Showing results by publisher "RNIB" in Classics
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The Portrait of a Lady
- By: Henry James
- Narrated by: Marvin Kane
- Length: 24 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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The novel tells the story of beautiful, intelligent, and headstrong Isabel Archer, as she leaves her native America and embarks on a journey of self discovery in Europe. Published as a book in 1881, it explores his familiar themes including the conflict between American individualism and European social custom and the situation of Americans in Europe. It also treats in a profound way the themes of personal freedom, responsibility, betrayal, and sexuality.
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The Portrait of a Lady
- Narrated by: Marvin Kane
- Length: 24 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 26-01-09
- Language: English
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Robinson Crusoe
- By: Daniel Defoe
- Narrated by: Duncan Carse
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Robinson Crusoe is Daniel Defoe's classic novel of shipwreck and survival, now nearly 300 years old.
The story is a fictional autobiography of the title character, an English castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island, encountering Native Americans, captives, and mutineers. This is the tale of an ordinary man struggling to survive in extraordinary circumstances. Robinson Crusoe wrestles with fate and the nature of God.
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If you like the 1950's
- By Her Majesty's Servant on 07-03-15
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Robinson Crusoe
- Narrated by: Duncan Carse
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 14-08-09
- Language: English
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Gulliver's Travels
- By: Jonathan Swift
- Narrated by: John Richmond
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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One of the great literary classics of Western literature, Gulliver's Travels is a powerful satire on mankind, morals, and social habits, written in the form of a Travel in Wonderland.
The most celebrated novel by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) is a culmination of his active years in politics with the Whigs and then the Tories.
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Gulliver's Travels
- Narrated by: John Richmond
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 30-09-08
- Language: English
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Daisy Miller
- By: Henry James
- Narrated by: Peter Marinker
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
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Published in 1878, portrays the courtship of the beautiful American girl Daisy Miller by Frederick Winterbourne. Winterbourne's pursuit of her is hampered by her own flirtatiousness, which is frowned upon by the other expatriates they meet in Switzerland and Italy. The the novel coments on the contrast between American and European society that is common to James's work.
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Brilliant reading of classic short
- By Alan on 26-12-18
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Daisy Miller
- Narrated by: Peter Marinker
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 31-07-09
- Language: English
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Stephen Jack
- Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented was Thomas Hardy's penultimate novel.
First published in 1891 and now considered a great classic of English literature, the book received mixed reviews when it first appeared, in part because it challenged the sexual mores of Hardy's day.
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excellence of hardys narrative
- By Simon on 11-02-10
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- Narrated by: Stephen Jack
- Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 14-08-09
- Language: English
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Little Women
- By: Louisa May Alcott
- Narrated by: Gabriel Woolf
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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Little Women or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott. Written and published in two parts in 1868 and 1869, the novel tells the story of a year in the life of the March family. We hear of their troubles and joys and come to sympathise with each character: maturing Meg, gifted Jo, gentle Beth and lively Amy, as they extend their kindness to all around them. Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888) was an American novelist.
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DidnT get whole book
- By Sophie M. on 06-08-18
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Little Women
- Narrated by: Gabriel Woolf
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 17-03-09
- Language: English
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Uncle Bernac
- A Memory of Empire
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Gabriel Woolf
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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First published in 1897, this murder mystery relates the story of a young Frenchman, Louis, who, having grown up in England, returns to France at the false invitation of his Uncle Bernac. Louis quickly finds himself in personal danger as well as involved in a conspiracy against Napoleon.
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Uncle Bernac
- A Memory of Empire
- Narrated by: Gabriel Woolf
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 13-03-09
- Language: English
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The Ambassadors
- By: Henry James
- Narrated by: Peter Gray
- Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
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Here is Henry James' dark comedic masterpiece, written in the final period of his life. Lambert Strether goes to Paris to bring back Chad, son of the wealthy New England widow he plans to marry. But he gradually comes to feel that life in Paris may hold more for him than in Woollett, Massachusetts.
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Not well read
- By Ruby on 17-02-09
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The Ambassadors
- Narrated by: Peter Gray
- Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 03-10-08
- Language: English
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The Wings of the Dove
- By: Henry James
- Narrated by: Marvin Kane
- Length: 20 hrs and 40 mins
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This 1902 novel tells the story of Milly Theale, an American heiress suffering from an incurable disease, who comes to Europe in search of happiness. Through Milly's experiences in London and the new friends she makes, some with honorable motives, while others are more self-interested, James examines the collision of the emerging New World and Europe.
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The Wings of the Dove
- Narrated by: Marvin Kane
- Length: 20 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 26-03-09
- Language: English
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Madame Bovary
- By: Gustave Flaubert
- Narrated by: John Richmond
- Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
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Madame Bovary is the first novel by French novelist Gustave Flaubert. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, a bored provincial housewife, who abandons her husband to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair.
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Good reading...
- By Laura on 29-01-11
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Madame Bovary
- Narrated by: John Richmond
- Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 07-08-09
- Language: English
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Roderick Hudson
- By: Henry James
- Narrated by: Peter Marinker
- Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
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Roderick Hudson is one of Henry James's first novels.
Originally published in 1875 as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly, it traces the development of the title character, a sculptor. Funded by the wealthy Rowland Mallet, Roderick Hudson travels from America to Rome, where he becomes the talk of the city. He soon finds that Europe tests him in ways he had not anticipated, both as an artist and as a man.
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Roderick Hudson
- Narrated by: Peter Marinker
- Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 14-08-09
- Language: English
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