Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

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Read by: Mark F. Smith
Length: 20:25 h - unabridged
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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