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Author: Kate (ed.) Flint
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Author Kate (ed.) Flint
Narrator Various
Duration 22h
This selection of Victorian short stories edited by Kate Flint presents love in all its moods, with lovers including a shopkeeper and an aristocrat, an actress, a governess, Americans abroad, a seaweed gatherer and a pair of herons. Alongside familiar names such as Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope,Thomas Hardy and Somerset Maugham are equally po...
View BookAuthor: Virginia Woolf
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Author Virginia Woolf
Narrator Laura Paton
Duration 2h 29m
A fantastic historical 'biography', which spans almost 400 years in the lifetime of its protagonist, Orlando, who ages only thirty-six years and changes gender from man to woman. Woolf reflects how perceptions of masculinity and femininity changed in Europe over the centuries and presents a feminist overview of history from the days of Elizabeth th...
View BookAuthor: Jane Austen
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Author Jane Austen
Narrator Joanna Lumley
Duration 2h 12m
Elizabeth Bennett is an intelligent unmarried woman in a patriarchal and aspirational society. She has numerous proud and prejudiced run-ins with the seemingly surly and aloof Mr. Darcy, who she initially feels is a man whom she would not desire to spend more time than she might have to. However, can they start to understand each other a little bet...
View BookAuthor: James Joyce
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Author James Joyce
Narrator Jim Norton
Duration 6h 51m
A sequence of eight stories depicting middle-class Catholic life in Dublin, including 'Araby', 'Eveline' and 'The Dead'. The frustrations of childhood, disappointments of adolescence and mystery of sexual awakening are related with clarity and sensitivity.
View BookAuthor: Kenneth Grahame
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Author Kenneth Grahame
Narrator Alan Bennett
Duration 1h 17m
When the Water Rat invites the unassuming Mole to spend his first day ever in a boat on the river, and wise Badger comes along for the ride as well, so begins a marvellous season of adventure for the three friends. Mr Toad (he of Toad Hall) completes a happy foursome, but his tendency to get into hot water leads him into some rather hair-raising sc...
View BookAuthor: Henry James
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Author Henry James
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 2h 23m
More than just a simple tale of the supernatural, James poses questions about childhood innocence, corruption and hysteria. The story focuses on a na‹ve governess who takes charge of two children at the lonely house of Bly. When she begins to see ghosts, she believes that the children do too, with devastating consequences.
View BookAuthor: Charles Dickens
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Simon Vance
Duration 31h 21m
The most gorgeously theatrical of all Dickens's novels, Nicholas Nickleby follows the delightful adventures of a hearty young hero in nineteenth-century England. Nicholas, a gentleman's son fallen upon hard times, must set out to make his way in the world. His journey is accompanied by some of the most swaggering scoundrels and unforgettable eccent...
View BookAuthor: Jonathan Swift
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Author Jonathan Swift
Narrator Jasper Britton
Duration 35h 15m
Lemuel Gulliver, a slightly staid ship's doctor, relates the tales of his astonishing travels. He encounters the tiny, warring Lilliputians; the giant, sceptical Brobdingnagians; the ludicrously intellectual Laputans; and the idealistic - if rather stolid - Houyhnhnms and their bestial servants, the Yahoos. An immediate best-seller when it was firs...
View BookSherlock Holmes Book 1: A Study In Scarlet
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator David Timson
SeriesSherlock Holmes, Book 1
Duration 4h 45m
A Study in Scarlet was the very first Sherlock Holmes novel. Here. In the most remarkably precise manner, Doyle produced two of the most well-known characters in English fiction. Their individual traits and their relationships, their ambitions and foibles are introduced against the backdrop of an exciting story of revenge and persistence, which sta...
View BookAlice's Adventures In Wonderland
Author: Lewis Carroll
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Author Lewis Carroll
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Duration 3h 57m
When Alice follows the White Rabbit down a hole, she enters a world of strange places and even stranger characters. She meets Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee, the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle and a host of other weird and wonderful creatures.
View BookAuthor: Charles Dickens
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Hugh Dickson
Duration 38h
At the court of Chancery, the interminable suit of Jarndyce and Jarndyce becomes the centre of a web of relationships at all levels. From Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; to Esther Summerson, a ward of court, whose parentage is a source of deepening mystery; the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn; the de...
View BookAuthor: Wilkie Collins
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Author Wilkie Collins
Narrator Ian Holm
Duration 24h 45m
Late one night on his way to Limmeridge House in Cumberland, drawing teacher Walter Hartright meets a mysterious woman dressed in white. Who is she, and what is her connection to the teacher's new pupil, a beautiful heiress?
View BookAuthor: Charles Dickens
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Anton Lesser
Duration 7h 29m
Little Nell cares for her grandfather in the gloomy surroundings of his curiosity shop. Reduced to poverty, the pair are forced to flee London and Nell finds herself uprooted from a secure and innocent childhood and cast into a world where evil takes the form of characters such as Swiveller, Nubbles and the grotesque and lecherous Quilp.
View BookAuthor: Charles Dickens
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 50m
A tale of comical misadventure with Mister Pickwick and his companions - the amorous Tupman, the 'poetic' Snodgrass and the `sporty' Winkle - all battling to extricate themselves from a seemingly endless succession of comic trials and tribulations.
View BookAuthor: D H Lawrence
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Author D H Lawrence
Narrator Emilia Fox
Duration 5h
Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless marriage to the invalid Sir Clifford. Unable to fulfil his wife emotionally or physically, Clifford encourages her to have a liaison with a man of their own class. But Connie is attracted instead to her husband's gamekeeper and embarks on a passionate affair that brings new life to her stifled exist...
View BookAuthor: Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Author Frances Hodgson Burnett
Narrator Eleanor Bron
Duration 3h
When Sara Crewe is sent back from India to go to school in England, she appears to have everything; not just wealth, but a loving heart and a quick imagination. She is treated like a princess by Miss Minchin, but when her adoring father dies and leaves her in financial ruin, Sara goes from being the princess to the pauper.
View BookAuthor: Lewis Carroll
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Author Lewis Carroll
Narrator Fiona Shaw
Duration 2h 16m
When Alice steps through the looking glass she enters a world of chess pieces and nursery rhyme characters who behave very oddly. Humpty Dumpty, the Lion and the Unicorn, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the White Knight and the Red Queen - everything seems to be the wrong way round.
View BookAuthor: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Author Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrator Ian Holm
Duration 2h 33m
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde is one of the classic horror stories of all time with Sir Ian Holm giving us a rare and defininitive reading.
View BookAuthor: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Author Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Narrator Kim Hicks
Duration 15h 18m
Lady Audley is universally adored: beautiful, kind and charming, she enamors all whom she meets. It is not until the strange disappearance of widower George Talboys that her behavior takes an odd turn. George's friend Robert Audley, Lady Audley's nephew-in-law, is on the case; upper-class layabout-turned-detective, he is determined to get to the bo...
View BookAuthor: Virginia Woolf
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Author Virginia Woolf
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 5h 2m
Virginia Woolf's pioneering work on women in literature. An accessible yet fiercely astute essay, it is a crystallisation of the intelligent analysis behind her novels, and confirms her as a writer not only of style, but of undeniable substance. Ranging from discussing Austen's pandering to a male writing style, to imagining the dreadful fate of Sh...
View BookMuriel Spark: The Complete Short Stories
Author: Muriel Spark
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Author Muriel Spark
Narrator Various
Duration 17h 33m
From the cruel irony of A Member of the Family to the fateful echoes of The Go-Away Bird and the unexpectedly sinister The Girl I Left Behind Me, in settings that range from South Africa to the Portobello Road, Muriel Spark coolly probes the idiosyncrasies that lurk beneath the veneer of human respectability, displaying the acerbic wit and wisdom t...
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