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Jezebel’s Daughter
By: Wilkie Collins
Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
Length: 10 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Set in the financial centres of 1820s Frankfurt and London, Jezebel’s Daughter (1880) tells the story of two widows: Madame Fontaine, who will go to any lengths to secure her daughter’s marriage, and Mrs Wagner, who devotes herself to her late husband’s social reforms. In pursuit of her endeavours, Mrs Wagner befriends Jack Straw, a former... Read more
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Against Nature
By: Joris-Karl Huysmans
Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
Length: 7 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Published in 1884, Against Nature (À rebours) concerns the attempts of its cultured and neurotic anti-hero, Des Esseintes, to escape contemporary Parisian life. At his rural retreat he is able to indulge his particular artistic tastes as he muses on a range of topics including literature, religion and painting. Although regarded as shocking on... Read more
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The Crock of Gold
By: James Stephens
Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
Length: 5 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the great novels in the Irish comic tradition, The Crock of Gold (1912) consists of six parts. Bringing together pagan gods, policemen, prisoners, leprechauns and animals, the narrative concerns a philosopher and his quest to find the most beautiful woman in the world, Cáitilin Ni Murrachu, who has been abducted by the god Pan. His... Read more
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This Side of Paradise
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Narrated by: Adam Sims
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
First published in 1920, This Side of Paradise proved to be a best-selling novel in Fitzgerald’s own lifetime. The book follows the early life and education of Amory Blaine and is, in fact, a thinly disguised account of Fitzgerald’s own experience as an undergraduate at Princeton and as an aspiring writer. Brilliantly original in its... Read more
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The Stolen Body (Unabridged)
By: H. G. Wells
Narrated by: Sam Kusi
Length: 42 minutes
Abridged: No
A pair of casual paranormal researchers are experimenting with the idea of astral projection. One night, one of them inadvertently succeeds in projecting his spirit from his body, which is then taken possession of by a malevolent entity in his absence. Read more
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Märchen von der Unke - Märchenstunde, Folge 176 (Ungekürzt)
By: Brüder Grimm
Narrated by: Viola Gabor
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Ein kleines Kind, das von seiner Mutter nachmittags Milch und Brötchenstücke bekommt, lässt im Hof auch eine Unke davon trinken und ruft sie sogar, wenn sie nicht kommt: "Unke, Unke, komm geschwind, komm herbei, du kleines Ding, sollst dein Bröckchen haben, an der Milch dich laben." Die Unke dankt es ihr mit Steinen, Perlen und goldenem... Read more
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The Turnip - Story Time, Episode 53 (Unabridged)
By: Brothers Grimm
Narrated by: Robin Nixon
Length: 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Two brothers, one rich, one poor, served as soldiers, but the poor one had to become a farmer to escape his poverty. One of his turnips grew to an enormous size, and he gave it to the king. The king gave him rich presents in return. Read more
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Rocambole II
By: Pierre-Alexis Ponson du Terrail
Narrated by: Philippe Caulier
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Nous poursuivons dans ce deuxième tome les aventures du Vicomte de Kergaz aux prises avec l'infâme Andréa. Nous les avions quittés alors qu'Andréa semblait triompher sur tous les points : Fernand Rocher était prisonnier, Cerise et Jeanne séquestrées et Baccarat enfin, enfermée comme folle. Comment Armand de Kergaz pourra-t-il retrouver la trace... Read more
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Essays in the Art of Writing (Unabridged)
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrated by: Carl Mason
Length: 2 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Essays in the Art of Writing Robert Louis Stevenson examines the techniques of writing, and gives insights into the writing of "Treasure Island" and "The Master of Ballantrae."CONTENTS On Some Technical Elements of Style in Literature, The Morality of the Profession of Letters, Books Which Have Influenced Me, A Note On Realism, My First Book:... Read more
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The New Accelerator (Unabridged)
By: H. G. Wells
Narrated by: Sam Kusi
Length: 36 minutes
Abridged: No
The New Accelerator features a fascinating depiction of the invention of what sounds a lot like an amphetamine (though technically they had already been invented a dozen years earlier). It will also remind Star Trek fans of the episode called Wink of an Eye. Read more
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Lieb und Leid teilen - Märchenstunde, Folge 175 (Ungekürzt)
By: Brüder Grimm
Narrated by: Viola Gabor
Length: 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Ein böser Schneider schlägt seine gute Frau, bis er ins Gefängnis kommt. Er muss Besserung geloben, Lieb und Leid mit seiner Frau zu teilen. Er wird rückfällig, doch statt zu schlagen rauft er ihre Haare, wirft ihr Elle und Schere nach. Vor Gericht sagt er, er wollte ihre Haare richten, und mit den Würfen daran erinnern, dass sie ihn nicht... Read more
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The Travelling Musicians - Story Time, Episode 52 (Unabridged)
By: Brothers Grimm
Narrated by: Robin Nixon
Length: 7 minutes
Abridged: No
In a sometimes meandering, intermittently rhyming narrative, Page retells the Brothers Grimm tale about four animals who set out to make a new life for themselves after their masters reject them. Read more
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Läuschen und Flöhchen - Märchenstunde, Folge 174 (Ungekürzt)
By: Brüder Grimm
Narrated by: Viola Gabor
Length: 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Läuschen und Flöhchen brauen Bier. Läuschen verbrennt sich, worauf Flöhchen schreit, das Türchen knarrt, das Besenchen kehrt, das Wägelchen rennt, das Misthäufchen brennt, das Bäumchen sich schüttelt, das Mädchen sein Wasserkrüglein zerbricht, das Brünnlein fließt und dadurch alles ertränkt. Read more
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A Funny Man's Dream
By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Narrated by: Fred Wolinsky
Length: 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Dostoyevsky was never shy to play with the issues of human mind in his work. A funny man's dream is one of his shorter pieces that, nevertheless, lacks none of the profundity or the mind-bending power of his larger works. Read more
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Tender is the Night (Unabridged)
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Narrated by: Mark Young
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Dick and Nicole Diver are a glamorous couple who rent a villa in the South of France and surround themselves with a coterie of American expatriates. Rosemary Hoyt, a 17-year-old actress, and her mother are staying at a nearby resort. Rosemary becomes infatuated with Dick and becomes close to Nicole. Read more
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Kipps
By: H.G Wells
Narrated by: Simon Hester
Length: 13 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
First published in 1905 Kipps soon became H.G Wells’ most popular novel. It is a rags to riches story of a “simple soul” Arthur Kipps, a naïve young man who finds himself suddenly struggling to keep afloat in the deep waters of unlooked for wealth. He reaches out to those he considers his betters to anchor himself in this new world, so far... Read more
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The Innocence of Father Brown
By: G. K. Chesterton
Narrated by: Allan Monteiro
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Chesterton portrays Father Brown as a short, stumpy Roman Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, and an uncanny insight into human evil. "How in Tartarus," cried Flambeau, "did you ever hear of the spiked bracelet?" -- "Oh, one's little flock, you know!" said Father Brown, arching his eyebrows rather blankly. "When I was a... Read more
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The Three Languages - Story Time, Episode 51 (Unabridged)
By: Brothers Grimm
Narrated by: Robin Nixon
Length: 5 minutes
Abridged: No
A count's only son could learn nothing. Three times the count sent him for a year to famous masters. Each time, the son came back: saying first that he knew what dogs said when they barked; the next time, what birds said; and finally, what frogs said. Infuriated by his uselessness, his father ordered his people to take him to the woods and kill... Read more
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The Prince and the Pauper (Unabridged)
By: Mark Twain
Narrated by: Gary Williams
Length: 8 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
The Prince and the Pauper is a novel by American author Mark Twain. It was first published in 1881 in Canada, before its 1882 publication in the United States. The novel represents Twain's first attempt at historical fiction. Set in 1547, it tells the story of two young boys who were born on the same day and are identical in appearance: Tom... Read more
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Die neuen Schatzsucher (Ungekürzt)
By: E. Nesbit & Jörg Karau
Narrated by: Viola Gabor
Length: 8 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Wir Bastables haben nur zwei Onkel und keiner von ihnen ist unser Verwandter von Geburt. Einer ist ein Großonkel und der andere ist von Geburt der Onkel Alberts, der bei uns nebenan in der Lewisham Road wohnte. Als wir ihn kennenlernten (es war bei ein paar Ofenkartoffeln und ist eine ganz andere Geschichte), nannten wir ihn Albert-von-nebenans... Read more
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Reprinted Pieces (Unabridged)
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Gary Appleton
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
There was once a child, and he strolled about a good deal, and thought of a number of things. He had a sister, who was a child too, and his constant companion. These two used to wonder all day long. They wondered at the beauty of the flowers; they wondered at the height and blueness of the sky; they wondered at the depth of the bright water. Read more
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The Magic Shop (Unabridged)
By: H. G. Wells
Narrated by: Sam Kusi
Length: 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Out for a walk in London one day, Gip and his father happen upon a magic shop. At Gip's urging, the two go in - and things grow more and more curious by the minute. Counters, store fixtures, and mirrors seem to move around the room, and the shopkeeper is most mysterious of all. Gip is thrilled by all he sees, and his father is at first amused,... Read more
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Israel Potter - His Fifty Years of Exile (Unabridged)
By: Herman Melville
Narrated by: Bryan Godwin
Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Herman Melville's "Israel Potter" is the Fictionalised tale of a man who really did fight in the American Revolution a man who lived a life of very real adventure. After fighting in the revolution, he went on to be a part of the newly-established United States Navy, ended up serving as a secret courier for Benjamin Franklin Bits of this are... Read more
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The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean - Story Time, Episode 50 (Unabridged)
By: Brothers Grimm
Narrated by: Robin Nixon
Length: 3 minutes
Abridged: No
An old woman has some beans that she intends to cook over her fire. Being in a hurry, she grabs some straw to make the fire light faster. She pours the beans in the pot and, being in a hurry, she drops one on the floor which lands next to a piece of straw. Read more
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