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Author: Thomas Hardy
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Author Thomas Hardy
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 15h 30m
When beautiful Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her `cousin' Alec proves to be her tragic downfall and results in a child born out of wedlock. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer her love and salvation, but Tess must choose...
View BookAuthor: Victor Hugo
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Author Victor Hugo
Narrator Bill Homewood
Duration 2h 37m
The story of Quasimodo, the hunchback bell-ringer of Notre-Dame cathedral, and his devotion to the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmeralda. When the demented archdeacon Frollo sets out to abduct Esmeralda, he uses Quasimodo to do the evil deed on his behalf.
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Author Thomas Hardy
Narrator John Rowe
Duration 12h 30m
In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurks the shameful secret of his past and a personality pr...
View BookAuthor: Sophocles
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Author Sophocles
Narrator John Fehskens
Duration 1h 19m
Antigone, daughter of Jocasta and Oedipus, faces great challenges when she must arrange a formal burial for her brother, Polynices. This rendition of Antigone by Sophocles is of the highest caliber audio. It's completely unabridged. Enjoy the classic story of Antigone narrated to perfection.
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Author Thomas Hardy
Narrator Eleanor Bron
Duration 6h
When beautiful Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her `cousin' Alec proves to be her tragic downfall and results in a child born out of wedlock. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer her love and salvation, but Tess must choose...
View BookAuthor: Gustave Flaubert
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Author Gustave Flaubert
Narrator Ronald Pickup
Duration 15h 20m
Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in romantic fantasy, voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment and the consequences are d...
View BookAuthor: John Steinbeck
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Author John Steinbeck
Narrator Ian Porter
Duration 3h 33m
Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except each other and a dream - a dream that one day they will have some kind of land of their own. Tackling universal themes, friendship and a shared vision, this is a hugely popular audiobook. A great piece of classic fiction which is studied by many at...
View BookAuthor: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Author Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Narrator Constantine Gregory
Duration 24h 56m
Prince Lyov Nikolayevitch Myshkin is one of the great characters in Russian literature. Is he a saint or just na‹ve? Is he an idealist or, as many in General Epanchin's society feel, an 'idiot'? Certainly, his return to St. Petersburg after years in a Swiss clinic has a dramatic effect on the beautiful Aglaia, youngest of the Epanchin daught...
View BookAuthor: Mary Shelley
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Author Mary Shelley
Narrator David Rintoul
Duration 2h 22m
Victor Frankenstein decides to build a `man' from assembled body parts stolen from corpses. He becomes obsessed with his 'project' and believes that he is pioneering scientific discovery - without considering the potential consequences. What results, of course, is a `monster', who looks grotesque and frightens any living soul who ever comes into co...
View BookAuthor: George Eliot
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Author George Eliot
Narrator Maureen O'Brien
Duration 32h 30m
Dorothea Brooke is a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage with a pedantic scholar. Tertius Lydgate is a charming but tactless doctor. His marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and his pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career. Their interweaving tales reveal a complex...
View BookAuthor: Daniel Defoe
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Author Daniel Defoe
Narrator Janet Suzman
Duration 13h 3m
Abandoned at birth by a mother who faces transportation to Virginia, the young Moll Flanders sets out to make her way in the world. Threatened with a life in service, our rebellious heroine sets her heart on a life of independence. As a woman her options are limited and so tough, resourceful, and indisputably feminine Moll embarks on a rollicking c...
View BookAuthor: Lewis Carroll
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Author Lewis Carroll
Narrator Liza Goddard
Duration 6m
The master of surreal and wonderful fiction presents a story about one of his most famous characters - the perpetually grinning and ever-riddling Cheshire Cat. Alice's friend/tormentor in Wonderland, the Cheshire Cat has been immortalized in art, film, cartoon, television and now on audio.
View BookAlice's Adventures In Wonderland
Author: Lewis Carroll
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Author Lewis Carroll
Narrator Roger Blake
Duration 2h 21m
Alice is so bored of listening to her sister read that she gazes around the garden and sights a curious white rabbit, who seems to be wearing a coat and a pocket watch. Following the rabbit, she reaches the rabbit hole and tumbles down it-and the very strange adventure starts. One of the most famous and a pioneering example of 'Literary Nonsense',...
View BookAuthor: Charles Dickens
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 17h 30m
A mysterious benefactor provides Philip Pirrip with the chance to escape his poor upbringing. Aspiring to be a gentleman, and encouraged by his expectations of wealth, he abandons his friends and moves to London. However, not everything lives up to his dreams.
View BookAuthor: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Author Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Narrator Richard E. Grant
Duration 2h 12m
He is the Little Prince, the mysterious, innocent and beautiful boy who appears to a pilot stranded in the desert and makes an extraordinary request. He has captured the hearts of millions of readers around the world since his story first appeared in 1943, written down by an aristocratic French aviator who soon after disappeared during a flight acr...
View BookAuthor: Joseph Conrad
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Author Joseph Conrad
Narrator Nigel Anthony
Duration 18h 9m
When the silver mines of Costaguana are in danger of being seized by rebel forces, Nostromo, a brave Italian captain, offers to bury the silver to keep it safe. His good intentions, however, become tainted as the temptation to acquire wealth leads to destruction.
View BookAuthor: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Author Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Narrator Michael Sheen
Duration 3h 40m
When Raskolnikov murders an old money-lender and her sister, the evil of the crime infects his soul. Dostoyevsky attaches us unreservedly to his hero, creating an intimacy that is claustrophobic, full of tension, haunting and relentless. The novel is concerned with the psychology of a crime and the processes of guilt.
View BookAuthor: Charles Dickens
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Anton Lesser
Duration 5h 14m
A mysterious benefactor provides Philip Pirrip with the chance to escape his poor upbringing. Aspiring to be a gentleman, and encouraged by his expectations of wealth, he abandons his friends and moves to London. However, not everything lives up to his dreams.
View BookAuthor: Mark Twain
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Author Mark Twain
Narrator Thomas Becker
Duration 7h 39m
Impish, daring young Tom Sawyer is a hero to his friends and a torment to his relations. For wherever there is mischief or adventure, Tom is at the heart of it. During one hot summer, Tom witnesses a murder, runs away to be a pirate, attends his own funeral, rescues an innocent man from the gallows, searches for treasure in a haunted house, foils a...
View BookSir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite
Author: Anthony Trollope
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Author Anthony Trollope
Narrator Britton Tony
Duration 7h 50m
Trollope describes the vacillations of a conscientious father, torn between the desire to marry his daughter to a cousin destined to inherit the family title, and his fear that the cousin, reportedly a scheming wastrel, is unworthy of her.
View BookAuthor: Charles Dickens
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Anton Lesser
Duration 5h 16m
This partly autobiographical story, by turns magical, frightening and grimly realistic, charts the trials of young David Copperfield's life from poverty to literary fame, starring such unforgettable characters as David's stepfather, the abusive Mr. Mudstone; the charming sociopath Steerforth; the snivelling clerk Uriah Heep; and slow-witted Dora, w...
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