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Author: Wilkie Collins
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Author Wilkie Collins
Narrator Samuel West
Duration 8h 30m
George and Mary's childhood friendship turns to love, and when George's father discovers the extent of his thirteen-year-old son's feelings for his bailiff's daughter, he sacks his bailiff and takes his son to America. Years later George returns to his native Suffolk to trace his lost love at any cost.
View BookAuthor: Hugh Walpole
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Author Hugh Walpole
Narrator Derek Scott
Duration 12h 10m
Set against the wild and beautiful scenery of the 18th Century Lake District, this is the tale of Francis Herries, the 'rogue' of the title - a violent and impetuous man, faithless husband and capricious father. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE OF THE PERIOD.
View BookAuthor: Thomas Hardy
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Author Thomas Hardy
Narrator Martin Shaw, Lindsay Duncan
Duration 2h 22m
Tess goes through her life at the mercy of unscrupulous men, who take advantage of their positions in society and of her. But how far can a woman be pushed before she is forced to take revenge? Tess of the D'Urbervilles is an early exercise in girl power, Tess spends her life being bullied by men and is pushed to the brink. A dramatic and tragic st...
View BookThe Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Author: Bert Coules
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Author Bert Coules
Narrator Clive Merrison, Andrew Sachs
SeriesThe Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Book 3
Duration 2h 54m
How many times did Dr John Watson tantalise us with references to mysteries which his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, never wrote about in full? In these full cast original adventures Bert Coules, the chief dramatist of BBC Radio 4's celebrated complete Sherlock Holmes canon, has imaginatively fleshed out four more unrecorded cases. The Striking S...
View BookAuthor: D H Lawrence
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Author D H Lawrence
Narrator Matthew Mellalieu
Duration 5h 28m
School life, family argument, passion, love and broken love; these subjects lie at the heart of this selection of short stories. The stories included are: 'Adolf', 'Rex', 'A Prelude', 'Lessford's Rabbits', 'A Lesson on a Tortoise', 'The Shades of Spring', 'Second Best', 'Her Turn', 'Tickets Please', and 'The Lovely Lady'.
View BookAuthor: Virginia Woolf
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Author Virginia Woolf
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 5h 50m
Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, who is both representative and victim of the social values which led Edwardian society into war. Jacob Flanders first appears as a child playing by the seaside. The novel follows his progress to school, Cambridge, London, Paris, Italy, Greece and to hi...
View BookAuthor: Thomas Hardy
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Author Thomas Hardy
Narrator Martin Shaw
Duration 2h 23m
Rivalry and love and hate are explored in this intense study of two men's struggle for power. An interesting novel due to its depiction of a violent love/hate relationship between two men, this story highlights the strains of competition in pre-industrial rural society. Michael henchard attains the position of town mayor, but the lies that lead him...
View BookAuthor: George Eliot
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Author George Eliot
Narrator Laura Paton
Duration 20h 36m
Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie Tulliver worships her brother Tom and is desperate to win the approval of her parents, but her passionate, wayward nature and her fierce intelligence bring her into constant conflict with her family. As she reaches adulthood, she finds herself torn between her relationships with three very different men: her prou...
View BookAuthor: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator Derek Jacobi
Duration 6h 24m
When the body of Sir Charles Baskerville is found in his garden, there are no signs to explain his death. Did he die of fright? Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson have a mysterious case to solve - is the Baskerville family really haunted by a phantom beast 'with blazing eyes and dripping jaws' which roams the mist-enshrouded moors around the isolated Ba...
View BookThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator Edward Hardwicke
SeriesAdventures of Sherlock Holmes, Book 6
Duration 2h 57m
Here are three more Sherlock Holmes adventures from the pen of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and read by Edward Hardwicke, who has become the definitive Dr. Watson of the 80s and 90s due to the spectacularly successful Granada television series in which he appears with Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes. This collection includes the following: "The Adventure...
View BookThe Pardoners Tale, the Frankeleyns Tale & the Nonne Preestes Tale
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
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Author Geoffrey Chaucer
Narrator Richard Bebb
Duration 2h 38m
These three tales from 'The Canterbury Tales' are read in the original Middle English under the direction of Britain's foremost Chaucer scholar, Derek Brewer. The tales and their story-tellers display extraordinary variety and come from different sections of 'The Canterbury Tales'. Chaucer's portrait of the Pardoner himself, laced with hostile sati...
View BookAuthor: Virginia Woolf
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Author Virginia Woolf
Narrator Eileen Mills
Duration 6h
Set in the summer of 1939 on the day of the annual village pageant at Pointz Hall, the novel weaves together the musings of several disparate characters and their reactions to the imminence of the Second World War, which provides the novel with its dark undercurrent. Before the book was published in the spring of 1941, Virginia Woolf had taken her...
View BookThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator Edward Hardwicke
SeriesAdventures of Sherlock Holmes, Book 5
Duration 2h 49m
Here are three more Sherlock Holmes adventures from the pen of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and read by Edward Hardwicke, who has become the definitive Dr. Watson of the 80s and 90s due to the spectacularly successful Granada television series in which he appears with Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes. This collection includes the following: "A Scandal in...
View BookAuthor: Charles Dickens
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Miriam Margolyes
Duration 3h 15m
Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children. But at Christmas the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future come to visit him, scare him into mending his ways, and he finds, as he celebrates with Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and their family, that geniality brings its own reward.
View BookAuthor: Charlotte Bronte
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Author Charlotte Bronte
Narrator Nadia May
Duration 18h 52m
Treated badly as a child by both her aunt and school, Jane leaves to become a governess to the daughter of the mysterious Mr Rochester. Gradually she falls in love with him, but things are not what they seem and life is not straightforward for the rebellious heroine.
View BookAuthor: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator Edward Hardwicke
SeriesAdventures of Sherlock Holmes, Book 4
Duration 2h 42m
Contains 3 COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED STORIES: The Crooked Man - a long lost lover, much transformed, returns to reveal an awful secret; The Greek Interpreter - Holmes' brother Mycroft features in this story of murder and foreign dignitaries; The Naval Treaty - when an important treaty is stolen, Watson and Holmes are on the case to uphold the honour...
View BookAuthor: H.G. Wells
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Author H.G. Wells
Narrator Daniel Philpott
Duration 5h 15m
The Invisible Man is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells. Originally serialized in Pearson's Weekly in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year.
View BookAuthor: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator Edward Hardwicke
SeriesAdventures of Sherlock Holmes, Book 3
Duration 2h 27m
Contains three complete and unabridge stories.
View BookAuthor: Rudyard Kipling
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Author Rudyard Kipling
Narrator Sanjeev Bhaskar
Duration 7h 19m
Kim is a magnificent novel, populated by a rich cast of characters - from jewelers and spies, to horse dealers, mystics and military leaders. The novel was once described by Kingsley Amis as "not only the finest story about India . . . but one of the greatest novels in the language". The action takes place in British India in the 1880s and 1890s ag...
View BookAuthor: Thomas Hardy
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Author Thomas Hardy
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 14h 15m
Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and com...
View BookAuthor: Jane Austen
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Author Jane Austen
Narrator Irene Sutcliffe
Duration 11h 30m
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?
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