Literature
The Secret Garden (version 4 dramatic reading)
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children's novel is about orphaned Mary Lennox, who is sent to live with her uncle at Misslethwaite Manor …
Cousin Phillis
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Cousin Phillis (1864) is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell about Paul Manning, a youth of seventeen who moves to the country and befriends his mo…
Far From The Madding Crowd, version 2
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Thomas Hardy
Far From The Madding Crowd is Hardy's fourth novel. It centres on the lives of five characters: Gabriel Oak, Bathsheba Everdene, Mr Boldwood…
Great Expectations (version 2)
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Charles Dickens
Great Expectations is written in the first person and is virtually a fictional autobiography of “Pip” from his childhood, through often pain…
This Side of Paradise
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke po…
David Copperfield
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Charles Dickens
"David Copperfield" or "The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blun…
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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James Joyce
This is James Joyce's first novel, the semi-autobiographical story of a young Irish boy who struggles with family, country, and religion to …
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (version 2)
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Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The work is a very early example of…
Little Dorrit (Version 2)
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Charles Dickens
Little Dorrit, one of the three great novels of Charles Dickens’ last period, was produced in monthly installments from 1855 to 1857, and is…
War and Peace Vol. 1 (Dole Translation)
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Leo Tolstoy
”War and Peace” is a panoramic novel: It is its own justification, and perhaps needs no introduction. It always reminds the translator of a …
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (Edition 1831)
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Mary Shelley
A mentally unstable genius, Victor Frankenstein, inspired by the dreams of ancient alchemists and empowered by modern science, creates a hum…
The House of the Seven Gables
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The wrongdoing of one generation lives into the successive ones and... becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief." Hawthorne's …
Dubliners
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James Joyce
Masterful short stories about life in Dublin at the turn of the century, by James Joyce. (Summary by Hugh McGuire)
Our Mutual Friend, Version 3
Read by Mil Nicholson
Charles Dickens
Our Mutual Friend, the last novel completed by Charles Dickens, has many plots, twists and turns, from the murky river Thames to the gold an…
The Age of Innocence (version 2)
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Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with this 1920 novel about Old New York society. Newland Archer …
Don Quixote - Vol. 2
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Don Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in …
A Christmas Carol (version 04)
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Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Chapman & Hall on 17 December 1843. The story tells …
The Watsons
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Jane Austen
This fragment of a novel was written by Jane Austen in 1804 and remained untitled and unpublished until her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh…
Ethan Frome
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton's 1911 novel Ethan Frome tells the story of a tragic love triangle. Set in the highly symbolic wintry landscape of Starkfield,…
The Semi-Detached House
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Emily Eden
If you're a Jane Austen fan, you'll enjoy Emily Eden's comic novels of manners, The Semi-Detached House (1859) and The Semi-Attached Couple …