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An unblinking portrait of American society during slave times, as seen through the eyes of the title character, who narrates the tale.
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Well known as a 'children's book,' Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is rich in eloquent and sophisticated language, and filled with realistic characters who become locked in life and death struggles.
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Allow the Arabian Nights tales weave their enchantment.
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A fresh vision of Britain's greatest story: The epic of King Arthur - from his conception in sorcerous lust, to the shining wonder of his...
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The acclaimed BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Anthony Trollope's classic story of provincial life.
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Douglas Henshall, Sophie Dahl and Susannah York star in Shakespeare's passionate story of doomed love. The full beauty and meaning of some of the most lyrical lines ever written can truly be heard.
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Providing a fresh view of America via generations of two adventurous families, as well as information about conducting genealogical research, Mrs. Cheney entertains and enlightens.
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Simon Russell Beale stars in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of John le Carré’s first novel, which introduced his most famous character, George Smiley.
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Dr. Peter Blood gives medical attention to a wounded man after the battle of Sedgemore, as the Dragoons arrive in search of rebels.
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The poems of Yeats, Swift, Burns and other Celts with tales about Celtic women, celtic writing and celtic weddings
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A dramatisation of Dickens' classic Story, about Ebenezer Scrouge's encounter with the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present & Future.
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The four Pevensies help Caspian battle Miraz and ascend his rightful throne.
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Classic American Poetry - Great american poems from the earliest poets of the 16th century to the present day.
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Ian Hart stars in these BBC Radio 4 dramatisations of Patricia Highsmith’s five Ripley novels. Tense, thrilling and atmospheric, these dramatisations are perfect evocations of Highsmith’s novels.
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Bette is Lisbeth Fischer, an excruciatingly cunning poor relation who both depends upon and nurses a terrible grudge against the family of her beautiful cousin, Adeline. That family is slowly being ruined by the uncontrollable sexual appetites of Adeline’s husband, Baron Hulot, appetites that...
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Full-cast, very modern update of the classic Bram Stoker novel The Curse of Dracula.
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Dante's Hell is one of the most remarkable visions in Western literature. An allegory for his and future ages, it is, at the same time, an account of terrifying realism.
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A stirring performance of the foundation document of American liberty.
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The full candid story of Hollywood's last golden age. About filmmakers such as Scorcese, Coppola, and Spielberg and actors like DeNiro, Pacino, and Nicholson
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20 of Edgar Allan Poe's chilling stories and poems performed by Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone.
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Jane Austen’s engaging and infuriating heroine sparkles in this superb full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisation, which stars Angharad Rees as Emma.
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This fascinating true story brings to life Filippo Brunelleschi and Lorenzo Ghiberti, two talented, passionate artists and the competitive drive that united and divided them.
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Bound on a lecture trip around the world, Mark Twain turns his keen satiric eye to foreign lands in Following the Equator.
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No other twentieth-century film artist so captivated the world, or spent so much energy trying to hide from it like Greta Garbo.
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Nick Lansing and Susy Branch, a newly married couple with the right connections but little money, devise a shrewd plan to sponge off their wealthy friends, honeymooning in their mansions and villas. How their plan unfolds is a charming comedy of Eros.
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The tie-in audiobook of the bestselling novel, now a major Hollywood film starring James Cromwell, Harry Dean Stanton and Tom Hanks...
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Swift’s masterpiece of satire tells of the fantastic voyages of the Englishman Lemuel Gulliver, whose travels take him to lands where the inhabitants are only six inches tall as well as to lands where they are sixty feet high, where horses have the capacity to reason, and where animals are...
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Marlow, the story’s narrator, tells his friends of an experience in the British Congo where he once ran a river steamer for a trading company. He tells of the ivory traders’ cruel exploitation of the natives there. Chief among these is a greedy and treacherous European named Kurtz, a man who has...
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History of Classical Music - Here is the fascinating story of over a thousand years of Western classical music.
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History of English Literature - The story of literature that has touched the hearts & stirred the minds of countless readers.
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This absorbing History of the Opera is illustrated by over 100 musical examples.
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History of the Musical - An enthralling story - told with nearly 100 famous musical extracts.
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History of Theatre - Here is the diverse and fascinating story of the Theatre.
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'The Hobbit' is a tale of high adventure, undertaken by a company of dwarves in search of a dragon-guarded gold.
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In WWI, possibly the most horrific modern war, two soldier poets described inner impressions telling us much about war and the people who fight them.
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This boxed set features Jack London's thrilling classics, The Call of the Wild and White Fang. London’s adventurous nature, intuitive feeling for animal life, and superb storytelling skills have given his tales an enduring place in the annals of American literature.
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This series features reconstructions of Marshall-Hall’s dramatic courtroom displays and his ingenious and persuasive tactics.
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Based on letters by Hepburn, her friends, and her family, as well as interviews with Hepburn herself, Leaming's book is a family story that brings alive three generations of fearless women.
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Laurence Olivier was the most famous actor of this century, perhaps the greatest of all time. From his stage roles as Hamlet and Archie Rice to his screen roles as Heathcliff and Henry V, his range was unparalleled. This book brings to life the private man behind the public persona.
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The complete Gospel of Luke taken from Zondervan’s acclaimed, Audie Award®-winning NIV Audio Bible Dramatized New Testament...
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Travel through small-town America with this popular BBC Radio reading.
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Here are the beloved adventures of the mischievous hero Robin Hood and his brave and merry band of outlaws who forged a chivalrous code to protect the oppressed and despoil the oppressors. Breathtaking escapes, hilarious escapades, and classic characters make this a favorite story everywhere.
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A Murder of Quality, set in the early 1960s, sees George Smiley investigating a murder in a public school. This dramatisation perfectly captures the atmosphere of le Carré’s gripping thriller.
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Nicholas, the hearty young hero, takes us on a journey through nineteenth-century England in a delightful series of adventures accompanied by some of Dickens’s best swaggering scoundrels and most unforgettable eccentrics.
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One of the great masterpieces of Western literature, the Odyssey chronicles the many trials and adventures Odysseus must pass through on his long journey home from the Trojan wars.
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Four dramatised stories starring everyone’s favourite bear, introduced by Michael Hordern, who narrated the original BBC TV series Paddington.
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Ms. Terry Moore reveals the private Hughes
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Poseidon's Gold - This funny and fast-moving fifth story starring Anton Lesser, Anna Madeley and Trevor Peacock is a treat for all Falco fans.
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Whether he was a sad, self-obsessed man or a tortured comic genius, Williams had a unique talent, which Benson captures incredibly well in this one-off insight into Williams' private life
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BBC Radio 4 Dramatisation starring David Threlfall, Tina Kellegher and T P McKenna.
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A SonicMovie form SonicMovie.net - The Raven - A message from beyond the grave takes an inviting and terrifying form.
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The first ever autobiography of this truly international legend, written with all the trademark style, candour, charm and wit he has brought to stage and screen over his long and illustrious career.
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Douglas Henshall stars as Romeo with Sophie Dahl as Juliet and Susannah York as Lady Capulet in Shakespeare's passionate story of doomed love...
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Convicted and imprisoned because she is unwilling to name her partner in adultery, Hester Prynne is forced to wear a scarlet “A” on the breast of her gown for the rest of her life. This unending public reminder of sin torments her days and haunts her soul.
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All 154 of the Shakespeare's sonnets are beautifully read.
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Squire Dale, the embittered old bachelor who lives in the great house at Allington, has loaned the nearby small house rent free to his widowed sister-in-law and her two daughters, Lily and Bell. The action centers on the strained relations between the two houses and on the romantic entanglements...
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Best-selling biographer Stefan Kanfer seamlessly intertwines the man and the work to give us the fullest and most illuminating appraisal yet. The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando
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Beat Poetry and cool cool Jazz:The Beat Generation is a term used to describe a group of American writers who came to prominence in the 1950s
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The lives and music of the great composers of classical music unfold in this entertaining account, introduced by singer and presenter Aled Jones.
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Richard Derrington and Deborah McAndrew star in this thrilling Radio 4 dramatisation of P.D. James' enduringly popular mystery.
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A heartbreaking, heartwarming, and revelatory memoir from acclaimed indie rock musician Mark Oliver Everett of the band Eels.
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Mark Eddy Smith's gentle account of Tolkien's ordinary virtues gets to the very quick of the great storyteller's vision.
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Stephen Glennard, a young lawyer, sells a package of love letters, written to him over the years by distinguished novelist Margaret Aubyn, to raise money to pay for his forthcoming wedding to another woman. After the wedding, his secret comes back to haunt him, and when he confesses to his wife,...
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When noted English writer William Somerset Maugham set off for the South Seas to regain his health, he gathered the materials and wrote the stories represented here. These are among Maugham's best, and the best stories ever written about the exotic South Seas.
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The year 1866 was marked by a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon. For some time, sea vessels had been threatened by “an enormous thing,” a long phosphorescent object, infinitely larger and more rapid in its movements than a whale—until Captain Nemo put his submarine, the Nautilus, into...
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Under Western Eyes, Conrad’s novel of political treachery and oppression, begins with a bomb that kills a hated Russian minister of police, along with innocent bystanders. A young student named Razumov hides the perpetrator, then betrays him and becomes a spy among his exiled comrades. He faces...
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War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit. Out of this complex narrative emerges a profound examination of each individual’s place in the historical process. War and Peace is an affirmation of life itself.
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Every generation finds in The Way of All Flesh a reaffirmation of youth’s rightful struggle against the tyranny of harsh parents and its admirable will for freedom of personal expression. This is a fascinating character study of a young man who survives the influence of a hateful, hypocritical...
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How was it that Lionel Lukin, living miles from the sea, came to develop the Lifeboat?
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What befalls a star-crossed triangle of friends and lovers in this novel illustrates exquisitely what happens when a woman’s desire for both her lover and riches makes the object of her affection question his own true worth in her eyes.
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Romantic and gothic elements combine in this tightly-constructed thriller which induces excitement and fear in its audience...
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A full-cast dramatisation of this dark, brooding tale of love and revenge on the Yorkshire moors.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman is best remembered for her 1892 short story
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