927)

All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque (1928)

A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway (1929)

Brave New World
Aldous Huxley (1932)

Cold Comfort Farm
Stella Gibbons (1932)

Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie (1934)

Tender Is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1934)

It Can't Happen Here
Sinclair Lewis (1935)

The African Queen
by C.S. Forester (1935)

In Dubious Battle
by John Steinbeck (1936)

Death on the Nile
by Agatha Christie (1937)

The Hobbit
(Prequel to The Lord of the Rings)
J.R.R. Tolkien (1937)

Out of the Silent Planet
C.S. Lewis (1938)
— Book One of The Space Trilogy

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

Coming Up For Air
by George Orwell (1939)

Johnny Got His Gun
Dalton Trumbo (1939)

The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler (1939)

For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway (1940)

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers (1940)

The Moon is Down
John Steinbeck (1942)

The Screwtape Letters
by C.S. Lewis (1942)

Perelandra
C.S. Lewis (1943)
— Book Two of The Space Trilogy

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith (1943)

Animal Farm
George Orwell (1945)

Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh (1945)

That Hideous Strength
C.S. Lewis (1945)
— Book Three of The Space Trilogy

The Space Trilogy
C.S. Lewis (1945)
— Book One : Out of the Silent Planet
— Book Two : Perelandra
— Book Three : That Hideous Strength

Hiroshima
John Hersey (1946)

The Street
by Ann Petry (1946)

The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank (1947)

1984
George Orwell (1949)

Earth Abides
by George R. Stewart (1949)

The Third Man
Graham Greene (1950)

End of the Affair
Graham Greene (1951)

My Cousin Rachel
by Daphne du Maurier (1951)

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

The Day of the Triffids
John Wyndham (1951)

Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison (1952)

Player Piano
by Kurt Vonnegut (1952)

The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway (1952)

Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury (1953)

The Kraken Wakes
by John Wyndham (1953)

Lord of the Flies
William Golding (1954)

The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien (1954)
The Fellowship of the Ring
(Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings)
The Two Towers
(Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings
The Return of the King
(Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings)
-------------------------------------------
The Hobbit
(Prequel to The Lord of the Rings)
J.R.R. Tolkien (1937)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Jack Finney (1955)

The Chrysalids
by John Wyndham (1955)

On the Beach
Nevil Shute (1957)

The Midwich Cuckoos
by John Wyndham (1957)

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

Alas, Babylon
by Pat Frank (1959)

A Separate Peace
by John Knowles (1959)

Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe (1959)

To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee (1960)

Trouble With Lichen
John Wyndham (1960)

Catch-22
Joseph Heller (1961)

Island
Alous Huxley (1962)

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

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

A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway (1964)

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Kurt Vonnegut (1965)

The Mind Parasites
Colin Wilson (1967)

Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut (1969)

The House on the Strand
by Daphne du Maurier (1969)

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)