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Washington Square
- Written 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: 2015-11-19
- Language: English
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The Snow Queen and Other Fairy Stories
- Written by: Hans Christian Andersen
- Narrated by: Greta Scacchi
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
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Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales have become so much a part of the Western culture that they are often assumed to be a part of folklore and not credited to the strange and gangling Dane who wrote them. Several years before the fairy tales came out, the Brothers Grimm had published their tales taken from the folklore of European stories, but Andersen was to change the understanding of what a tale can achieve.
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The Snow Queen and Other Fairy Stories
- Narrated by: Greta Scacchi
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 2015-11-18
- Language: English
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The Diary of a Nobody
- Written by: George Grossmith
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Palmer
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
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Written as the diary of someone who would not normally merit a memoir but considers that he should have one written about him anyway, The Diary of a Nobody chronicles in agonizing but very funny detail everyday life in the lower middle class suburbs of Victorian England and the attempts of a social climber to better himself. It was published in 1892. First published in the satirical magazine Punch as a serial between 1888 and 1889, with illustrations by the author’s brother, Weedon.
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The Diary of a Nobody
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Palmer
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 2015-11-13
- Language: English
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The Dupin Mysteries
- Written 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: 2015-11-13
- Language: English
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A Tale of Two Cities
- Written 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: 2015-11-02
- Language: English
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A Christmas Carol
- Written by: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: George Cole
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
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Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without A Christmas Carol. At the time Dickens was writing it, many of the time-honoured customs linked with Christmas were beginning to disappear. It is largely due to this book that we carry with us much of the imagery that is now associated with the traditional celebration and spirit of Christmas.
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A Christmas Carol
- Narrated by: George Cole
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 2015-11-02
- Language: English
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In the Bleak Midwinter, Goblin Market and Other Poems
- Written 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: 2015-11-16
- Language: English
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Father and Son
- Written by: Edmund Gosse
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Palmer
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
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Everyone has a swipe at their parents and the way they were brought up at some point in their lives. Very few of us exact revenge to the extent that Edmund Gosse did upon his father in this superbly funny, agonising account of a very strange childhood. The subtitle of the book is A Study of Two Temperaments, and these were temperaments not destined to get on. Gosse, Sr. was an eminent naturalist and zoologist and a keen follower of the Plymouth Brethren.
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Father and Son
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Palmer
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 2015-11-16
- Language: English
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Plain Tales from the Hills
- Written by: Rudyard Kipling
- Narrated by: Tim Piggott-Smith
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
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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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Plain Tales from the Hills
- Narrated by: Tim Piggott-Smith
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 2015-11-18
- Language: English
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Written 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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More delicately written than my expectation
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Narrated by: Crispin Bonham-Carter
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 2015-11-18
- Language: English
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Silas Marner
- Written by: George Eliot
- Narrated by: Sian Phillips
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
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Framed for a theft he didn’t commit and expelled from the church which has been his life, Silas Marner, the weaver, exiles himself to the remote rural village of Raveloe to bury himself in making money with his loom. The arrival of a golden-haired orphan toddler at his door, however, drags the recluse back into the world and away from his obsession with his hoard.
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Silas Marner
- Narrated by: Sian Phillips
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 2015-11-18
- Language: English
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Frankenstein
- Written by: Mary Shelley
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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The tale of Dr. Frankenstein and the horrendous monster he unleashes on the world when he tinkers with the laws of nature had almost as strange a birth as the monster itself. It was the product of one of the most famous ghost story telling sessions in history. Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and several others were stranded on the shores of Lake Geneva during a particularly sodden summer.
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Frankenstein
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 2015-11-16
- Language: English
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Markheim
- Written by: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Narrated by: Alan Howard
- Length: 49 mins
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The stabbing of an antique dealer on Christmas Day leads the murderer, Markheim, to try to justify his life to the devil in an in-depth discussion about the nature of good and evil. His evening ends quite differently from how he'd planned it and results in him making an admission of guilt for the killing.... Author Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was born in Edinburgh into a prestigious family of lighthouse designers and engineers on his father's side and moral philosophers on his mother's.
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Markheim
- Narrated by: Alan Howard
- Length: 49 mins
- Release date: 2015-11-17
- Language: English
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The Return of the Native
- Written by: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Oliver Cotton
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
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Eustacia Vye's great desire in life was to be loved to madness, and in this, one of Thomas Hardy's best-loved novels, one of his most superb female characters conducts her wild and lethal campaign against her rival - the innocent, rather conventional Thomas - against the backdrop of Egdon Heath, the equally wild and lethal Dorset moorland on which Hardy grew up.
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The Return of the Native
- Narrated by: Oliver Cotton
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 2015-11-18
- Language: English
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The Real Thing and Other Stories
- Written 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: 2015-11-18
- Language: English
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The Railway Children
- Written by: Edith Nesbit
- Narrated by: Margaret Tyzak
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
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'My Daddy! My Daddy!' has become one of the most famous tearjerking lines. Bobby's cry as her father's figure appears through the mist of the steam train in this story of a family's stalwart struggle to keep calm and carry on when forced by the wrongful arrest of their father on spying charges to move from their idyllic life to a rundown cottage by a railway line has jerked the tears of generations of readers (and, in latter years, filmgoers and theatre audiences).
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The Railway Children
- Narrated by: Margaret Tyzak
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 2015-11-18
- Language: English
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The Secret Garden
- Written by: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Narrated by: Virginia McKenna
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
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What the Narnia books did for wardrobes, The Secret Garden did for the walled garden. Few readers can fail to share with Mary Lennox that inexplicable thrill of anticipation at the notion of an enclosed and secret world, bursting with potential life and beauty but remaining hidden from view. As Mary herself observes, 'Here was another locked door, added to the hundred in the strange house'.
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The Secret Garden
- Narrated by: Virginia McKenna
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 2015-11-18
- Language: English
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Black Beauty
- Written by: Anna Sewell
- Narrated by: Colin Salmon
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
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This is one of the most famous children's books ever written. Since its publication in 1877, it has sold well over 30 million copies. It held the world record for sales far and above any other piece of children's literature for 130 years. It wasn’t, however, written for children - the story of the highly spirited and gorgeous black stallion and his transfer from owner to increasingly abusive owner until his final happy rescue was originally intended to be a campaigning work distributed to those who worked with horses.
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Black Beauty
- Narrated by: Colin Salmon
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 2015-11-13
- Language: English
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Jane Eyre
- Written by: Charlotte Brontë
- Narrated by: Emily Woof
- Length: 20 hrs and 12 mins
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Attraction, desire and sex were not proper subjects for a 19th-century novel, and Charlotte Brontë's clear and open handling of all three in Jane Eyre was shocking, exciting and revolutionary. Jane Eyre - a small, plain-faced, intelligent and honest English orphan - is abused by her aunt and cousins as a child; acquires role models during her education at Lowood Academy; and becomes the governess of Thornfield Manor, where she falls in love with her Byronic employer, Edward Rochester.
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Jane Eyre
- Narrated by: Emily Woof
- Length: 20 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 2015-11-16
- Language: English
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My Lady Ludlow
- Written by: Elizabeth Gaskell
- Narrated by: Susannah York
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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Lady Ludlow's appalling snobbery, prejudice and bred-in-the-bone conviction as to the superiority of the English aristocracy and their feudal way of life are deliciously tested, and found wanting, in this gently radical tale of the collapse of a social system. Elizabeth Gaskell's My Lady Ludlow is a brilliant picture of the shift in power in a rural northern village, from the velvety feudal Ludlows to the glitter of the new money rattling through the system courtesy of the brazen baker from Birmingham.
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My Lady Ludlow
- Narrated by: Susannah York
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 2015-11-17
- Language: English
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