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In Chancery
By: John Galsworthy
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 10 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
John Galsworthy’s epic Forsyte Saga follows the fortunes of the venerable Forsyte family, a moneyed clan whose values are ever at war with its passions. In Chancery, the second novel in the trilogy, follows the events of A Man of Property.After suffering the death of her lover and abuse from her husband, Soames, Irene Forsyte finally leaves her... Read more
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A Room with a View
By: E. M. Forster
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 7 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
E. M. Forster’s celebrated social comedy explores romantic intrigue and prim propriety among a colorful cast of Edwardian characters. Lucy Honeychurch, a young English woman traveling in Italy with her stuffy chaperone aunt, finds herself constrained by the claustrophobic influence of her British guardians and attracted to the free-spirited... Read more
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A Rogue’s Life
By: Wilkie Collins
Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
Length: 5 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
This delightful tale of thwarted ambition and forbidden love follows the adventures and fortunes of an endearing young rogue, Frank Softly. Originally appearing serialized in Household Words in 1859, the rogue is one of Collins' most richly comic creations.Propelled into society by his ever-hopeful father, Frank is introduced to a variety of... Read more
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The Man of Property
By: John Galsworthy
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 13 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
John Galsworthy’s epic Forsyte Saga follows the fortunes of the venerable Forsyte family, a moneyed clan whose passions are ever at war with its values. Galsworthy won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932 “for his distinguished art of narration, which takes its highest form in the Forsyte Saga.”The Man of Property, the first novel in the... Read more
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The Sea Wolf
By: Jack London
Narrated by: Brian Emerson
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
He is a man capable of abandoning two sailors in an open boat, yet he is an avid and thoughtful reader of the moral philosophers. He is Wolf Larsen: captain of the seal-hunting Ghost, the unforgettable protagonist of one of the world's great sea novels. Tormented by his own convictions, Larsen is an enigma both fascinating and repellent to 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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Dubliners
By: James Joyce
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 7 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
James Joyce paints vivid portraits of the poorer classes of Dublin in a collection of stories whose larger purpose, he said, was to depict a "moral history of Ireland." From the first story, in which a young boy encounters death to the haunting final story involving the middle-aged Gabriel, the book gives an unflinchingly realistic portrayal of... 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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Cousin Bette
By: Honoré de Balzac
Narrated by: Johanna Ward
Length: 16 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Bette, a poor relation of the beautiful Adeline, nurses a terrible grudge against her cousin's family, on whom she depends. That family is slowly being ruined by the uncontrollable sexual appetites of Adeline's husband, Baron Hulot—and it is this weakness that will give the cunning Cousin Bette an opportunity to exact her vengeance.A profound... Read more
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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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Little Dorrit
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 31 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Little Amy Dorrit was born in debtor’s prison, where her father, an aristocrat by birth, has been an inmate for the past twenty years.Though her father is too proud to acknowledge their reduced status, Amy secretly works as a seamstress to support her family. In this way she meets and befriends Arthur, her employer’s son, who wants to help.When... Read more
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Hard Times
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 11 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Originally written for Dickens’ weekly magazine, Household Words, this short novel follows the fate of Sissy Jupe, a warm-hearted circus child, and the family that adopts her. Deserted by her ailing father, Sissy is taken into the cold household of the Gradgrind family, which operates a school. The “eminently practical” Thomas Gradgrind believes... Read more
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Captain Blood
By: Rafael Sabatini
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1685, Irish physician Peter Blood is happily settled in a small English town when the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth interrupts the peace. After saving the life of a wounded nobleman who turns out to be a rebel, Blood is charged with treason and sentenced to ten years as an indentured slave in the Caribbean colonies.On the islands, Blood... Read more
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Around the World in Eighty Days
By: Jules Verne
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
The eccentric Phileas Fogg, a distinguished but sedentary member of London’s Reform Club, takes up a wager that he can circle the globe in just eighty days—an amazing feat in the 1870s. What follows is a lively narrative recounting the journey by Fogg and his valet, Passepartout, as they overcome obstacle after obstacle to win the wager with... Read more
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The Arabian Nights
By: Kate Douglas Wiggin & Nora A. Smith
Narrated by: Johanna Ward
Length: 11 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
This collection of some of the best-known and best-loved tales from The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, or The Thousand and One Nights, includes the stories of Sinbad and his voyages, Ali Baba and the cave of the forty thieves, Aladdin and his wonderful lamp, and seven more fantastic tales.In this treasure house of the imagination, you will find... Read more
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Summer
By: Edith Wharton
Narrated by: Grace Conlin
Length: 5 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Wharton's most erotic and lyrical novel, Summer explores a daring theme for 1917: a woman's awakening to her sexuality.Eighteen-year-old Charity Royall lives in the small town of North Dormer, ignorant of desire until the arrival of architect Lucius Harney. Independent yet kept from love until now by society's expectations, Charity finds herself... Read more
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I Will Repay
By: Emma Orczy
Narrated by: Johanna Ward
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
It has been ten years since Juliette de Marny’s father asked her to swear revenge upon Déroulède for the death of her brother in a duel. At last she finds herself in Déroulède’s house with an easy opportunity to betray him to the citizens of France for conspiring against the people. But Juliette realizes, too late, that she is in love with... Read more
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Phineas Finn
By: Anthony Trollope
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 22 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Phineas Finn is an Irish MPA who is climbing the political ladder, largely through the assistance of his string of lovers. The questions he is forced to ask himself about honesty, independence, and parliamentary democracy are questions still asked today.Phineas Finn is the second of Anthony Trollope's six Palliser novels, which together comprise... Read more
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The Awakening
By: Kate Chopin
Narrated by: Grace Conlin
Length: 4 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
First published in 1899, this revolutionary novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, The Awakening has been hailed as an early vision of woman's emancipation. Rooted in the romantic tradition of Melville and Dickinson, it is the story of twenty-eight-year-old Edna... Read more
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From the Earth to the Moon
By: Jules Verne
Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
Length: 5 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Written more than a century before man landed on the moon, this classic adventure tale has proved to be one of Jules Verne’s most prophetic. It is also a forerunner of today’s science fiction.At the close of the Civil War, the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves unemployed and bored. Finally, their president, Impey Barbicane,... Read more
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Peter Simple
By: Frederick Marryat
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 17 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
In this seminal story of naval life during the Napoleonic wars, Frederick Marryat's young hero embarks upon a life at sea and finds it to be a rough school indeed. Simple's trials and triumphs, alongside his faithful mentor, Terence O'Brien, mirror Marryat's personal experience, from the hand-to-hand combat of cutting-out missions to the... Read more
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The Professor
By: Charlotte Brontë
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
William Crimsworth is a young Englishman just out of school and ready to begin a career. With his sense of self-pride and strong moral views, however, he finds the options available to him are far from pleasant. Unwilling to follow the dictates of the moneyed members of his family, he resolves to earn his living as a factory worker. Caught up in... Read more
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The Moon and Sixpence
By: W. Somerset Maugham
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the story of an artist who was willing to sacrifice everything for the sake of art. Charles Strickland, a stock broker in London, seems like a good, honest man. But one day, at the age of forty, heleaves his business, his wife, and his children and goes to Paris. He has neither money nor prospects, and he knows practically nothing about... Read more
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The Good Earth
By: Pearl S. Buck
Narrated by: Anthony Heald
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
This Pulitzer Prize–winning classic tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as it nurtures him and his family. Nearby, the nobles of the House of Hwang consider themselves above the land and its workers, but they will soon meet their... Read more
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