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Read by Bob Peck (Abridged 2hrs 24mins) Women In Love studies the nature of relationships between men and women through four very different characters, each of whom seeks fulfilment in their own way. Gudrun seeks an intellectual equal, while for Ursula, overwhelming love is all that will suffice; Gerald attempts...
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...
Read by Martin Jarvis (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) Dickens' exuberant novel charts the rise of its young hero Nicholas Nickleby, who progresses from an impoverished youngster gladly accepting his uncle's offer of help, to an assured businessman capable of thwarting villainous plans. The book unfolds in a series of vivid scenes,...
Read by Anna Massey (Abridged: 2hrs 2mins) As with all Jane Austen's novels, Persuasion draws much of its appeal from the author's talent for observation and for satire. Notice first how the characters reveal their personalities as much through their speech - both in their choice of words or phrases...
Read by Sir Christopher Lee (Abridged: 2hrs 22mins) From the towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral, Quasimodo, the hunchback, looks down on the turmoil of Paris with a bitter eye. He is an outsider, tormented and derided because he is deformed and as ugly as a gargoyle. But love for the beautiful...
Read by John Michael MacDonald, Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 24mins) On 29th November 1775 Thomas Jefferson said “Believe me, dear Sir, there is not, in the British Empire, a man who more cordially loves a union with Great Britain than I do. But, by the God that made...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Eve Karpf (Unabridged: 1hr 16mins) Featuring poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Georgina Rossetti, George Meredith, John Ruskin & William Morris. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood began as a group of painters, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt, who wished to reject the stern and academic...
Read by Hurd Hatfield (Abridged: 59mins) Oscar Wilde's only published novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray presents an intriguing idea: the main character, Dorian Gray, allows a painting to be subjected to the consequences of his actions and general aging, allowing him, in turn, to live a carefree and youthful...
Read by Martin Jarvis (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) The Charles Dickens masterpiece ‘A Christmas Carol’ is a perennial favourite. The story of mean and cold hearted Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghostly revelations that encourage his transformation from into a warm hearted and full of cheer member of mankind one Christmas Eve.
Read by Brian Holland-Rose (Abridged: 2hrs 26mins) This story of Santa Claus veers away slightly from the traditional stories of his beginnings. L. Frank Baum creates a world of fantasy that surrounds Santa Claus's life. Orphaned as an infant he is found by the nymph Necile, who raises Claus for...