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Mythos
- By: Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,399
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,210
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,202
The Greek myths are amongst the greatest stories ever told, passed down through millennia and inspiring writers and artists as varied as Shakespeare, Michelangelo, James Joyce....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superb!
- By Anonymous User on 14-11-2017
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- The Fellowship of the Ring
- By: J. R. R. Tolkien
- Narrated by: Rob Inglis
- Length: 19 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,008
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 924
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Story5 out of 5 stars 919
In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not the right narrator
- By Hannah on 22-12-2017
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Heroes
- Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures
- By: Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 15 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 458
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 426
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Story5 out of 5 stars 424
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Heroes, written and read by Stephen Fry. There are heroes - and then there are Greek heroes....
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5 out of 5 stars
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amazing from start to end!
- By Anonymous User on 27-11-2018
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To Kill a Mockingbird
- By: Harper Lee
- Narrated by: Sissy Spacek
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 847
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 784
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 776
Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the '30s....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Transported to the wold of Scout and Jem.
- By Frances on 18-05-2015
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Mythos
- By: Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,399
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,210
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,202
The Greek myths are amongst the greatest stories ever told, passed down through millennia and inspiring writers and artists as varied as Shakespeare, Michelangelo, James Joyce....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superb!
- By Anonymous User on 14-11-2017
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- The Fellowship of the Ring
- By: J. R. R. Tolkien
- Narrated by: Rob Inglis
- Length: 19 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,008
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 924
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Story5 out of 5 stars 919
In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not the right narrator
- By Hannah on 22-12-2017
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Heroes
- Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures
- By: Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 15 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 458
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 426
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Story5 out of 5 stars 424
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Heroes, written and read by Stephen Fry. There are heroes - and then there are Greek heroes....
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5 out of 5 stars
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amazing from start to end!
- By Anonymous User on 27-11-2018
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To Kill a Mockingbird
- By: Harper Lee
- Narrated by: Sissy Spacek
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 847
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 784
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 776
Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the '30s....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Transported to the wold of Scout and Jem.
- By Frances on 18-05-2015
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The Two Towers
- The Lord of the Rings, Book 2
- By: J. R. R. Tolkien
- Narrated by: Rob Inglis
- Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 602
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 552
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Story5 out of 5 stars 550
Frodo and the Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord....
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5 out of 5 stars
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very engaging
- By Gerowyn on 16-07-2018
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Nicholas Nickleby
- The Dickens Collection: Original Audio Show
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Length: 36 hrs and 20 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
When 19-year old Nicholas Nickleby is left destitute after his father's death, he appeals to his wealthy uncle to help him find work and to protect his mother and sister....
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3 out of 5 stars
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The original soap opera
- By thereadaholic on 14-12-2018
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Pride and Prejudice
- By: Jane Austen
- Narrated by: Rosamund Pike
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 504
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 462
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Story5 out of 5 stars 460
One of Jane Austen’s most beloved works, Pride and Prejudice, is vividly brought to life by Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl)....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful reading of a gorgeous book
- By Belinda on 23-08-2016
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The Return of the King
- The Lord of the Rings, Book 3
- By: J. R. R. Tolkien
- Narrated by: Rob Inglis
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 554
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 508
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Story5 out of 5 stars 507
The armies of the Dark Lord Sauron are massing as his evil shadow spreads ever wider. Men, Dwarves, Elves and Ents unite forces to do battle agains the Dark....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Lacks the appendices
- By Jim on 05-09-2017
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Fahrenheit 451
- By: Ray Bradbury
- Narrated by: Tim Robbins
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 345
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 322
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 320
Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of 20th-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future, narrated here by Academy Award-winning actor Tim Robbins....
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5 out of 5 stars
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buy this
- By Nafees on 02-03-2016
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Brave New World
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrated by: Michael York
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 459
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 418
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 416
On the 75th anniversary of its publication, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Worth revisiting
- By Nienke Lucas on 17-07-2015
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The Jane Austen BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Six BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisations
- By: Jane Austen
- Narrated by: David Tennant, Benedict Cumberbatch, Julie McKenzie
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 150
A collection of BBC radio full-cast dramatisations of Jane Austen's six major novels....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Abridged, but well done.
- By Dean Spilias on 04-07-2016
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The Great Gatsby
- By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Narrated by: Jake Gyllenhaal
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 275
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 251
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 252
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic American novel of the Roaring Twenties is beloved by generations of readers and stands as his crowning work....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyable & a reminder of a well spoken novel
- By Adam on 26-04-2015
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Crime and Punishment
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrated by: Constantine Gregory
- Length: 22 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 87
A century after it first appeared, Crime and Punishment remains one of the most gripping psychological thrillers....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Remarkable!
- By Anonymous User on 12-07-2017
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Catch 22
- By: Joseph Heller
- Narrated by: Trevor White
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 209
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 193
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 192
At the heart of Joseph Heller's best-selling novel, first published in 1961, is a satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant!
- By Stuart on 15-02-2015
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Dracula [Audible Edition]
- By: Bram Stoker
- Narrated by: Alan Cumming, Tim Curry, Simon Vance, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 274
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 253
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 252
By returning to Stoker's original storytelling structure with an all-star cast of narrators, we've sought to recapture its originally intended horror and power.....
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4 out of 5 stars
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All Star Cast Not So Great
- By Rebecca on 03-08-2015
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: The Chronicles of Narnia
- By: C.S. Lewis
- Narrated by: Michael York
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 113
Lucy has stumbled upon a marvellous land of fauns and centaurs, nymphs and talking animals....
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4 out of 5 stars
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timeless
- By Henry on 29-05-2015
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The Brothers Karamazov [Naxos AudioBooks Edition]
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett - translator
- Narrated by: Constantine Gregory
- Length: 37 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 78
Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a titanic figure among the world's great authors, and The Brothers Karamazov is often hailed as his finest novel....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- By David on 26-05-2015
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The Haunting of Hill House
- By: Shirley Jackson
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 74
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 72
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 70
Past the rusted gates and untrimmed hedges, Hill House broods and waits….
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3 out of 5 stars
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Scary?
- By JD on 28-06-2017
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Frankenstein
- By: Mary Shelley
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 145
Narrator Dan Stevens ( Downton Abbey) presents an uncanny performance of Mary Shelley's timeless gothic novel, an epic battle between man and monster at its greatest literary pitch....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Wonderful Rendition
- By Sarah on 05-01-2019
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Don Quixote
- By: Miguel de Cervantes, John Ormsby (translated by)
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 36 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 64
The most influential work of the entire Spanish literary canon and a founding work of modern Western literature, Don Quixote is also one of the greatest works ever written....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very well Narated
- By Alexander on 08-06-2016
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Autobiography of a Yogi
- By: Paramahansa Yogananda
- Narrated by: Ben Kingsley
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 133
When Autobiography of a Yogi first appeared in 1946, it was acclaimed as a landmark work in its field....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superb Insight Into Indian Life and Spirituality
- By meredith on 29-06-2015
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Meditations
- By: Marcus Aurelius, George Long - translator, Duncan Steen - translator
- Narrated by: Duncan Steen
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 236
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 200
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 194
One of the most significant books ever written by a head of State, the Meditations are a collection of philosophical thoughts by the Emperor Marcus Aurelius....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great introduction to Philosophy
- By C. R. Grice on 25-03-2017
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Middlemarch
- By: George Eliot
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 35 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 115
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 114
Dorothea Brooke is an ardent idealist who represses her vivacity and intelligence for the cold, theological pedant Casaubon....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Masterpiece and superbly read.
- By Allie C on 31-01-2017
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Anne of Green Gables
- By: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Narrated by: Rachel McAdams
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 207
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 197
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Story5 out of 5 stars 196
When an aging brother and sister adopt an orphan boy to help with chores around their farm, neither is prepared for the feisty and imaginative redheaded girl who is mistakenly brought to them....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely divine
- By Laurel on 14-12-2016
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Animal Farm
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Simon Callow
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 354
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 321
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 320
Animal Farm is George Orwell's great socio-political allegory set in a farmyard....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book
- By Marina on 15-06-2016
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The Wealth of Nations
- By: Adam Smith
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 36 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 10
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Story4 out of 5 stars 10
The foundation for all modern economic thought and political economy, The Wealth of Nations is the magnum opus of Scottish economist Adam Smith, who introduces the world to the very idea of economics and capitalism....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Classic underlying
- By Kindle Customer on 19-04-2018
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Dramatised)
- By: Robert M. Pirsig
- Narrated by: James Purefoy
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 81
James Purefoy stars in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Robert M. Pirsig's multi-million best-selling philosophical novel....
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is immersive.
- By Alice on 11-09-2015
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The Interpretation of Dreams
- By: Sigmund Freud
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 21 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 2
First published by Sigmund Freud in 1899, The Interpretation of Dreams considers why we dream and what it means in the larger picture of our psychological lives....
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Prince Caspian: The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2
- By: C.S. Lewis
- Narrated by: Lynn Redgrave
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 38
Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy are sitting on a station platform when they sense the magic beginning again....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Loved it!!
- By Naomi on 27-12-2016
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Anna Karenina
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Maggie Gyllenhaal
- Length: 35 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 162
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 153
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 154
Leo Tolstoy's classic story of doomed love is one of the most admired novels in world literature....
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best way to experience Anna Karenina
- By Brookethechicken on 11-10-2016
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The Iliad
- By: Homer, Robert Fagles - translator
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi, Maria Tucci
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
In this brilliant translation, Robert Fagles brings the vigor of contemporary language to Homer's 2,700-year-old tale....
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1 out of 5 stars
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many many pages missing in audiobook
- By Anonymous User on 07-12-2018
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The Horse and His Boy: The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 5
- By: C.S. Lewis
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 46
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story5 out of 5 stars 44
Desperate to escape a harsh and narrow regime, two runaways unwittingly flee headlong into the centre of a terrible battle....
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Notes from the Underground
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrated by: Brian Kelly
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story5 out of 5 stars 6
Dostoevsky's most revolutionary novel, "Notes from Underground" marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction...
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brutally exquisite!
- By Robert Stockton on 25-11-2018
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The Art of War [Blackstone Version]
- By: Sun-Tzu, translation by John Minford
- Narrated by: Lorna Raver, Ray Porter
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 25
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 20
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Story4 out of 5 stars 20
For more than two thousand years, The Art of War has stood as a cornerstone of Chinese culture, a lucid epigrammatic text that reveals....
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4 out of 5 stars
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old time fav
- By Krystal on 08-03-2018
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Sense and Sensibility
- By: Jane Austen
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 75
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 72
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 72
Mrs. Dashwood is forced by an avaricious daughter-in-law to leave the family home in Sussex....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful.
- By Ford Krieger on 25-10-2016
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Of Mice and Men
- By: John Steinbeck
- Narrated by: Clarke Peters
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 120
Streetwise George and his big, childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A masterclass in story-telling
- By Danelle Kenny on 05-10-2014
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
- By: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Narrated by: Christianne Lupher, Miranda Hodges, Maureen Boutilier, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Young Cedric lives with his widowed mother in New York. His late father was a British earl who had been disowned by his father for marrying an American. As all of the earl of Dorincourt's sons have now died, he begrudgingly looks to Cedric as his sole heir. While the earl soon comes to love the endearing little Cedric, conflict arises when a strange woman appears on the scene and insists that her son is the true heir.
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The Poetry of Adelaide Anne Proctor
- By: Adelaide Anne Proctor
- Narrated by: Jake Urry, Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
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Adelaide Anne Procter was born on 30th October, 1825 at 25 Bedford Square in the Bloomsbury district of London. Her literary career began whilst still a teenager. Many of her poems were published by the great Charles Dickens in his periodicals Household Words and All the Year Round before being later published in book form.
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Iago
- The Strategies of Evil
- By: Harold Bloom
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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In all of literature, few antagonists have displayed the ruthless cunning and unscrupulous deceit of Iago, the antagonist to Othello. Often described as Machiavellian, Iago is a fascinating psychological specimen: at once a shrewd expert of the human mind and yet, himself a deeply troubled man.
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A Little Cloud
- By: James Joyce
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 34 mins
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'A Little Cloud' is a brilliant and evocative short story from Joyce's collection Dubliners comparing the lives of those who escaped Ireland and travelled around Europe compared to the quiet, dull existence of those who remain at home. Thomas Chandler meets an old friend, Ignatius Gallaher, for a drink. Gallaher has made a name for himself in London and has been as far as Paris and Berlin. Chandler's life by comparison is unfulfilled. His job is boring, his marriage loveless and his soul weary.
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The Perfect Close
- By: Hugh Walpole
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist, famous for his skill at scene setting and vivid plots. He was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s and remains popular to this day. 'The Perfect Close' is the story of a 79-year-old man who realises one day that he is about to die. Seeing that he has only an hour or so left to live, he must decide how to spend his final moments. We accompany him on the last minutes of his life as he achieves his last couple of surprising but highly satisfying victories.
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The Cockney Novelists - A Short Story Volume
- By: Arthur Morrison, Edwin Pugh
- Narrated by: Jake Urry, Richard Mitchley
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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The Cockney Novelists flourished towards the end of the 19th century and spilled over into the next. They included Arthur Morrison, Edwin Pugh, William Pett Ridge and Clarence Rook. Authors being authors, they, of course, dealt with their subject matter in different ways. As a group they moved away from treating the London working classes as comedy cameos or social stereotypes.
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
- By: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Narrated by: Christianne Lupher, Miranda Hodges, Maureen Boutilier, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Young Cedric lives with his widowed mother in New York. His late father was a British earl who had been disowned by his father for marrying an American. As all of the earl of Dorincourt's sons have now died, he begrudgingly looks to Cedric as his sole heir. While the earl soon comes to love the endearing little Cedric, conflict arises when a strange woman appears on the scene and insists that her son is the true heir.
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The Poetry of Adelaide Anne Proctor
- By: Adelaide Anne Proctor
- Narrated by: Jake Urry, Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
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Adelaide Anne Procter was born on 30th October, 1825 at 25 Bedford Square in the Bloomsbury district of London. Her literary career began whilst still a teenager. Many of her poems were published by the great Charles Dickens in his periodicals Household Words and All the Year Round before being later published in book form.
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Iago
- The Strategies of Evil
- By: Harold Bloom
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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In all of literature, few antagonists have displayed the ruthless cunning and unscrupulous deceit of Iago, the antagonist to Othello. Often described as Machiavellian, Iago is a fascinating psychological specimen: at once a shrewd expert of the human mind and yet, himself a deeply troubled man.
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A Little Cloud
- By: James Joyce
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 34 mins
- Unabridged
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'A Little Cloud' is a brilliant and evocative short story from Joyce's collection Dubliners comparing the lives of those who escaped Ireland and travelled around Europe compared to the quiet, dull existence of those who remain at home. Thomas Chandler meets an old friend, Ignatius Gallaher, for a drink. Gallaher has made a name for himself in London and has been as far as Paris and Berlin. Chandler's life by comparison is unfulfilled. His job is boring, his marriage loveless and his soul weary.
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The Perfect Close
- By: Hugh Walpole
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist, famous for his skill at scene setting and vivid plots. He was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s and remains popular to this day. 'The Perfect Close' is the story of a 79-year-old man who realises one day that he is about to die. Seeing that he has only an hour or so left to live, he must decide how to spend his final moments. We accompany him on the last minutes of his life as he achieves his last couple of surprising but highly satisfying victories.
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The Cockney Novelists - A Short Story Volume
- By: Arthur Morrison, Edwin Pugh
- Narrated by: Jake Urry, Richard Mitchley
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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The Cockney Novelists flourished towards the end of the 19th century and spilled over into the next. They included Arthur Morrison, Edwin Pugh, William Pett Ridge and Clarence Rook. Authors being authors, they, of course, dealt with their subject matter in different ways. As a group they moved away from treating the London working classes as comedy cameos or social stereotypes.
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Miss Avenal
- By: W. F. Harvey
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 22 mins
- Unabridged
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'Miss Avenal' is a creepy story in the classic Victorian vampire genre. An invalid, Miss Avenal, engages a trained nurse to look after her while she recuperates in a remote moorland house somewhere in the north of England. But as Miss Avenal recovers her strength, the young nurse feels her own health start to ebb away.
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Black Beauty
- By: Anna Sewell
- Narrated by: Linda Barrans
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Sometimes he came round and patted me, saying in his quiet, pleasant way, "This horse has got a good master, and he deserves it." It was a very rare thing for any one to notice the horse that had been working for him. I have known ladies to do it now and then, and this gentleman, and one or two others have given me a pat and a kind word; but 99 persons out of 100 would as soon think of patting the steam engine that drew the train. This is the heart-warming story of Black Beauty, his masters, and his friends.
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes
- By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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The 13 mysteries in this collection were originally published in The Strand Magazine and Collier's in Great Britain and the United States. Published in 1905, this book was the first Holmes collection since 1893, when Holmes died in a confrontation with his arch-nemesis Professor Moriarty in "The Final Problem". The success of The Hound of the Baskervilles, which was published in 1901-1902 and is set before Holmes's death, created great pressure on Doyle to revive his famous character.
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A Study in Scarlet
- By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought together by a mutual friend, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson discover that they have much more in common than the fact that they're roommates. As Watson begins assisting Sherlock with his work as a consulting detective, he notices that Sherlock has an uncanny ability to assemble deductions based on seemingly minor details.
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The Poetry of Flowers
- By: DH Lawrence, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Rabindranath Tagore
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Shyama Perera, Jo Wyatt
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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The vast varieties of flowers that exist provide an exceptional burst of vivid and subtle shades of colours, inspiring a smooth transition from petal to paper for so many of our greatest poets including Wordsworth, Tennyson, Burns, Swinburne and Coleridge....
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Dawn of the Morning
- By: Grace Livingston Hill
- Narrated by: Paula Faye Leinweber
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Dawnn of the Morning is the story of a young woman coming of age in the early 1800s. Having never known a loving home, she is sent away to school by her hard and unfeeling father and stepmother, and a marriage is arranged for her to a man she dislikes and fears.
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Victorian Poetry - Volume 3
- By: Alice Meynell, William Makepeace Thackeray, Augusta Davies Webster
- Narrated by: Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Victoria’s reign was long and presided over the restless expansion of the British Empire and reams of creative genius. Within these volumes we can bring only a glimpse of the richness, beauty and words of the poets and their musings on this remarkable age. Many are world-renowned - Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Kipling, Austin, Hopkins, Hardy and Swinburne. Some are almost forgotten - Patmore, Newbolt, Synge. And some are barely noted - Lyall, Meynell and Merdeith. But together they encompass a great poetical age.
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The Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
- By: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Shelley is one of the most revered figures in the English poetical landscape. Born on the 4th August 1792 he has, over the years, become rightly regarded as a major Romantic poet. Yet during his own lifetime little of his work was published. Publishers feared his radical views and possible charges against themselves for blasphemy and sedition. In this collection Shelley’s words are alive with intent, meaning and emotion. A true poet for all our ages.
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The Poet Laureates - Volume 2
- By: William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Alfred Austin
- Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker, Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The office of Poet Laureate is a high honour amongst poets. The ancient Greeks had the first idea, and their heroes and poets wore wreaths of laurel in honour of the god Apollo. Many countries now have a laureate, as do many societies and organisations. But perhaps ranked first among them all is that of our own Poet Laureate. Unfortunately no single authentic definitive record exists of the office of Poet Laureate of England. In some form it can be traced back to 1189 and Richard Canonicus, who was employed by Richard I with the title 'versificator Regis'.
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The Poet Laureates - Volume 1
- By: Ben Jonson, John Skelton, Edmund Spenser
- Narrated by: Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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The office of Poet Laureate is a high honour amongst poets. The ancient Greeks had the first idea, and their heroes and poets wore wreaths of laurel in honour of the god Apollo. Many countries now have a laureate, as do many societies and organisations. But perhaps ranked first among them all is that of our own Poet Laureate. Unfortunately no single authentic definitive record exists of the office of Poet Laureate of England. In some form it can be traced back to 1189 and Richard Canonicus, who was employed by Richard I with the title 'versificator Regis'.
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Victorian Poetry - Volume 2
- By: Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Edward Lear
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Victoria’s reign was long and presided over the restless expansion of the British Empire and reams of creative genius. Within these volumes we can bring only a glimpse of the richness, beauty and words of the poets and their musings on this remarkable age. Many are world-renowned - Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Kipling, Austin, Hopkins, Hardy and Swinburne. Some are almost forgotten - Patmore, Newbolt, Synge. And some are barely noted - Lyall, Meynell and Merdeith. But together they encompass a great poetical age.
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Walden
- By: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrated by: John York
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Walden is a work by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and to some degree a manual for self-reliance. First published in 1854, Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond amid woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts.