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MP3 Audios - Classic Literature
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A+ Audio is the innovative audio study guide
series that will help you better understand,
appreciate, and enjoy great works of literature.
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A+ Audio is the innovative audio study guide
series that will help you better understand,
appreciate, and enjoy great works of literature.
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A+ Audio is the innovative audio study guide
series that will help you better understand,
appreciate, and enjoy great works of literature.
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A+ Audio is the innovative audio study guide
series that will help you better understand,
appreciate, and enjoy great works of literature.
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A+ Audio is the innovative audio study guide
series that will help you better understand,
appreciate, and enjoy great works of literature.
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First published in 1885, 'Huckleberry Finn' is
one of the undoubted masterpieces of American
literature...
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The Iliad and the Odyssey are retold in a
glorious saga.
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Mark Twain's classic tale recounts the adventures
of the ever resourceful Tom Sawyer and his friend
Huckleberry Finn...
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The masterpiece of Rome's greatest poet, Virgil's
Aeneid.
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These wonderful stories have delighted adults and
children for centuries.
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Against a backdrop of delicate imagery, Willa
Cather explores the tough inner terrain of a man in
mid-life crisis. Bartley Alexander is a master bridge
engineer at the height of his power, comfortable with
success and all it brings. Yet he yearns for the lost
vibrancy of his youth and so leads a...
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The fantasy worlds in which Alice finds herself
introduce her to some well known characters!
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When Alice sees the White Rabbit run by, it
occurs to her that she's never seen a rabbit with a
watch before. Burning with curiosity, she jumps up and
follows him into a rabbit-hole of enchantment...
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An anthology of Shakespearian speeches performed
by the world's leading actors.
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Andersen's tales have become part of universal
folk lore.
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Allow the Arabian Nights tales weave their
enchantment.
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Classic story of a hasty world tour taken up on a
gentelmen's club wager
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Ballet Shoes is a classic of 20th-century
children's literature. The lively humour and sense of
fun that have made the novel such a favourite are
brought to life in this enchanting dramatisation.
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This magnificent novel is a satirical comedy
about the fight for ascendancy among the clergy in a
cathedral city. The formidable Mrs. Proudie, the oily
Mr. Slope, and the flamboyant Signora Neroni are among
the memorable characters vying to be the dominant voice
in the quiet diocese of Barchester.
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Designed to be compatible with virtually every
standard textbook in its subject field, Barron's EZ-101
Study Keys gives you a valuable overview of your
college-level course.
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Sylvestra Le Touzel, Sam West and David Threlfall
star in Shakespeare's delightful comic fantasy.
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Sian Phillips, Emma Fielding and Miriam Margolyes
star in Shakespeare's comedy of men behaving badly and
women doing it for themselves.
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Frances Barber and David Harewood star in
Shakespeare's towering tale of great love, political
intrigue and tragedy.
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Helena Bonham Carter stars as Rosalind with David
Morrissey as Orlando and Natasha Little as Celia in
Shakespeare's festive comedy.
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Michael Sheen, Kenneth Cranham and Juliet
Stevenson star in the best-known and most powerful
tragedy of modern times.
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Michael Sheen stars as Hamlet with Kenneth
Cranham as Claudius, Juliet Stevenson as Gertrude and
Ellie Beaven as Ophelia in the best-known and most
powerful tragedy of modern times...
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Father and son Julian and Jamie Glover star as
King Henry and Prince Hal in Shakespeare's stirring
history.
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Father and son Julian and Jamie Glover star as
King Henry and his son, Hal, in this powerful
production, which also stars Timothy West and Prunella
Scales...
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Shakespeare's bitter tragedy of loyalty, power
and politics.
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Richard Eyre directs Ken Stott as Macbeth and
Phyllis Logan as Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's drama of
greed and destiny.
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Richard Eyre directs Ken Stott as Macbeth and
Phyllis Logan as Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's dramatic
tale of greed and destiny...
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Shakespeare's dramatic and complex comedy.
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David Tennant stars as Benedick with Samantha
Spiro as Beatrice in Shakespeare's merry comedy of wit,
words and romance.
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The stormy passions of Shakespeare's tragedy
resonate with powerful emotion in this BBC radio 3
production.
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Samuel West stars as Richard II with Joss Ackland
as John of Gaunt in Shakespeare's lyrically tragic
history.
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Douglas Henshall, Sophie Dahl and Susannah York
star in Shakespeare's passionate story of doomed love.
The full beauty and meaning of some of the most lyrical
lines ever written can truly be heard.
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Shakespeare's magical, other-wordly final play.
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A full-cast dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's great
classic story of a lost golden age.
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Daring adventurers, fearless explorers, ancient
kings, gods, and goddesses come to life in this
riveting story of the first great epic of world
literature.
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Without doubt, the greatest work of Geoffrey
Chaucer. A brilliant picture of medieval life.
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Without doubt, the greatest work of Geoffrey
Chaucer. A brilliant picture of medieval life.
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Without doubt, the greatest work of Geoffrey
Chaucer. A brilliant picture of medieval life.
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This modern translation of these sometimes bawdy
stories, written in the 14th century by the Father of
English Poetry, entertain while telling us about
England before the Renaissance.
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Classic sea-faring, coming of age story enjoyed
by all ages...
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The story is set in 19th century Italy and
concerns the deadly revenge taken by the insane
narrator on a friend who he claims has insulted him.
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There are tales of Middle-earth from times long
before The Lord of the Rings, and the story told in
this book is set in the great country that lay beyond
the Grey Havens in the West.
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It is now Thomas� most widely known work, a
wistful, tender, touching, wide-eyed in wonder
evocation of the sights, smells and sounds of a
child�s Christmas in a seaside town in Wales.
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A wonderful reading of the story of Scrooge, Tiny
Tim and the Ghosts of Christmas.
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The story of how the extraordinary events of
Christmas Eve change the miserly Scrooge forever have
made A Christmas Carol one of the greatest of all
Christmas stories...
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A dramatisation of Dickens' classic Story, about
Ebenezer Scrouge's encounter with the Ghosts of
Christmas Past, Present & Future.
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On this recording, Christmas past brings alive
Christmas present.
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The four Pevensies help Caspian battle Miraz and
ascend his rightful throne.
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Narnia ... where owls speak, where evil weaves a
spell ... where sorcery enslaves the land. Deep
underground, a web of evil magic holds a prince in
captivity.
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From the earliest poets of the 16th century to
the present day.
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An absolute joy to listen to. An attractive and
accessible collection.
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George Eliot�s last and undeniably great novel,
which tells the story of young Daniel Deronda and his
fateful relationship with the astonishing Gwendolen
Harleth.
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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Mark
Twain�s classic novel of adventure, loyalty and
responsibility.
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A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Jane Austen's
perceptive study of middle class morals and mores in
the nineteenth century.
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This large-scale adaptation, recorded in America,
skilfully reproduces the unique mixture of adventure,
myth, history and philosophy in Melville's epic tale.
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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Mr Samuel
Pickwick, retired businessman and confirmed batchelor,
is determined that after a quiet life of enterprise the
time has come to go out into the world.
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A new dramatisation of the Thomas Hardy classic,
�Tess Of The d�Urbervilles�, transmitted as the
BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial.
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Tom Baker stars as Sir Walter Bullivant with
David Robb as man of action Richard Hannay in a
thrilling BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of this
classic tale of wartime espionage.
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Based on a novel by John Wyndham, this full-cast
radio drama was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998.
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Kris Kelvin arrives at a scientific research
station hovering above the surface of Solaris where
research has been ongoing for years.
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John Wyndham's classic novel of man's struggle in
a besieged world is dramatised by Giles Cooper in this
classic 1968 recording.
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Five stories from women writers of the 19th
century and the first decades of the 20th.
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A Yankee mechanic, knocked out in a fight,
awakens at Camelot in A.D. 528. He saves himself from
prison and death by posing as a magician and becoming
minister to King Arthur. But when he attempts to help
out the peasants, he meets opposition.
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Shows what can happen when two very different
societies come together.
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Bette is Lisbeth Fischer, an excruciatingly
cunning poor relation who both depends upon and nurses
a terrible grudge against the family of her beautiful
cousin, Adeline. That family is slowly being ruined by
the uncontrollable sexual appetites of Adeline�s
husband, Baron Hulot, appetites that...
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A portrait of the residents of an English country
town in the mid-nineteenth century, Cranford relates
the adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two
middle-aged spinster sisters.
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One of the greatest works of fiction ever
written, Crime and Punishment is at once an intense
psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, and a
fascinating detective thriller.
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Aldous Huxley here introduces us to an amiable
group of artists and intellectuals engaged in the most
free-thinking talk imaginable. Poetry, occultism,
ancestral history, and Italian painting are just a few
of the subjects for discussion among the eccentrics
drawn together at Crome, an...
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Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. A community stands
accused of witchcraft, and in the mood of fear and
recrimination that quickly develops men denounce their
neighbours...
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Cuculian, 'The Hound of Ulster', is the champion
of Ireland and is best remembered for his single-handed
defense of Ulster. This is the first time Cuculian�s
story has been available in audio.
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This collection of stories, originally published
in 1922, is the basis for an upcoming major motion
picture starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett.
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Frederick Winterbourne, an American expatriate
visiting at Vevey, Switzerland, meets commonplace,
newly rich Mrs. Miller from Schenectady, New York, her
mischievous small son and her daughter, Daisy, an
�inscrutable combination of audacity and
innocence.� The Millers have no perception of the...
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In Daniel Deronda, George Eliot left behind the
world of the Victorian middle classes that she explored
so well in Middlemarch. Eliot, with her hero Deronda,
attempts to come to terms with the English Jews, a
society within a society, which the people of her time
seemed either oblivious to or...
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The glorious but tragic story of King Arthur and
the Knights of the Round Table.
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Gibbon's work occupies an immortal place in the
pantheon of historical masterpieces.
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One of the greatest texts in the English
language.
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Children's story uses tragedy to underscore the
gulf between devotion and selfishness.
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Perhaps the most well-known collection of
reminiscences.
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Doctor Thorne adopts his niece Mary, keeping
secret her illegitimate birth as he introduces her to
the best local social circles. There she meets and
falls in love with Frank Gresham, who is intent on
marrying her despite her seeming poverty. Only Doctor
Thorne knows that Mary is to inherit a...
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In �Elsie in New York,� Elsie is an innocent
young woman who must look for work to make a living.
Although she applies for several positions, do-gooders
interfere. Thinking they are saving her soul, in
actuality they point her to her destruction. In �The
Purple Dress,� two young women clerks...
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In this sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel, Sir
Percy Blakeney�s arch- enemy travels to England in
pursuit of the impudent enemy of the French Republic.
Monsieur Chauvelin devises a dastardly plot to
annihilate, once and for all, both Sir Percy and his
beautiful wife, Marguerite.
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Jane Austen�s engaging and infuriating heroine
sparkles in this superb full-cast BBC Radio 4
dramatisation, which stars Angharad Rees as Emma.
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Its intimate blend of poetry and drama made it an
instant classic; and so it remains in this unmatched
recording with a perfect cast led by Richard Burton
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Farmer Giles of Ham is one of Tolkien�s most
popular stories, full of wit and humour, set in the
days when giants and dragons walked...
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THE MIRACLE OF MOON CRESCENT. A man is found
hanged from a courtyard tree, despite no one ever
seeing him leave his high-rise office
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Two men vying for the hand of Esther, a young
woman of charm and virtue, are Felix Holt, an
idealistic young artisan, and Harold Transome, the
intelligent heir to an estate. She is drawn to Holt yet
has dreams of marrying into a life of refinement.
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John Galsworthy devoted virtually his entire
professional career to creating a fictional but
entirely representative family of propertied
Victorians, the Forsytes. Flowering Wilderness is the
eighth novel in his Forsyte Chronicles, which has
become established as one of the most popular and...
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Mark Robarts, the new young vicar in the village,
seeks high connections to further his career but is
preyed upon to guarantee a substantial loan, which
brings Mark to the brink of ruin. Meanwhile, romances
are in bloom, including between Mark's sister, Lucy,
and Lord Lufton, with a marriage in...
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The fifteen stories collected here demonstrate
the genius of Katherine Mansfield, who was compared to
Chekhov. These are not tales of violent incidents or
dexterous plot but sensitive revelations of human
behavior in ordinary situations. The men, women, and
children whom Mansfield portrays are...
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In the Maheus family, the father and three of
seven children work brutal hours to extract coal far
beneath the earth amid hazards of landslides, fire,
poisoned air, and poisoned health. Then comes the idea
of a workers� revolt, and soon the settlement is
aflame. Zola chronicles the conflicts,...
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A Gay Love Story.
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This work is one of the most starkly realistic
dissections of men and women possessed by sensuality
and alcoholism ever attempted.
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Nick Lansing and Susy Branch, a newly married
couple with the right connections but little money,
devise a shrewd plan to sponge off their wealthy
friends, honeymooning in their mansions and villas. How
their plan unfolds is a charming comedy of Eros.
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Fitzgerald's elegantly simple work captures the
spirit of the Jazz Age and embodies America's
obsessions with wealth, power, and the promise of new
beginnings.
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Thus gentle reader, I have given thee faithful
history of my travels for sixteen years and above seven
months; wherein I have not been so studious of ornament
as truth
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Swift�s masterpiece of satire tells of the
fantastic voyages of the Englishman Lemuel Gulliver,
whose travels take him to lands where the inhabitants
are only six inches tall as well as to lands where they
are sixty feet high, where horses have the capacity to
reason, and where animals are...
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Thomas Gradgrind is an eminently practical man
who believes in facts and statistics and has brought up
his two children, Louisa and Tom, accordingly,
suppressing the imaginative sides of their nature. They
are raised without love and affection, and the
consequences are devastating.
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Marlow, the story�s narrator, tells his friends
of an experience in the British Congo where he once ran
a river steamer for a trading company. He tells of the
ivory traders� cruel exploitation of the natives
there. Chief among these is a greedy and treacherous
European named Kurtz, a man who has...
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The story of literature that has touched the
hearts & stirred the minds of countless readers.
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The radio dramatisation of The Hobbit became a
classic when it was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in
1968 and it continues to delight today.
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'The Hobbit' is a tale of high adventure,
undertaken by a company of dwarves in search of a
dragon-guarded gold.
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A court jester seeks revenge against the king,
who brutalized his love.
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Howard�s End is a charming country house in
Hertfordshire which becomes the object of an
inheritance dispute between the Wilcox family and the
Schlegel sisters. Through romantic entanglements,
disappearing wills, and sudden tragedy, the conflict
over the house emerges as a symbolic struggle for...
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Often cited as the greatest American novel, the
story chronicles the journey and relationship between
Huckleberry Finn and a runaway southern slave, Jim, as
they flee south on the Mississippi River.
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Ugly and deformed but humble and loyal, Quasimodo
is the hunchback living in the cathedral of Notre Dame
in Paris. He is trapped between his love for a Gypsy
girl and his love for the archdeacon, his benefactor.
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The first of Homer's epic poems. Translated by
Samuel Butler.
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The Iliad tells the story of fifty critical days
towards the end of the Trojan war.
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This is one of the great recordings of a great
play. John Gielgud stars as Earnest and Edith Evans
.....
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This elaborate fabrication proceeds smoothly
until Jack/Ernest falls in love and his fiancee�s
mother discovers there is more � or, rather, less �
to him than meets the eye.
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In Chancery is the second novel in John
Galsworthy's epic Forsyte Saga, a brilliant social
satire about an upper-class family. After suffering the
death of her lover and abuse from her husband Soames,
Irene Forsyte has finally left her marriage for good.
Though disgraced by her affair, she forms...
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This boxed set features Jack London's thrilling
classics, The Call of the Wild and White Fang.
London�s adventurous nature, intuitive feeling for
animal life, and superb storytelling skills have given
his tales an enduring place in the annals of American
literature.
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PRESTONS PET: Preston finds a horse, and brings
him home.
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When Thomas Broadbent, an Englishman, visits
Ireland for the first time, he is accompanied by his
friend Larry Doyle, an Irishman who is returning to his
homeland after being away for many years...
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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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Oscar Wilde's first play confronts the hypocrisy
of public 'morality'.
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This monumental work made the Arthurian cycle
available for the first time in English.
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"Le Morte d'Arthur remains an enchanted sea for
the reader to swim about in, delighting at the random
beauties of fifteenth-century prose."--Robert Graves
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Well-known war correspondent and artist Dick
Heldar returns to London and falls in love with his
childhood sweetheart, Maisie. Then he learns he is
going blind due to a war injury. As his vision fails,
he must choose between the love of a woman and the love
of the men who stood by him at the front.
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The Lives of the Great Artists was the first
truly comprehensive history of art.
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Suetonius wrote Lives of the Twelve Caesars in
the reign of Vespasian around 70AD. He chronicled their
extraordinary careers, presenting perspicacious
insights into the men as much as their reigns.
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From the author of such children�s classics as
The Secret Garden and A Little Princess comes this
enchanting story of a young boy discovering his true
destiny. Twelve-year-old Marco has spent his life
traveling with his father in secrecy, forbidden to
speak about their country of origin,...
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Maid in Waiting is the beginning novel in the
last trilogy of John Galsworthy's Forsyte Chronicles.
In this seventh installment, the story continues of the
lives and times, loves and losses, fortunes and deaths
of the fictional but entirely representative family of
propertied Victorians,...
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This two-part adult fairytale by the author of
The Secret Garden combines a charming Cinderella tale
with an ironic look at class structure and the
Edwardian marriage market in turn-of-the-century
London. Emily Fox-Seton is distantly related to
aristocracy, but she is struggling to make ends...
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When a prince deserts his subjects, death comes
looking for him.
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When a young woman is offered the choice of
saving a man's life at the price of her own chastity,
what should she do?
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Here are the beloved adventures of the
mischievous hero Robin Hood and his brave and merry
band of outlaws who forged a chivalrous code to protect
the oppressed and despoil the oppressors. Breathtaking
escapes, hilarious escapades, and classic characters
make this a favorite story everywhere.
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Middlemarch is a multilayered work centering
around two expertly constructed characters: Dorothea
Brooke, an idealistic young woman who traps herself
into a loveless marriage, and Tertius Lydgate, an
ambitious young doctor. This work is epic in scope and
unsurpassed in its depiction of human nature.
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From her birth in Newgate Prison, where her
mother is under sentence of death for theft, to her
final position of wealth, Moll Flanders demonstrates a
spirit of industry and an indomitable will. One of the
earliest social novels of English life, Moll Flanders
features one of the most lively,...
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MOONFLEET Episode 1: In Moonfleet Village.
J.Meade Falkners classic adventure of smugglers in 18th
Century England.
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MOONFLEET. Episode 02: THE DISCOVERY J.Meade
Falkners classic adventure of smugglers in 18th Century
England.
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MOONFLEET. Episode 03: THE VAULT. J.Meade
Falkners classic adventure of smugglers in 18th Century
England.
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MOONFLEET. Episode 4: AN ASSAULT. J.Meade
Falkners classic adventure of smugglers in 18th Century
England.
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MOONFLEET. Episode 5: THE LANDING J.Meade
Falkners classic adventure of smugglers in 18th Century
England.
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MOONFLEET. Episode 6: THE ESCAPE. J.Meade
Falkners classic adventure of smugglers in 18th Century
England.
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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as
a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your
life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable
feast...
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One of the outstanding novels in the canon of
American literature, My Ántonia tells of the life of
early American pioneers in the vast frontier farmlands
of Nebraska. Infused with a gracious passion for the
land, it renders a deeply moving portrait of a
community and the free-spirited girl at...
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With an introduction by Paul Auster, this
delightful true-life story by a great American writer
emerges from obscurity to shine a delightful light upon
family life -- then and now.
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Nicholas, the hearty young hero, takes us on a
journey through nineteenth-century England in a
delightful series of adventures accompanied by some of
Dickens�s best swaggering scoundrels and most
unforgettable eccentrics.
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It is 1793, France, the year of the guillotine.
Already Louis XVI has been sentenced to the scaffold,
and terror reigns. In Ninety-Three, Victor Hugo�s
inspired last novel, that tumultuous year�s events
are woven into an epic masterpiece which captures
brilliantly the moment that shaped the...
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A perfect blend of vintage Noel Coward sure to be
enjoyed by faithful fans and new listeners.
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�I had the first vision of a twilight country
which was to become the province of Sulaco, with its
high shadowy sierra and its misty campo for mute
witnesses of events flowing from the passions of men
shortsighted in good and evil.� Thus Conrad described
Nostromo. His fictional country,...
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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast production of Homer�s
epic seafaring adventure, dramatised by award-winning
poet Simon Armitage and starring Tim McInnerny and
Amanda Redman.
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Homer's Adventures of Odysseus. Translated by
Samuel Butler.
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The thrilling tale of the wanderings of the hero
Odysseus after the end of the Trojan war.
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In this new translation, performed by an
outstanding cast led by Michael Sheen, the searing
inevitablity facing Oedipus proves as shocking as it
was 2.500 years ago when it was first presented.
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Tim McInnerny stars as the murderous Bill Sikes
with Pam Ferris as Mrs Mann and Edward Long as Oliver
in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of one of
Dickens' best known novels.
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Clare Charwell has just fled her sadistic husband
in Ceylon and boarded a ship back to England. On the
boat, she meets the charming Tony Croom, who falls
madly in love with her. Though Clare�s relationship
with Tony is platonic, her husband has been secretly
gathering �evidence� to accuse her of...
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Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring
protagonist of this novel, resembles the youngest son
of a peculiarly American fairy tale. His fortune is
ready-made for him, but he refuses to settle for it.
Alienated from his crass father and pious mother, all
but rejected by a wife who reserves her...
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Aeschylus here dramatizes the myth of the curse
on the royal house of Argos. The action begins when
King Agamemnon, returning victorious from the Trojan
War, is treacherously slain by his wife. It end
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This terse and startling novel is the story of a
struggle for possession and of its devastating
consequences. Three women seek to secure the affections
of one man, while he, in turn, tries to satisfy them
all. But in the middle of this contest of wills stands
his unwitting and vulnerable young...
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Set in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story
of the beautiful but love-starved Kitty Fane. When her
husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her
to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic,
where she is compelled by her awakening conscience to
reassess her life and learn how...
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The horrors of the Inferno and the trials of
Purgatory are left far behind. Ultimately, in Paradise,
Dante is granted a vision of God's Heavenly court - the
angels, the Blessed Virgin and God Himself.
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Paradise Lost is the greatest epic poem in the
English language.
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Full-Cast. An indigestible tragic romantic comedy
of love, jealousy, betrayal and murder.
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Pensées (Thoughts) is a collection of Pascalâ��s
notes and ideas for a book in defense of faith in a
rational world. These fragments give evidence of a
profoundly original thinker who has resolved his
conflict between a scientific mind demanding proof and
a spiritual position maintained by faith.
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The adventures of the young, mischievous Percival
Keene take place on board HMS Calliope. Keene, learning
that the demanding captain is actually his natural
father, sets about to win his father�s love and
acceptance and gain the family fortune. In so doing, he
survives shipwreck and capture by...
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Herodotus tells the heroic tale of the Greeks'
resistance to the vast invading force assembled by
Xerxes, King of Persia.
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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of J. M.
Barrie's tale of childhood adventure starring Toyah
Willcox as Peter Pan and Ron Moody as Captain Hook
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In this seminal story of naval life during the
Napoleonic War, Frederick Marryat�s young hero
embarks upon a life at sea and finds it to be a rough
school indeed. Peter Simple is a towering tale from the
great age of sail, filled with keen wit, vivid
characters, and gripping adventure.
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Plutarch's unique insight into the great men of
the Ancient World through his biographies.
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These days, English professors teach anything and
everything but classic English literature. They prefer
to indoctrinate their students in Marxism and feminism
and propagandize against our �oppressive� Western
culture. Take a fascinating tour through our great
literature, in all its politically...
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Natty Bumppo in his ninetieth year is still
competent as a frontiersman and trapper. He is drawn
into conflict with society in the form of an immigrant
party led by the surly Ishmael Bush. Once again this
great man of nature is called upon to exhibit his
courage and resourcefulness to rescue...
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Purgatory is the second part of Dante's The
Divine Comedy. We find the Poet, with his guide Virgil,
ascending the terraces of the Mount of Purgatory
inhabited by those doing penance.
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Two Kidnappers learn their plan is less than
perfect
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When Maxim de Winter brings his shy new bride to
his beautiful stately home on the Cornwall coast, it
seems like all her dreams have come 1...
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Anna Leath, an American widow living in France,
has engaged in a love affair with George Darrow, a
diplomat. However, when Darrow is on his way to
consolidate marriage plans at Anna�s French chateau,
he encounters Sophy Viner, who is as sprightly and
spontaneous as Anna is restrained and demure....
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Clym Yeobright, a diamond merchant in Paris,
returns to his home in Egdon where he falls in love
with the sensuous Eustacia Vye. She marries him, hoping
he will take her away to Paris. But Eustacia�s dreams
of escape are not to be realized. Clym Yeobright, the
returning native, cannot bring her...
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A comic masterpiece brimming with false
identities!
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Mr. Frank Softly was sent to one of the most
fashionable and famous of the great public schools. He
said, �I ran away three times, and was flogged three
times. I made four aristocratic connections, I learnt
to play at cricket, to hate rich people. . . and to
receive kicks and serious advice...
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Though he was Greek, Plutarch wrote his Lives in
the first century, a world dominated by the Roman
Empire. Here he considers some of the major figures who
had left their stamp.
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Douglas Henshall stars as Romeo with Sophie Dahl
as Juliet and Susannah York as Lady Capulet in
Shakespeare's passionate story of doomed love...
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In this novel, Eliot re-creates the upheavals of
fifteenth-century Florence through the noble and
courageous Romola, who finds herself increasingly
disillusioned by the career of Savonarola and repelled
by her unscrupulous, self-indulgent husband.
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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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While on holiday in 1925, four-year-old Michael
Tolkien lost his beloved toy dog on the beach at Filey
in Yorkshire. To console him...
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The ethereal words of the great thinker Omar
Khayyam.
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�Who is this man, this Scarlet Pimpernel?�
Each day this question grew more pressing to the rulers
of the French Revolution. Only this man, this
maddeningly elusive figure, threatened their total
power, defying the vast network of fanatics, informers,
and secret agents that the Revolution spread...
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A sophisticated man is thrust into the dangerous
world of a sealing sailor
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Although Lawrence of Arabia died in 1935, the
story of his life has captured the imagination of
succeeding generations.
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'To be or not to be - that is the question�'
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Richard Burton's rich and resonant voice delivers
Henry V's address to his army on the eve of Agincourt!
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Alec Guinness's performance as King Lear stirs
the listener in this recording from the BBC Sound
Archives.
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From the BBC Sound Archives, one of Shakespeare's
most famous and memorable speeches, with Paul Scofield
and Peggy Ashcroft as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth,
bringing these ominous words vividly to life.
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With Denis Quilley as Macbeth, this recording
from the BBC Sound Archives brings Shakespeare's
memorable words to life.
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Ian Holm delivers King Richard IIIs soliloquy,
bringing Shakespeare's wonderful lines, full of
pyschological insight, vividly to life.
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This impassioned speech is beautifully spoken by
Fay Compton in this BBC Sound archives recording.
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In this recording from the BBC Sound Archives,
Hannah Gordon is Shakespeare's wise Portia.
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Silas Marner's redemption and restoration
endorses the goodness in people...
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�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
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Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic
Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a
man who becomes 'unstuck in time' after he is abducted
by aliens.
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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...
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Smith of Wooton Major tells of the preparation of
the Great Cake to mark the Feast of Good Children and
the magical...
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The audiodrama of this twelfth-century French
epic allows listeners to hear the story as they might
have in medieval time, when a traveling troubador would
recite the poem in the village square. It describes the
heroic exploits of Roland and the campaign of
Charlemagne. Fired by the religious...
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Doctor Dolittle, a little, lovable, old doctor,
has so many animal pets that his people patients will
not come to him any more. In fact, he likes the animals
better, and he can talk to them, too! Soon his fame
spreads all over the world and when the monkeys in
Africa are stricken with an...
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In his old age, Soames Forsyte has mellowed into
a patient and benign figure, guarding with especial
tenderness the welfare of his daughter, Fleur. But all
his watchfulness and devotion are powerless to avert
the tragedy when Fleur revives her old love affair with
Jon Forsyte.
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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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The Crusaders, led by Richard I of England, are
encamped in the Holy Land and torn by the dissensions
and jealousies of the leaders, including Coeur de Lion
himself and Philip of France.
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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.
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In this episode from the series, Sir Laurence
Olivier stars in a fully dramatised adaptation of the
famous Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde classic by Robert Louis
Stevenson...
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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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In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf
in Paris, Thérèse Raquin is trapped in a loveless
marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. The numbing
tedium of her life is suddenly shattered when she
embarks on a turbulent affair with her husband�s
earthy friend Laurent. But their passion for...
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Story of a young man whose life closely resembles
that of the famous author
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This historical romance, perhaps the greatest
cloak-and-sword story ever written, relates the
adventures of four fictional swashbuckling heroes and
their escapades against the master of intrigue,
Cardinal Richelieu, and the quintessential wicked
woman, Lady de Winter.
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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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Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found
There - the sequel to Alice in Wonderland.
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A literary as well as a philosophical
masterpiece, Thus spoke Zarathustra survived an
initially poor reception, to be recognised as a seminal
text in modern culture.
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In To Let, Jon and Fleur, now both nineteen years
old, fall in love. However, when Jolyon informs his son
of the past feud between the families, Jon decides that
he cannot marry Fleur. Meanwhile, Soames learns that
his second wife, Annette, has been unfaithful to him,
and the Forsyte family...
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Stephen Glennard, a young lawyer, sells a package
of love letters, written to him over the years by
distinguished novelist Margaret Aubyn, to raise money
to pay for his forthcoming wedding to another woman.
After the wedding, his secret comes back to haunt him,
and when he confesses to his wife,...
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In this book that implicitly condemns slavery,
David Wilson is called �Pudd�nhead� by the
townspeople, who fail to understand his combination of
wisdom and eccentricity. He redeems himself by solving
a murder mystery and a case of transposed identities.
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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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Trilby opens in the Latin Quarter of Paris where
Trilby O�Ferrall works as an artist�s model. Her
grace and ingenuous charm make a poignant contrast to
the cruel magnetism of Svengali, under whose spell she
falls. Using hypnotic powers, Svengali shapes her into
a virtuoso singer, the toast of...
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The year 1866 was marked by a mysterious and
inexplicable phenomenon. For some time, sea vessels had
been threatened by �an enormous thing,� a long
phosphorescent object, infinitely larger and more rapid
in its movements than a whale�until Captain Nemo put
his submarine, the Nautilus, into...
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Dylan Thomas wrote this as a radio play for
voices and this is the only recording ever made with
Thomas in the cast. This play is full of humour, a
joyful sense of the goodness of life and love...
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Under Western Eyes, Conrad�s novel of political
treachery and oppression, begins with a bomb that kills
a hated Russian minister of police, along with innocent
bystanders. A young student named Razumov hides the
perpetrator, then betrays him and becomes a spy among
his exiled comrades. He faces...
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Country vicar Dr. Primrose has a good heart, a
good family and a good income, but suddenly, his
idyllic life is cruelly devastated by a series of
misfortunes. Despite all the calamity, however, he
never loses sight of Christian morality, and this
eventually brings him justice and the restoration...
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Lucy Snowe is a stoic young Englishwoman. Beset
by adverse circumstances, on a momentary whim she
travels to Belgium to seek her livelihood as a teacher
in a girls� boarding school. There, surrounded by
giddy pupils, under the control of the cunning school
matron, wooed by an...
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Historial recordings of poetry, humor and drama.
1908 - 1947.
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The Voyage Out opens as a group of lively,
eccentric British tourists embark on a sea voyage from
London to a resort in South America. The focus soon
turns to Rachel Vinrace, a shy, awkward young woman
headed on a voyage of self-discovery through love,
illness, and, finally, death. A wry and...
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In 1845 Henry David Thoreau, one of the principal
New England Transcendentalists, left the small town of
Concord for the country. Beside the lake of Walden, he
built himself a log cabin.
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War and Peace is at once an epic of the
Napoleonic wars, a philosophical study, and a
celebration of the Russian spirit. Out of this complex
narrative emerges a profound examination of each
individual�s place in the historical process. War and
Peace is an affirmation of life itself.
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Anthony Trollope�s classic novel centers on Mr.
Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity whose
charitable income far exceeds the purpose for which it
was intended. On discovering this, young John Bold
determines to expose what he regards as an abuse of
privilege, despite the fact that he...
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Every generation finds in The Way of All Flesh a
reaffirmation of youth�s rightful struggle against
the tyranny of harsh parents and its admirable will for
freedom of personal expression. This is a fascinating
character study of a young man who survives the
influence of a hateful, hypocritical...
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In this opening novel of the second trilogy in
the Forsyte Chronicles, Fleur and Michael Mont begin to
question their marriage when a love triangle develops
between them and their mutual friend, author Wilfred
Desert.
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What befalls a star-crossed triangle of friends
and lovers in this novel illustrates exquisitely what
happens when a woman�s desire for both her lover and
riches makes the object of her affection question his
own true worth in her eyes.
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Romantic and gothic elements combine in this
tightly-constructed thriller which induces excitement
and fear in its audience...
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman is best remembered for
her 1892 short story "The Yellow Wallpaper," based on
her own bout with severe depression and misguided
medical treatment.
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