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Classic Fiction Audios. Edith Nesbit's The
Railway Children, a classic children's fiction that is
great even for grwon-ups, or Daniel Defoe's
Robinson Crusoe are true jewels in the
literary world. Why not listen to George Eliot'
Scenes of Clerical Life or Jack
London's The Sea Wolf?
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“Nesbit’s vivid writing has a freshness that has
the potential to make this a pleasurable listening
experience for youngsters.”— School Library Journal
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The winsome Anne Shirley is grown, married, and
the mother of six frolicsome children. When the
Meredith family moves into a nearby mansion, the clever
and mischievous Meredith kids join Anne's chi...
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Protaganist Larry seeks spiritual recovery from
the pain of World War I.
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The story of an intense romance set in a
mysterious house in Cornwall.
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“A classic work of American literature.”— New
York Times
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Through Henry Fleming, Crane creates a great and
realistic study of an inexperienced soldier trapped in
the fury and turmoil of war and its horrors, both
within and without. This superb and excitin...
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Bored with farm life, and anxious for some
excitement, Henry Fleming sets off to join the Union
troops fighting the Civil War. An inexperienced
fighter, he is anxious to get into battle.
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This classic is a powerful portrayal of a youth's
impressions of battle. It is considered the greatest
novel of the Civil War.
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Based on Lewis Carroll’s classic book, join Alice
as she falls down the rabbit hole and meets all sorts
of whimsical characters.
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David Timson's award-winning series of the
Sherlock Holmes canon continues with the first in the
new series.
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No case is too slight for the mental powers of
the Great Detective, in this second selection from The
Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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The second Tarzan of The Apes novel
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First published in 1719, 'Robinson Crusoe' is the
story of an adventurous young man who ignores the sound
and sensible advice...
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Robinson Crusoe, the first English novel, was an
immediate success when first published in 1719, and has
been an internationally popular classic ever since.
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One of the first true novels in the English
language, is the famous adventure of a castaway and his
companion.
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Son of a middle-class Englishman, Robinson Crusoe
takes to the sea to find adventure. And find it he does
when on one of his voyages he is shipwrecked on a
deserted South American island for years.
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The book begins with the restless longings of
young Robinson Crusoe for travel and adventure and
climaxes with the ultimate fusion of man's
resourcefulness with the agents of nature. The
remarkably...
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The romantic story of Lucy Honeychurch set in
Italy and England is a cherished classic. Earphone
Award - AudioFile Magazine.
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Sheila Hancock stars in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast
dramatisation of E. M. Forster’s glorious tale of love
in Italy and England...
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Raphael Sabatini rescued the historical novel
from the literary dustbin. In his colorful work
Scaramouche, the hero is the attorney André-Louis. His
best friend, an activist, has been murdered by a...
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The classic American story of Hester Prynne,
accused of adultery, ostracized by her Puritan
community, and abandoned by both her lover and her
husband.
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A young woman gives birth to an illegitimate
child in seventeenth century New England and she must
endure public condemnation and the burden of a terrible
secret.
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A master of disguise saves countless aristocrats
from the guillotine.
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When Hester Prynne bears an illegitimate child
she is introduced to the ugliness, complexity, and
ultimately the strength...
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George Eliot's fiction debut work contains three
stories of the lives of clergymen, with the aim of
disclosing the value hidden in the commonplace. "The
Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton" portra...
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A sophisticated man is thrust into the dangerous
world of a sealing sailor
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One of the great tales of the sea, The Sea-Wolf
is in the tradition of Moby Dick, whilst Jack London
provides his own unique atmosphere and accurate
maritime detail.
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An actual event – a bomb attack on Greenwich
Observatory in 1894 – provided the inspiration for 'The
Secret Agent'. But Conrad...
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"One of Conrad's supreme masterpieces…one of the
unquestioned classics of the first order that he added
to the English novel"—F. R. Leavis
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A Secret Garden heals.
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These editions, especially dramatised for BBC
Radio, are of timeless tales that have enchanted
generations of readers both young and old. The wonder
and excitement of these much-loved tales lives on!
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In Sense and Sensibility, the first of Jane
Austen's novels to be published, Austen created a
brilliant tragicomedy of flirtation and folly. Genteel
dinner parties and romantic walks through luxuri...
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Elinor and Marianne struggle to cope with the
cruel events which fate has in store.
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She was sensible and clever; but eager in
everything: her sorrows, her joys, could have no
moderation...
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Here in one volume are seven great plays: Medea,
The Tempest, The Imaginary Invalid, Camille, An Enemy
of the People, Arms and the Man, and Uncle Vanya, all
under the direction of veteran producer ...
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A lesser known but heart warming Charles Dickens
Christmas story, set on Christmas Eve.
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Written at the start of World War I when his son
Borys was at the Western Front, The Shadow-Line is
Conrad’s effort to open man’s eyes to the meaning of
war through the story of a young, inexperienced sea
captain who crosses the “shadow-line” to adulthood.
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A gifted boy must save the children at his school
from an evil genius
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Full-Cast. Is it possible Holmes can be bested
... by a woman no less?
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Full-Cast. Holmes engages his arch enemy
Professor Moriarty in a deadly battle of wits
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In this most famous of mysteries, Sherlock Holmes
tackles the mystery of the demonic hound, the curse of
the Baskerville family. Audio Best of the Year -
Publishers Weekly.
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Full-Cast. Holmes and Watson investigate the
terrible doings at Stoke Moran manor
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Hector Munro, writing under the pseudonym of
Saki, is justly renowned for his urbane and witty short
stories. Saki leads the listener from garden party to
pig sty to political convention with the e...
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The second novel by Doyle about the exploits of
Sherlock Holmes.
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We are compelled to follow the humble and
mysterious figure of the linen weaver Silas Marner, on
his journey from solitude and exile to the warmth and
joy of family life.
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Silas Marner, wrongly accused of a heinous theft,
goes into reclusion, only to find redemption and
spiritual rebirth through his unselfish love for an
abandoned child.
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Falsely accused of theft and cast out by the
religious community of which he was a member, Silas
Marner leaves his home...
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Silas Marner's redemption and restoration
endorses the goodness in people...
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The Silmarillion tells of the First Age of
Tolkien’s world, the ancient drama to which the
characters in The Lord of the Rings so often...
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The Silmarillion tells of the First Age of
Tolkien’s world, the ancient drama to which the
characters in The Lord of the Rings...
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl are two
poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. Sir
Gawain is a romance, a fairy-tale for adults, full of
life but it is also much more than this.
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Dreiser transforms the conventional "fallen
woman" story into a genuinely original work of
imaginative fiction. He hurls his impressionable
eighteen-year-old heroine into the amoral world of the
bi...
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Set in Baden-Baden, Smoke is Turgenev's most
cosmopolitan novel. It is an exquisite study of
politics and society as well as an enduringly poignant
love story. Smoke, with its European setting and ...
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Sodom and Gomorrah - Cities of the Plain
addresses the subject of homosexual love with insight
and understanding.
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In Sodom and Gommorah (Cities of the Plain) Part
Two Marcel continues his voyage of discovery through
the homosexual world.
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Drawing on the history of his own family,
Pulitzer Prize winner Hamlin Garland chronicles the
experiences of a generation. A Son of the Middle
Border, Garland's bittersweet narrative of growing up
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A rare pearl is fought over during a hurricane on
a South Sea island. A zealous missionary sets out to
spread the Gospel in a land of cannibals. The son of a
Polynesian chief becomes the slave of a...
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Both a cracking tale of horror and a deeply
audacious account of the human psyche.
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Holmes displays his powers to solve 'the scarlet
thread of murder running through the colourless skein
of life.'
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This is Edith Wharton's most erotic and lyrical
novel. Set in New England, Summer explores a woman's
awakening to her sexual needs. The book's heroine is
ignorant of desire until she meets Lucius H...
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The Sun Also Rises is one of Ernest Hemingway's
masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but
powerful style.
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Swann in Love is the continuation of Swann's Way.
the first part of Marcel Proust' s monumental cycle
Remembrance of Things Past.
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"I raised to my lips a spoonful of the tea in
which I had soaked a morsel of the cake. No sooner had
the warm liquid..."
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Swann's Way forms the first part of Marcel
Proust's magnificent autobiographical cycle Remembrance
of Things Past.
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The doctor has just been released, demented, when
the story opens. He is brought to England where he
gradually recovers his health and his sanity.
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This captivating tale, set in London and Paris at
the time of the French Revolution, uses the contrasts
between the cities' "beliefs" to reveal the central
choice confronting all of society: should...
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A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens' only historical
novel.
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This travelogue of Spain's Granada and the
Alhambra depicts secret chambers, desperate battles,
imprisoned princesses, palace ghosts, and fragrant
gardens, described in a dreamlike eloquence that w...
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Tarzan is discovered living with apes and brought
out of the jungle to civilization
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“ Tess of the D’Urbervilles ranks as one of
Hardy’s finest achievements….”— Masterpieces of World
Literature
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A moving and unforgettable classic.
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Tess, the young and lovely heroine of Hardy's
classic tale, knows instinctively that the path she is
choosing is the wrong one...
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Theatre Royal: In this episode from the series,
Ralph Richardson stars in a fully dramatised adaptation
of the famous Private Rooms classic by J.B.Priestley...
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First broadcast as an half-hour radio programme
in the 1950's, this performance captures the marvellous
theatrical style of post-war radio before the advent of
television and offers the experience...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God, an American
classic, is the luminous and haunting novel about Janie
Crawford, a Southern Black woman in the 1930s.
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Story of a young man whose life closely resembles
that of the famous author
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There is a love affair, a duel, and a climactic
courtroom scene, just as in Puddnhead Wilson, but in
this book it's all for laughs.
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Here is one of the greatest English comic novels
read by incontrovertible King of English comic
audiobook readers - Martin Jarvis. Jerome's delightful
novel paints a vivid picture of innocent fun.
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In The Three Musketeers, one of the greatest
adventure stories ever written, we follow the fortunes
of the dashing young swordsman D'Artagnan and his
daredevil companions Athos, Aramis and Porthos.
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The young and headstrong D'Artagnan, having
proven his bravery by dueling with each, becomes a
friend of Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, members of the
King's Musketeers.
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When a time traveler seeks a better world 802,000
years in the future, his optimism is shaken when he
discovers that the human race has turned upon itself in
a primal display of horror.
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Lost in the blacked-out streets of Paris during
the First World War Marcel stumbles into a brothel and
accidentally witnesses a shocking scene involving the
Baron de Charlus.
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The Titan is the second volume in what the author
called his “trilogy of desire,” featuring the character
of Frank Cowperwood, a powerful, irresistibly
compelling man.
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"To Build a Fire" is the best known of all
London's stories. It tells the story of a new arrival
to the Klondike who stubbornly ignores warnings about
the folly of travelling alone.
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Harshly realistic, yet with one of the most
subtle and moving relationships in the Hemingway
oeuvre, To Have and Have Not is literary high adventure
at its finest.
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To The Lighthouse is Virginia Woolf's most
accomplished novel, and her most autobiographical.
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Filled with high adventure, spectacular battle
sequences, thousands of sound effects, and an exciting
music score, CRT's dramatization of King Solomon's
Mines is a colossal feast for the ears.
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The timeless adventure classic of young Jim
Hawkins and Captain Flint's treasure.
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When noted English writer William Somerset
Maugham set off for the South Seas to regain his
health, he gathered the materials and wrote the stories
represented here. These are among Maugham's best, and
the best stories ever written about the exotic South
Seas.
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Tristram Shandy is an ironic masterpiece, a work
of extraordinary originality and wit.
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Both revealing self-portrait and dramatic
fictional chronicle of his final African safari, Ernest
Hemingway's last unpublished work was written when he
returned from Kenya in 1953.
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The Turn of the Screw creates a terrifyingly
believable impression of innocent children so corrupted
by evil that they remain deceptive pictures of innocent
beauty.
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In this sequel to The Three Musketeers , Dumas
brings his immortal quartet out of retirement to cross
swords with time, the malevolence of men, and the
forces of history.
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Ulysses is one of the greatest literary works in
the English language.
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Ulysses is regarded by many as the single most
important novel of the 20th century. It tells the story
of one day in Dublin, 16 June 1904.
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Published in 1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin brought the
abolitionists' message to the public conscience - no
woman before or since has so moved America to take
action against an injustice.
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This intensely dramatic and moving novel has
remained a best-selling classic since it was first
published in 1852.
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Published in 1852, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' was an
immediate success, was influential in securing the
abolition of slavery...
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In the people and the towns of Wessex, the soul
of England is revealed with a keenness of understanding
and a vividness of style that is unequaled in fiction.
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Utopia is the name given by Sir Thomas More to an
imaginary island of idyllic happiness in this political
work written in 1516.
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Set against the background of the Napoleonic
wars, 'Vanity Fair ' follows the contrasting fortunes
of two young women...
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An unforgettable classic by W. M. Thackeray.
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Becky Sharp is socially ambitious. Amelia Sedley
is trusting and unworldly. Thackeray’s masterpiece
traces the interweaving destinies of these two heroines
during the period of Waterloo and its aftermath.
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“Alternately melodramatic, sentimental, humorous,
wordly, and almost always absorbing.”— Irish Times
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Victory was the last of Conrad's novels to be set
in the Malay Archipelago. It tells the story of Axel
Heyst, who has retreated from...
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In a village there are no secrets. As head of
Fairacre's two-class school, Miss Read's every deed is
subject for speculation, and she is inevitably involved
in most of her neighbours' concerns...
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War and Peace is one of the greatest monuments in
world literature.
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The setting is New York City. The plot centers
upon an heiress, Catherine Sloper, favored by neither
beauty nor brilliance; her proud and pitiless father,
Doctor Sloper; and her fortune-hunting suitor, Morris
Townsend.
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The Waves traces the lives of six friends from
childhood to old age.
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Born in the wild, the wolf-dog White Fang quickly
learns the law of nature: eat or be eaten.
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In Part Two of Within a Budding Grove, young
Marcel falls under the spell of an enchanting group of
adolescent girls.
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“Howard ably adapts his tone, pace and insight to
convey the intricacies of Conrad's splendid fiction and
deep characters.”— AudioFile
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A full-cast dramatisation of the classic tale of
Dorothy and Toto's adventures in Oz, starring Maureen
Lipman as the Wicked Witch of the West...
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A new Radio 4 Classic Serial dramatisation of one
of the most popular and influential books of the 19th
Century...
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Grace Melbury, the only daughter of a
timber-merchant, arrives home in Little Hintock after
an expensive education and her father...
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The story of the passionate relationship between
Cathy Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff.
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A full-cast dramatisation of this dark, brooding
tale of love and revenge on the Yorkshire moors.
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The saga of two Yorkshire families in the remote
Pennine Hills. The story has been interpreted as an
historical romance...
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A classic of immense power, outlining the violent
result of thwarted passion.
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