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The Secret Agent (Unabridged)
Running time : 9 hours and 30 min.
Author : Joseph Conrad
Narrator : David Threlfall
Publisher : BBC WW
Normal Retail Price : $ 40.28
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Now the subject of a major film, The Secret Agent is based on an actual attempt made in 1894 to blow up the Greenwich Observatory. A labyrinth of greed, corruption and betrayal, it is the most darkly humorous of all Conrad's novels.

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The Poetry of Wordsworth: (Selection) (Unabridged)
Running time : 39 min.
Author : William Wordsworth
Narrator : Sir Cedric Hardwicke
Publisher : The Copyright Group
Normal Retail Price : $ 7.89
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William Wordsworth was amongst the greatest of English Poets. Included here are selections that put into perspective his great talent....
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Room With a View
Running time : 5 hours and 17 min.
Author : E. M. Forster
Narrator : Juliet Stevenson
Publisher : CSA Word
Normal Retail Price : $ 22.58
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Lucy Honeychurch, accompanied by her vigilant guardian, Charlotte Bartlett, makes her first foray into the world....
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Silas Marner (Unabridged)
Running time : 6 hours and 41 min.
Author : George Eliot
Narrator : Andrew Sachs
Publisher : BBC WW
Normal Retail Price : $ 31.72
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For 15 years the weaver Silas Marner has plied his loom near the village of Raveloe....
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Tales from Shakespeare: The Lambs' Tales (Unabridged)
Running time : 3 hours and 54 min.
Author : Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, William Shakespeare
Narrator : Alan Cumming, Nigel Davenport, Andrew Sachs, Juliet Stevenson
Publisher : Penguin Books Limited
Normal Retail Price : $ 13.27
Audible Price : $ 9.29

A perfect introduction for all ages to the breadth and beauty of Shakespeare's work, Tales from Shakespearehas become a classic work in its own right....
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The Forsyte Saga, Volume 4 (Unabridged)
Running time : 4 hours and 36 min.
Author : John Galsworthy
Narrator : Peter Joyce
Publisher : Assembled Stories
Normal Retail Price : $ 18.79
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It is 1899. Old Jolyon has long since been buried at Robin Hill, and the Forsytes are fast becoming aware of their mortality....
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The Sword in the Stone (Unabridged)
Running time : 9 hours and 40 min.
Author : T. H. White
Narrator : Neville Jason
Publisher : Naxos AudioBooks
Normal Retail Price : $ 29.99
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Like The Lord of the Rings, this fantasy novel has been equally popular among younger readers and adults....
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Northanger Abbey (Unabridged)
Running time : 7 hours and 41 min.
Author : Jane Austen
Narrator : Anna Massey
Publisher : AudioGO
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Catherine Morland is the very ideal of a nice girl from a happy family, but she has an overactive imagination....
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Gulliver's Travels (Adapted for Young Listeners) (Unabridged)
Running time : 2 hours and 11 min.
Author : Jonathan Swift
Narrator : Simon Vance
Publisher : Mission Audio
Normal Retail Price : $ 21.96
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Travelers visit many strange places. They see very many wonderful things....
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Peter Pan (Unabridged)
Running time : 5 hours and 29 min.
Author : J. M. Barrie
Narrator : Paul Albertson
Publisher : Alpha DVD
Normal Retail Price : $ 11.36
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J. M. Barrie's classic Peter Pan is about a mischievous boy who can fly and magically refuses to grow up....
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The Essential Kipling (Unabridged)
Running time : 4 hours and 50 min.
Author : Joseph Rudyard Kipling
Narrator : Rupert Degas, Martin Jarvis, Richard Pasco, Liza Goddard
Publisher : CSA Word
Normal Retail Price : $ 22.42
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The Essential Kipling celebrates a truly prolific and varied career; with Kipling's poetry and stories interpreted vividly by wonderful actors....
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The Mummy (Dramatized)
Running time : 1 hour 52 min.
Author : Bram Stoker
Narrator : Full Cast
Publisher : Monterey SoundWorks
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Among the ancient artifacts concealed in a London Victorian mansion lies an ornate humansized sarcophagus which houses the body of an ancient Egyptian sorceress...
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Vanity Fair (Unabridged)
Running time : 28 hours and 41 min.
Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
Narrator : Wanda McCaddon
Publisher : Tantor Media
Normal Retail Price : $ 59.99
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Vanity Fair features two heroines: the faithful, loyal Amelia Sedley, and the beautiful and scheming social climber Becky Sharp....
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Swan Song (Unabridged)
Running time : 10 hours and 30 min.
Author : John Galsworthy
Narrator : David Case
Publisher : Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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Soames Forsyte, having mellowed over the years, guards with especial tenderness the welfare of his daughter, Fleur. But all his devotion cannot avert tragedy when she revives an old love affair....
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The Wife of Bath's Tale
Running time : 41 min.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Narrator : Peggy Ashcroft
Publisher : Saland Publishing
Normal Retail Price : $ 10.54
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The best known of Chaucer's Canterbury's Tales, read by Dame Peggy Ashcroft....
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The French Revolution, Volume 1: The Bastille (Unabridged)
Running time : 11 hours and 23 min.
Author : Thomas Carlyle
Narrator : Robert Bethune
Publisher : Freshwater Seas
Normal Retail Price : $ 29.95
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Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution is a landmark of literary history....
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Dombey and Son
Running time : 11 hours and 18 min.
Author : Charles Dickens
Narrator : David Timson
Publisher : Naxos AudioBooks
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Dombey and Son is vintage Dickens and explores the classic themes of betrayal, cruelty and deceit.....
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Sons and Lovers (Unabridged)
Running time : 16 hours and 48 min.
Author : D. H. Lawrence
Narrator : Paul Slack
Publisher : Naxos Audiobooks
Normal Retail Price : $ 45.50
Audible Price : $ 31.85

The story of class differences (the relationship between a middleclass woman and a miner) in the tough world of coal mining brought a refreshing realism to literature....
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Bleak House
Running time : 3 hours and 2 min.
Author : Charles Dickens
Narrator : Paul Scofield
Publisher : Phoenix Books
Normal Retail Price : $ 18.00
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Perhaps the finest novel of nineteenthcentury England, Bleak House embodies artful narrative, an engaging cast of characters, biting satire, and a detailed depiction of Victorian society....
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Orgoglio e pregiudizio [Pride and Prejudice] (Unabridged)
Running time : 12 hours and 49 min.
Author : Jane Austen
Narrator : Claudia Giannelli
Publisher : Club Degli Audiolettori
Normal Retail Price : $ 14.49
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Un quadro della societa inglese del Settecento attraverso l'occhio acuto ed ironico della scrittrice.....
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Far From the Madding Crowd
Running time : 2 hours and 56 min.
Author : Thomas Hardy
Narrator : Julie Christie
Publisher : Hodder Headline Limited
Normal Retail Price : $ 20.86
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The story centres around the beautiful and wilful Bathsheba Everdene, mistress of Weatherbury Upper Farm, and the three men who love her....
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