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Palliser Series Book 6: The Prime Minister
Author: Anthony Trollope
Series: Palliser Series, Book 6
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...
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Palliser Series Book 4: Phineas Redux
Author: Anthony Trollope
Series: Palliser Series, Book 4
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...
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Palliser Series Book 2: Phineas Finn
Author: Anthony Trollope
Series: Palliser Series, Book 2
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...
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Palliser Series Book 3: The Eustace Diamonds
Author: Anthony Trollope
Series: Palliser Series, Book 3
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...
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Palliser Series Book 6: The Duke's Children
Author: Anthony Trollope
Author Anthony Trollope
Narrator Simon Vance
Duration 19h 57m
The brilliant conclusion to the Palliser novels, this touching story follows the elderly Duke of Omnium, the former prime minister of England, as he struggles to overcome his grief at the loss of his beloved wife, Lady Glencora. To complicate matters, he must also deal with the willfulness of his three adult children as he tries to guide and suppor...
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Palliser Series Book 1: Can You Forgive Her?
Author: Anthony Trollope
Series: Palliser Series, Book 1
Author Anthony Trollope
Narrator Simon Vance
SeriesPalliser Series, Book 1
Duration 27h 34m
Can You Forgive Her? is the first of the six Palliser novels. Here Trollope examines parliamentary election and marriage, politics and privacy. As he dissects the Victorian upper class, issues and people shed their pretenses under his patient, ironic probe. Alice Vavasor cannot decide whether to marry her ambitious but violent cousin George or the...
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Author: Frank Herbert
Series: Dune, Book 5
Author Frank Herbert
Narrator Simon Vance
SeriesDune, Book 5
Duration 18h 4m
Heretics of Dune, the fifth installment in Frank Herbert's classic sci-fi series.On Arrakis, now called Rakis, known to legend as Dune, ten times ten centuries have passed. The planet is becoming desert again. The Lost Ones are returning home from the far reaches of space. The great sandworms are dying, and the Bene Gesserit and the Bene Tleil...
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Dune Book 4: God Emperor of June
Author: Frank Herbert
Series: Dune, Book 4
Author Frank Herbert
Narrator Simon Vance, Scott Brick, Katherine Kellgren
SeriesDune, Book 4
Duration 15h 48m
More than three thousand years have passed since the first events recorded in Frank Herbert's DUNE. Only one link survives with those tumultuous times: the grotesque figure of Leto Atreides, son of the prophet Paul Muad'Dib, and now the virtually immortal God Emperor of Dune. He alone understands the future, and he knows with a terrible certainty t...
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Author: Frank Herbert
Series: Dune, Book 3
Author Frank Herbert
Narrator Simon Vance, Scott Brick
SeriesDune, Book 3
Duration 16h 51m
Frank Herbert's bestselling science fiction series of all time continues! In this third installment, the sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who led the desert Fremen to political and religious domination of the galaxy, is gone. But for the children of Dune, the very blossoming of their land conta...
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Author: Gustave Flaubert
Author Gustave Flaubert
Narrator Simon Vance
Duration 11h 40m
Emma Bovary is a sensuous, sentimental young woman whose romantic ideals make her dissatisfied with her humdrum married life. Attempting to escape into an exciting world of passion and dreams, she drifts into sordid affairs with Rodolphe Boulanger and L‚on Dupuis. The first of these lovers, an older man, dominates the affair, while the second, inex...
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Ian Fleming: The Man Behind James Bond
Author: Andrew Lycett
Author Andrew Lycett
Narrator Simon Vance
Duration 21h 47m
Sportsman, womanizer, naval commander, world traveler, and spy, the creator of the Cold War's archetypal secret agent was infinitely more complex and interesting than his iconic fictional character, Agent 007. Fleming's wide ranging and exciting life inevitably provided the plausible backdrop for his Bond novels. Highly regarded in British naval in...
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Author: Hilary Mantel
Series: Thomas Cromwell Trilogy, Book 2
Author Hilary Mantel
Narrator Simon Vance
SeriesThomas Cromwell Trilogy, Book 2
Duration 14h 30m
Continuing what began in the Man Booker Prize-winning WOLF HALL, we return to the court of Henry VIII, to witness the irresistible rise of Thomas Cromwell as he contrives the destruction of Anne Boleyn. By 1535 Cromwell is Chief Minister to Henry, his fortunes having risen with those of Anne Boleyn. But the split from the Catholic Church has left E...
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Author: George Rr Martin
Author George Rr Martin
Narrator Simon Vance
Duration 26h 25m
Set 300 years before the events in A Song of Ice and Fire, Fire and Blood is the definitive history of the Targaryens in Westeros and chronicles the conquest that united the Seven Kingdoms under Targaryen rule through to the Dance of the Dragons: the Targaryen civil war that nearly ended their dynasty. Centuries before the events of A Game of Thron...
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Author: H.G. Wells
Author H.G. Wells
Narrator Simon Vance
Duration 5h 56m
The first modern tale of alien invasion, H. G. Wells's story of tentacled Martians attacking the Earth remains one of the most influential of all science fiction works. First published by H. G. Wells in 1898, The War of the Worlds is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice of a narrator intones, "...
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Author: Benjamin Hoff
Author Benjamin Hoff
Narrator Simon Vance
Duration 2h 46m
Winnie-the-Pooh has a certain Way about him, a way of doing things that has made him the world's most beloved bear. In The Tao of Pooh, Benjamin Hoff shows that Pooh's Way is amazingly consistent with the principles of living envisioned by the Chinese founders of Taoism. The author's explanation of Taoism through Pooh, and Pooh through Taoism, show...
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Author: Charles Dickens
Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Simon Vance
Duration 31h 21m
The most gorgeously theatrical of all Dickens's novels, Nicholas Nickleby follows the delightful adventures of a hearty young hero in nineteenth-century England. Nicholas, a gentleman's son fallen upon hard times, must set out to make his way in the world. His journey is accompanied by some of the most swaggering scoundrels and unforgettable eccent...
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