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Stoner
By: John Williams
Narrated by: Robin Field
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, far different from the hardscrabble existence he has known.Yet as the years pass, William Stoner encounters a... Read more
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Anna Karenina
By: Leo Tolstoy
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
Length: 35 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
The heroine of Tolstoy's epic of love and self-destruction, Anna Karenina has beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son, but feels that her life is empty until she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky. Their subsequent affair scandalizes society and family alike, and brings jealousy and bitterness in its wake. Contrasting with this... Read more
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Middlemarch
By: George Eliot
Narrated by: Margaret Espaillat
Length: 34 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
By the time the novel appeared to tremendous popular and critical acclaim in 1871-2, George Eliot was recognized as England's finest living novelist. It was her ambition to create a world and portray a whole community--tradespeople, middle classes, country gentry--in the rising provincial town of Middlemarch, circa 1830. Vast and crowded, rich... Read more
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Look Homeward, Angel
By: Thomas Wolfe
Narrated by: Scott Sowers
Length: 26 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
The works of Thomas Wolfe cemented his legacy as one of the very best of the American Southern writers. Wolfe's largely autobiographical novel features Eugene Gant, who pines for a more expansive life after being born to a father whose bouts of maniacal raving are fueled by a prodigious appetite for drink. "... rich and ambitious and intensely... Read more
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The Making of a Marchioness
By: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Narrated by: Lucy Scott
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
The Making of a Marchioness is Frances Hodgson Burnett’s delightful take on the Cinderella story. Born into an aristocratic family, Emily Fox-Seton is left penniless and must fend for herself after the death of her parents. Then one summer, everything changes. This audio edition is read by Lucy Scott.
Emily rents a room in a boarding house in... Read more
The Last September
By: Elizabeth Bowen
Narrated by: Jenn McGuirk
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
The Last September is Elizabeth Bowen's portrait of a young woman's coming of age in a brutalized time and place, where the ordinariness of life floats like music over the impending doom of history.
In 1920, at their country home in County Cork, Sir Richard Naylor and his wife, Lady Myra, and their friends maintain a skeptical attitude toward... Read more
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
By: Betty Smith
Narrated by: Kate Burton
Length: 15 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickThe beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the twentieth century.From the moment she entered the world, Francie Nolan needed to be made of stern stuff, for growing up in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn, New York demanded fortitude, precocity, and strength of spirit.... Read more
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To the Lighthouse
By: Virginia Woolf
Narrated by: Karen Cass
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflict... Read more
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At the Back of the North Wind
By: George MacDonald
Narrated by: Rebecca K. Reynolds
Length: 8 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Originally serialized in 1868 and collected as a book in 1871, At the Back of the North Wind is the magical story of Diamond, the son of a poor coachman, who is swept away by the North Wind – a radiant, maternal spirit with long, flowing hair – and whose life is transformed by a brief glimpse of the beautiful country – at the back of the north... Read more
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Emma
By: Alexander McCall Smith
Narrated by: Susan Lyons
Length: 15 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
An unstoppable combination: Alexander McCall Smith and Jane Austen, as Sandy modernizes the story of Emma Woodhouse. Emma Woodhouse's widowed father is an anxious man, obsessed with nutrition and the latest vitamins. He lives the life of a country gentleman in contemporary England, protectively raising his young daughters, Isabella and Emma.... Read more
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How Green Was My Valley
By: Richard Llewellyn
Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
Length: 16 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
How Green Was My Valley is Richard Llewellyn’s bestselling—and timeless—classic, as well as the basis of a beloved film. As Huw Morgan is about to leave home forever, he reminisces about the golden days of his youth when South Wales still prospered, when coal dust had not yet blackened the valley. Drawn simply and lovingly, with a crisp Welsh... Read more
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Romola
By: George Eliot
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 21 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
"There is no book of mine about which I more thoroughly feel that I swear by every sentence as having been written with my best blood." Thus wrote George Eliot about Romola, the book which is central in her career as a novelist and amongst her most colorful, fluent, and persuasive works. Set in Florence in 1492, a time of great political and... Read more
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Sword of Honor
By: Evelyn Waugh
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 24 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
This trilogy spanning World War II, based in part on Evelyn Waugh's own experiences as an army officer, is the author's surpassing achievement as a novelist. Its central character is Guy Crouchback, head of an ancient but decayed Catholic family, who at first discovers new purpose in the challenge to defend Christian values against Nazi... Read more
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The Algernon Blackwood BBC Radio Collection
By: Algernon Blackwood
Narrated by: Philip Madoc, Malcolm Hayes, Christopher Neame,...
Length: 12 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
A collection of strange and fantastical tales from Algernon Blackwood, plus bonus documentaries
Described by H P Lovecraft as 'the one absolute and unquestioned master of weird atmosphere', Algernon Blackwood (CBE) was the acclaimed and prolific author of numerous ghost stories and horror tales. Throughout his lifetime, he wrote 14 novels,... Read more
Mrs Dalloway
By: Virginia Woolf
Narrated by: Heather Long
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
"...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day." Mrs. Dalloway is busy taking care of the final preparations for her evening party when an old friend and suitor comes by. He leaves her with an unexpected question, but what he doesn't know is that thoughts about her past and her life are already swirlling... Read more
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The Penultimate Truth
By: Philip K. Dick
Narrated by: Nick Podehl
Length: 7 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
In the future, most of humanity lives in massive underground bunkers, producing weapons for the nuclear war they’ve fled. Constantly bombarded by patriotic propaganda, the citizens of these industrial anthills believe they are waiting for the day when the war will be over and they can return above ground. But when Nick St. James, president of... Read more
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Ice Station Zebra
By: Alistair MacLean
Narrated by: Jonathan Oliver
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
A classic thriller from the bestselling master of action and suspense. The atomic submarine Dolphin has impossible orders: to sail beneath the ice floes of the Arctic Ocean, and somehow locate and rescue the men of weather-station Zebra, gutted by fire and drifting with the ice-pack somewhere north of the Arctic Circle. But... Read more
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The Red Badge of Courage
By: Stephen Crane
Narrated by: Jamey Lewis
Length: 5 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge of Courage" is a powerful exploration of the psychological and emotional toll of war. Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, the novel follows the journey of Henry Fleming, a young and inexperienced soldier eager to prove his courage on the battlefield. Faced with the harsh realities of war, Henry... Read more
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A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Narrated by: James Joy
Length: 5 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys is a children's book by Nathaniel Hawthorne, which retells several Greek myths. The frame story is that a Williams College student, Eustace Bright, is telling these tales to a group of children. All the tales are modified from the original myths: The Gorgon's Head - recounts the story of Perseus killing Medusa... Read more
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How Dead Languages Work
By: Coulter H. George
Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
Length: 13 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
This volume celebrates six such languages—Ancient Greek, Latin, Old English, Sanskrit, Old Irish, and Biblical Hebrew—by first introducing listeners to their most distinctive features, then showing how these linguistic traits play out in short excerpts from actual ancient texts. It explores, for instance, how Homer's Greek shows signs of oral... Read more
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Northanger Abbey
By: Val McDermid
Narrated by: Liz Pearce
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Internationally best-selling crime writer Val McDermid has riveted millions of readers worldwide with her acutely suspenseful, psychologically complex, seamlessly plotted thrillers. In Northanger Abbey, she delivers her own, witty, updated take on Austen's classic novel about a young woman whose visit to the stately home of a well-to-do... Read more
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The House of the Dead
By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Narrated by: Malk Williams
Length: 12 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Accused of political subversion as a young man, Dostoyevsky was sentenced to four years of hard labour at a Siberian prison camp — a horrifying experience from which he developed this astounding semi-autobiographical memoir of a man condemned to ten years of servitude for murdering his wife.
A haunting and remarkable work filled with wonder and... Read more
Notes from Underground
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 4 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Dostoevsky’s classic story of an isolated, unnamed man raging against the confines of his world. Read more
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El sueño de los héroes
By: Adolfo Bioy Casares
Narrated by: Andrés Neuman
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
La gran novela de Adolfo Bioy Casares sobre una aventura cotidiana que poco a poco va cobrando tintes fantásticos. Ambientada en los años treinta en una Buenos Aires fantasmal, El sueño de los héroes parte de la juerga que se dan Emilio Gauna y sus amigos durante tres noches de carnaval por los suburbios de la ciudad. Nada debería ser más... Read more
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