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Author: George Eliot
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Author George Eliot
Narrator Harriet Walter
Duration 6h
Dorothea Brooke is a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage with a pedantic scholar. Tertius Lydgate is a charming but tactless doctor. His marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and his pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career. Their interweaving tales reveal a complex...
View BookAuthor: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator Edward Hardwicke
Duration 54m
An early morning awakening leads to a discovery much more shocking than a few rifled drawers at a grand house. A suspected bungled robbery that it seems has gone horribly wrong calls our heroes Holmes and Watson to The Abbey Grange, where their super-sleuthing may be able to shed some light on the mystery.
View BookAuthor: Daniel Defoe
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Author Daniel Defoe
Narrator Nigel Anthony
Duration 3h
The sole survivor of a shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe is stranded on an uninhabited island far away from any shipping routes. With patience and ingenuity, he survives on the island for twenty-four years with no human company, until one Friday, he rescues a prisoner from a boat of cannibals.
View BookBastable Series Book 1: The Treasure Seekers
Author: Edith Nesbit
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Author Edith Nesbit
Narrator Teresa Gallagher
SeriesTreasure Seekers, Book 1
Duration 2h 15m
Six children decide that the only way to restore the fortunes of their family is to go out and do it themselves. They produce a series of madcap schemes and one after another try them out with varying degrees of success, most resulting in trouble rather than riches. But then one scheme begins to look more promising than the rest.
View BookAuthor: Jane Austen
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Author Jane Austen
Narrator Fiona Shaw
Duration 6h
Emma Woodhouse is clever, rich, with a comfortable home and a happy disposition. She's also always convinced that she's right. She learns the hard way that pride comes before a fall, but the brotherly figure of Mr Knightley takes it upon himself to help her correct the flaws in her character.
View BookAuthor: Jane Austen
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Author Jane Austen
Narrator Jill Balcon
Duration 3h
Austen's charming and often comical anti-gothic novel sees the sweet, impressionable Catherine falling hopelessly in love with Henry Tilney. Will his good sense cure her romantic illusions?
View BookPsammead Series Book 3: The Story of the Amulet
Author: Edith Nesbit
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Author Edith Nesbit
Narrator Anna Bentinck
Duration 2h 37m
When Cyril, Robert, Anthea and Jane rescue the magic sand-fairy from a pet shop, they have no idea of the astonishing adventures to come! The children are whisked back in time to exciting and sometimes dangerous places, such as Ancient Babylon and Atlantis, to search out the missing half of the amulet.
View BookAuthor: Anne Bronte
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Author Anne Bronte
Narrator Rachel Bavidge
Duration 7h 33m
From its opening sentences Agnes Grey introduces a heroine who is honest, perceptive and charming. Unfortunately, the Bloomfields, who engage her as a governess, are rather less appealing, and the incarnation of the suppressed cruelties and hypocrisies of the Victorian age. When Agnes moves to a marginally less alarming family, one of her charges s...
View BookAuthor: Jean Anouilh
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Author Jean Anouilh
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 47m
The body of polynices, Antigone's brother, has been ordered to remain unburied by Creon, the new king Thebes. Antigone's faithfulness to her dead brother and his proper burial, and her defiance of the dictator Creon, seals her fate. Originally produced in Paris during the Nazi occupation, Anouilh's "Antigone" was seen by the French as theater of th...
View BookAuthor: Giovanni Boccaccio
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Author Giovanni Boccaccio
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 19m
Read by members of the cast of the exciting new film based on 'The Decameron', 'Virgin Territory', Boccacio's raunchy 14th-Century work is given a new lease of life in this inventive and witty production by CSA WORD. A group of Florentine youth escape to the mountain countryside during the time of the plague, only to regale each other with vignette...
View BookAuthor: Oscar Wilde
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Author Oscar Wilde
Narrator Simon Russell Beale
Duration 4h 54m
Written during his time in Reading Gaol, De Profundis is Oscar Wilde's moving letter to Lord Alfred Douglas, whose relationship with Wilde led to the poet's imprisonment. Here Wilde repudiates Lord Alfred and reflects on his ordeal, acknowledging how the depths of his sorrow have helped liberate him towards a fuller, freer wisdom. Brimming with bea...
View BookAuthor: Anne Bronte
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Author Anne Bronte
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Duration 17h 30m
Fleeing a disastrous marriage, Helen Huntingdon retreats to the desolate, half-ruined moorland mansion, Wildfell Hall, with her small son, Arthur. Here she adopts the assumed surname of Graham and makes her living as a painter. The inconvenience of the house is outweighed by the fact that she and Arthur are removed from the harmful influence of her...
View BookAuthor: Mark Twain
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Author Mark Twain
Narrator Garrick Hagon
Duration 2h 40m
The tale of a boy's life in a small town on the banks of the Mississippi River. Tom skips school with his friends Huck Finn and Jim, and spends his days on mad adventures - some real, some imagined.
View BookAuthor: John Steinbeck
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Author John Steinbeck
Narrator Garrick Hagon
Duration 19h
The Joad family are Oklahoma farmers forced to migrate to California to find work during the depression. The story focuses on the hardships they have to endure and their many broken dreams, but it is also an eloquent tribute to the endurance and dignity of the human spirit.
View BookAuthor: Voltaire
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Author Voltaire
Narrator Neville Jason
Duration 7h 3m
Voltaire's razor-sharp satire on philosophical optimism 'Candide' is coupled here with another of the author's most celebrated works, 'Zadig'. Both challenge the moral and philosophical orthodoxies of the day with humour and sly wit, whilst parodying the formulae of so many contemporary novels.
View BookAuthor: Anna Sewell
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Author Anna Sewell
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 2h 30m
The classic tale of a young girl and her love for her horse Black Beauty. During his long life, Black Beauty has many different owners who put him to a variety of tasks, from being a riding horse on a country estate to a cab horse in town. Despite often being subjected to cruelty, Black Beauty's strength, gentle temper and fine instincts stay with...
View BookAuthor: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Author Nathaniel Hawthorne
Narrator Donada Peters
Duration 6h 56m
A stark tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a foundational work of American literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne's exploration of the dichotomy between the public and private self, internal passion and external convention, gives us the unforgettable Hester Prynne, who discovers strength in the fac...
View BookAuthor: H.G. Wells
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Author H.G. Wells
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 40m
A BBC Radio 3 full-cast dramatisation of H. G. Wells' pioneering science fiction adventure. Wells' story of an inventor who travels in time and discovers a nightmarish dystopian future has been adapted several times for TV and film. This first ever UK radio adaptation, starring Robert Glenister as the Time Traveller and William Gaunt as H. G. Wells...
View BookAuthor: H. Rider Haggard
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Author H. Rider Haggard
Narrator Bill Homewood
Duration 3h 50m
Set in 19th century Africa, 'King Solomon's Mines' is the tale of hunter Allan Quatermain, who is commissioned by the valiant Sir Henry Curtis and his jovial friend Captain Good to lead them to the fabled lost mines of King Solomon. And so begins a thrilling safari, as the men hunt big game and go to war with the terrifying King Twala of Kukuanalan...
View BookAuthor: Edith Wharton
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Author Edith Wharton
Narrator Anna Fields
Duration 8h 56m
Set in New York in the 1920s, The Glimpses of the Moon details the romantic misadventures of Nick Lansing and Susy Branch, two high-society hangers-on with the right connections but a lack of funds. To maintain their status, they decide to marry and spend a year or so sponging off their wealthy friends, honeymooning in their mansions and villas. Bo...
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