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Chief Inspector Banks Book 4: The Hanging Valley
Author: Peter Robinson
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Author Peter Robinson
Narrator James Langton
SeriesInspector Banks, Book 4
Duration 9h 1m
No one dreamed something so hideous could grow in so beautiful a place...Many who visit the valley are overwhelmed by its majesty. Some wish they never had to leave. One didn't: a hiker whose decomposing corpse is discovered by an unsuspecting tourist. But this strange, incomprehensible murder is only the edge of the darkness that hovers over a sma...
View BookAuthor: Frank L Baum
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Author Frank L Baum
Narrator Liza Ross
Duration 2h 37m
Tip, a young Gillikin boy, runs away from his cruel guardian, the wicked witch Mombi. He meets up with the Scarecrow, now ruler of the Emerald City, the Tin Woodman, many new friends, and an army of girls who want to overthrow the Scarecrow. Before it's over, Tip finds out that he is part of a dark secret from Oz's past.
View BookAuthor: R.M. Ballantyne
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Author R.M. Ballantyne
Narrator Peter Joyce
Duration 10h 22m
Heroes Ralph, Jack and Peterkin... set sail on the Arrow and are the only three survivors of a fearful shipwreck. They are washed ashore on a seemingly idyllic coral island. This tranquillity is violently disturbed, first by a tribe of bloodthirsty cannibals and then by the invasion of a vicious pirate and his gang of cut-throats. Will the boys thw...
View BookAuthor: William Faulkner
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Author William Faulkner
Narrator Grover Gardner
Duration 8h 54m
"I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire. . . . I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory i...
View BookAuthor: Gustave Flaubert
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Author Gustave Flaubert
Narrator Jenny Agutter
Duration 2h 24m
Madame Bovary is one of Europe's most famous pieces of literature causing a huge scandal when first published in 1856 as a serial in La Revue de Paris and then, after being acquitted at a trial, as a book in 1857. Ahead of its time, Madame Bovary shocked its readers when first published, with its candid themes of adultery and betrayal. Emma Bovary...
View BookAuthor: George Orwell
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Author George Orwell
Narrator Richard E Grant
Duration 9h 1m
Orwell's darkly comic novel centres around the life of Gordon Comstock, onetime advertising copywriter turned bookshop employee and struggling poet. Gordon's disdain for money and artistic compromise preclude his earning enough of a living to escape constant public embarrassment. On top of this, it gives him terrible trouble holding on to his girlf...
View BookAuthor: George Eliot
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Author George Eliot
Narrator Geraldine James
Duration 2h 24m
A touching tale of companionship and redemption, that challenges the age-old 'blood is thicker than water' adage. Silas Marner, a weaver, is cast out from his religious community and arrives in Raveloe, where he is feared because of his mysterious nature and brooding manner. When he is left an unwanted child to care for, his love for the child grow...
View BookAuthor: Elizabeth Gaskell
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Author Elizabeth Gaskell
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 6h 52m
This BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Elizabeth Gaskell's tale of Manchester life is set in the 19th century when a series of bad harvests placed a heavy tax burden on workers. Gaskell's powerful drama, adapted here for Woman's Hour, is regarded as one of the most important novels of its time.
View BookAuthor: William Somerset Maugham
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Author William Somerset Maugham
Narrator Steven Crossley
Duration 25h 54m
One of the most widely read novels of the twentieth century, W. Somerset Maugham's masterpiece Of Human Bondage gives a harrowing depiction of unrequited love. Philip Carey, a sensitive orphan born with a clubfoot, finds himself in desperate need of passion and inspiration. He abandons his studies to travel, first to Heidelberg and then to Paris, w...
View BookFanny Hill (or Memoirs of A Woman of Pleasure)
Author: John Cleland
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Author John Cleland
Narrator Emma Fielding
Duration 3h 44m
'Fanny Hill', one of the most popular novels of the 18th century, turned the prevailing moralism of the times on its head as it traced the rise of its heroine from prostitution to middle-class respectability. CONTAINS ADULT THEMES.
View BookAuthor: J. M Barrie
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Author J. M Barrie
Narrator Full Cast, Toyah Wilcox
Duration 2h 3m
When Peter Pan flies into the night nursery of Wendy, John and Michael Darling, he takes them on the journey - and the adventure - of a lifetime. Mermaids, wolves and Indians weave their spell in the magical Never Never Land - where also lurks the wicked Captain Hook...Toyah Willcox stars as Peter Pan, with Ron Moody as Captain Hook, Roy Hudd as Sm...
View BookAuthor: D. H. Lawrence
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Author D. H. Lawrence
Narrator Maxine Peake
Duration 13h 20m
Lady Chatterley's husband returns from the War paralysed from the waist down. Frustrated by his attitudes as much as his disability, she begins a love-affair with the gamekeeper, Mellors. She realises that to be fully alive she must live the life of the body as well as the mind, but in doing so she angers the conventions of her day. Banned for over...
View BookSherlock Holmes: The Valley of Fear
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator Clive Merrison, Michael Williams
Duration 1h 51m
What is the connection between a corpse with a missing face and a ruthless secret society which once terrorised a desolate region of the United States? With the aid of a local guidebook, a missing dumb-bell and Dr Watson's umbrella, Holmes unravels a tangled web which stretches over fifteen years and two continents; and in the centre of that web lu...
View BookAuthor: Anne Bronte
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Author Anne Bronte
Narrator David Rintoul, Carole Boyd
Duration 2h 21m
Helen Graham moves to Wildfell Hall in a shroud of mystery: where has she come from, and who exactly is she? Anne's novel is the story of the beautiful and mysterious Helen Graham, who arrives at Wildfell Hall suddenly one day. No-one knows who she is or where she has come from, and Gilbert Markham, a young farmer who has fallen in love with her, s...
View BookThe Importance of Being Earnest
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Author Oscar Wilde
Narrator Geraldine Mcewan, Simon Russell Beale
Duration 1h 36m
To avoid tiresome family engagements, Algernon Moncrieff, a bachelor-about-town, has invented Bunbury, an invalid friend whose bedside he is frequently obliged to attend. At the same time, his friend Jack Worthing has invented a wicked brother called Ernest to disguise his own misdemeanours. When Algernon poses as Ernest, confusion reigns, and it t...
View BookAuthor: Mark Twain
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Author Mark Twain
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 53m
Young Huck Finn can't get along with the Widow Douglas' attempts to `civilise' him, or the smothering discipline which she and her sister serve up at home. So when his drunken, good-for-nothing father turns up and kidnaps him, Huck takes his cue to leave - and escapes to Jackson's Island. There he meets runaway slave Jim, and the two become firm fr...
View BookBastable Series Book 2: The Wouldbegoods
Author: Edith Nesbit
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Author Edith Nesbit
Narrator Teresa Gallagher
SeriesTreasure Seekers, Book 2
Duration 3h 17m
The sequel to 'The Treasure Seekers' reacquaints us with the six Bastable children, who find all sorts of ways in which to amuse themselves in the country during the summer holidays. The children do their best, but they soon get into trouble when they try to create a jungle in the garden.
View BookA Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court
Author: Mark Twain
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Author Mark Twain
Narrator Kenneth Jay
Duration 2h 25m
What happens when a 19th-century American with a background of railroads, advertising, ammunition and soap is whisked back in time to medieval England, ruled and guided from Camelot by King Arthur? How do the spells of Merlin the Magician and the lances of the Knights fare against Industrial Man?
View BookAuthor: Louisa May Alcott
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Author Louisa May Alcott
Narrator Lorelei King
SeriesLittle Women, Book 1
Duration 8h 6m
Little Women begins the much-loved story of the March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. The girls grow up amidst the turmoil, adventures and hardships of the American Civil War. The household is presided over by Mrs. March, 'Marmee', who tries to rule with kindness and to create harmony amongst her four little women.
View BookAuthor: Virginia Woolf
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Author Virginia Woolf
Narrator Prunella Scales
Duration 3h 11m
Woof! Woof! I am a spaniel called Flush and owned by Elizabeth Barret Browning and her husband Robert and this is my amusing but ultimately sad autiobiography. Virginia Woolf's biography of Elizabeth Barrett Brownings spaniel was what she called "a little escapade", begun to "ease my brain" in the wake of The Waves (1931). The intensities of that m...
View BookAuthor: George Eliot
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Author George Eliot
Narrator Lucy Briars
Duration 7h
After he is wrongly accused of a crime and expelled from his community, weaver Silas Marner becomes a miser and a recluse. A strange sequence of events, and the appearance of a small child, transforms his life and awakens him to the redemptive power of love.
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