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The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems
- By: Alexander Pope
- Narrated by: Emilia Fox
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
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'The Rape of the Lock' was one of Alexander Pope's most popular poems. It was a satirical attempt to reconcile the real-life warring of two Catholic families whose feud had started with the supposed nicking of a lock of hair from the undeniably beautiful head of Arabella Fermor by her admirer, Lord Petre.
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Great reading: selection of poems could be better
- By Stewart Gardiner on 15-01-17
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The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems
- Narrated by: Emilia Fox
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 18-11-15
- Language: English
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Heart of Darkness
- By: Joseph Conrad
- Narrated by: Toby Stephens
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
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Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is an exploration of the nature of evil and how far a man can go towards it when released from the constraints of what can be called civilisation. Before beginning his life as a writer at the age of 36, Conrad spent 16 years as a merchant seaman. In 1889 he became captain of a steamboat in the Congo Free State, and the atrocities he witnessed there, perpetrated by the representatives of the Belgian colonial powers, led him to write what he called his Congo Diary.
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Fab 👍
- By MiriTheGreat on 01-11-21
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Heart of Darkness
- Narrated by: Toby Stephens
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 16-11-15
- Language: English
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Washington Square
- By: Henry James
- Narrated by: Jennifer Ehle
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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The battle between a father and a daughter is usually portrayed in literature as a struggle between a headstrong but feisty girl and a tradition-bound lead weight of a father. Henry James, of course, had to do it somewhat differently. He tells a story of an intelligent man riding the turn of the tide in mid-19th-century New York and watching what he sees as his numbingly dull and conventional daughter making the mistake of her life in her choice of husband.
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The performance great ....story not so
- By Susan Joy on 14-06-19
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Washington Square
- Narrated by: Jennifer Ehle
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 19-11-15
- Language: English
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The Aspern Papers
- By: Henry James
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
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One of the wittiest and most scathing of Henry James' novellas, The Aspern Papers chronicles the attempt to extract the valuable letters of the famous and recently deceased poet Jeffrey Aspern from the hands of his past lover and formidable adversary in the battle Juliana Bordereau. The plot was reputedly suggested to James by a story he heard of an illicit attempt to get hold of several of Lord Byron's letters.
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Obsession...
- By FictionFan on 07-12-23
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The Aspern Papers
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 13-11-15
- Language: English
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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
- By: Tobias Smollett
- Narrated by: June Whitfield, Suzy Aitchison, Hywel Simons, and others
- Length: 17 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Written as the letters of the five members of Squire Bramble's household sent as they journey around Britain, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker is a grouchy, very funny examination of how one story varies depending on who's doing the telling. The tale is centered around the arrival of Mr. Clinker into the otherwise uneventful household, who never speaks and does not even enter the novel until a third of the way through.
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Immersive and atmospheric
- By Jamie Barron on 10-02-23
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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
- Narrated by: June Whitfield, Suzy Aitchison, Hywel Simons, Ioen Meredith
- Length: 17 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 16-11-15
- Language: English
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The Just So Stories
- By: Rudyard Kipling
- Narrated by: Art Malik
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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'In the high and far off times...' begins Rudyard Kipling’s 'How the Elephant Got His Trunk', and off we are taken by one of the most supreme storytellers into a world where children’s questions are turned neatly on their heads, and questions are provided which, far from stopping the stream of enquiries, only serve to make it gush faster.
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The Just So Stories
- Narrated by: Art Malik
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 17-11-15
- Language: English
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The Miller's Tale
- With Spoken Notes by Terry Jones
- By: Geoffrey Chaucer
- Narrated by: Terry Jones
- Length: 39 mins
- Unabridged
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In his own inimitable style, Terry Jones leads you through Chaucer's filthy and very funny tale of adultery, the feared coming of the second flood and burnt bums. The Canterbury Tales broke the literary mould in many ways. It established English as an acceptable language for literature, where previously it had been almost exclusively Latin or Norman French. It was also one of the first books to create a link between all the pieces of work in a literary collection.
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Entertaining and Educational. A great performance
- By D john on 24-10-18
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The Miller's Tale
- With Spoken Notes by Terry Jones
- Narrated by: Terry Jones
- Length: 39 mins
- Release date: 17-11-15
- Language: English
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Sonnets from the Portuguese
- By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Narrated by: Jane Horrocks
- Length: 41 mins
- Unabridged
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The love affair between Elizabeth Barrett-Browning and Robert Browning is one of the most famous in literature. It begins in 1844 with Elizabeth Barrett, closeted in her room for five years through ill health and forbidden from marrying by her nonconformist father, publishing the most recent of her highly successful literary works, a collection of poetry. The poems prompt a letter from Robert Browning in praise of her work, which so touches her that she agrees to let him into her voluntary seclusion.
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Sonnets from the Portuguese
- Narrated by: Jane Horrocks
- Length: 41 mins
- Release date: 18-11-15
- Language: English
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A Christmas Carol
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: George Cole
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
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Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without A Christmas Carol. At the time Dickens was writing it, many of the time-honoured customs linked with Christmas were beginning to disappear. It is largely due to this book that we carry with us much of the imagery that is now associated with the traditional celebration and spirit of Christmas.
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Not in love with it
- By Mrs Pat McKnight on 02-02-20
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A Christmas Carol
- Narrated by: George Cole
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 02-11-15
- Language: English
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The Chronicles of Clovis
- By: H. H. Munro - Saki
- Narrated by: Ian Richardson
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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The Chronicles of Clovis, published in 1911, was the third in Saki (H. H. Munro)'s series of very funny and very vicious stories. As an insider, Saki was ideally poised to eviscerate the Edwardian middle class way of life, and his pitiless and magnetic sense of humour - teamed with an ability to wield that sharpest of writer's tools, the (very) short story - makes these some of the funniest and most quotable of tales. All of the running themes in Saki's work are here.
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Perfect reading - attrocious audio quality
- By APD on 11-02-17
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The Chronicles of Clovis
- Narrated by: Ian Richardson
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 13-11-15
- Language: English
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Northanger Abbey
- By: Jane Austen
- Narrated by: Lynn Redgrave
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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This is Jane Austen's lighthearted lesson in what you get for reading too many gothic novels. It is a mark of the astonishing talent of the woman, however, that even a flippant swipe at the trashy reading of the day turned out to be an elegant if extremely funny classic. Catherine Morland is another one of those Austen girls who, in spite of her gloriously ironic portrait as a romantic heroine in training, ends up being someone whose story you'd follow to the end of the world, or at least until the end of the book.
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Bath as a marriage market...
- By Esteban on 25-09-17
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Northanger Abbey
- Narrated by: Lynn Redgrave
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 17-11-15
- Language: English
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Fairy Stories
- By: The Brothers Grimm
- Narrated by: Anna Massey
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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These fairy tales are nasty. This is the land of goblins and sorceresses, with serious lines in revenge, not the land of unicorns and once upon a Barbie. The tales that the Brothers Grimm collected during their time as linguistics professors, first at the University of Göttingen and then in Berlin, at the request of the King of Prussia, were an attempt to map the folklore of the German-speaking people.
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Far too repetitive
- By timeout on 27-11-20
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Fairy Stories
- Narrated by: Anna Massey
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 16-11-15
- Language: English
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A Study in Scarlet
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Richard E. Grant
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
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In 1886 Arthur Conan Doyle, whilst struggling to make a success of a failing medical practice in Portsmouth, set about writing a novel in order to boost his income. He began a story about a fiercely intelligent sleuth called Sheridan Hope. A year later A Study in Scarlet was published, and one of the most successful of literary characters began to take hold of the public's affections.
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A Study in Scarlet
- Narrated by: Richard E. Grant
- Series: Sherlock Holmes, Book 1
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 02-11-15
- Language: English
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The Card
- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: Stephen Thompkinson
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
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Written in 1911, The Card is the story of Edward Henry (Denry) Machin, who rises from washerwoman's son to the Mayor of Bursley (Burslem in the Potteries town of Stoke-on-Trent) via a mixture of gentle deceit and personal hype. He is literally a trickster of confidence. His rise to fame is begun at an exclusive ball to which he has got himself invited, where he has the audacity to claim a dance with the glamourous but imposing Countess of Chell.
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Bennett’s use of language is a pure pleasure
- By Squeaky Joe on 21-09-19
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The Card
- Narrated by: Stephen Thompkinson
- Series: The Five Towns
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 13-11-15
- Language: English
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The Return of the Native
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Oliver Cotton
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
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Eustacia Vye's great desire in life was to be loved to madness, and in this, one of Thomas Hardy's best-loved novels, one of his most superb female characters conducts her wild and lethal campaign against her rival - the innocent, rather conventional Thomas - against the backdrop of Egdon Heath, the equally wild and lethal Dorset moorland on which Hardy grew up.
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The Return of the Native
- Narrated by: Oliver Cotton
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 18-11-15
- Language: English
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Silas Marner
- By: George Eliot
- Narrated by: Sian Phillips
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
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Framed for a theft he didn’t commit and expelled from the church which has been his life, Silas Marner, the weaver, exiles himself to the remote rural village of Raveloe to bury himself in making money with his loom. The arrival of a golden-haired orphan toddler at his door, however, drags the recluse back into the world and away from his obsession with his hoard.
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A welcome return to George Eliot
- By Alphaville on 03-05-17
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Silas Marner
- Narrated by: Sian Phillips
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 18-11-15
- Language: English
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The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- By: Geoffrey Chaucer
- Narrated by: Terry Jones
- Length: 59 mins
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Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is one of the most influential pieces of writing in the British literary cannon. It helped to establish English, rather than Latin or Norman French, as an acceptable language for literature. It was also one of the earliest pieces of work to have story linking - what had previously been just collected writings which the author deemed interesting.
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Absolutely superb.. 💕
- By Straycat on 17-03-20
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The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- Narrated by: Terry Jones
- Length: 59 mins
- Release date: 18-11-15
- Language: English
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The Man of Property
- By: John Galsworthy
- Narrated by: Michael Cochrane
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
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The Man of Property, the first in the long series of novels written by John Galsworthy known as the Forsyte Saga, was written in 1906. It was the second novel that Galsworthy had published under his own name, the four novels previous to this being published privately under the pseudonym John Sinjohn. And, unlike its predecessors, it was a great success. It examined and dissected the habits, manners, snobberies and increasingly suffocating moral code of the upper-middle classes to which he belonged.
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A minor masterpiece?
- By Mark Eldridge on 11-05-20
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The Man of Property
- Narrated by: Michael Cochrane
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 17-11-15
- Language: English
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Three Men in a Boat
- To Say Nothing of the Dog
- By: Jerome K Jerome
- Narrated by: Nickolas Grace
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
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Three Men in a Boat was intended to be a serious travel guide. It failed dismally in this respect but succeeded in becoming an hilarious account of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The three men were based on the author and two of his friends. The holiday was a typical boating holiday of its time, carried out on what was known as a Thames camping skiff. The dog, Montmorency, however, was entirely fictional, but, as Jerome remarked, 'had much of me in it'.
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Three Men in a Boat
- To Say Nothing of the Dog
- Narrated by: Nickolas Grace
- Series: Three Men, Book 1
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 18-11-15
- Language: English
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The Real Thing and Other Stories
- By: Henry James
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
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Illusion and love - two of James' favourite things - grin thorough this collection of funny and wicked tales. The illusion of social class, a favourite stamping ground for James, is explored in the glittering social comedy "The Real Thing", first published in 1892, in which an artist attempts vainly to capture the nature of aristocracy via painting what he takes to be 'real' members of that social group.
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The Real Thing and Other Stories
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 18-11-15
- Language: English
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