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Palliser Series Book 3: The Eustace Diamonds
Author: Anthony Trollope
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Author Anthony Trollope
Narrator Simon Vance
SeriesPalliser Series, Book 3
Duration 23h 58m
The third and least political novel of the Palliser series, The Eustace Diamonds concerns the beautiful pathological liar Lizzie Greystock. Determined to marry into wealth, Lizzie snares the ailing Sir Florian Eustace and quickly becomes a widow. Despite the brevity of their marriage, Lizzie still inherits according to the generous terms of Sir Flo...
View BookPalliser Series Book 2: Phineas Finn
Author: Anthony Trollope
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Author Anthony Trollope
Narrator Simon Vance
SeriesPalliser Series, Book 2
Duration 22h 33m
Phineas Finn is an Irish MPA who is climbing the political ladder, largely through the assistance of his string of lovers. The questions he is forced to ask himself about honesty, independence, and parliamentary democracy are questions still asked today. Phineas Finn is the second of Anthony Trollope's six Palliser novels, which together comprise...
View BookPalliser Series Book 4: Phineas Redux
Author: Anthony Trollope
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Author Anthony Trollope
Narrator Simon Vance
SeriesPalliser Series, Book 4
Duration 23h 5m
His beloved wife having died in childbirth Phineas Finn finds Irish society and his job as a poorhouse inspector dull and unsatisfying particularly after the excitement of his former career as a Member of Parliament Back in England the Whigs are determined to overturn the Tory majority in the Parliament of the United Kingdom Since Finn had once bee...
View BookPalliser Series Book 6: The Prime Minister
Author: Anthony Trollope
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Author Anthony Trollope
Narrator Simon Vance
SeriesPalliser Series, Book 6
Duration 25h 6m
Unscrupulous financial speculator Ferdinand Lopez, aspiring to marry into respectability and wealth, has society at his feet: well-connected ladies vying with each other to exert influence on his behalf. Even Lady Glencora, the wife of Plantagenet Palliser, prime minister of England, supports the exotic imposter. Palliser, respectable man of power...
View BookAuthor: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Jonathan Cecil
Duration 7h 29m
Welcome to Blandings Castle, a place that is never itself without an imposter. Wodehouse himself once noted that "Blandings has impostors like other houses have mice." On this particular occasion there are two, both intent on a dangerous enterprise. Lord Emsworth's secretary, the Efficient Baxter, is on the alert and determined to discover what is...
View BookFar from the Madding Crowd (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Author: Thomas Hardy
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Author Thomas Hardy
Narrator Nicholas Guy Smith
Duration 15h 18m
This story of a proud rural beauty and the three men who court her is the novel that first made Thomas Hardy famous.Despite the violent ends of several of its major characters, Far from the Madding Crowd is the sunniest and least brooding of Hardy’s great novels. The strong-minded Bathsheba Everdene—and the devoted shepherd, obsessed fa...
View BookAuthor: Stella Gibbons
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Author Stella Gibbons
Narrator Pearl Mackie
Duration 8h 6m
Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Pearl Mackie, best known for her role in Dr Who. When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm, she meets the doomed Starkadders: cousin Judith, heaving...
View BookAuthor: Tennessee Williams
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Author Tennessee Williams
Narrator Edward Albee
Duration 2h 49m
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers vying for their dying father's inheritance amid a whirlwind of sexuality, untethered in the person of Maggie the Cat. The play also daringly showcased the burden of sexuality repressed in the agony of her husband, Brick Pollitt. In spite of the public...
View BookAuthor: Zora Neale Hurston
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Author Zora Neale Hurston
Narrator Ruby Dee
Duration 6h 44m
One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and pathos found only in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston. Out of print for almost thirty years—due largely to initial audiences' rejection of its strong black female protagonist—Hurston'...
View BookAuthor: Richard Wright
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Author Richard Wright
Narrator Peter Francis James
Duration 17h 44m
Since its publication in 1940, Native Son has become a classic of African-American literature and one of the most important books of this century. A stark and troubling account of murder, guilt, and racial hatred, it was among the first works to sound the alarm for the impending social violence that would explode during the 1960s. Bigger Thomas, a...
View BookAuthor: Miguel de Cervantes
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Author Miguel de Cervantes
Narrator Roy McMillan
Duration 36h 6m
An old man, enchanted by tales of knightly courage, puts on his rusty armour and sets out on a quest of his own. For him, the world is filled with giants, knights and a peerless mistress. Others, such as his earthy squire Sancho Panza, see windmills, sheep and vulgar serving girls. But such prosaic interpretations do not satisfy the greatest figure...
View BookAuthor: Umberto Eco
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Author Umberto Eco
Narrator Sean Barrett
Duration 21h 5m
This hugely engaging story of murder, superstition, religious politics and drama in a medieval monastery was one of the most striking novels to appear in the 1980s. The Name of the Rose is a thrilling story enriched with period detail and laced with tongue-in-cheek allusions to fictional characters, the most striking of which is the Franciscan fria...
View BookAuthor: Franz Kafka
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Author Franz Kafka
Narrator Rupert Degas
Duration 8h 21m
The Trial is one of the great works of the twentieth century: an extraordinary vision of one man put on trial by an anonymous authority on an unspecified charge. Josef K, 30, lives in a large town in an unspecified country. He is summonsed to answer a charge and appears in the court room for his trial. Franz Kafka evokes all the reality of tri...
View BookThe Chronicles of Narnia Book 1: The Magician's Nephew
Author: C.S. Lewis
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Author C.S. Lewis
Narrator Kenneth Branagh
SeriesThe Chronicles of Narnia, Book 1
Duration 3h 55m
Written after The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe but designed by C.S. Lewis to be read first, this enchanting prequel, with its story of time travel, sorcery, and magic rings, is essential reading for anyone who wants to learn the backstory to the biggest movie release of the year. Hurled back in time to the birth of a new world, two y...
View BookThe Chronicles of Narnia Book 2: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Author: C.S. Lewis
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Author C.S. Lewis
Narrator Michael York
SeriesThe Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2
Duration 4h 22m
"It's a magic wardrobe. There's a wood inside it, and it's snowing! Come and see," begged Lucy. Lucy has stumbled upon a marvellous land of fauns and centaurs, nymphs and talking animals. But soon she discovers that it is ruled by the cruel White Witch, and can only be freed by Aslan, the great Lion, and four children. In the never-ending war bet...
View BookThe Chronicles of Narnia Book 3: The Horse and His Boy
Author: C.S. Lewis
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Author C.S. Lewis
Narrator Alex Jennings
SeriesThe Chronicles of Narnia, Book 3
Duration 4h 40m
Desperate to escape a harsh and narrow regime, two runaways unwittingly flee headlong into the centre of a terrible battle. This first sequel to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe includes all the hallmarks of its famous predecessor, though this time the fate of Narnia is wound up in the lives of its own children, and a talking horse!...
View BookThe Chronicles of Narnia Book 4: Prince Caspian
Author: C.S. Lewis
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Author C.S. Lewis
Narrator Lynn Redgrave
SeriesThe Chronicles of Narnia, Book 4
Duration 4h 40m
"Look sharp!" shouted Edmund. "All catch hands and keep together. This is magic. I can tell by the feeling. Quick!" Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy are sitting on a station platform when they sense the magic beginning again. Suddenly they are pulled back to the land of Narnia. Evil King Miraz and his army can only mean trouble for Narnia, and Prin...
View BookThe Chronicles of Narnia Book 6: The Silver Chair
Author: C.S. Lewis
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Author C.S. Lewis
Narrator Jeremy Northam
SeriesThe Chronicles of Narnia, Book 6
Duration 5h 26m
Drawn back to Narnia, Eustace Scrubb and his new friend Jill Pole are sent to rescue a captive prince. In a world where evil weaves a spell, Giants and Marsh-wiggles can be friend or foe, but the stakes are raised when they reach Underland and come face-to-face with a notorious and terrifying opponent. This was the fourth book written in The...
View BookThe Chronicles of Narnia Book 7: The Last Battle
Author: C.S. Lewis
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Author C.S. Lewis
Narrator Patrick Stewart
SeriesThe Chronicles of Narnia, Book 7
Duration 4h 51m
The last days of Narnia, and all hope seems lost as lies and treachery interweave to threaten the destruction of everything. As the battle lines are drawn, old friends are summoned back to Narnia, though none can predict the outcome in this magnificent ending to the famous series. This was the seventh and final book written in The Chronicles...
View BookAnne of Green Gables Book 5: Anne's House of Dreams
Author: L. M. Montgomery
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Author L. M. Montgomery
Narrator Barbara Caruso
SeriesAnne of Green Gables, Book 5
Duration 8h 46m
Gilbert Blythe has completed his schooling and is finally a doctor. So now he and his beloved Anne can be together. The couple marry and move to Four Winds Harbour to start their new life together. Anne and Gilbert buy an old home and fix it up, and the house quickly becomes their dream home. Along with their new home comes new neighbors and friend...
View BookAuthor: Sam Selvon
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Author Sam Selvon
Narrator Don Gilet
Duration 4h 31m
Sitting in his cramped basement room in Brixton, Battersby dreams of money, women, a T-bone steak - and a place to call his own. So he and a group of friends decide to save up and buy a house together. But amid grasping landlords, the temptations of spending money and the less-than-welcoming attitude of the Mother Country, can this motley group of...
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