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Author: Jane Austen
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Author Jane Austen
Narrator Jane Suzman
Duration 2h 42m
When the personable Captain Wentworth reappears in Anne Elliot's life several years after she had been persuaded to break off their engagement, he makes no secret of his angry indignation but, as they come to know each other again, their feelings are rekindled. There are many obstacles in their path, however, amongst them Anne's egotistical, snobbi...
View BookRobinson Crusoe and His Further Adventures
Author: Daniel Defoe
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Author Daniel Defoe
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 53m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast Unabridged by Andy Barratt of Daniel Defoe's less famous sequel to the classic adventure Robinson Crusoe. After returning to England from his island home, Robinson Crusoe sets sail once more in search of adventure. Starring Tim McInnerny as Robinson Crusoe, with Jonathan Tafler, Adrian Grove, Stephen Critchlow, David Timso...
View BookAuthor: Daniel Defoe
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Author Daniel Defoe
Narrator Tony Britton
Duration 2h 17m
One of the greatest 'castaway novels ever written, 'Robinson Crusoe' sees its namesake struggling on a desert island after a shipwreck. Robinson Crusoe is a sailor who becomes stranded on a desert island for over twenty years when a storm destroys the boat he is travelling on. The ultimate tale of isolation and survival against the odds, Crusoe ha...
View BookAuthor: Daniel Defoe
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Author Daniel Defoe
Narrator Rowena Cooper
Duration 2h 22m
Moll Flanders is an often humorous and always brazen woman, who, born into poverty in Newgate prison, has to cheek and swindle her way through life to survive. A loveable and chastizable heroine makes for a great listen. Moll Flanders is the epitome of a 'bawdy' woman, who makes few excuses for herself and is unashamed of her shady past. Now conve...
View BookAuthor: D H Lawrence
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Author D H Lawrence
Narrator Robert Powell
Duration 2h 17m
The story of Paul Morel, torn between three women. A observant and insightful look at the complexities and dangers surrounding human love and attraction. Sons and Lovers is the moving and explicit account of a young man growing up in a closed mining village. Born into a difficult marriage, Paul Morel is shy and introverted and impressionable. As a...
View BookAuthor: Charlotte Bronte
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Author Charlotte Bronte
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 2h 22m
Lucy Snowe, an English girl, goes to work as a governess in Brussels and finds solace in an unlikely suitor. Largely autobiographical fiction. Based on Charlotte's work as a governess in Brussels, Villette concerns the life of Lucy Snowe, an English girl who obtains a post at a girl's school in Belgium. With few friends and little money, Lucy conc...
View BookAuthor: Henry Fielding
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Author Henry Fielding
Narrator Nigel Davenport
Duration 2h 23m
A joyfully picaresque novel, Tom Jones is satirical and farcical in large doses, as well as confronting serious issues such as the importance of religion in eighteenth-century society. Tom is thrown out of his foster father's house for 'crimes' that he didn't commit, and proceeds to have numerous bawdy adventures and fights in the process of life,...
View BookAuthor: Charles Dickens
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 2h 24m
Sydney Carton, a lawyer and wastrel, tries to redeem himself somewhere between Paris and London to make up for his mis-spent youth. A tale of two cities is considered by many to be Dickens' most thrilling novel. Whilst contrasting the tranquility of London with revolution-torn Paris, incident follows incident as Sydney Carton finally redeems himse...
View BookAuthor: Charles Dickens
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 2h 20m
Oliver Twist, the orphan, runs away to Victorian London to make his fortune... Oliver Twist is a family favourite at the same time as being a rather dark examination of the seedier side of life in Victorian London. An orphan, Oliver runs away to the big city, hoping to feel a sense of belonging and love. He falls in with a charismatic group of thi...
View BookAuthor: Charles Dickens
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 2h 23m
Nicholas Nickleby is left penniless by his father's death and becomes a champion for the weak and ill-treated. Nicholas Nickleby is at once a moving and funny novel following the fortunes and misfortunes of an impetuous and high-spirited hero. Left penniless by his father's death, and protector of his sister Kate, Nicholas Nickleby becomes a true...
View BookAuthor: Alexandre Dumas
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Author Alexandre Dumas
Narrator Jonathan Hyde
Duration 2h 22m
The Musketeer's motto is 'One for all and all for one' and they follow it strictly, loyal friends and Staunch defenders of the king of France. The Three Musketeers is a swashbuckling adventure in which the king of France's guards swear by the motto "All for one and one for all" and follow it with the utmost commitment. The Musketeers find themselv...
View BookAuthor: Leo Tolstoy
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Author Leo Tolstoy
Narrator Edward Petherbridge
Duration 4h 47m
Set against the epic backdrop of the Napoleonic wars and inspired by Tolstoy's own family history, War and Peace is expertly interpreted by Edward Petherbridge who brilliantly defines the varied and different characters that people this celebrated classic.
View BookAuthor: Jerome K Jerome
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Author Jerome K Jerome
Narrator Hugh Laurie
Duration 2h 20m
CSA WORD's award winning production, which follows an ill-equipped bunch of fellows on a jaunt down the Thames. This award-winning story follows the symbolic progress of 3 friends and an unruly dog as they make their way on a supposedly relaxing trip down the river, surrounded by the beautiful Thames Valley. Laugh as they try to open cans of beans...
View BookAuthor: Jane Austen
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Author Jane Austen
Narrator Anna Massey
Duration 2h 13m
Elinor and Marianne are the main protagonists in this tale of stayed passion and the mission of courtship. The story of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne, whose lives are turned upside-down following the death of their father. Left almost penniless, they are forced to move out of their home, suffering loss of position and many shattered dreams. Res...
View BookAuthor: Jane Austen
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Author Jane Austen
Narrator Anna Massey
Duration 2h 21m
Anne Elliot is thrown back into the company of Captain Wentworth, a past love. Things didn't work out the last time they met, so it looks like it might be another bumpy ride in store for the pair... Partly autobiographical, Persuasion possesses a gentle sense of humour, and has rather a more serious tone than most of Austen's other works. Anne Eli...
View BookAuthor: Jane Austen
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Author Jane Austen
Narrator Anna Massey
Duration 2h 22m
Catherine Moorland is a tomboy who yearns for dark and dangerous adventure. Her first outing in society does not quite fit this specification, although she does fall decidedly in love, which is an adventure in itself. Young and susceptible, Catherine Morland expects dark secrets and many dangers to be lurking in the hidden recesses of Northanger A...
View BookAuthor: Herman Melville
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Author Herman Melville
Narrator Bob Sessions
Duration 2h 10m
A nautical yarn that encompasses adventure, thrills and spills on the high seas. Not to foget a certain massive whale! Captain Nemo is hell-bent on catching the famous gargantuan whale, who cost him one of his legs on a previous voyage. With disregard for his safety or that of his crew, he persues the beast with an obsession tantamount to madness.
View BookAuthor: Henry James
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Author Henry James
Narrator William Roberts
Duration 2h 23m
The young and innocent Isabel Archer has a choice to make when she comes to England from America: dignity and duty or her happiness? A familiar theme in James' writing is the meeting of Europe and America. Isabel Archer is determined to make the most of her new-found freedom when she arrives in England, but other expatriate Americans manipulate he...
View BookAuthor: George Eliot
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Author George Eliot
Narrator Hannah Gordon
Duration 2h 24m
A family living on the edge of the river struggle with the thought of losing their livelyhood, whilst battling to keep family relationships together. Maggie and Tom, brother and sister, try to save their livelihood as their parents flounder in the face of modernization. Maggie befriends the disabled son of a family rival in an attempt to build bri...
View BookAuthor: George Eliot
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Author George Eliot
Narrator Hannah Gordon
Duration 2h 24m
Dorothea is on a quest to find heroism in ordinary people, an enthralling journey which encompasses both highs and lows. Praised by Virginia Woolf as one of the only novels 'written for grown-up people', Middlemarch is a highly accomplished story, whose characters are involving and intreguing. Dorothea's story interlinks powerfully and tantalisin...
View BookAuthor: Emily Bronte
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Author Emily Bronte
Narrator Hannah Gordon
Duration 2h 23m
The story of a dark and dangerous love, set on the moors surrounding the looming, oppressive and isolated house, Wuthering Heights.
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