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Read by Bob Sessions (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) Brimming with tense and violent incidents The Call Of The Wild traces the changes in the heart of Buck, the dog who grows from a pampered pet in California to a rugged fearsome and indomitable working dog in the far north. Primeval instincts...
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 Lorelei King (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) Little Women is constructed as a series of episodes which are almost complete stories in their own right. Incidents in the lives of the March sisters act as fables, each illustrating a moral point. In her novel, Louisa May Alcott describes her characters'...
Read by Martin Shaw & Lindsay Duncan (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess of the D'Urbervilles is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, "A Pure Woman", infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891, and it was condemned as immoral and...
Read by Steven Pacey (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) Hailed as a masterpiece on publication, The Moonstone still thrills as a supreme detective story. But it is also a novel of mounting suspense, as the action follows the Moonstone’s trail. The gem is tracked from the bloody looting of Seringapatam to the...
Read by Christopher Timothy (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) The action of Billy Budd is set within the claustrophobic confines of a British man-of-war ship in the mutiny shadowed summer of 1797. Here, cramped between decks, live the crew of HMS Indomitable, many of them pressed into service against their will, and...
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 Darrell Joe (Unabridged: 1hr 12mins) Uriah Derick D’Arcy seems to all intents to be a literary pseudonym. Why no-one would want to take ownership of this story from its first publication in 1819 has been the subject of several conjectures. The only settled agreement is that it was written by...
Read by Kelly Burke (Unabridged: 1hr 2mins) Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow was born on 22nd April 1873 in Richmond, Virginia. She published her first novel ‘The Descendant’ anonymously in 1897 at age 24. As a ‘Southern’ writer much of her work integrates themes of class and gender struggles, many...
Read by Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 48mins) Isobel Violet Hunt was born on 28th September 1862 in Durham. As a young child her family moved to London and Hunt was brought up amongst the Pre-Raphaelite circle of artists. As a writer she was comfortable and talented enough to write across several forms...