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Scenes of Clerical Life
By: George Eliot
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 14 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
George Eliot's brilliant fiction debut contains three stories from the lives of clergymen, with the aim of disclosing the value hidden in the commonplace."The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton" portrays a character who is hard to like and generally despised—until his suffering shocks others into fellowship and sympathy.In "Mr. Gilfil's... Read more
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Mr. Standfast
By: John Buchan
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 11 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
In this third novel following the espionage exploits of war hero Richard Hannay, the successful brigadier general is recalled from active service on the Western Front for another round in the spy game. His mission: infiltrating an antiwar league to bring down a network of German spies. Reluctantly posing as a pacifist, Hannay takes up his old... Read more
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The Prairie
By: James Fenimore Cooper
Narrated by: Noah Waterman
Length: 14 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
The Prairie marks the final chapter in James Fenimore Cooper’s great saga of American frontiersman Natty Bumppo. Though nearly ninety in 1804, Bumppo, now on the Great Plains, is still a competent frontiersman and trapper. Once more he is drawn into conflict with society in the form of an emigrant party led by the surly Ishmael Bush and his... Read more
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Vanity Fair
By: William Makepeace Thackeray
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 29 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
“Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?”Generally considered to be Thackeray’s masterpiece, Vanity Fair is a resplendent social satire that exposes the greed and corruption raging in England during the turmoil of the Napoleonic wars. Subtitled A Novel without a Hero, it traces the changing... Read more
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The Poison Belt
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: Fred Williams
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Professor Challenger summons his three best friends to come to his country house, each one to bring a cylinder of pure oxygen. When they arrive, the reason for this strange request becomes terrifyingly clear. Professor Challenger has become convinced that the earth is entering a poison belt of ether and that life upon this planet is doomed.In a... Read more
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The Wings of the Dove
By: Henry James
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 18 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Henry James' classic morality tale tells of a triangle of friends and lovers doomed to treachery by overreaching desire.In early-twentieth-century London, Kate Croy is secretly engaged to Merton Denscher, a journalist possessed of all the qualities of an ideal husband except for money. By chance, Kate befriends American heiress Milly Theale, who... Read more
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Catriona
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
In this sequel to the highland adventure Kidnapped, young David Balfour must defend himself and his friend, Alan Breck Stewart, against false murder charges, becoming further entangled in a political conspiracy between feuding Scottish clans. His new adventure will include shipwreck, murder, intrigue, and a Scottish lass named Catriona, with... Read more
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Something Fresh
By: P. G. Wodehouse
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Welcome to Blandings Castle, a place that is never itself without an imposter.Wodehouse himself once noted that "Blandings has impostors like other houses have mice." On this particular occasion there are two, both intent on a dangerous enterprise. Lord Emsworth's secretary, the Efficient Baxter, is on the alert and determined to discover what... Read more
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Bleak House
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 32 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Bleak House opens in a London shrouded by fog—a fog that swirls most densely about the Court of Chancery, where the obscure case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce lies lost in endless litigation, slowly devouring an inheritance in legal costs.Against this ominous background, Dickens’ rich tapestry of a novel weaves together the fortunes and desires of... Read more
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Oliver Twist
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 16 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
One of Dickens’ most popular novels, Oliver Twist tells the story of a young workhouse orphan who escapes into the mean backstreets of Victorian London. There, he is thrust into a den of thieves where some of Dickens’ most depraved villains preside: the incorrigible Artful Dodger, the barbarous bully Bill Sikes, and the terrible Fagin, whose... Read more
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
By: Jules Verne
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 11 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Follow along on this fantastic voyage as Professor Arronax, Ned, and Beth set out to capture a terrifying sea monster—before it captures them."The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten…For some time past, vessels had been met by 'an enormous thing,' a... Read more
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Queen Lucia
By: E. F. Benson
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 8 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
England between the wars was a paradise of calm and leisure for the very, very rich. Into this enclave is born Mrs. Emmeline Lucas—La Lucia, as she is known—a woman determined to lead a life quite different from the subdued formality of her class.With her cohort, Georgie Pillson, and her husband, Peppino, Lucia upends the greats of high society:... Read more
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Le Morte d’Arthur, Vol. 2
By: Thomas Malory
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 17 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
This monumental work made the Arthurian cycle available for the first time in English. Malory took a body of legends from Celtic folklore that had been adapted into French literature, gave them an English perspective, and produced a work which ever since has had tremendous influence upon literature.The story begins with King Uther Pendragon’s... Read more
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Le Morte d’Arthur, Vol. 1
By: Thomas Malory
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 15 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
This monumental work made the Arthurian cycle available for the first time in English. Malory took a body of legends from Celtic folklore that had been adapted into French literature, gave them an English perspective, and produced a work which ever since has had tremendous influence upon literature.The story begins with King Uther Pendragon’s... Read more
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Agnes Grey
By: Anne Brontë
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Written when she was twenty-six, Agnes Grey is Anne Brontë's first novel. It tells the story of a rector's daughter who has to earn her living as a governess when her family enters a financial crisis. Drawing directly from her own experiences, Anne Brontë set out to describe the immense pressures that the governess' life involved: the... Read more
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
By: Anne Brontë
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson & Wanda McCaddon
Length: 15 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Like her sisters Emily and Charlotte, Anne Brontë published under a male pseudonym, yet still this novel was scorned by many for its exposure of the abusive male chauvinism that was concealed, like all things sexual, during the Victorian Era.Just as Anne had to use a male pseudonym in order to publish, Helen Graham, the novel’s protagonist and a... Read more
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One of Ours
By: Willa Cather
Narrated by: Kristen Underwood
Length: 14 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Willa Cather’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel tells of the making of a young American soldier.Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist, 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... Read more
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Moll Flanders
By: Daniel Defoe
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 11 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Possibly the first novel in the English language, Moll Flanders is the fictional autobiography of a delightfully scandalous young female rogue. Born in Newgate Prison in seventeenth-century England, Moll is predestined to poverty and lawlessness, yet relentlessly driven to overcome her fate. Donning whatever mask suits her best in the moment,... Read more
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Dracula
By: Bram Stoker
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 14 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
This blood-curdling tale of thirsty vampires continues to hold audiences spellbound more than a century after its publication.Summoned to assist with legal matters regarding a real estate transaction, young Englishman Jonathan Harker journeys to the dismal, dreary castle of Count Dracula in Transylvania. The fledgling solicitor is completely... Read more
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Rob Roy
By: Walter Scott
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 18 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Rob Roy MacGregor is the romantic outlaw who comes alive in Sir Walter Scott's classic epic of the passions and struggles of the Scottish border lands.In rich, vivid prose, Rob Roy follows the adventures of Frank Osbaldistone, who falls out of favor with his father after failing to measure up to his expectations in the world of business. Sent to... Read more
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Daniel Deronda
By: George Eliot
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 30 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the masterpieces of English literature, Daniel Deronda tells the intertwined stories of two different characters as they each come to discover of the truth of their natures.Gwendolen Harleth is the high-spirited beauty of an impoverished upper-class family. In order to restore their fortunes, she unwittingly traps herself in an oppressive... Read more
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The Return of the Native
By: Thomas Hardy
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 14 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
In the barren moor of Egdon Heath, a wild tract of country in the southwest of England, one native yearns to escape to city life while another has just returned from that life, unimpressed.Clym Yeobright, a former diamond merchant in Paris, returns home to become a schoolmaster in Egdon, where he falls passionately in love with the sensuous,... Read more
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Madame de Treymes and Two Novellas
By: Edith Wharton
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Madame de Treymes follows the fortunes of two innocents abroad: Fanny Frisbee of New York, unhappily married to the dissolute Marquis de Malrive, scion of a great house of the Faubourg St. Germain; and John Durham, her childhood friend, who arrives in Paris intent on persuading Fanny to divorce her husband and marry him instead. A scintillating... Read more
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Trilby
By: George du Maurier
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 10 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Trilby opens in the Latin Quarter of nineteenth-century Paris, where Trilby O'Ferrall is working 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—Europe's most captivating soprano—but her... Read more
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