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Author: Wilkie Collins
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Author Wilkie Collins
Narrator Neville Jason
Duration 3h 56m
The Moonstone, a large, beautiful yellow diamond, stolen from an Indian shrine, is given to Rachel Verinder on her 18th birthday and, that same night, stolen again. Sergeant Cuff is employed to find the precious stone and has no shortage of suspects. As each character describes their version of events, layer upon layer of drama and suspense builds...
View BookAuthor: Jane Austen
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Author Jane Austen
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 4h
At the age of ten, shy, vulnerable Fanny Price leaves behind her impoverished family in Portsmouth to go and live with her rich relatives at Mansfield Park. Growing up with her cousins she is aware that she is different from them and that her place in society cannot be taken for granted. When Mary Crawford and her brother Henry arrive at Mansfield...
View BookAuthor: Jane Austen
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Author Jane Austen
Narrator Prunella Scales
Duration 14h 30m
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: Charles Dickens
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Anton Lesser
Duration 10h 33m
The story of a family overshadowed by the Marshalsea, London's debtors' Prison. The Father of the Marshalsea is William Dorrit. He is tended by his daughter Amy, Little Dorrit, to whom the prison is home. She becomes the novel's liberator in her selfless devotion to her father and her redeeming love for Arthur Clennam.
View BookAuthor: Henri Stendhal
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Author Henri Stendhal
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 3h
The story of a handsome and ambitious carpenter's son, Julian Sorel, and of his life torn between the military (the scarlet) and the church (the black). Sorel is determined to rise above his humble peasant origins and make something of his life. To do this, he realises he must adopt the code of hypocrisy by which early 19th-century French Resoratio...
View BookAuthor: Charles Dickens
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Author Charles Dickens
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Duration 6h
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: Jane Austen
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Author Jane Austen
Narrator Sarah Badel
Duration 10h 30m
Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warnings that her impulsive behaviour will leave her open to gossip and innuendo.
View BookAuthor: Lew Wallace
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Author Lew Wallace
Narrator Jeff Harding
Duration 2h 38m
Ben-Hur is the fictional story of Judah Ben-Hur, a Judean aristocrat who, during the reign of the Roman Emperor Tiberius, is enslaved through the betrayal of his Roman friend Messala. Embittered and vengeful after regaining his freedom, he is redeemed after encountering Jesus and witnessing his crucifixion.
View BookAuthor: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Author Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrator John Sessions
Duration 2h 38m
Set in Scotland in 1751, this is the story of young David Balfour, who, orphaned and left penniless, sets out to find his last living relative, the miserly and reclusive Uncle Ebenezer. But Ebenezer is far from welcoming, and David narrowly escapes being murdered before he is kidnapped and imprisoned on a ship bound for Carolina. When the ship is w...
View BookAuthor: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Author Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrator Jasper Britton
Duration 2h 23m
When Jim Hawkins sets off as a cabin boy on the Hispaniola he looks forward to the excitement of searching for buried treasure. But spine-chilling adventures and murderous struggles with Long John Silver and his cut-throat pirate band await him on Treasure Island.
View BookIn the Ravine & Other Short Stories
Author: Anton Chekhov
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Author Anton Chekhov
Narrator Kenneth Branagh
Duration 3h 35m
Here are 12 stories, from the brightly comic to the overtly tragic. Each full of the sharpest observations of personality and situation, and with implications beyond their brief form: a dying actor, children playing a game, a tragic cabman, an orator's mistake and, perhaps most richly of all, a family laid bare in 'In The Ravine'.
View BookAuthor: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Author Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Narrator Nigel Anthony
Duration 2h 20m
Raskolnikov, a student in St. Petersburg, murders an old woman, a money-lender, to prove his theory that violence purifies the strong. But no sooner is the deed done than Raskolnikov begins to feel remorse. What follows is one of the greatest psychological studies in world literature.
View BookAuthor: Jane Austen
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Author Jane Austen
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Duration 2h 30m
The recently-widowed Lady Susan Vernon, intelligent but highly manipulative, is intent on gaining financially secure relationships for both herself and her wayward but shy teenage daughter Frederica. The first of Austen's novels to be completed.
View BookThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Author: Mark Twain
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Author Mark Twain
Narrator Garrick Hagon
Duration 11h 24m
Mark Twain's most famous book describes Huckleberry Finn's journey down the Mississippi aboard a raft with the runaway black slave Jim. Their escapades in the Deep South before the American Civil War make joyful reading but also direct a searching light on a society where slavery and prejudice were taken for granted.
View BookAuthor: Jack London
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Author Jack London
Narrator Garrick Hagon
Duration 3h 55m
Humphrey van Weyden led a privileged existence during his early life, but suddenly finds himself cast into the sea, fighting for survival. Pitted against ruthless but educated captain Wolf Larsen, van Weyden's courage and determination allow him to fight adversity and learn valuable lessons.
View BookAuthor: Nicolo Machiavelli
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Author Nicolo Machiavelli
Narrator Ian Richardson
Duration 3h
Nicolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) wrote only one major work as a gift for his ruling Prince, Lorenzo de Medici. When the senior civil servant role he had held for fourteen years came to an end due to the downfall of the Republic in 1512, he poured out his ideas and resentment in his writings. 'The Prince' has remained a classic ever since; valued for...
View BookAuthor: Jonathan Swift
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Author Jonathan Swift
Narrator Philip Jackson
Duration 4h 47m
Gulliver's Travels has been in print since its first publication in 1726, due to its popularity with young and old alike. As well as a wildly imaginative tale of travel and adventure, it is a comment on human nature and an overblown explorer's story, rich in symbolism and humour. Lemuel Gulliver, an English surgeon, sets sail on expeditions to extr...
View BookAuthor: John Galsworthy
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Author John Galsworthy
Narrator Martin Jarvis
SeriesThe Forsyte Saga, Book 2
Duration 5h 9m
The second part of John Galsworthy's Forsyte Saga, chronicling the downfall of an upper middle class family in the turbulent period of social change at the end of the 19th and start of the 20th centuries. This book tells of the struggle between Soames and his beautiful wife Irene, who leaves him but cannot persuade him to grant a divorce. While Soa...
View BookThe Man of Property & Indian Summer of A Forsyte
Author: John Galsworthy
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Author John Galsworthy
Narrator Martin Jarvis
SeriesThe Forsyte Saga, Book 1
Duration 5h 12m
Soames Forsyte's great desire to own things even extends to his captivating wife, Irene. Jealous of her friendships with others, he concocts a plan to move her away to the countryside, where he might come to own her completely. Resisting his bitter intentions, she falls for architect Philip Bossiney, who is unfortunately engaged to her best friend...
View BookAuthor: Jane Austen
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Author Jane Austen
Narrator Helen Johns
Duration 47m
Helen Johns reads some fascinating early writings by Jane Austen from the fictionalised A Collection of Letters. A prolific letter writer herself, in this collection we see how the budding writer is experimenting, and starting to explore the medium as a literary convention.
View BookAuthor: Victor Hugo
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Author Victor Hugo
Narrator Andrew Sachs
Duration 2h 23m
Quasimodo is the lonely and deformed bell-ringer of Notre Dame in Paris, will there ever be anyone that can brighten his life and relieve his sorrowful isolation? Quasimodo, the hunchback, is bell-ringer at Notre Dame. One day, he notices a gipsy girl dancing in the square below, and desires to get to know her. Events transpire so that the two mee...
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