Tragedy

Hamlet: Fully Dramatized Audio Edition

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The Folger Shakespeare Library, home to the world's largest Shakespeare collection, brings Hamlet to life with this new full-length, full-cast dramatic recording of its definitive Folger Edition.

Author:

William Shakespeare

Grade Level:

High

Length:

03:33

Throne of Blood

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The greatest screen adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth is arguably Akira Kurosawa's visceral Throne of Blood (Kumonosu jô), starring Toshiro Mifune and Isuzu Yamada as the ambitious warrior and ruthless wife who try to murder their way to power and glory. Featuring some of the Japanese master's most unforgettable, hallucinatory imagery, and inspired by Noh theater as much as the classical source, this is Kurosawa at his atmospheric best.

Director:

Akira Kurosawa

Grade Level:

High

Length:

01:49

The Monkey's Paw

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From director Ricky Lewis, Jr. comes an old fashioned ghost story full of Gothic atmosphere that will chill you to the bone. In England of 1936, a family takes possession of a mystical talisman said to grant the bearer three wishes, but the wishes they ask bring terror and tragedy upon their lives. Based on the famous short story by W.W. Jacobs, it's an epic and horrifying tale that moves from the darkest jungle of India to the fog shrouded Moors with the warning that fate isn't to be tampered with.

Director:

Ricky Lewis Jr.

Grade Level:

High

Length:

00:29

Shakespeare The Animated Tales: Volume III

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Romeo & Juliet

Author:

William Shakespeare

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

01:15

Shakespeare The Animated Tales: Volume II

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Hamlet

Author:

William Shakespeare

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

01:15

Bridge to Terabithia (Unabridged)

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A secret world of their own Jess Aaron's greatest ambition is to be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. He's been practicing all summer and can't wait to see his classmates' faces when he beats them all. But on the first day of school, a new kid, a new girl, boldly crosses over to the boy's side of the playground and outruns everyone.

Author:

Katherine Paterson

Grade Level:

Elementary

Lexile:

810L

Length:

03:31

Into the Wild (Unabridged)

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In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself.

Author:

Jon Krakauer

Grade Level:

High

Lexile:

1270L

Length:

07:06

Nineteen Minutes (Unabridged)

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New York Times best-selling author Jodi Picoult, known for tackling today's hot-button issues, delivers the riveting tale of one small town's entanglement with high-school violence.

Author:

Jodi Picoult

Grade Level:

High

Lexile:

890L

Length:

21:05