Free audiobook download: “Anna Karenina” from Tantor Media

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Tantor Media is offering a free audiobook download of Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy (40 hrs.). Offer is good through 2/28.

https://tantor.com/anna-karenina-leo-tolstoy.html

“Short Synopsis
A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, Anna Karenina portrays the moving story of people whose emotions conflict with the dominant social mores of their time.
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Vladimir Nabokov called Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina “one of the greatest love stories in world literature.” Set in imperial Russia, Anna Karenina is a rich and complex meditation on passionate love and disastrous infidelity.
Married to a powerful government minister, Anna Karenina is a beautiful woman who falls deeply in love with a wealthy army officer, the elegant Count Vronsky. Desperate to find truth and meaning in her life, she rashly defies the conventions of Russian society and leaves her husband and son to live with her lover. Condemned and ostracized by her peers and prone to fits of jealousy that alienate Vronsky, Anna finds herself unable to escape an increasingly hopeless situation.
Set against this tragic affair is the story of Konstantin Levin, a melancholy landowner whom Tolstoy based largely on himself. While Anna looks for happiness through love, Levin embarks on his own search for spiritual fulfillment through marriage, family, and hard work. Surrounding these two central plot threads are dozens of characters whom Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together, creating a breathtaking tapestry of nineteenth-century Russian society.
From its famous opening sentence”Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”to its stunningly tragic conclusion, this enduring tale of marriage and adultery plumbs the very depths of the human soul.”


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Free audiobook download: “The Best of Edgar Allan Poe” from Tantor Media

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Tantor Media is offering a free download of the audiobook: The Best of Edgar Allan Poe (6 hours); narrated by Todd McLaren. You won’t need to provide credit card info but you will need to set up an account. Free through 10/31.

https://tantor.com/the-best-of-edgar-allan-poe-edgar-allan-poe.html

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A chilling compilation of some of Edgar Allen Poe’s best and most horrifying stories.
Full Synopsis
The name Edgar Allan Poe conjures up thoughts of hearts beating long after their owners are dead, of disease and plague amid wealth, and of love that extends beyond the grave. The richness of Poe’s writing, however, includes much more than horror, loss, and death.
Poe’s stories teem with irony and black humor, in addition to plot twists and surprise endings. Living by their own rules and charged with passion, Poe’s characters are instantly recognizableeven though we may be appalled by their actions, we understand their motivations.

This collection contains eleven of Poe’s best stories. They are “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Pit and the Pendulum,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” “The Premature Burial,” “Ligeia,” “The Black Cat,” “The Oval Portrait,” “Berenice,” “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar,” and “The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether.”


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