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The Three Strangers (Unabridged)
Running time : 56 min.
Author : Thomas Hardy
Narrator : Walter Zimmerman
Publisher : Jimcin Recordings
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On a dark and stormy night, three strangers seek shelter at a young girl's christening party.

Thomas Hardy was an English poet, novelist, and short story writer. He is famous for his depictions of Wessex, an imaginary county. Many of his stories also reflected his sense of the tragedy in human life.

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One Voice Chronological: The Consummate Holmes Canon, Collection 8 (Unabridged)
Running time : 5 hours and 1 min.
Author : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator : David Ian Davies
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Running time : 1 hour and 35 min.
Author : Oscar Wilde
Narrator : Alec McCowan, Lynn Redgrave
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A wonderfully charming recording available for the first time as a digital download....
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The Painted Veil (Unabridged)
Running time : 7 hours and 21 min.
Author : W. Somerset Maugham
Narrator : Sophie Ward
Publisher : BBC WW
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This is the story of Kitty Fane, the adulterous wife of a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong....
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A Christmas Carol
Running time : 2 hours and 23 min.
Author : Charles Dickens
Narrator : Martin Jarvis
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The very popular Christmas story given the full Martin Jarvis brilliant treatment....
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Northanger Abbey (Unabridged)
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Author : Jane Austen
Narrator : Anna Massey
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Catherine Morland reads tales of Gothic romance, yet leads a country life in Wiltshire....
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
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Author : Robert Tressell
Narrator : Tony Robinson
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There is no other novel quite like The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. George Orwell called it a wonderful book; its readers have become a living part of its remarkable history....
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Gulliver in Lilliput (Dramatised)
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Author : Jonathan Swift
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Tony Church, Derek Hart, and John Wood perform Part I of Gulliver's Travels....
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SmartPass Audio Education Study Guide to Pride and Prejudice (Dramatised)
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Author : Jane Austen and Mary Potter
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Fullcast performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis for any student....
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The Mayor of Casterbridge (Dramatised)
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Author : Thomas Hardy
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Emma
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Oscar Wilde: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (Unabridged)
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Lord Arthur's life is thrown into turmoil with the dire prophecy that he will commit murder. His forthcoming marriage postponed, he sets about finding his victim....
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Unabridged)
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Ivanhoe (Unabridged)
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A Christmas Carol [Harper Collins Version]
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Author : Charles Dickens
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This quintessential Christmas tale shows Dickens at his dazzling and provocative best, leaving Scrooge no doubts about the true spirit of Christmas....
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Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained (Unabridged)
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Paradise Lost, along with its companion piece, Paradise Regained, remain the most successful attempts at GrecoRoman style epic poetry in the English language....
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Far From the Madding Crowd
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Author : Thomas Hardy
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Middlemarch, Volume I (Unabridged)
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Author : George Eliot
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This multilayered novel concerns complex social relationships in a provincial Victorian neighborhood....
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Idylls of the King (Unabridged)
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Author : Alfred Tennyson
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The Arthurian legend of Camelot has been told many times, but never better than by Alfred Tennyson. It employs some of the most stirring and beautiful blank verse ever written....
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