Classics
Bartleby, the Scrivener
Herman Melville
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Read by: Bob Tassinari
Length: 1:30 h
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The narrator, an elderly lawyer, relates the story of the strangest man he has ever known
A successful lawyer, in need of assistance, hires a new scrivener (Bartleby) to join his small firm. Bartleby proceeds to work well as a copyist, but refuses to help out with any other office tasks. The lawyer and his other employees are shocked, but Bartleby just won’t do what they ask. Can it become any further bizarre? Yes it can!
Candide
Voltaire
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Read by: Ted Delorme
Length: 3:52 h
Number of files: 31
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Candide is Voltaire’s masterpiece and part of the Western literature canon
Brought up in the household of a powerful Baron, Candide is an open-minded young man, whose tutor, Pangloss, has instilled in him the belief that ‘all is for the best’. But when his love for the Baron’s daughter is discovered, Candide is cast out to make his own way in the world. He and his various companions begin a breathless tour of the world and an outrageous series of disasters befall them - earthquakes, syphilis, and murder - sorely testing the young hero’s optimism.
Candide is arguably taught more than any other work of French literature.
The Canterville Ghost
Oscar Wilde
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Read by: David Barnes
Length: 1:22 h
Number of files: 3
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The funny and famous haunted house story by Oscar Wilde
Hiram B. Otis and his family move into Canterville Chase, an old English country house, ignoring warnings from Lord Canterville that the house is haunted. Despite the Ghost’s (Sir Simon’s) attempts to appear in the most gruesome guises, the family refuses to be frightened, and Sir Simon feels increasingly helpless and humiliated.
The story has been widely adapted for screen and stage
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
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Read by: Glen Hallstrom
Length: 2:43
Number of files: 4
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The classic tale of Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit and the Ghosts of Christmas past, present and future
Mean Ebenezer Scrooge shouts ‘Bah! Humbug!’ at anyone wishing him a Merry Christmas. But on Christmas Eve night, he is receives visits from his dead business partner “Marley,” who must wander the earth for ever to pay for his sins, and the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future. Each show him the hardship he has caused. Can he mend his ways and learn to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas and avoid a similar fate?
The Devil’s Pool
George Sand
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Read by: J. M. Smallheer
Length: 3:33 h
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This pastoral novella is set in rural France at the dawn of industrialisation and is the condensed masterpiece of George Sand.
George Sand is the most successful woman novelist of the 19th century Romantic Movement. She is as much known for her provocative behaviour as for her poetic and delicate literary style.
The Diary of a Nobody
George and Weedon Grossmith
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Read by: Martin Clifton
Length: 4:18 h
Number of files: 8
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A strong contender for the funniest book ever written
Charles Pooter is a quintessentially English middle class hero who takes himself excessively seriously. He is pompous but lovable in his attempt enhance his social position.
“The Diary of a Nobody” is a classic work of subtle humour and a strong contender for the funniest book ever written. The issue of class and aspiration in this turn of the century comedy are exactly the same as today.
Don Quixote, Volume 1
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616)
Translated by John Ormsby (1829-1895)
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Read by: Various
Length: 21:14
Number of files: 36
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One of the greatest works of fiction ever written
Alonso Quixano, a retired country gentleman dressed as a knight and riding his horse “Rocinante”, accompanied by his faithful squire, Sancho Panza sets off as the renamed “Don Quixote de la Mancha” in search of giants, maidens and villains.
Emma
Jane Austen
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Read by: Sibella Denton
Length: 10:38 h
Number of files: 43
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One of the greatest novels ever written
Convinced of her superior matchmaking skills, Emma Woodhouse wrongly takes credit for pairing off her former governess and a neighboring gentleman. Determined to remain unattached herself, Emma sets out to direct the fates of Harriet Smith, the vicar Mr. Elton, and newcomer Frank Churchill, among others. Misunderstanding is piled on mishap until Mr Knightley forces Emma to see her errors and the direction of her own future.
Since its publication in 1816, Emma has regularly been claimed as Austin’s greatest novel. It has repeatedly been adapted on screen and the 1995 movie Clueless was also based on Emma
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Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin….
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
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Read by: Mark F. Smith
Length: 20:25 h - unabridged
Number of files: 59
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Great Expectations was the penultimate novel completed by Dickens
Pip, a young orphan finds his life changes through a series of random events starting with an encounter on Christmas Eve in 1812 with an escaped convict in a village churchyard. Then being summoned to visit a mysterious old woman and meeting a beauty called Estella. Most astoundingly of all, an anonymous person gives him money to begin a new life in London.
Charles Dickens is the author of some of the most revered literature in English history, including Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Nicholas Nickelby, Bleak House and Little Dorrit.
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
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Read by: Kristin Luoma
Length: 4:08 h
Number of files: 6
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“Heart of Darkness” tells of Marlow, a seaman, who voyages into the heart of the African continent to return the enigmatic Kurtz to civilisation.
Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 movie Apocalypse Now is the most famous adaption of the novel.
A Hunger Artist
Franz Kafka
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Read by: Cori Samuel
Length: 0:29 h
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“A Hunger Artist,’’ is about a man famous for his public performances of the act of fasting, for as much as forty days at a time. He is unsatisfied with his work and frustrated by those that watch him and his manager, who never appreciate his ‘‘art.’’
In The Penal Colony
Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
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Read by: Peter Yearsly
Length: 1:04
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A story of cruelty and inhumanityand the meaning of justice
In a penal colony, an officer demonstrates to an explorer the Harrow, a machine used to inflict capital punishment through a system of needles that inscribes the commandment broken on to the back of the convicted.
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
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Read by: Elizabeth Klett
Length: 18:32 h
Number of files: 25
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Kim
Rudyard Kipling
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Read by: Adrian Praetzellis
Length: 13:00 h
Number of files: 23
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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
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Read by: Various
Length: 18:48
Number of files: 47
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One of the best loved books of all time
A classic American family story, and a bestseller from the time it was originally published in 1868. The dramatic and sometimes comic experiences of the four March sisters: Meg, Beth, Jo, and Amy growing up in New England during the civil war.
Lilith
by George MacDonald
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Read by: Pete Williams
Length: 10:11 h
Number of files: 48
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A fantasy story of life, death and salvation
A Victorian fantasy following the adventures of Mr. Vane, an Oxford scientist who one day follows a ghost-librarian, named Mr. Raven through a mirror, into a parallel world.
Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad
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Read by:Stewart Wills
Length: 14:20 h
Number of files: 30
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Lord Jim tells the storiy of the doomed vessel Patna and his chief mate Jim. When he and his crew abandon the sinking vessel with its passengers still on board Jim is put on trial and has to life with his dishonourable action. The tragedy of his fall and his struggle to redeem himself is the main theme of the novel.
Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
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Read by: David Barnes
Length: 2:34 h
Number of MP3 files: 3
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Moby Dick
Herman Melville
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Read by: Stewart Wills
Total Length: 24 h
Number of files: 22
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“Call me Ishmael.”
Ahab’s obsession with killing the great white whale overwhelms his good judgment as captain.
Moby-Dick is considered one of the greatest novels in the English language and has secured Melville’s place among America’s greatest writers.
The main character Ishmael on his voyage on the whaleship Pequod learns that Captain Ahab takes revenge one a white whale - Moby-Dick.
This recording is the 24 hours unabridged reading of the complete novel.
Abbreviated versions focus on the basic story line. The unabridged novel explore numerous complex themes Moby Dick is noted for.
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
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Read by: Elizabeth Klett
Length: 6:57 h - unabridged
Number of files: 31
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Jane Austen spoofs the Gothic novel in which truth turns out to be stranger than fiction
Catherine Morland spends the season in Bath and is pursued by two men. She is invited to stay at Northanger Abbey by HenryTilney and makes the journey with high expectations of mystery and intrigue.
Persuasion
Jane Austen
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Read by: Moira Fogarty
Length: 8:17 h - unabridged
Number of files: 24
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A love story full of complexity and humour
Anne Elliot is persuaded by her friend to break off her engagement to her “unworthy” naval officer. Years later, Frederick returns, a wealthy captain while Anne’s family faces bankruptcy. Still in love, will their past mistakes keep them apart?
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
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Read by: John Gonzalez
Length: 6:05 h - unabridged
Number of files: 13
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A tale of selling your soul to the devil for immortality
Dorian lives a life self-indulgence under the influence of Lord Henry. But while the face in his portrait has turned ugly, Dorian remains young and beautiful.
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
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Read by: Karen Savage
Length: 10:20 h - unabridged
Number of MP3 files: 61
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The Prince and the Pauper
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
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Read by: John Greenman
Length: 6:54 h
Number of MP3 files: 20
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The Princess and the Goblin
George MacDonald
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Read by: Lizzie Driver
Length: 5:05 h - unabridged
Number of files: 18
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A children’s fantasy novel about courage and honor. This is a fairytale with a stranger and fantastic flavour, and symbolism similar to that of Lewis Carroll’s work.
The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
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Read by: Mike Vendetti
Length: 4:41 h - unabridged
Number of files: 18
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“The Red Badge of Courage” is regarded the first modern war novel
This very influential American novel about the cruelty in the American Civil War is noted for its realism and psychological insight of ordinary soldiers.
The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy
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Read by: John Greenman
Length: 6:54 h
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The Return of the Native , published in 1878, is Thomas Hardy’s sixth novel and arguably his best known. The story focuses on the lives and loves of residents in the semi-fictional county of Wessex and includes his character Eustacia Vye, one of the most memorable in English literature.
Sarrasine
Honoré de Balzac
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Read by: Chip
Length: 1:39 h - unabridged
Number of files: 1
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A castrati opera singer captivates a young sculptor who is determined to possess him. He is set up with the castrati and the tragedy evolves. Sarrasine is the first work of the decadence.
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
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Read by: Mark F. Smith
Length: 13:20 h - unabridged
Number of files: 50
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Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
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Read by: Chip
Total Length: 17:32 h - unabridged
Number of files: 56
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One of Hardy’s major works, a great classic of English literature
Full of symbolism, biblical reference and in elaborated prose, “Tess” tells about the struggling against circumstances of a pretty country girl. Seduced and condemned Tess falls victim to sexual double standard in Victorian England.
Roman Polanski adapted the novel in film with Nastassja Kinski as Tess.
Tristan and Iseult
Joseph Bédier (1864-1938)
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Read by: Joy Chan
Length: 2:23 h
Number of files: 14
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A French Literature classic with Arthurian connections
The story of Tristan and Iseult is a romance and tragedy of the adulterous love between the Cornish knight Tristan and the Irish princess Iseult. The story first appeared in the 12th century and predates and most likely influenced the Arthurian romance of Lancelot and Guinevere
Typee
Herman Melville
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Read by: Michael Scherer
Length: 11:34 h
Number of files: 56
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Typee: A look at Polynesian Life
The adventure of a sailor who jumps ship at a Polynesia island.
He encounters cannibalism, colonialism, exoticism, eroticism, natural plenty and beauty, and simplicity of native lifestyle.
Typee is one of the first and arguably the most intelligent contemporary accounts of Western and Polynesian cultural interaction in the nineteenth century Pacific.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Read by: John Greenman
Length: 18:00 h
Number of files: 45
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Youth
Joseph Conrad
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Read by: Chris Hughes
Length: 1:15 h
Number of files: 3
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