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Author: Jane Austen
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Author Jane Austen
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Duration 2h 30m
Lady Susan was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed. An epistolary novel in 18th century style, it tells the story of the recently widowed Lady Susan Vernon, intelligent but highly manipulative, who is intent on gaining financially secure relationships for both herself and her wayward but shy teenage daughter Frederica. Less known than...
View BookAuthor: Henry James
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Author Henry James
Narrator William Hootkins
Duration 2h 24m
A biting satire on American life which turned convention on its head. This story explores the obsessive affections of the radical Olive Chancellor for Verena Tarrant, a gifted young speaker in the feminist movement. When Olive's cousin Basil becomes equally besotted, the scene is set for a bitter tug of war.
View BookChronicles of Barsetshire Series Book 6: The Last Chronicle of Barset
Author: Anthony Trollope
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Author Anthony Trollope
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 6
Duration 4h 46m
The acclaimed BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Anthony Trollope's classic story of provincial life.
View BookAuthor: Jane Austen
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Author Jane Austen
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 12h 43m
When Mrs Dashwood is forced by an avaricious daughter-in-law to leave the family home in Sussex, she takes her three daughters to live in a modest cottage in Devon. For Elinor, the eldest daughter, the move means a painful separation from the man she loves, but her sister Marianne finds in Devon the romance and excitement which she longs for. The c...
View BookAuthor: Charles Dickens
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Nicholas Boulton
Duration 36h 10m
Recognised as one of the greatest works of English fiction, David Copperfield tells the story of a young man, from his painful childhood, through chance, tragedy and adventure, to self-knowledge and happiness. It includes some of Dickens's most vividly memorable characters. The cruelly saturnine Mr Murdstone; the redoubtable Betsey Trotwood; the ch...
View BookAuthor: Jules Verne
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Author Jules Verne
Narrator Alex Jennings
Duration 2h 24m
Captain Nemo journeys far down in the ocean...which weird and wonderful beasts will be there to greet him? Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is an adventure story set far down in the briney deep where Captain Nemo tracks the terrifying and mystifying monster that has already wrecked ships that have disturbed its slumber. A scary, illuminating a...
View BookThe Red Room and Other Stories
Author: H.G. Wells
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Author H.G. Wells
Narrator Peter Beton
Duration 12h
Wells was at his best as a short-story writer, opening up new horizons and other worlds through a remarkable mixture of imagination and compassion. This collection includes 'The Country of the Blind', 'The Cone' and 'The Valley of the Spiders'.
View BookAuthor: John Steinbeck
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Author John Steinbeck
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 46m
Set against the backdrop of America's Great Depression and Dust Bowl, a family of farmers from Oklahoma head west in search of work, only to discover thousands like them are also on the move. Following a violent altercation with some locals, they head back on the road with their dream of a promised land in tatters. And life is set to get much worse...
View BookPsammead Series Book 2: The Phoenix and the Carpet
Author: E. Nesbit
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Author E. Nesbit
Narrator Eve Best
Duration 7h
The classic story set in Edwardian London about the arrival of a magic carpet that takes Robert, Anthea, Cyril and Jane on a series of magical adventures. Hidden in the carpet's folds is a mysterious egg from which bursts a flame-coloured Phoenix, who reveals that the carpet can grant three wishes a day.
View BookAlice Through the Looking Glass
Author: Lewis Carroll
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Author Lewis Carroll
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 49m
Ken Campbell, Windsor Davies, John bird and John Fortune star in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. When Alice's wish to visit the Looking Glass world comes true, she can't resist delving deeper and deeper into a land of caustic characters and twisted logic. So begins a game of chess on a grand scale, where the inhabitants of each square hav...
View BookAuthor: Leo Tolstoy
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Author Leo Tolstoy
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 38h
The aristocratic Anna Karenina is a sophisticated woman who seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. Yet she becomes increasingly aware of the emptiness of her life and exchanges her privilaged existence as the wife of Karenin for a passionate affair with the impetuous Count Vronsky - with tragic consequences.
View BookAuthor: Richard Hughes
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Author Richard Hughes
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 5h 35m
Published to great acclaim in 1929, this classic and bestselling tale did away with sentimental Victorian visions of childhood and paved the way for later works such as Golding's 'Lord of the Flies'. Set in the last century against a tropical landscape and the ever-present sea, this audiobook tells the story of a family of English children who, on...
View BookAuthor: Jane Austen
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Author Jane Austen
Narrator Emilia Fox
Duration 13h 2m
Elizabeth Bennet is a spirited young woman with four sisters and a mother obsessed with getting them all married off. When she first meets Fitzwilliam Darcy she thinks he's arrogant and conceited, and he is completely indifferent to her charms. Will they ever see past the prejudices of their first impressions?
View BookAuthor: Henry David Thoreau
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Author Henry David Thoreau
Narrator Nick Bulka
Duration 11h 55m
Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance. First published...
View BookAuthor: Oscar Wilde
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Author Oscar Wilde
Narrator Greg Wise
Duration 9h 15m
After meeting Lord Henry Wotton, who remarks that 'youth is the only thing worth having', Dorian Gray becomes obsessed with preserving his looks. He wants to remain as youthful and fresh as he appears in his recently completed portrait by Basil Hallward. When Dorian states that he would give his soul to stay young, he has no idea of the horrors he'...
View BookAuthor: Edgar Wallace
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Author Edgar Wallace
Narrator Robin Bailey
Duration 20m
Eerie classic by Edgar Wallace - George Thomas, a criminal, meets a stranger by night, who persuades him to let his violent urges against his wife run their course.
View BookAuthor: Edgar Allan Poe
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Author Edgar Allan Poe
Narrator Patrick Malahide
Duration 16m
Edgar Allan Poe's well known classic: the story of a vicious plague and a prince's attempts to remove himself and his friends from the horrors affecting the masses. Gothic literature at its very finest.
View BookAuthor: Charles Dickens
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 2h 23m
The timeless and enchanting festive story of Scrooge, who declares Christmas 'Humbug' and is taught otherwise. Ebenezer Scrooge is a money-grabbing skinflint who makes his own life and the lives of those around him nigh-unbearable with his mean and economical ways. One night just before Christmas, tucked up in his cold bed, he is shocked to meet ap...
View BookAuthor: E M Forster
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Author E M Forster
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 5h 15m
Lucy Honeychurch, accompanied by her vigilant guardian, Charlotte Bartlett, makes her first foray into the world, touring Italy and discovering a country very different to the English countryside she was brought up in. Torn between two lovers, she has to make a decision that will transform her from a girl to a woman. A talented pianist with a good...
View BookAuthor: R.M. Ballantyne
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Author R.M. Ballantyne
Narrator Wayne Forester
Duration 3h 43m
When three boys find themselves shipwrecked on a South Pacific island, they must learn to survive in a sometimes beautiful, sometimes deadly new world of sharks, cannibals and pirates! This audiobook was the inspiration for 'Treasure Island' and 'Peter Pan'.
View BookAuthor: E M Forster
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Author E M Forster
Narrator Meera Syal
Duration 5h 3m
Adela Quested travels to India with her chaperone Mrs Moore, on the premise of deciding whether to marry Mrs Moore's son Ronny Heaslop, the city magistrate. Finding her India very disappointingly English, Adela jumps at the chance the two women are given to travel to the distant Marabar caves with Aziz, a charismatic young Indian Doctor. When Adela...
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