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Author: Charles Dickens
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Richard Pasco
Duration 14h 35m
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There, two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become involved through their love for Lucie Manette. From the t...
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 10h 30m
Coketown is dominated by the figure of Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Dicken's novel explores the terrible human consequences of his ruthlessly materialistic philosophy.
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Alex Jennings
Duration 37h
Grim Mr Dombey dreams of a son to run his business. Instead he has a daughter who must fight to win his love, but when the firm faces ruin, and Dombey's second marriage ends in disaster, only his daughter Florence has the strength and humanity to save her father from desolate solitude.
View BookAuthor: Emily Bronte
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Author Emily Bronte
Narrator Janet Mcteer
Duration 13h 9m
When Mr Earnshaw brings a black-haired foundling child into his home on the Yorkshire moors, he little imagines the dramatic events which will follow. The passionate relationship between Cathy Earnshaw and the foundling, Heathcliff, is a story of love, hate, pity, and retribution: the effects of which reverberate throughout the succeeding generatio...
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Alex Jennings
Duration 34h 45m
After his father's death, Nicholas and his family are left penniless. As a young man with a very independent streak, Nicholas makes a number of enemies including his wicked uncle Ralph, the fantastic ogre of a schoolmaster Squeers and the revolting Gride. He also finds himself involved in a variety of adventures up and down the country as he faces...
View BookAuthor: Elizabeth Gaskell
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Author Elizabeth Gaskell
Narrator Patience Tomlinson
Duration 27h 32m
When her father remarries, the honest, innocent Molly Gibson suddenly finds herself with a new stepsister, Cynthia, who is beautiful, worldly and impetuous. This would be more than enough to deal with, but the new wife is the deeply snobbish (and darkly secretive) Hyacinth. Thwarted love, scheming ambition and small-town gossip underlie the warmth,...
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Miriam Margolyes
Duration 18h
A workhouse orphan, Oliver escapes by running away to London. He gets drawn into the treacherous underworld of pickpockets and thieves headed by Fagin. His companions are ultimately destined for gruesome ends. Will Oliver emerge unscathed from the darkness of the underworld?
View BookAuthor: Henry James
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Author Henry James
Narrator Wanda Mccaddon
Duration 18h 53m
Henry James' classic morality tale tells of a triangle of friends and lovers doomed to treachery by overreaching desire. In early-twentieth-century London, Kate Croy is secretly engaged to Merton Denscher, a journalist possessed of all the qualities of an ideal husband except for money. By chance, Kate befriends American heiress Milly Theale, who i...
View BookAuthor: Mark Twain
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Author Mark Twain
Narrator Steve West
Duration 7h 26m
Set in 16th-Century England and following the lives of two young boys, The Prince and the Pauper is a classic and timeless tale. Tom Canty, the lowly pauper is almost identical in appearance to Edward Tudor, a prince. Unbeknownst to those around them, the boys strike up an unlikely friendship and soon realise that with their similar looks they coul...
View BookAuthor: Geoffrey Chaucer
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Author Geoffrey Chaucer
Narrator Philip Madoc, Anton Lesser, Clive Swift
SeriesThe Canterbury Tales, Book 1
Duration 3h 22m
Chaucer's greatest work, written towards the end of the fourteenth century, paints a brilliant picture of medieval life, society, and values. The stories range from the romantic, courtly idealism of 'The Knight's Tale' to the joyous bawdiness of the Miller's; all are told with a freshness and vigour in this modern verse translation that make them a...
View BookAuthor: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Author Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrator Jasper Britton
Duration 6h 15m
Treasure Island must be the most enthralling adventure book ever written. As we listen to the voice of Jim Hawkins telling his extraordinary tale, and later that of his companion Dr Livesey, we are plunged into a world of pirates, buried treasure, mutiny and deceit. We meet Billy Bones, Blind Pew, Black Dog and, of course, the charming buccaneer Lo...
View BookAuthor: Jane Austen
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Author Jane Austen
Narrator Anna Massey
Duration 7h 45m
Austen's hilarious anti-gothic novel sees the sweet, impressionable Catherine falling hopelessly in love with Henry Tilney. Will his good sense cure her romantic illusions?
View BookCharles Dickens: A Portrait In Letters
Author: David Timson
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Author David Timson
Narrator Simon Callow
Duration 4h 10m
Those who only know Charles Dickens from his novels will be fascinated to discover the private and personal Dickens in this selection of his letters. His sister-in-law Georgina Hogarth thought they expressed his individuality; his friend Forster thought them literature. They give us a portrait of a complex man with so many different facets to his p...
View BookAuthor: Virginia Woolf
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Author Virginia Woolf
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 7h 39m
Just before the First World War, the Ramsay family go to their holiday home in the Hebrides, bringing several guests with them. While they are there, one of the children wants to visit a lighthouse. After a ten year gap, during which the war wreaks its havoc on Europe, one of the guests returns to the house; and another trip to the lighthouse is pr...
View BookAuthor: Gustave Flaubert
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Author Gustave Flaubert
Narrator Michael Maloney
Duration 15h 22m
Based on Flaubert's own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education was described by its author as "the moral history of the men of my generation." It follows the amorous adventures of Frederic Moreau, a law student who, returning home to Normandy from Paris, notices Mme Arnoux, a slender, dark woman several years older than himself....
View BookAuthor: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Author Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrator David Rintoul
Duration 7h 46m
When the naive David Balfour sets out on his quest for a long-lost relative, a terrifying chain of events is set in motion. He is plunged into a world of infamy and violence from which there seems no escape, until, that is, he meets the enigmatic and valiant Highlander, Alan Breck...Kidnapped is a captivating novel set around Scottish events of the...
View BookAuthor: H.G. Wells
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Author H.G. Wells
Narrator Derek Jacobi
Duration 3h 55m
When the Time Traveller courageously stepped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the year 802,700-and everything has changed. In another, more utopian age, creatures seemed to dwell together in perfect harmony. The Time Traveller thought he could study these marvelous beings-unearth their secret and then retum to his own time...
View BookAuthor: Kenneth Grahame
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Author Kenneth Grahame
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 17m
Many of the original cast from Alan Bennett's acclaimed National Theatre production appear in this special dramatisation for BBC Radio 4 including Richard Briers as Rat, Adrian Scarborough as Mole and Terence Rigby as Albert with Alan Bennett as the narrator. A wonderful, highly-acclaimed dramatic performance of a classic novel.
View BookAuthor: Anne Bronte
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Author Anne Bronte
Narrator Alex Jennings
Duration 16h 26m
Helen Huntingdon flees a disastrous marriage and retreats to the desolate, half-ruined moorland mansion, Wildfell Hall. With her small son, Arthur, she adopts an assumed name and makes her living as a painter. The inconvenience of the house is outweighed by the fact that she and Arthur are removed from her drunken, degenerate husband. Although the...
View BookAuthor: Edith Wharton
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Author Edith Wharton
Narrator Eleanor Bron
Duration 10h 5m
Anna Leath is a young widow, an American living in France. Behind her lies an arid marriage and a life deeply influenced by the rigid code of Old New York. Ahead lies new hope: a chance encounter in London with George Darrow, her first love, has left her awakened, disturbed. Anna returns to her beautiful country chateau, Givre, to await her future....
View BookAuthor: Charles Dickens
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Anton Lesser
Duration 14h 41m
In one of the most famous openings of any novel, Dickens masterfully presents the turmoil of the French Revolution which is the backdrop for a novel of love, patience, hope and self-sacrifice. It is read by Anton Lesser whose award-winning Dickens recordings in their abridged form have now resulted in the opportunity to read the full unabridged tex...
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