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Read by Hannah Gordon (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) George Eliot opens her complex study of life in the provincial Midlands with a brilliant portrait of Dorothea Brooke in all her strengths and weaknesses. Dorothea’s misguided marriage is only one of the many, at first seemingly quite separate, stories of thwarted ideals,...
Read by Hannah Gordon (Abridged: 2hrs 24mins) The action starts and ends on the River Floss at Dorlcote Mill, home to the Tullivers for generations. But, for all the mill's beauty, Maggie Tulliver, the heroine, finds family life intolerably narrow. The Tullivers, for so long solidly prosperous, are soon beset...
Read by Martin Jarvis (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) The Man of Property begins as a crushing satire on the narrow-minded lawyers, merchants and bankers who made up John Galsworthy's claustrophobic, upper-middle-class world. All that is worst in this acquisitive, soulless breed is personified by Soames Forsyte. Yet far from condemning Soames,...
Read by Anna Massey (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) In Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen comments on the financial situation of women. Elinor and Marianne are virtually penniless in a world where the 'marriage market' is largely governed by money. They lose their home on their father's death − as did the...
Written by Daphne Du Maurier Du Maurier is of course world famous for many of her novels. These two stories are perhaps even better known as films (The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock and Don't Look Now by Nic Roeg), but here we bring you the full terrifying texts. Read by...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 11mins) George Meredith, OM, was born in Portsmouth, England on February 12th, 1828. His mother died when he was five. As a fourteen year old teenager he was sent to a Moravian School in Neuwied, Germany, staying there for...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 3hrs 6mins) John Galsworthy was born in Kingston Upon Thames in Surrey, on August 14th 1867. The family was wealthy and well established. John was schooled at Harrow and New College, Oxford before training as a barrister. But law was not for...
Read by Christopher Ragland (Unabridged: 1hr 15mins) Edgar Poe was born in Boston Massachusetts on 19th January 1809. His father abandoned his family the following year and within a year his mother had died leaving him an orphan. He was taken in by the Allan family but never formally adopted...
(Unabridged: 1hr 9mins) This poet of Victorian times was held in awe for his magnificent works, including "In Memoriam", "Morte D'Arthur", and "Charge of the Light Brigade". His language and command of vocabulary seem particularly in keeping with the grand sweep of Victorian ambition. Many selections are asembled here and...
Read by Ghizela Rowe, David Shaw-Parker & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 8hrs 11mins) Featuring stories by Virginia Woolf, Edith Nesbit, Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Gaskell & others. Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations,...