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Title: Oliver Twist

Author: Charles Dickens

Narrator: Nadia May

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-15-05

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 64 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Set in London's backstreet slums,

Oliver Twist is the story of a workhouse orphan captured and thrust into a den of thieves, where some of Dickens' most depraved villains preside: the incorrigible Artful Dodger; the barbarous bully Bill Sikes; and the terrible Fagin, whose knavery threatens to send them all to the gallows. This was the first of Dickens' works to depict realistically London's impoverished underworld, and to illustrate his belief that poverty leads to crime. At the heart of the drama, however, is Oliver, the orphan whose unsullied goodness leads him to salvation and who represents Dickens' belief in the principle of good triumphing at last.

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Critic Reviews:

"Decidedly unsentimental in its depiction of poverty and the criminal underworld, especially in its portrayal of the cruel Bill Sikes." (Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature)

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Title: The Evil Genius

Author: Wilkie Collins

Narrator: John Bolen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-05-02

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 47 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

An 'evil genius' is threatening to rip apart the fabric of the Linley home. Who is it and why? Is it the orphaned young governess for whom the father lusts; the brother-in-law who appears to help everyone, but often succeeds in making things worse; the meddling mother-in-law whose good-intentioned interferences lead to greater heartache; the disloyal father, or perhaps the unassuming daughter?

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Title: The History of English Literature

Author: Perry Keenlyside

Narrator: Derek Jacobi

Format: Original Recording

Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-25-01

Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 62 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

English literature may very well be the greatest body of imaginative writing the world has yet seen. The human experience has been understood, interpreted, and conveyed by writers of genius in a tradition stretching through six or more centuries, from Chaucer to Philip Larkin, from Defoe to William Golding. Here, accompanied by a wealth of examples, is the story of a literature that has touched the hearts and stirred the minds of countless readers through the ages.

Read by Derek Jacobi and a full cast.

Editorial Reviews:

It takes some hubris to suppose that you can even sweep through 600 years of British poetry and prose in a 5.3-hour program. The attempt has yielded a listenable and informative production. The narrative is occasionally off the mark and there are lapses. But it is Derek Jacobi's amiable, precise, and lyrical narration, always fresh and committed, that gives the exercise distinction and renders it pleasurable.

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Title: A Christmas Carol [Monterey SoundWorks Version] (Dramatized)

Author: Charles Dickens

Narrator: The St. Charles Players

Format: Abridged

Length: 1 hr and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-27-01

Publisher: Monterey SoundWorks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The St. Charles Players present a new and thrilling adaptation of this classic tale, performed in exciting Radio Theatre style.

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Title: Moll Flanders

Author: Daniel Defoe

Narrator: Heathre Bell

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-26-00

Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Follow the fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders. She was born in Newgate, and during a life of continued variety for three-score years, besides her childhood, was 12 years a whore, 5 times a wife (where of once to her own brother), 12 years a thief, 8 years a transported felon in Virginia, at last grew rich, lived honest, and died a penitent.

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Title: The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Narrator: George Taylor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-16-99

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 17 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Peachy Carnahan and Daniel Dravot set off into the wild northern passes of India to build not a fortune, but an empire. They find a likely spot in Kafiristan, where Dravot manages to set himself up, not only as king, but as a god, and Peachy takes charge of the army. But ruling isn't always as easy as it looks. This program also includes the short stories "The Drums of the Fore and Aft" and "Mary Postgate," originally published in 1899.

Editorial Reviews:

Narrator George Taylors raspy voice and English accent perfectly match the "hut, one, two" pace of Kiplings explorations of colonialism in the nineteenth century. The short stories that accompany the novella are also treated in an effective and dramatic way by this master narrator. Taylor characterizes the men of ambition with the best stiff upper lip imaginable. Moments of daring get the full dramatic treatment, with Taylor leading the charge. Listeners in search of adventure and bravery will find two companions in Taylor and Kipling.

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Title: Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Author: Jerome K. Jerome

Narrator: Peter Joyce

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-08-10

Publisher: Assembled Stories

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Over 100 years since it was first published Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow addresses subjects which are still relevant today perhaps more so! Being hard up, being in the blues and being in love are just some aspects of the human condition on which Jerome K. Jerome reflects in his unique whimsical fashion. These insights are not given for the benefit of our education however, for as he says in his introduction, This book would not elevate a cow. I cannot consciously recommend it for any useful purpose whatsoever. All I can suggest is, that when you get tired of reading the best hundred books you may take this up for half an hour. It will be a change!

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Critic Reviews:

"Peter Joyce is the most remarkable one-man band in audiobook publishing. Joyce, an experienced actor, reads them all himself." (The Independent)

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Title: Robinson Crusoe [Russian Edition]

Author: Daniel Defoe

Narrator: Maksim Suslov

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-03-15

Publisher: IDDK

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

"Robinzon Kruzo" (angl. Robinson Crusoe) - roman Danijelja Defo, vpervye opublikovannyj v aprele 1719 goda, nazvannyj po imeni glavnogo geroja. Polnoe nazvanie proizvedenija zvuchit kak Zhizn', neobyknovennye i udivitel'nye prikljuchenija Robinzona Kruzo, morjaka iz Jorka, prozhivshego 28 let v polnom odinochestve na neobitaemom ostrove u beregov Ameriki bliz ust'ev reki Orinoko, kuda on byl vybroshen korablekrusheniem, vo vremja kotorogo ves' jekipazh korablja krome nego pogib, s izlozheniem ego neozhidannogo osvobozhdenija piratami; napisannye im samim.

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Title: The Forsyte Saga, Volume 4

Author: John Galsworthy

Narrator: Peter Joyce

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-20-11

Publisher: Assembled Stories

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 15 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

It is 1899. Old Jolyon has long since been buried at Robin Hill, and with the death of Aunt Susan in 1895 and Rogers funeral opening this instalment of the Saga, the Forsytes are fast becoming aware of their mortality.

Yet more problems beset the family. Montague Dartie leaves his wife for Buenos Aires to pursue his latest flame, a dancer. Young Jolyons wife has died and his father entrusted him as executor of his will, ensuring that Irene receives the interest on the sum the old man left her.

Motor cars are beginning to fill the streets of London, and war with the Boers is about to be declared. Soames is now 44 years old, separated from Irene for 12 years and yearning for a son to whom he can leave his property.

He meets and begins to woo Annette. Could she give him an heir? At first, he favours the idea and prepares to seek a divorce, but meeting Irene again rekindles that desperate, unfulfilled passion. Why should she not come back to him? He informs Jolyon of his intentions, asking the artist to kindly leave her quite alone; I can give you no such promise comes the firm reply, and the battle begins in earnest.

Critic Reviews:

"Peter Joyce is the most remarkable one-man band in audiobook publishing. Joyce, an experienced actor, reads them all himself." (The Independent)

Family sagas, from Icelandic to Aga, have diverted readers for centuries, but the Forsytes remain the brand leaders. The clever thing about this edition is that it comes in small, easily digestible portions. Peter Joyce, whose rhetorical resonance is perfect for his subject, has divided the saga into nine volumes, each lasting around five hours. Listen for yourselves. It was the dialogue that had me constantly rewinding. their lives are eminently and endlessly fascinating. (The Guardian)

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Title: Lorna Doone [Audio Connoisseur]

Author: R. D. Blackmore

Narrator: Charlton Griffin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 28 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 11-08-12

Publisher: Audio Connoisseur

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Lorna Doone is one of the greatest love stories ever written; and for a long time, it was the most popular. Written in the heyday of the great Victorian novelists, in 1869, it proved to be an enduring tale and made its author rich and famous.

This is the story of John Ridd, a yeoman farmer of the border country in southwest England. Set in the turbulent late 17th century, amid political tensions aroused by the religious animosities of a nation that had just emerged from the Commonwealth government of Cromwell, the story follows the adventures of John Ridd and his love, Lorna Doone, an aristocratic beauty who was kidnapped by the Doone family as a child. How John Ridd meets Lorna, wins her love, rescues her from the clutches of the Doone clan, and tries to keep her safe constitutes the bulk of the plot.

The entire novel is told from John's point of view in the first person. Lorna Doone dramatizes two of the crucial issues of the Victorian era: country life versus city life, and the values of the individual set against the authority of the state. In John Ridd we see the epitome of the rising middle class set against a parasitical aristocracy represented by the Doones.

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