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Read by Hannah Gordon (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) The year in 1801. In this section, all the principal characters are introduced. Mr Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, arrives at Wuthering Height to meet his landlord, Heathcliff. The next day, he encounters Hareton, the orphaned son of Hindley Earnshaw, and...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Elliot Fitzpatrick & Tom McLean (Unabridged: 3hrs 1min) Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was born on 26th May 1799 in Moscow into a family of Russian nobility. Raised by nursemaids and French tutors in French he learnt Russian only via the household staff. He graduated from the prestigious Imperial...
Read by Michael Jayston (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) Les Miserables is part thrilling narrative and part social document of life in early 19th-century France. With Valjean, the reader descends into a human hell where suffering and injustice are a way of life. Through his characters, Hugo graphically details the plight of...
Read by Hugh Laurie (Abridged: 2hrs 20mins) Three Men In A Boat ranks as one of the most amusing and agreeable books in the English language. Written soon after Jerome’s marriage, it bubbles over with the happiness he felt. Rather than recording one particular trip, the story combines many boating excursions...
Read by Tim Pigott-Smith (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is an unusually complex novel. The reader is left guessing as to the true nature of the evil Mr Hyde, and what his hold over the benevolent Dr Jekyll may be, until almost the end. Then the truth...
Read by Jenny Agutter (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) Gustave Flaubert’s intimate portrait of Emma Bovary’s passionate yearnings for love and excitement, and his scrutiny of the dull provincial world in which she is trapped, create one of the finest French novels of the 19th century. His deep exploration of Emma’s emotions...
Read by Ray Brooks (Abridged: 2hrs 24mins) The epic qualities of Lorna Doone – seen both in its extreme archetypal characters as well as in the action and language itself – are what makes it such a riveting adventure throughout. Just as the boy John Ridd climbed the waterfall into...
Read by Christopher Timothy (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) The intrigues of peaceful Barchester are of tremendous importance to its inhabitants, and Anthony Trollope enjoys observing how differently they impinge on the separate worlds of men and women. Men have to make a place for themselves in society; for them ambition is...
Read by Christopher Ragland (Unabridged: 1hr 22mins) William Austin was born on 2nd March 1778 in Lunenburg, Massachusetts. After being educated at Harvard College, Austin served as the Unitarian chaplain onboard the USS Constitution from 1799 but resigned a year later after they captured a French ship and his...
Read by Ghizela Rowe (Abridged: 12mins) A WINTER’S TALE is set in Sicilia where the King, Leontes, is enjoying a visit by his friend the King of Bohemia. When he wants to leave, he tries to persuade him unsuccessfully to stay. Leontes then decides to ask his wife to try...