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Title: A Passage to India

Author: E. M. Forster

Narrator: Sam Dastor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-09

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 633 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

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Dr. Aziz is a young Muslim physician in the British Indian town of Chandrapore. One evening he comes across an English woman, Mrs. Moore, in the courtyard of a local mosque; she and her younger travelling companion Adela are disappointed by claustrophobic British colonial culture and wish to see something of the 'real' India. But when Aziz kindly offers to take them on a tour of the Marabar caves with his close friend Cyril Fielding, the trip results in a shocking accusation that throws Chandrapore into a fever of racial tension.

Set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s it deals with the common racial tensions and prejudices between Indians and the British who ruled India.

Many of Forster's novels observed class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society including A Passage to India, the novel which brought him his greatest success. A secular humanist, Forster showed concern for social, political, and spiritual divisions in the world.

Time magazine included A Passage to India in its All-Time 100 Novels list and it was selected as one of the 100 great works of 20th century English literature by the Modern Library.

Directed by David Lean, a film adaptation was released in 1984 that won numerous awards including two Oscars.

Narrator Biography

A Cambridge graduate who trained at RADA under the direction of Sir Laurence Olivier, Sam Dastor has long featured on screen and stage. He is best known for The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004) and for twice portraying Gandhi in both Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy (1986), and Jinnah (1998).

Sam Dastor has starred in many West End productions with roles such as Ariel in The Tempest, and Orlando in As You Like It. His most recent work has included starring on stage at the Wolsey Theatre in A Midsummer Nights Dream (2016). He has narrated a large catalogue of audiobooks including V.S. Naipauls A House for Mr Biswas.

Critic Reviews:

"[Narrator Sam] Dastor's performance is outstanding. A huge cast of characters of all classes and nationalities comes vibrantly alive as he takes the voice of each.... His eloquent reading transforms into powerful performance literature." (AudioFile)

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Title: The Happy Prince and Other Stories

Subtitle: The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde

Author: Oscar Wilde

Narrator: Alec Sand

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-30-09

Publisher: Trout Lake Media

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Much of their charm is due to Wilde's intention that the stories be "studies in prose... meant partly for children, and partly for those who have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy, and who find in simplicity a subtle strangeness."

Often whimsical and sometimes sad, they all shine with poetry and magic.

Editorial Reviews:

Children and adults alike will find amusement in this collection of Oscar Wilde's fairy tales. Performed by Alec Sand in a warm, friendly manner, the stories come alive with Wilde's classic mix of wit and morality. Each fairy tale begins with a few bars of music that serve to set the tone, adding a magical atmosphere to the listening experience. Fairy tales in this collection present a mix of the whimsical and the deeply affecting, including "The Birthday of the Infanta", "The Star-Child", "The Young King", "The Fisherman and his Soul", and the titular story, "The Happy Prince".

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Title: North and South

Author: Elizabeth Gaskell

Narrator: Juliet Stevenson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-18-09

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2395 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

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Written at the request of Charles Dickens, North and South is a book about rebellion; it poses fundamental questions about the nature of social authority and obedience. Gaskell expertly blends individual feeling with social concern, and her heroine, Margaret Hale, is one of the most original creations of Victorian literature.

When Margaret Hale's father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience she is forced to leave her comfortable home in the tranquil countryside of Hampshire and move with her family to the fictional industrial town of Milton in the north of England. Though at first disgusted by her new surroundings, she witnesses the brutality wrought by the Industrial Revolution and becomes aware of the poverty and suffering of the local mill workers. Sympathetic to the poor she makes friends among them and develops a fervent sense of social justice. She clashes with the mill-owner and self-made man, John Thornton, who is contemptuous of his workers. However, their fierce opposition masks a deeper attraction.

Gaskell based her depiction of Milton on Manchester, where she lived as the wife of a Unitarian minister. She was an accomplished writer, much of her work published in Charles Dickens' magazine Household Words including North and South which was originally published as a serial. She was also friends with Charlotte Brontë and after her death, her father, Patrick Brontë, chose Gaskell to write The Life of Charlotte Brontë.

Narrator Biography

Whether she's up on stage, behind the microphone or in front of the camera, Juliet Stevenson never fails to charm her audience...whoever they may be. Acting roles in Truly, Madly Deeply, Emma, Bend It like Beckham and Mona Lisa Smile have cemented her status as one of the great British actresses of our time. Meanwhile, her popular performances of hits such as Apple Tree Yard, the book that was turned into a TV series that people just couldn't stop talking about, have earned her an overwhelming amount of well-deserved praise for her spoken word talents.

Critic Reviews:

"[An] admirable story...full of character and power." (Charles Dickens)

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Title: The Scarlet Pimpernel

Author: Baroness Orczy

Narrator: David Thorn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-11-09

Publisher: Alcazar AudioWorks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 165 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

A thrilling tale of mystery and suspense set during the French Revolution, where a dashing English aristocrat risks his life to enter France and save innocents from the guillotine. Baroness Orczy's marvelously romantic tale of an English bonvivant, Sir Percy Blakeney, and his secretive plots to secure the escape of beleaguered French aristocrats from the clutches of "Madame la Guillotine".

The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel is a secret society of English aristocrats who are determined to rescue their French counterparts from execution. Their leader is the mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel, whose name comes from the drawing of a red flower he uses to sign his messages.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 01: Paris: September, 1792

Chapter 02: Dover: "The Fisherman's Rest"

Chapter 03: The Refugees

Chapter 04: The League Of The Scarlet Pimpernel

Chapter 05: Marguerite

Chapter 06: An Exquisite Of '92

Chapter 07: The Secret Orchard

Chapter 08: The Accredited Agent

Chapter 09: The Outrage

Chapter 10: In The Opera Box

Chapter 11: Lord Grenville's Ball

Chapter 12: The Scrap Of Paper

Chapter 13: Either

Chapter 14: One O'Clock Precisely!

Chapter 15: Doubt

Chapter 16: Richmond

Chapter 17: Farewell

Chapter 18: The Mysterious Device

Chapter 19: The Scarlet Pimpernel

Chapter 20: The Friend

Chapter 21: Suspense

Chapter 22: Calais

Chapter 23: Hope

Chapter 24: The Death

Chapter 25: The Eagle And The Fox

Chapter 26: The Jew

Chapter 27: On The Track

Chapter 28: The Pere Blanchard's Hut

Chapter 29: Trapped

Chapter 30: The Schooner

Chapter 31: The Escape

Baroness Orczy

Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orczi (18651947) was a Hungarian aristocrat, raised in Britain.

Baroness Orczy was a novelist and painter, famed for her Scarlett Pimpernel series about an English aristocrat who donned a disguise to rescue French aristocrats threatened by the guillotine.

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Title: Oliver Twist

Author: Charles Dickens

Narrator: Peter Wickham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-07-09

Publisher: RNIB

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 20 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

First published in 1837, the story of the young orphan Oliver Twist and his life on the mean streets of London has fascinated and shocked ever since.

The young orphan Oliver Twist flees a cruel workhouse for the dirty streets of London, where he falls in with a nefarious gang. As the shrewd Artful Dodger, the menacing Fagin, and the vicious Bill Sikes lead Oliver deeper into a criminal life, a dark conspiracy is revealed around him.

Charles Dickens (1812 - 9 June 1870) is arguably the greatest novelist England ever produced.

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Title: The Happy Prince and Other Stories

Author: Oscar Wilde

Narrator: John Moffatt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-05-09

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Magical listening for young and old, narrated by John Moffatt.

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Title: Northanger Abbey

Author: Jane Austen

Narrator: Anne Flosnik

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-28-09

Publisher: Alpha DVD

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 107 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

She returns home and is followed by Henry. He explains that the General, mistakenly believing her to be penniless, had been anxious to keep her away from his son. Restored to a sensible humor by the truth, the General finally gives his blessing to Henry's marriage to Catherine.

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Title: Middlemarch

Author: George Eliot

Narrator: Maureen O'Brien

Format: Unabridged

Length: 32 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-26-09

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 357 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

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George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community.

Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career; and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past.

As their stories interweave, George Eliot creates a richly nuanced and moving drama, hailed by Virginia Woolf as 'one of the few English novels written for adult people'. Middlemarch explores nearly all matters of concern to modern life, portraying an entire community and every class within it. Full of irony and suspense and even richer in character it shows how individual lives are shaped by and shape the community. Within Middlemarch, we find Eliot's ability to expand the audience's compassion and imagination.

George Eliot was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their realism and psychological insight. When Middlemarch was released Eliot was considered England's finest living novelist with many critics still regarding this novel as the finest in English.

A BAFTA winning adaptation of Middlemarch aired as a television series in 1994.

Narrator Biography

Maureen is an English actress and author best known for playing the role of Vicki in Doctor Who where she starred alongside the original Doctor, William Hartnell. She then went on to appear in The Legend of King Arthur, Casualty, The Duchess of Duke Street, Taggart, Cracker, A Touch of Frost, Heartbeat and Jonathan Creek. In 1985 she made a rare film appearance in the comedy She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas opposite Julie Walters.

Maureen has also appeared in a number of stage productions, for example, The Relapse (Old Vic), The Merchant of Venice (Old Vic), The Archbishop's Ceiling (Bristol Old Vic) and Othello (Bristol Old Vic).

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Title: Anna Karenina

Author: Leo Tolstoy

Narrator: Judy Franklin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 35 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-23-09

Publisher: RNIB

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 197 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

It tells of the love affair between Anna and Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Russia, faith is challenged, bonds are broken, love dies and is reborn.

Leo Tolstoy, or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy 1828 - 1910), was a Russian writer and is regarded as among the greatest of novelists.

Translated by Constance Garnett from the Russian in 1901.

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Title: Secret Garden

Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett

Narrator: Helena Bonham Carter

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-15-09

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 92 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Since its original publication in 1911, The Secret Garden has ranked as one of the world's best-loved novels, captivating children and adults alike with its luminous tale of secrets and revelations, growth and renewal, and, above all, the transforming power of love.

©1993 Warner Brothers; (P)1993 Penguin/HighBridge Audio

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