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Author: Lord Byron
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Author Lord Byron
Narrator Jonathan Keeble
Duration 15h 18m
Lord Byron's satirical take on the legend of Don Juan is a moving and witty poem that sees the young hero in a reversal of roles. Juan sheds his image as a womanizer and instead becomes the victim of circumstance as he is relentlessly pursued by every woman he meets. Comprising seventeen cantos of rhyming iambic pentameter, the poem is a crisp and...
View BookAuthor: Leo Tolstoy
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Author Leo Tolstoy
Narrator Frederick Davidson
Duration 61h 6m
Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once a historical war epic, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit. Noted for its mastery of realistic detail and psychological analysis, it follows the metamorphosis of five aristocratic families against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Individual stories...
View BookAuthor: Edith Wharton
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Author Edith Wharton
Narrator Grace Conlin
Duration 2h 58m
This spare, mesmerizing novel is Edith Wharton's money-can't-buy-happiness tale. Young Stephen Glennard is poor, but he has an unanticipated gambling chip: a collection of love letters from a scorned but now famous lover, the distinguished novelist Margaret Aubyn. To raise money for his forthcoming wedding to another woman, Stephen stoops to sellin...
View BookAuthor: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Author Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Narrator Anthony Heald
Duration 20h 29m
One of the greatest works of fiction ever written, Crime and Punishment is at once an intense psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, and a fascinating detective thriller instilled with philosophical, religious, and social commentary. Dostoevsky studies the psychological impact upon a desperate and impoverished student when he murders a d...
View BookAuthor: Victor Hugo
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Author Victor Hugo
Narrator David Case
Duration 18h 56m
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, first published by Victor Hugo in 1831, is set in fifteenth century Paris. The archdeacon of Notre Dame, Claude Frollo, falls in lust with Esmerelda---a gypsy dancer who is much admired in Paris. At his instruction, Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bell-ringer of Notre Dame who he has befriended, kidnaps her. Esmerelda is res...
View BookAuthor: Daniel Defoe
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Author Daniel Defoe
Narrator Daniel Weyman
Duration 6h 29m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, read by Daniel Weyman. After surviving a terrible shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe discovers he is the only human on an island far from any shipping routes or rescue. At first he is devastated, but slowly, with patience and imagination, he transforms his island into a tropical par...
View BookAuthor: Kate Chopin
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Author Kate Chopin
Narrator Shelley Frasier
Duration 5h 5m
Edna Pontellier is married, twenty-eight, and at a crossroads in her life. She is passionate and artistic but has no one who understands her deep yearnings. She jumps at the chance to spend a summer away from her husband and the heat of New Orleans at a small coastal retreat. Enveloped by a small circle of friends, she begins to throw off the stric...
View BookAuthor: James Joyce
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Author James Joyce
Narrator Andrew Scott
Duration 8h 33m
Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Andrew Scott, star of Sherlock, Fleabag and Black Mirror, also known for his on-stage roles in Present Laughter and Hamlet. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Terence Brown. Joyce's first major work, written when he was only twenty-five, brought his city to the world...
View BookAuthor: Edith Wharton
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Author Edith Wharton
Narrator Harriet Walter
Duration 29m
In ''Atrophy,'' an unhappily married matron named Nora Fenway hears that her one-time clandestine lover, Christopher, is severely ill; she risks her reputation by going to visit him, but is turned away by his sanctimonious sister. A heartbreaking tale which emphasises the importance of human bonds but also examines the restraints we endure at the h...
View BookAuthor: P.L. Travers
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Author P.L. Travers
Narrator Olivia Coleman
Duration 3h 38m
Discover the joy and wonder of Mary Poppins in the classic adventures! Read by Olivia Colman, this stunning performance lifts P. L Travers's words off the page, transporting us back to a time where classic story telling is at the heart of any story. When the East Wind blows Mary Poppins into the home of the Banks children, their lives go topsy-turv...
View BookAuthor: Emile Zola
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Author Emile Zola
Narrator Leighton Pugh
Duration 19h 55m
Germinal is one of the most striking novels in the French tradition. Widely regarded as Zola's masterpiece, the novel describes the working conditions of French coalminers in the 1860s in harsh and realistic terms it is visceral, graphic and unrelenting. Its strong socialist principles and vivid accounts of the miners' strikes meant that the novel...
View BookAuthor: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Author Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 32m
Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Jessica Brown Findlay, Jamael Westman and Sheila Atim. 'The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing' Written with barely controlled fury after she was confined to her room for 'nerves' and forbidden to write, Gilman's pioneer...
View BookAuthor: Charlotte Bronte
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Author Charlotte Bronte
Narrator Charlotte Ritchie
Duration 21h 29m
Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Charlotte Ritchie, best known for her roles as Oregon in Channel 4's Fresh Meat, Hannah in the BBC Three comedy Siblings, and as Barbara Gilbert in BBC drama Call the Midwife. With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding sch...
View BookAuthor: Jerome K Jerome
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Author Jerome K Jerome
Narrator Blake Morrison
Duration 7h 33m
Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Blake Harrison, star of The Inbetweeners, also known for his role on screen in A Very English Scandal and Todd Margaret, as well as on London's West End in Waitress. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by David Carroll. Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. a...
View BookAuthor: Albert Camus
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Author Albert Camus
Narrator James Jenner
Duration 11h 2m
In the small coastal city of Oran, Algeria, rats begin rising up from the filth only to die as bloody heaps in the streets. Shortly after, an outbreak of the bubonic plague erupts and envelops the human population. Albert Camus' The Plague is a brilliant and haunting rendering of human perseverance and futility in the face of a relentless terror bo...
View BookAuthor: Emile Zola
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Author Emile Zola
Narrator Traci Svensgaard
Duration 6h 41m
In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Th‚rŠse Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. The numbing tedium of her life is suddenly shattered when she embarks on a turbulent affair with her husband's earthy friend, Laurent. But their passion for each other soon compels the lovers to commit a crime t...
View BookAuthor: George Eliot
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Author George Eliot
Narrator Miriam Margolyes
Duration 19h 20m
Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie Tulliver worships her brother Tom and is desperate to win the approval of her parents, but her passionate, wayward nature and her fierce intelligence bring her into constant conflict with her family. As she reaches adulthood, she finds herself torn between her relationships with three very different men: her prou...
View BookAuthor: D H Lawrence
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Author D H Lawrence
Narrator Paul Slack
Duration 16h 33m
Set in a small mining community in Nottinghamshire, this is the story of the Morels, a family beset with conflict. Gertrude, disillusioned with her inarticulate working class husband, pours her energies and aspirations into her son, Paul. Tensions develop when Paul falls in love and seeks to escape from his family ties. Lawrence powerfully describe...
View BookAuthor: Edith Wharton
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Author Edith Wharton
Narrator David Horovitch
Duration 12h
When the impulsive Countess Olenska returns into old New York society, following a separation from her husband, she stirs the educated sensitivity of Newland Archer, who is engaged to be married to May Welland, the Countess' cousin.
View BookAuthor: Rudyard Kipling
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Author Rudyard Kipling
Narrator Madhav Sharma
Duration 2h 57m
Orphan and vagabond, Kim, is caught up in the mysterious world of espionage as he travels through India with an old Buddhist priest. Kipling presents a vivid picture of India, its teeming populations, religions and superstitions, and the life of the bazaars and the road.
View BookAuthor: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Author Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrator David Buck
Duration 7h 15m
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.
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