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The Odd Women (Unabridged)
By: George Gissing
Narrated by: Gretel Davis
Length: 16 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
The Odd Women reflects the major sexual and cultural issues of the late nineteenth century. Set in a grimy, fog-ridden London, Gissing's 'odd' women range from the idealistic, financially self-sufficient Mary Barfoot to the Madden sisters who struggle to subsist in low paying jobs and little chance for joy. With narrative detachment, Gissing... Read more
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Felix Holt: the Radical (Unabridged)
By: George Eliot
Narrated by: Gabriel Woolf
Length: 19 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
When the young nobleman Harold Transome returns to England from the colonies with a self-made fortune, he scandalizes the town of Treby Magna with his decision to stand for Parliament as a Radical. But after the idealistic Felix Holt also returns to the town, the difference between Harold's opportunistic values and Holt's profound beliefs... Read more
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Henry Esmond (Unabridged)
By: W.M. Thackeray
Narrated by: Eric Gillett
Length: 21 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Set in the reign of Queen Anne, this novel follows the troubled progress of Henry Esmond Esq, a gentleman and an officer in Marlborough's army. Enamoured of the Jacobite Lady Castlewood and her wayward daughter Beatrix, he distinguishes himself in Marlborough's campaigns against Louis XIV. Esmond comes to grief in an attempt to depose George I... Read more
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Born in Exile (Unabridged)
By: George Gissing
Narrated by: Crawford Logan
Length: 17 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Godwin Peak leaves his lowly Midlands home to carve out a career as a journalist in London. His poverty and origins hamper him at every turn, but at last one of his articles - attacking the hypocrisy of the Victoria Church - is accepted. Then catastrophically, Peak falls in love with devout well-born Sidwell Warricombe. To be acceptable to her,... Read more
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The private papers of Henry Ryecroft (Unabridged)
By: George Gissing
Narrated by: David Dunhill
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft is a semi-fictional autobiographical work by George Gissing in which the author casts himself as the editor of the diary of a deceased acquaintance, selecting essays for posthumous publication. Observing "how suitable many of the reflections were to the month with which they were dated", he explains that he... Read more
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The Vicar of Wakefield (Unabridged)
By: Oliver Goldsmith
Narrated by: Arthur Bush
Length: 8 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
This novel depicts the fall and rise of the Primrose family, presided over by the benevolent vicar, the narrator of a fairy-tale plot of impersonation and deception, the abduction of a beautiful heroine and the machinations of an aristocratic villain. By turns comic and sentimental, the novel's popularity owes much to its recognizable depiction... Read more
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The Return of the Soldier (Unabridged)
By: Rebecca West
Narrated by: Pauline Munro
Length: 2 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
A shell-shocked soldier returns from the First World War. There are three women who love him and who are waiting for him. But he can only remember two of them as they were years ago, and he cannot remember his wife at all. The three women have a choice - to leave him or to "cure" him. Read more
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Good wives (Unabridged)
By: Louisa May Alcott
Narrated by: Judy Franklin
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Three years on from Little Women, the March girls and their friend Laurie are young adults with their futures ahead of them. Although they all face painful trials along the way - from Meg's sad lesson in housekeeping to Laurie's disappointment in love and a tragedy which touches them all. Each of the girls finally finds happiness, if not always... Read more
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Pamela (Unabridged)
By: Samuel Richardson
Narrated by: Elizabeth Proud
Length: 43 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
This novel is told in a series of letters from the heroine, Pamela Andrews, a young low-born maid whose mistress has just died when the story opens. The lady's son, Mr B, attempts to seduce Pamela. Although Pamela finds him loathsome and leaves the house, he pursues her relentlessly. This is a work of pioneering psychological complexity; it is... Read more
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Tom Jones (Unabridged)
By: Henry Fielding
Narrated by: John Richmond
Length: 39 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Tom Jones is brought up by the generous Mr Allworthy on his Somerset estate, where Tom eventually falls in love with his beautiful neighbour, Sophia Western. Because of his partially unknown parentage, however, their respective guardians are against the match. When Tom is banished due to his occasionally heated temper and sexual encounters with... Read more
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The Virginians (Unabridged)
By: W.M. Thackeray
Narrated by: Eric Gillett
Length: 40 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
This novels depicts the fortunes of the descendants of Henry Esmond and the once beautiful Beatrix, with a brilliant picture of eighteenth-century London society at the time of the American War of Independence. Read more
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Moll Flanders (Unabridged)
By: Daniel Defoe
Narrated by: Robert Gladwell
Length: 13 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Moll Flanders tells her own story, a vivid and racy tale of a woman's experience in the seamy side of life in late seventeenth-century and early eighteenth-century England and America. Born in Newgate prison, and seduced in the home of her adoptive family, she learns to live off her wits, defying the traditional depiction of women as helpless... Read more
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Mansfield Park (Unabridged)
By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Kim Medcalf
Length: 15 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncle's absence in Antigua, the Crawford's arrive in the neighbourhood bringing with them the glamour of London life and a reckless... Read more
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Evelina (Unabridged)
By: Fanny Burney
Narrated by: Gretel Davis
Length: 19 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Evelina, the title character, is the unacknowledged but legitimate daughter of a dissipated English aristocrat. Her dubious birth has seen her raised in rural seclusion until her seventeenth year. Through a series of humorous events that take place in London and the resort town of Hotwells, near Bristol, Evelina learns how to navigate the... Read more
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Little men (Unabridged)
By: Louisa May Alcott
Narrated by: Barrie Shore
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Little Men picks up the story of fiery, headstrong Jo where Good Wives left off. The novel is set at a rather unusual boarding school run by Jo and her husband, where the pupils are encouraged to pillow fight and keep pets. When the penniless but talented orphan Nat Blake shows up on her doorstep, Jo takes him in, and his arrival sets in motion... Read more
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Joseph Andrews (Unabridged)
By: Henry Fielding
Narrated by: Terence Wilton
Length: 13 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
This riotous tale of innocents in a corrupt world was one of the earliest English novels. Published in 1742, it tells the story of a chaste servant. After being sacked for spurning the advances of the lascivious Lady Booby, Joseph Andrews takes to the road, accompanied by his beloved Fanny Goodwill and the absent-minded, much put-upon Parson... Read more
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New Grub Street (Unabridged)
By: George Gissing
Narrated by: Michael Tudor Barnes
Length: 21 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
In New Grub Street George Gissing re-created a microcosm of London's literary society as he had experienced it. His novel is at once a major social document and a story that draws us irresistibly into the twilit world of Edwin Reardon, a struggling novelist, and his friends and acquaintances in Grub Street including Jasper Milvain, an ambitious... Read more
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My brilliant Career (Unabridged)
By: Miles Franklin
Narrated by: Vivien Creegor
Length: 9 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
First published in 1901, this Australian classic recounts the live of 16-year-old Sybylla Melvyn. Trapped on her parents' outback farm, she simultaneously loves bush life and hates the physical burdens it imposes. Whisked away to live on her grandmother's gracious property, she falls under the eye of the rich and handsome Harry Beecham. And soon... Read more
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Clarissa (Unabridged)
By: Samuel Richardson
Narrated by: Pauline Munro
Length: 93 hours
Abridged: No
Clarissa is of lower birth than her would-be lover: the Harlowes are indeed country gentry, but only recently enriched in the city, while the devious Lovelace is a young nobleman. This is a margin sufficient to breed suspicion on the one side and arrogance on the other; a story of male determination pitted against feminine principles and told in... Read more
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Jo's boys (Unabridged)
By: Louisa May Alcott
Narrated by: James Tillitt
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Beginning 10 years after Little Men, Jo's Boys revisits Plumfield, the New England school still presided over by Jo and her husband, Professor Bhaer. Jo's boys, including rebellious Dan, sailor Emil, and promising musician Nat, are grown. Jo herself remains at the heart of this tale, holding her boys fast through shipwreck, storm,... Read more
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The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. (Unabridged)
By: W.M. Thackeray
Narrated by: John Cormack
Length: 12 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Set in the second half of the eighteenth century, Barry Lyndon is the fictional autobiography of an adventurer and rogue. Born into the petty Irish gentry, and outmanoeuvred in his first love-affair, a ruined Barry volunteers for the British army. After seeing service in Germany he deserts and, after a brief spell as a spy, pursues the career of... Read more
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The Ambassadors
By: Henry James
Narrated by: Walter Zimmerman
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Introduction by Colm Tóibín
One of the final masterpieces from one of the world’s greatest authors, Henry James’s The Ambassadors is now available for the first time in a Modern Library edition, with a new Introduction by acclaimed novelist Colm Tóibín. A keenly observed tale of a man’s awakening to life, this dark comic novel follows Lewis... Read more
Vanity Fair (Unabridged)
By: W.M. Thackeray
Narrated by: Eric Gillett
Length: 36 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Vanity Fair is the story of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley, who have just completed their studies at Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies and are beginning to embark upon the world. The simple-minded nature of Amelia, who comes from a wealthy family, is contrasted with the strong-willed nature of Becky, who will stop at nothing to climb the... Read more
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The House of Mirth (Unabridged)
By: Edith Wharton
Narrated by: Judith Whale
Length: 14 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
This is a novel of the aristocratic society of New York in the early 1900s. Lily Bart, beautiful, witty and sophisticated, is accepted by 'old money' and courted by the growing tribe of nouveaux riches. But as she nears thirty, her foothold becomes precarious; a poor girl with expensive tastes, she needs a husband to preserve her social... Read more
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