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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A Yankee mechanic, knocked out in a fight, awakens at Camelot in A.D. 528. He saves himself from prison and death by posing as a magician and becoming minister to King Arthur. But when he attempts to help out the peasants, he meets opposition.
A Rogue's Life
Mr. Frank Softly was sent to one of the most fashionable and famous of the great public schools. He said, “I ran away three times, and was flogged three times. I made four aristocratic connections, I learnt to play at cricket, to hate rich people. . . and to receive kicks and serious advice...
A+ Audio Guide: Frankenstein
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A+ Audio Guide: Macbeth
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A+ Audio Guide: The Great Gatsby
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A+ Audio Guide: The Poetry of Walt Whitman
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A+ Audio Guide: The Sun Also Rises
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The
First published in 1885, 'Huckleberry Finn' is one of the undoubted masterpieces of American literature...
Adventures of Odysseus and The Tale of Troy
The Illiad and the Odyssey are retold in a glorious saga.
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The
Mark Twain's classic tale recounts the adventures of the ever resourceful Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn...
Aeneid
The masterpiece of Rome's greatest poet, Virgil's Aeneid.
Aesop's Fables
These wonderful stories have delighted adults and children for centuries.
Alexander's Bridge
Against a backdrop of delicate imagery, Willa Cather explores the tough inner terrain of a man in mid-life crisis. Bartley Alexander is a master bridge engineer at the height of his power, comfortable with success and all it brings. Yet he yearns for the lost vibrancy of his youth and so leads a...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The fantasy worlds in which Alice finds herself introduce her to some well known characters!
All The World's A Stage: Shakespeare's Speeches
An anthology of Shakespearian speeches performed by the world's leading actors.
All's Well That Ends Well
Sian Phillips, Emma Fielding and Miriam Margolyes star in Shakespeare's comedy of men behaving badly and women doing it for themselves. BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to...
Andersen's Fairy Tales
Andersen's tales have become part of universal folk lore.
Antony & Cleopatra
Frances Barber and David Harewood star in Shakespeare's towering tale of great love, political intrigue and tragedy. BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923,...
Arabian Nights, The
Allow the Arabian Nights tales weave their enchantment.
Around the World in 80 Days
Classic story of a hasty world tour taken up on a gentelmen's club wager
As You Like It
Helena Bonham Carter stars as Rosalind with David Morrissey as Orlando and Natasha Little as Celia in Shakespeare's festive comedy. BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to...
Brideshead Revisited
A full-cast dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's great classic story of a lost golden age.
Canterbury Tales - Volume I, The
Without doubt, the greatest work of Geoffrey Chaucer. A brilliant picture of medieval life.
Canterbury Tales - Volume II, The
Without doubt, the greatest work of Geoffrey Chaucer. A brilliant picture of medieval life.
Canterbury Tales - Volume III, The
Without doubt, the greatest work of Geoffrey Chaucer. A brilliant picture of medieval life.
Canterbury Tales, Selected
This modern translation of these sometimes bawdy stories, written in the 14th century by the Father of English Poetry, entertain while telling us about England before the Renaissance.
Christmas Carol, A
A wonderful reading of the story of Scrooge, Tiny Tim and the Ghosts of Christmas.
Christmas Carol, A
The story of how the extraordinary events of Christmas Eve change the miserly Scrooge forever have made A Christmas Carol one of the greatest of all Christmas stories...
Chronicles of Narnia, The: Prince Caspian
The four Pevensies help Caspian battle Miraz and ascend his rightful throne.
Chronicles of Narnia, The: The Silver Chair
Deep underground, a web of evil magic holds a prince in captivity. Narnia ... where owls speak, where evil weaves a spell ... where sorcery enslaves the land. Narnia is in peril, and...
Classic American Poetry
From the earliest poets of the 16th century to the present day.
Classic American Short Stories
An absolute joy to listen to. An attractive and accessible collection.
Classic Women's Short Stories
Five stories from women writers of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th.
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, A
Shows what can happen when two very different societies come together.
Crome Yellow
Aldous Huxley here introduces us to an amiable group of artists and intellectuals engaged in the most free-thinking talk imaginable. Poetry, occultism, ancestral history, and Italian painting are just a few of the subjects for discussion among the eccentrics drawn together at Crome, an...
Crucible, The
Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. A community stands accused of witchcraft, and in the mood of fear and recrimination that quickly develops men denounce their neighbours...
Cuculian Trilogy, The
Cuculian, 'The Hound of Ulster', is the champion of Ireland and is best remembered for his single-handed defense of Ulster. The author of these accounts is Standish O’Grady whose writings...
Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories, The: by F. Scott Fitzgerald
This collection of stories, originally published in 1922, is the basis for an upcoming major motion picture starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. F. Scott...
Daniel Deronda
In Daniel Deronda, George Eliot left behind the world of the Victorian middle classes that she explored so well in Middlemarch. Eliot, with her hero Deronda, attempts to come to terms with the English Jews, a society within a society, which the people of her time seemed either oblivious to or...
Death of Arthur, The
The glorious but tragic story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Part II, The
Gibbon's work occupies an immortal place in the pantheon of historical masterpieces.
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The
One of the greatest texts in the English language.
Devoted Friend, The
Children's story uses tragedy to underscore the gulf between devotion and selfishness.
Diary of Samuel Pepys, The
Perhaps the most well-known collection of reminiscences.
Doctor Thorne
Doctor Thorne adopts his niece Mary, keeping secret her illegitimate birth as he introduces her to the best local social circles. There she meets and falls in love with Frank Gresham, who is intent on marrying her despite her seeming poverty. Only Doctor Thorne knows that Mary is to inherit a...
Elsie in New York and The Purple Dress
In “Elsie in New York,” Elsie is an innocent young woman who must look for work to make a living. Although she applies for several positions, do-gooders interfere. Thinking they are saving her soul, in actuality they point her to her destruction. In “The Purple Dress,” two young women clerks...
Elusive Pimpernel, The
In this sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel, Sir Percy Blakeney’s arch- enemy travels to England in pursuit of the impudent enemy of the French Republic. Monsieur Chauvelin devises a dastardly plot to annihilate, once and for all, both Sir Percy and his beautiful wife, Marguerite.
Essential Dylan Thomas, The
This unique combination of historical and new recordings celebrates Dylan Thomas as poet, writer and performer. Here are some of his greatest poems, stories and broadcasts: readings given by Thomas...
Farmer Giles of Ham
Farmer Giles of Ham is one of Tolkien’s most popular stories, full of wit and humour, set in the days when giants and dragons walked...
Germinal
In the Maheus family, the father and three of seven children work brutal hours to extract coal far beneath the earth amid hazards of landslides, fire, poisoned air, and poisoned health. Then comes the idea of a workers’ revolt, and soon the settlement is aflame. Zola chronicles the conflicts,...
Glimpses of the Moon, The
Nick Lansing and Susy Branch, a newly married couple with the right connections but little money, devise a shrewd plan to sponge off their wealthy friends, honeymooning in their mansions and villas. How their plan unfolds is a charming comedy of Eros.
Gulliver's Travels
Swift’s masterpiece of satire tells of the fantastic voyages of the Englishman Lemuel Gulliver, whose travels take him to lands where the inhabitants are only six inches tall as well as to lands where they are sixty feet high, where horses have the capacity to reason, and where animals are...
Hamlet
Michael Sheen, Kenneth Cranham and Juliet Stevenson star in the best-known and most powerful tragedy of modern times. BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since I...
Hard Times
Thomas Gradgrind is an eminently practical man who believes in facts and statistics and has brought up his two children, Louisa and Tom, accordingly, suppressing the imaginative sides of their nature. They are raised without love and affection, and the consequences are devastating.
Henry IV - Part One
Father and son Julian and Jamie Glover star as King Henry and Prince Hal in Shakespeare's stirring history.
Henry IV - Part Two
Father and son Julian and Jamie Glover star as King Henry and his son, Hal, in this powerful production, which also stars Timothy West and Prunella Scales...
History of English Literature, The
The story of literature that has touched the hearts & stirred the minds of countless readers.
Hop Frog
A court jester seeks revenge against the king, who brutalized his love.
Howards End
Howard’s End is a charming country house in Hertfordshire which becomes the object of an inheritance dispute between the Wilcox family and the Schlegel sisters. Through romantic entanglements, disappearing wills, and sudden tragedy, the conflict over the house emerges as a symbolic struggle for...
Huckleberry Finn
Twain's story of an orphan is often cited as the greatest American novel.
Hunchback of Notre Dame, The
Ugly and deformed but humble and loyal, Quasimodo is the hunchback living in the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. He is trapped between his love for a Gypsy girl and his love for the archdeacon, his benefactor.
Iliad, The
The Iliad tells the story of fifty critical days towards the end of the Trojan war.
Iliad, The
The first of Homer's epic poems. Translated by Samuel Butler.
Importance of Being Earnest, The
This elaborate fabrication proceeds smoothly until Jack/Ernest falls in love and his fiancee’s mother discovers there is more – or, rather, less – to him than meets the eye.
Importance of Being Earnest, The
This is one of the great recordings of a great play. John Gielgud stars as Earnest and Edith Evans .....
In Chancery: Book Two of The Forsyte Saga
In Chancery is the second novel in John Galsworthy's epic Forsyte Saga, a brilliant social satire about an upper-class family. After suffering the death of her lover and abuse from her husband Soames, Irene Forsyte has finally left her marriage for good. Though disgraced by her affair, she forms...
Jack London Boxed Set
This boxed set features Jack London's thrilling classics, The Call of the Wild and White Fang. London’s adventurous nature, intuitive feeling for animal life, and superb storytelling skills have given his tales an enduring place in the annals of American literature.
John Bull's Other Island
When Thomas Broadbent, an Englishman, visits Ireland for the first time, he is accompanied by his friend Larry Doyle, an Irishman who is returning to his homeland after being away for many years...
King Lear
Shakespeare's bitter tragedy of loyalty, power and politics.
Lady Windermere's Fan
Oscar Wilde's first play confronts the hypocrisy of public 'morality'.
Le Morte D'Arthur Vol. 1
" Le Morte d'Arthur remains an enchanted sea for the reader to swim about in, delighting at the random beauties of fifteenth-century prose."--Robert Graves This...
Le Morte D'Arthur Vol. 2
" Le Morte d'Arthur remains an enchanted sea for the reader to swim about in, delighting at the random beauties of fifteenth-century prose."--Robert Graves This...
Lives of the Great Artists, The
The Lives of the Great Artists was the first truly comprehensive history of art.
Lives of the Twelve Caesars
Suetonius wrote his Lives of the Twelve Caesars in the reign of Vespasian around 70AD. He chronicled the extraordinary careers of Julius, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Vespasian and...
Macbeth
Richard Eyre directs Ken Stott as Macbeth and Phyllis Logan as Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's drama of greed and destiny.
Mary Barton
Gaskell's powerful drama, adapted here for Woman's Hour, is regarded as one of the most important novels of its time...
Masque Of The Red Death, The
When a prince deserts his subjects, death comes looking for him.
Merchant of Venice, The
Shakespeare's dramatic and complex comedy.
Middlemarch
Middlemarch is a multilayered work centering around two expertly constructed characters: Dorothea Brooke, an idealistic young woman who traps herself into a loveless marriage, and Tertius Lydgate, an ambitious young doctor. This work is epic in scope and unsurpassed in its depiction of human nature.
Midsummer Night's Dream, A
Sylvestra Le Touzel, Sam West and David Threlfall star in Shakespeare's delightful comic fantasy.
Moll Flanders
From her birth in Newgate Prison, where her mother is under sentence of death for theft, to her final position of wealth, Moll Flanders demonstrates a spirit of industry and an indomitable will. One of the earliest social novels of English life, Moll Flanders features one of the most lively,...
Much Ado About Nothing
David Tennant stars as Benedick with Samantha Spiro as Beatrice in Shakespeare's merry comedy of wit, words and romance.
Nathaniel Hawthorne Audio Collection, The
On July 28, 1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne's wife left their house in Western Massachusetts to visit relatives. Hawthorne and his five-year-old son Julian stayed behind. How father and son got on...
Nicholas Nickleby
Nicholas, the hearty young hero, takes us on a journey through nineteenth-century England in a delightful series of adventures accompanied by some of Dickens’s best swaggering scoundrels and most unforgettable eccentrics.
Ninety-Three
It is 1793, France, the year of the guillotine. Already Louis XVI has been sentenced to the scaffold, and terror reigns. In Ninety-Three, Victor Hugo’s inspired last novel, that tumultuous year’s events are woven into an epic masterpiece which captures brilliantly the moment that shaped the...
Noel Coward Audio Collection, The
A perfect blend of vintage Noel Coward sure to be enjoyed by faithful fans and new listeners.
Odyssey, The
Winner of a Gold Award for Abridged fiction at the Spoken Word Awards 2005 A BBC Radio 4 full-cast production of Homer’s epic seafaring adventure, dramatised by award-winning poet Simon...
Odyssey, The
Homer's Adventures of Odysseus. Translated by Samuel Butler,
Odyssey, The
The thrilling tale of the wanderings of the hero Odysseus after the end of the Trojan war.
Oedipus The King
In the hands of Sophocles, the master dramatist, the anguished tale of a man fated to kill his father and marry his mother retains its power to shock and move beyond any Freudian...
Oliver Twist
Tim McInnerny stars as the murderous Bill Sikes with Pam Ferris as Mrs Mann and Edward Long as Oliver in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of one of Dickens' best known novels...
One Of Ours
Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this novel, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his crass father and pious mother, all but rejected by a wife who reserves her...
Oresteia, The
Aeschylus here dramatizes the myth of the curse on the royal house of Argos. The action begins when King Agamemnon, returning victorious from the Trojan War, is treacherously slain by his wife. It end
Paradise
'I have been in the Heaven that takes up most of his light, and saw things there that those who descend from that height cannot speak of or forget...' Led by his guide Beatrice, Dante leaves...
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost is the greatest epic poem in the English language.
Passion Poison & Petrification
Full-Cast. An indigestible tragic romantic comedy of love, jealousy, betrayal and murder.
Pensées
Pensées (Thoughts) is a collection of Pascal’s notes and ideas for a book in defense of faith in a rational world. These fragments give evidence of a profoundly original thinker who has resolved his conflict between a scientific mind demanding proof and a spiritual position maintained by faith.
Persian War, The
In this, the first prose history in European civilization. Herodotus tells the heroic tale of the Greeks' resistance to the vast invading force assembled by Xerxes, King of Persia. Here are not...
Peter Simple
In this seminal story of naval life during the Napoleonic War, Frederick Marryat’s young hero embarks upon a life at sea and finds it to be a rough school indeed. Peter Simple is a towering tale from the great age of sail, filled with keen wit, vivid characters, and gripping adventure.
Plutarch - Greek Lives
Plutarch's unique insight into the great men of the Ancient World through his biographies.
Prairie, The
Natty Bumppo in his ninetieth year is still competent as a frontiersman and trapper. He is drawn into conflict with society in the form of an immigrant party led by the surly Ishmael Bush. Once again this great man of nature is called upon to exhibit his courage and resourcefulness to rescue...
Purgatory
'Now of that second kingdom I shall sing where human souls are purified of sin. and made worthy to ascend to Heaven.' Purgatory is the second part of Dante's The Divine Comedy. We find...
Ransom Of Red Chief, The
Two Kidnappers learn their plan is less than perfect
Rebecca
When Maxim de Winter brings his shy new bride to his beautiful stately home on the Cornwall coast, it seems like all her dreams have come 1...
Richard II
Samuel West stars as Richard II with Joss Ackland as John of Gaunt in Shakespeare's lyrically tragic history. BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when...
Rivals, The
A comic masterpiece brimming with false identities!
Roman Lives
Though he was Greek, Plutarch wrote his Lives in the first century, a world dominated by the Roman Empire. Here he considers some of the major figures who had left their stamp on the history of...
Romeo & Juliet
Douglas Henshall, Sophie Dahl and Susannah York star in Shakespeare's passionate story of doomed love. BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly...
Romola
In this novel, Eliot re-creates the upheavals of fifteenth-century Florence through the noble and courageous Romola, who finds herself increasingly disillusioned by the career of Savonarola and repelled by her unscrupulous, self-indulgent husband.
Room With A View, A
Sheila Hancock stars in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of E. M. Forster’s glorious tale of love in Italy and England...
Roverandom
While on holiday in 1925, four-year-old Michael Tolkien lost his beloved toy dog on the beach at Filey in Yorkshire. To console him...
Rubaiyat, The - Omar Khayyam Classic narrated by David Ian Davies
The ethereal words of the great thinker Omar Khayyam.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Although Lawrence of Arabia died in 1935, the story of his life has captured the imagination of succeeding generations. The Seven Pillars of Wisdom is a monumental work in which he chronicles his...
Shakespeare's Speeches: Hamlet - Act III, Scene I
'To be or not to be - that is the question…'
Shakespeare's Speeches: Henry V - Act IV, Scene III
Richard Burton's rich and resonant voice delivers Henry V's address to his army on the eve of Agincourt!
Shakespeare's Speeches: King Lear - Act II, Scene IV
Alec Guinness's performance as King Lear stirs the listener in this recording from the BBC Sound Archives.
Shakespeare's Speeches: Macbeth - Act I, Scene VII
From the BBC Sound Archives, one of Shakespeare's most famous and memorable speeches, with Paul Scofield and Peggy Ashcroft as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, bringing these ominous words vividly to life.
Shakespeare's Speeches: Macbeth - Act II, Scene II
With Denis Quilley as Macbeth, this recording from the BBC Sound Archives brings Shakespeare's memorable words to life.
Shakespeare's Speeches: Richard III - Act I, Scene I
Ian Holm delivers King Richard IIIs soliloquy, bringing Shakespeare's wonderful lines, full of pyschological insight, vividly to life.
Shakespeare's Speeches: Romeo and Juliet - Act I, Scene III
This impassioned speech is beautifully spoken by Fay Compton in this BBC Sound archives recording.
Shakespeare's Speeches: The Merchant Of Venice - Act IV, Scene I
In this recording from the BBC Sound Archives, Hannah Gordon is Shakespeare's wise Portia.
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes 'unstuck in time' after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a...
Smith of Wootton Major/Leaf By Niggle
Smith of Wooton Major tells of the preparation of the Great Cake to mark the Feast of Good Children and the magical...
Swan Song
In his old age, Soames Forsyte has mellowed into a patient and benign figure, guarding with especial tenderness the welfare of his daughter, Fleur. But all his watchfulness and devotion are powerless to avert the tragedy when Fleur revives her old love affair with Jon Forsyte.
Tale of Two Cities, A
The "two cities" are Paris in the time of the French Revolution, and London. Dr. Manette, a French physician, having been called in to treat a young peasant and his sister, realizes that they have...
Tales of the Fish Patrol
These seven stories are based on Jack London’s youthful adventures as an oyster pirate. In the early 1900s, San Francisco Bay was plagued by oyster pirates who plundered in broad daylight. At sixteen, London’s common sense suggested he change sides. Thus he joined the Fish Patrol. Catching the...
Tempest, The
Shakespeare's magical, other-wordly final play.
The Light That Failed
Well-known war correspondent and artist Dick Heldar returns to London and falls in love with his childhood sweetheart, Maisie. Then he learns he is going blind due to a war injury. As his vision fails, he must choose between the love of a woman and the love of the men who stood by him at the front.
The Lost Prince
From the author of such children’s classics as The Secret Garden and A Little Princess comes this enchanting story of a young boy discovering his true destiny. Twelve-year-old Marco has spent his life traveling with his father in secrecy, forbidden to speak about their country of origin,...
The Making of a Marchioness and The Methods of Lady Walderhurst
This two-part adult fairytale by the author of The Secret Garden combines a charming Cinderella tale with an ironic look at class structure and the Edwardian marriage market in turn-of-the-century London. Emily Fox-Seton is distantly related to aristocracy, but she is struggling to make ends...
The Painted Veil
Set in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful but love-starved Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic, where she is compelled by her awakening conscience to reassess her life and learn how...
The Reef
Anna Leath, an American widow living in France, has engaged in a love affair with George Darrow, a diplomat. However, when Darrow is on his way to consolidate marriage plans at Anna’s French chateau, he encounters Sophy Viner, who is as sprightly and spontaneous as Anna is restrained and demure....
The Song of Roland
The audiodrama of this twelfth-century French epic allows listeners to hear the story as they might have in medieval time, when a traveling troubador would recite the poem in the village square. It describes the heroic exploits of Roland and the campaign of Charlemagne. Fired by the religious...
The Touchstone
Stephen Glennard, a young lawyer, sells a package of love letters, written to him over the years by distinguished novelist Margaret Aubyn, to raise money to pay for his forthcoming wedding to another woman. After the wedding, his secret comes back to haunt him, and when he confesses to his wife,...
The Voyage Out
The Voyage Out opens as a group of lively, eccentric British tourists embark on a sea voyage from London to a resort in South America. The focus soon turns to Rachel Vinrace, a shy, awkward young woman headed on a voyage of self-discovery through love, illness, and, finally, death. A wry and...
Theatre Royale: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
In this episode from the series, Sir Laurence Olivier stars in a fully dramatised adaptation of the famous Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde classic by Robert Louis Stevenson...
Theatre Royale: Private Rooms
Theatre Royal: In this episode from the series, Ralph Richardson stars in a fully dramatised adaptation of the famous Private Rooms classic by J.B.Priestley...
Theatre Royale: The Happy Hypocrite
First broadcast as an half-hour radio programme in the 1950's, this performance captures the marvellous theatrical style of post-war radio before the advent of television and offers the experience...
Therese Raquin
In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Thérèse Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. The numbing tedium of her life is suddenly shattered when she embarks on a turbulent affair with her husband’s earthy friend Laurent. But their passion for...
Three Musketeers, The
"All for one and one for all!" The young and headstrong D'Artagnan, having proven his bravery by dueling with each, becomes a friend of Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, members of the King's...
Through the Looking Glass
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There - the sequel to Alice in Wonderland.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Also sprach Zarathustra was conceived and written by Friedrich Nietzsche during the years 1881 -1885; the first three Parts were published in 1883 and 1884. The book formed part of his 'campaign...
Treasure Island
The narrator of this timeless adventure story is the lad, Jim Hawkins, whose mother keeps the Admiral Benbow, an inn on the west coast of England in the 18th century. An old buccaneer takes up...
Under Western Eyes
Under Western Eyes, Conrad’s novel of political treachery and oppression, begins with a bomb that kills a hated Russian minister of police, along with innocent bystanders. A young student named Razumov hides the perpetrator, then betrays him and becomes a spy among his exiled comrades. He faces...
Villette
Lucy Snowe is a stoic young Englishwoman. Beset by adverse circumstances, on a momentary whim she travels to Belgium to seek her livelihood as a teacher in a girls’ boarding school. There, surrounded by giddy pupils, under the control of the cunning school matron, wooed by an...
Voices of Black America
Historial recordings of poetry, humor and drama. 1908 - 1947.
Walden
'If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.' In 1845 Henry David Thoreau, one of the principal New England Transcendentalists, left...
Wings of the Dove, The
What befalls a star-crossed triangle of friends and lovers in this novel illustrates exquisitely what happens when a woman’s desire for both her lover and riches makes the object of her affection question his own true worth in her eyes.