The Cities Classics Collection: London, Paris, New York allows you to step into the vibrant streets of three of the world’s most iconic cities through a carefully curated collection of literary masterpieces. From the foggy alleys of London to the grand boulevards of Paris, and the buzzing avenues of New York, these stories bring to life the essence of urban life, capturing the triumphs, tragedies, and timeless experiences of the people who shaped these cities.

From the haunting streets of London in 1984 to the dazzling lights of New York in The Beautiful and Damned, and into rebellious nineteenth-century Paris, this collection is a literary journey through the heart of three iconic metropolises.

The titles included in this collection, in order of appearance, are:

London:

• by George Orwell (read by Hugh Kermode)
• Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell (read by Jonathan Keeble)
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (read by David Rintoul)
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (read by Miranda Raison)
• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (read by Rachel Atkins)
• Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (read by Jonathan Keeble)
• Street Haunting: A London Adventure by Virginia Woolf (read by Karen Cass)
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (short stories) by Arthur Conan Doyle (read by Jonathan Keeble)
• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (read by Lucy Scott)

Paris:

• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (read by Miriam Margolyes)
• by Colette (read by Emma Gregory)
• Madmae Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert (read by Georgina Sutton)
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (read by David Rintoul)

New York:

• Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos (read by Nathan Osgood)