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Barchester Towers
By: Anthony Trollope
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 18 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
This magnificent sequel to The Warden satirizes the struggle for ascendancy among the clergy of a cathedral city as they contend for each newly vacant post within the archdiocese.The contest for power is between Archdeacon Grantly and his followers, who favor high-church tendencies, and the new bishop and his followers, with their distinctly... Read more
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Short Stories by Saki
By: Hector Hugh Munro
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson & Wanda McCaddon
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Hector Monro, writing under the pseudonym of Saki, is justly renowned for his urbane and witty short stories. His eccentric characters, humorous dialogue, and engaging domestic situations all reveal a penetrating and sometimes disturbing insight into human nature. As a quixotic tour guide, Saki leads the reader from garden party to pig sty to... Read more
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Don Quixote de la Mancha
By: Miguel de Cervantes
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 36 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
With a wealth of fancy and an irrepressible high spirit, this beloved adventure story pokes fun at the exaggerated social and literary conventions of Cervantes’ day. Driven mad by reading too many chivalric romances, Don Quixote decks himself out in rusty armor and a cardboard helmet, determined to become a knight-errant and roam the world... Read more
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In the Reign of Terror
By: G. A. Henty
Narrated by: Stuart Langton
Length: 8 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
When young Harry Sandwith, a Westminster boy, becomes a resident at the chateau of a French marquis, he begins a series of adventures with the family. One day, an ill-advised trip takes them to Paris at the height of the French Revolution. Suddenly Harry and his party are beset with perils at every turn. As they struggle to escape, imprisonment... Read more
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War and Peace
By: Leo Tolstoy
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 61 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once a historical war epic, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit.Noted for its mastery of realistic detail and psychological analysis, War and Peace follows the metamorphosis of five aristocratic families against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars.... Read more
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The Elusive Pimpernel
By: Emma Orczy
Narrated by: Johanna Ward
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
It's the early days of the French Republic, and Robespierre's revolutionaries find their wicked schemes repeatedly thwarted by the cunning and heroic Pimpernel—in reality, Sir Percival Blakeney. Now, Monsieur Chauvelin devises a dastardly plot to annihilate both Sir Percy and his beautiful wife Marguerite once and for all. Lured to France, where... Read more
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The Castle of Otranto
By: Horace Walpole
Narrated by: Tony Jay
Length: 3 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed under mysterious circumstances. His calculating father, Manfred, fears that his dynasty will now come to an end and determines to marry his son’s bride himself—despite the fact he is already married. But a series of terrifying supernatural omens soon threaten this... Read more
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Thérèse Raquin
By: Émile Zola
Narrated by: Traci Svendsgaard
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Thérèse Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. The numbing tedium of her life is suddenly shattered when she embarks on a turbulent affair with her husband’s earthy friend, Laurent. But their passion for each other soon compels the lovers to commit a... Read more
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The Adventures of Sally
By: P. G. Wodehouse
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Pretty, impecunious Sally Nicholas never dreamed a fortune could prove a disadvantage, until she becomes an heiress and watches in bewilderment as her orderly existence goes haywire. Coping first with her brother’s wild theatrical ambitions, then with the defection of her fiancé and his immediate replacement by a much more appropriate but... Read more
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Elsie in New York and The Purple Dress
By: O. Henry
Narrated by: Susan McCarthy, David Thorn & Bobbie Frohman
Length: 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Two delightful tales by one of America’s favorite storytellers.In “Elsie in New York,” Elsie is an innocent young woman who, upon the death of her father, must look for work to make a living. Her father expected her to trust to the goodheartedness of his previous employer, but Elsie prefers to make her own way in life. Although she visits an... Read more
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The Screwtape Letters
By: C. S. Lewis
Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
Length: 3 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
A timeless classic on “Hell’s latest novelties and Heaven’s unanswerable answer”A masterpiece of satire, this classic work has entertained and enlightened readers the world over with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to “Our Father Below.” At once wildly comic,... Read more
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The Cossacks
By: Leo Tolstoy
Narrated by: David Thorn
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Olenin is an aimless young nobleman who is disenchanted with city life. Taking a post as a Cadet in the army, he finds himself assigned to the remote Cossack outpost in the Caucasus. It is here, among the Tatars, the Chechens, and the Old Believers, that he will fall in love with a beautiful Cossack girl. The only problem is that she is promised... Read more
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The Light That Failed
By: Rudyard Kipling
Narrated by: David Thorn, Stuart Bennett, Kevin Kennedy, Mar...
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Dick Heldar is a war correspondent and an artist, well known for the drawings he sends home to the London papers from wars in exotic places like Sudan. When he returns to London, he attempts to make a career for himself as a serious artist and reencounters his childhood sweetheart, Maisie. Then he learns that a minor problem with his eyes is... Read more
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The Warden
By: Anthony Trollope
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
The Warden is the first of the six classic Chronicles of Barsetshire novels, Trollope's best-loved and most famous work.Anthony Trollope's classic novel centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity, whose charitable income far exceeds the purpose for which it was intended. On discovering this, young John Bold turns his... Read more
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The Forsyte Saga
By: John Galsworthy
Narrated by: Fred Williams
Length: 42 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
The Forsyte Saga chronicles the ebbing social power of the upper-middle-class Forsyte family through three generations, beginning in Victorian London during the 1880s and ending in the early 1920s. The saga begins with Soames Forsyte, a successful solicitor who buys land at Robin Hill on which to build a house for his wife, Irene, and future... Read more
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Lady Susan
By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: a full cast
Length: 2 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Jane Austen’s earliest known serious work, Lady Susan is a short, epistolary novel that portrays a woman bent on the exercise of her own powerful mind and personality to the point of social self-destruction.Lady Susan, a clever and ruthless widow, determines that her daughter is going to marry a man whom both detest. She sets her own sights on... Read more
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Jo’s Boys
By: Louisa May Alcott
Narrated by: C. M. Hébert
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
This treasured classic by one of America's best-loved writers concludes the adventures and misadventures of the March family first introduced in Little Women and continued in Little Men. Jo's Boys is entertaining, surprising, and an overall joy to listen to.Set ten years after Little Men, Jo's Boys revisits the one-time members of that... Read more
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The Glimpses of the Moon
By: Edith Wharton
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 8 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Set in New York in the 1920s, The Glimpses of the Moon details the romantic misadventures of Nick Lansing and Susy Branch, two high-society hangers-on with the right connections but a lack of funds. To maintain their status, they decide to marry and spend a year or so sponging off their wealthy friends, honeymooning in their mansions and villas.... Read more
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A Country Doctor
By: Sarah Orne Jewett
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Though not as well known as the writers she influenced, Sarah Orne Jewett remains one of the most important American novelists of the late nineteenth century. A Country Doctor, Jewett’s first novel, is a luminous portrayal of rural Maine and a look at the author’s own world. In it, Nan’s struggle to choose between marriage and a career as a... Read more
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The Cave Girl
By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
"In an instant there sloughed from the heart and mind and soul of Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones every particle of civilization and culture and refinement that had required countless ages in the building, stripping him naked, age on age, down to the primordial beast that had begot his first human progenitor. He saw red as he leaped for the throat of... Read more
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Tales of the Alhambra
By: Washington Irving
Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
Length: 8 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Written in 1831, Washington Irving’s dreamlike description of the Alhambra, the beautiful Moorish castle that defined the height of Moorish civilization, and of the surrounding territory of Granada remains one of the most romantic and entertaining travelogues ever written of this region in Spain.Enhanced here with exquisite Spanish guitar music,... Read more
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Beau Geste
By: P. C. Wren
Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
Length: 13 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A shot rang out. The Arabs surged forward under a savage fusillade of heavy fire. As they advanced, Geste rushed up and down his side of the roof, shooting constantly to trick the Arabs into believing the fort was heavily manned. They couldn’t be allowed to learn the grave truth—that of all those hard-bitten veterans who had yelled their... Read more
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The Shadow-Line
By: Joseph Conrad
Narrated by: William Sutherland
Length: 4 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Written at the start of the Great War, when his son Borys was at the Western Front, The Shadow-Line is Conrad's supreme effort to open man's eyes to the meaning of war through the stimulus of art. In many ways an autobiographical narrative, this masterpiece relates the story of a young and inexperienced sea captain whose first command finds him... Read more
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Poor People
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Narrated by: John Lescault & Julia Emlen
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Both a masterpiece of Russian populist writing and a parody of the entire genre, Poor People is an early example of Dostoevsky’s genius.Written as a series of letters, Poor People is the tragic tale of a petty clerk and his impossible love for a young girl. Longing to help her and her family, he sells everything he can, but his kindness leads... Read more
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