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Northanger Abbey
- By: Jane Austen
- Narrated by: Lynn Redgrave
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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This is Jane Austen's lighthearted lesson in what you get for reading too many gothic novels. It is a mark of the astonishing talent of the woman, however, that even a flippant swipe at the trashy reading of the day turned out to be an elegant if extremely funny classic. Catherine Morland is another one of those Austen girls who, in spite of her gloriously ironic portrait as a romantic heroine in training, ends up being someone whose story you'd follow to the end of the world, or at least until the end of the book.
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Northanger Abbey
- Narrated by: Lynn Redgrave
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 17-11-2015
- Language: English
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Plain Tales from the Hills
- By: Rudyard Kipling
- Narrated by: Tim Piggott-Smith
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Rudyard Kipling's short stories of life in the British Raj began in 1888 as journalistic snippets written to supplement his more serious factual output when he was employed as the assistant editor, at the meagre age of 20, of the Lahori-based Civil and Military Gazette.
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Kipling is relevant today
- By Richard on 01-08-2019
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Plain Tales from the Hills
- Narrated by: Tim Piggott-Smith
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 18-11-2015
- Language: English
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The Chronicles of Clovis
- By: H. H. Munro - Saki
- Narrated by: Ian Richardson
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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The Chronicles of Clovis, published in 1911, was the third in Saki (H. H. Munro)'s series of very funny and very vicious stories. As an insider, Saki was ideally poised to eviscerate the Edwardian middle class way of life, and his pitiless and magnetic sense of humour - teamed with an ability to wield that sharpest of writer's tools, the (very) short story - makes these some of the funniest and most quotable of tales. All of the running themes in Saki's work are here.
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The Chronicles of Clovis
- Narrated by: Ian Richardson
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 13-11-2015
- Language: English
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Three Men in a Boat
- To Say Nothing of the Dog
- By: Jerome K Jerome
- Narrated by: Nickolas Grace
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
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Three Men in a Boat was intended to be a serious travel guide. It failed dismally in this respect but succeeded in becoming an hilarious account of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The three men were based on the author and two of his friends. The holiday was a typical boating holiday of its time, carried out on what was known as a Thames camping skiff. The dog, Montmorency, however, was entirely fictional, but, as Jerome remarked, 'had much of me in it'.
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Three Men in a Boat
- To Say Nothing of the Dog
- Narrated by: Nickolas Grace
- Series: Three Men, Book 1
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 18-11-2015
- Language: English
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The Dupin Mysteries
- By: Edgar Allen Poe
- Narrated by: Bill Nighy
- Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
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The three tales that make up Edgar Allan Poe's The Dupin Mysteries introduce us to the cracking character of Chevalier Auguste Dupin. As a rationalist and practitioner of brilliant deduction, he was to become the template for most of the detective fiction that followed speedily in his wake. The first tale, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", details a form of murder solving that was to become only too familiar.
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The Dupin Mysteries
- Narrated by: Bill Nighy
- Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 13-11-2015
- Language: English
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Crispin Bonham-Carter
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
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The most personal of Oscar Wilde's works, The Picture of Dorian Grey was also one of the earliest. It was published in 1891 and caused immediate controversy and great notoriety for its writer. The story of an immensely beautiful and hedonistic boy whose conscience becomes separate from his body and housed in a portrait which slowly and hideously ages and decays in keeping with his increasing depravity whilst the boy himself remains untouched plays with all of Oscar Wilde's theories of art and life.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Narrated by: Crispin Bonham-Carter
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 18-11-2015
- Language: English
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The Card
- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: Stephen Thompkinson
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
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Written in 1911, The Card is the story of Edward Henry (Denry) Machin, who rises from washerwoman's son to the Mayor of Bursley (Burslem in the Potteries town of Stoke-on-Trent) via a mixture of gentle deceit and personal hype. He is literally a trickster of confidence. His rise to fame is begun at an exclusive ball to which he has got himself invited, where he has the audacity to claim a dance with the glamourous but imposing Countess of Chell.
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The Card
- Narrated by: Stephen Thompkinson
- Series: The Five Towns
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 13-11-2015
- Language: English
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Fairy Stories
- By: The Brothers Grimm
- Narrated by: Anna Massey
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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These fairy tales are nasty. This is the land of goblins and sorceresses, with serious lines in revenge, not the land of unicorns and once upon a Barbie. The tales that the Brothers Grimm collected during their time as linguistics professors, first at the University of Göttingen and then in Berlin, at the request of the King of Prussia, were an attempt to map the folklore of the German-speaking people.
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Fairy Stories
- Narrated by: Anna Massey
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 16-11-2015
- Language: English
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A Tale of Two Cities
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Andrew Sachs
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
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"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done...." With these words and a superb act of bravery and sacrifice, one of the most badly behaved heroes of all time ends Charles Dickens' great tale of the French Revolution. This is a firework display of a book, a crackling picture of the ravages and excesses of starving, furious men and the astonishing acts of heroism that usually accompany them.
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A Tale of Two Cities
- Narrated by: Andrew Sachs
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 02-11-2015
- Language: English
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The Real Thing and Other Stories
- By: Henry James
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
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Illusion and love - two of James' favourite things - grin thorough this collection of funny and wicked tales. The illusion of social class, a favourite stamping ground for James, is explored in the glittering social comedy "The Real Thing", first published in 1892, in which an artist attempts vainly to capture the nature of aristocracy via painting what he takes to be 'real' members of that social group.
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The Real Thing and Other Stories
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 18-11-2015
- Language: English
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Washington Square
- By: Henry James
- Narrated by: Jennifer Ehle
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
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The battle between a father and a daughter is usually portrayed in literature as a struggle between a headstrong but feisty girl and a tradition-bound lead weight of a father. Henry James, of course, had to do it somewhat differently. He tells a story of an intelligent man riding the turn of the tide in mid-19th-century New York and watching what he sees as his numbingly dull and conventional daughter making the mistake of her life in her choice of husband.
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Washington Square
- Narrated by: Jennifer Ehle
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 19-11-2015
- Language: English
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Joseph Andrews
- The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams
- By: Henry Fielding
- Narrated by: Rufus Sewell
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Riotous, sexy and groundbreaking, Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews: The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams, published in 1742, was one of the first English novels. Fielding was melding and parodying the two major forces battling for control of the fiction market at the time - the mock heroic, neoclassical tradition as practiced by Pope and Swift and the popular and populist fiction of the new novelists such as Defoe and Richardson.
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Joseph Andrews
- The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams
- Narrated by: Rufus Sewell
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 16-11-2015
- Language: English
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A Study in Scarlet
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Richard E. Grant
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
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In 1886 Arthur Conan Doyle, whilst struggling to make a success of a failing medical practice in Portsmouth, set about writing a novel in order to boost his income. He began a story about a fiercely intelligent sleuth called Sheridan Hope. A year later A Study in Scarlet was published, and one of the most successful of literary characters began to take hold of the public's affections.
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Strong start, weak overall plot
- By Michael H on 07-04-2019
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A Study in Scarlet
- Narrated by: Richard E. Grant
- Series: Sherlock Holmes, Book 1
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 02-11-2015
- Language: English
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In the Bleak Midwinter, Goblin Market and Other Poems
- By: Christina Rosetti
- Narrated by: Natascha McElhone
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
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A collection of Rosetti's most well known and loved poetry. Alongside the famous beauty of Rosetti's 'In the Bleak Midwinter', 'Goblin Market' is a deceptively simple poem. The story of two sisters and their temptation, punishment and redemption, written in Christina Rosetti's characteristically songlike poetry, is easily passed over as a fable or fairy story. But there are several layers more to discover in this most intriguing of poems.
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In the Bleak Midwinter, Goblin Market and Other Poems
- Narrated by: Natascha McElhone
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
- Release date: 16-11-2015
- Language: English
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The Water Babies
- By: Charles Kingsley
- Narrated by: Nicola McAuliffe
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
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There are very few children's stories that have raised as much outrage in grown-up politics as The Water Babies did when it first appeared in 1863. It was written by Charles Kingsley for his own little boy and shortly after he had been made tutor to the Prince of Wales.
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The Water Babies
- Narrated by: Nicola McAuliffe
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 19-11-2015
- Language: English
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The Man of Property
- By: John Galsworthy
- Narrated by: Michael Cochrane
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
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The Man of Property, the first in the long series of novels written by John Galsworthy known as the Forsyte Saga, was written in 1906. It was the second novel that Galsworthy had published under his own name, the four novels previous to this being published privately under the pseudonym John Sinjohn. And, unlike its predecessors, it was a great success. It examined and dissected the habits, manners, snobberies and increasingly suffocating moral code of the upper-middle classes to which he belonged.
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The Man of Property
- Narrated by: Michael Cochrane
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 17-11-2015
- Language: English
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Love Among the Haystacks and Other Stories
- By: D. H. Lawrence
- Narrated by: Geraldine James
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
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This is a selection of D. H. Lawrence’s short stories, mostly about women. Although much wider known for his novels and in particular for his forthright attitude to sex and its description in literature, it is for his short stories that Lawrence has most commonly gained critical acclaim. He was a beautiful creator of this most difficult of forms, giving us glimpses into the lives he describes in his stories, which often tell us more than full-length novels written by lesser hands.
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Love Among the Haystacks and Other Stories
- Narrated by: Geraldine James
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 17-11-2015
- Language: English
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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
- By: Tobias Smollett
- Narrated by: June Whitfield, Suzy Aitchison, Hywel Simons, and others
- Length: 17 hrs and 29 mins
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Written as the letters of the five members of Squire Bramble's household sent as they journey around Britain, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker is a grouchy, very funny examination of how one story varies depending on who's doing the telling. The tale is centered around the arrival of Mr. Clinker into the otherwise uneventful household, who never speaks and does not even enter the novel until a third of the way through.
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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
- Narrated by: June Whitfield, Suzy Aitchison, Hywel Simons, Ioen Meredith
- Length: 17 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 16-11-2015
- Language: English
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The Warden
- By: Anthony Trollope
- Narrated by: Edward Fox
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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Anthony Trollope’s The Warden was the first of Trollope’s hugely successful Barchester Chronicles, appearing in 1855 and reversing the rather unfortunate sales of his previous three novels. It concerns the story of Mr. Septimus Harding, Warden of Hiram's Hospital almshouses and Precentor of Barchester Cathedral.
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The Warden
- Narrated by: Edward Fox
- Series: Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 20-01-2016
- Language: English
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Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There
- By: Lewis Carroll
- Narrated by: Julia McKenzie
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
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This is the story of Alice's second visit to Wonderland, where again every idea Alice has of logic and reason is logically and rationally challenged by her adventures. From the classic Red Queen, with her manic racing to enable her to stay exactly where she is, to the highly meaningful nonsense of the Jabberwocky, Alice's trip through the looking glass has provided us with a host of now familiar but no less teasing puzzles which somehow manage to give us a whole new reflection on 'normal' life.
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Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There
- Narrated by: Julia McKenzie
- Series: Alice in Wonderland, Book 2
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 19-11-2015
- Language: English
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