MP3 Audios - Classic Literature

Squire Dale, the embittered old bachelor who lives in the great house at Allington, has loaned the nearby small house rent free to his widowed sister-in-law and her two daughters, Lily and Bell. The action centers on the strained relations between the two houses and on the romantic entanglements... More info...

MOONFLEET Episode 1: In Moonfleet Village. J.Meade Falkners classic adventure of smugglers in 18th Century England. More info...

In this recording from the BBC Sound Archives, Hannah Gordon is Shakespeare's wise Portia. More info...

A beautiful woman with a young child and a mysterious past takes up residence at Wildfell Hall and becomes the passionate focus of attention of a young unmarried country gentleman, in this tragic tale that reveals the secret violence in a society considered well-mannered. More info...

“But, however much or little ‘A Modern Comedy’ may be deemed to reflect the spirit of an Age, it continues in the main to relate the tale of life which sprang from the meeting of Soames and Irene in a Bournemouth drawing-room in 1881….”—John Galsworthy More info...