[MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.] [Read by Frederick Davidson] The Confessions is Jean-Jacques Rousseau's landmark autobiography. Both brilliant and flawed, it is nonetheless beautifully written and remains one of the most moving human documents in all of literature. In this work, Rousseau ''frankly and sincerely'' settles accounts with himself in an effort to project his ''true'' image to the world. In so doing he reveals the details of a man who paid little regard to accepted morality and social conventions. Dr. Johnson may have been correct in saying that ''Rousseau was a very bad man,'' but none can argue that his ideas are among the most influential in all of world history. It was Rousseau, the Father of the Romantic Movement, who was responsible for introducing at least two modern day thoughts that pervade academia: (1) Free expression of the creative spirit is more important than strict adhesion to formal rules and traditional procedures, and (2) Man is innately good but is corrupted by society and civilization.

Product Description: [MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.][Read by Frederick Davidson] Numerous biographies have been written about this great theologian, literary critic, and novelist, but we have found this to be the best. Sayer describes Lewis' early years, hinting at childhood evidence of the brilliance and eccentricity that would later become Lewis' hallmarks...read more

Product Description: [This is the MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.] [Read by Frederick Davidson]*Winner of the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Biography* Admiral of the Ocean Sea is Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's classic biography of the greatest sailor of them all, Christopher Columbus...read more

[MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.] [Read by Frederick Davidson] In this spirited and romantic saga of high adventure, a young heir named David Balfour meets his miserly uncle Ebenezer, who has illegally taken control of the Balfour estate. Ebenezer kidnaps David and plots to have him seized and sold into slavery on a ship to the Carolinas. A couple of days into the voyage, a shipwreck throws David together with Alan Breck, a roguish Scotsman returning from political exile in France, and the two of them journey together. When they are witnesses to a murder, suspicion falls on them. What follows is a thrilling escape to freedom across the wild Scottish highlands.

Product Description: [This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.] [Read by Frederick Davidson] ''Almost all of the philosophical truths that I have come to know and understand I have learned from Aristotle,'' says Mortimer J. Adler. This easy-to-listen-to exposition of Aristotle s thoughts about nature, human actions, and the conduct of life confirms convictions that most of us hold, though we may not be fully aware of them...read more