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Author: 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.
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Author Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrator Jasper Britton
Duration 6h 15m
Treasure Island must be the most enthralling adventure book ever written. As we listen to the voice of Jim Hawkins telling his extraordinary tale, and later that of his companion Dr Livesey, we are plunged into a world of pirates, buried treasure, mutiny and deceit. We meet Billy Bones, Blind Pew, Black Dog and, of course, the charming buccaneer Lo...
View BookAuthor: William Wordsworth
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Author William Wordsworth
Narrator Jasper Britton
Duration 1h 18m
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was born in Cockermouth, in the Lake District. His Lyrical Ballads, written in collaboration with Coleridge, was published in 1798, and shortly afterwards he settled in Dove Cottage, Grasmere, with his sister Dorothy. Inspired in his early manhood by the French Revolution, he grew disillusioned with revolutionary poli...
View BookSir Gawain and the Green Knight
Author: Benedict Flynn
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Author Benedict Flynn
Narrator Jasper Britton
Duration 2h 14m
A mysterious knight all in green arrives at King Arthur's court and issues a bizarre challenge. Gawain answers the knight - but at what cost? This new translation keeps all the poetic power of the original's extraordinary alliteration. In doing so it brings the saga to life, and in a manner that demands to be heard. One of the greatest stories of E...
View BookAuthor: Jonathan Swift
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Author Jonathan Swift
Narrator Jasper Britton
Duration 35h 15m
Lemuel Gulliver, a slightly staid ship's doctor, relates the tales of his astonishing travels. He encounters the tiny, warring Lilliputians; the giant, sceptical Brobdingnagians; the ludicrously intellectual Laputans; and the idealistic - if rather stolid - Houyhnhnms and their bestial servants, the Yahoos. An immediate best-seller when it was firs...
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