MP3 Audios - Classic Literature

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. More info...

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. More info...

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. More info...

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. More info...