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Greenmantle
- By: John Buchan
- Narrated by: Christian Rhodska
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall128
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Performance102
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Story104
Accompanied by his trusty sidekicks, Pete Pienaar, John S. Blenkiron and Sandy Arbuthnot, Richard travels across war-torn Europe searching for a man with a secret. A prophet by reputation, the man possesses key information that could guarantee British victory, and he goes by the name of Greenmantle.
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Didn’t age well
- By S. McBride on 06-08-22
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Greenmantle
- Narrated by: Christian Rhodska
- Series: Richard Hannay, Book 2
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 04-05-09
- Language: English
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Spell or High Water
- Magic 2.0, Book 2
- By: Scott Meyer
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,209
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Performance2,018
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Story2,010
A month has passed since Martin helped to defeat the evil programmer Jimmy, and things couldn't be going better. Except for his love life, that is. Feeling distant and lost, Gwen has journeyed to Atlantis, a tolerant and benevolent kingdom governed by the Sorceresses, and a place known to be a safe haven to all female time-travelers.
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Back to being a professional wizard
- By GhostMuppet on 19-03-15
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Spell or High Water
- Magic 2.0, Book 2
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Series: Magic 2.0, Book 2
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 17-06-14
- Language: English
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Devil's Cub
- By: Georgette Heyer
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall149
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Performance142
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Story143
Mary Challoner must protect her sister at all costs. When she discovers that the notorious Marquis of Vidal is planning to run away with her little sister, Mary will not stand idly by. To save Sophia's reputation without destroying her own, Mary will take her sister's place - and once the Marquis sees through her disguise, he will be humiliated and forced to return her home. But the irresistible Marquis is a wilder rake than even Mary anticipated, and her growing feelings for him are proving an unexpected complication....
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Really disappointing, despite being a favourite.
- By Mrs JB on 10-03-21
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Devil's Cub
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney
- Series: Alastair-Audley, Book 2, Historical Romances, Book 8
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 04-02-21
- Language: English
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Season of Storms
- A Novel of the Witcher – Now a major Netflix show
- By: Andrzej Sapkowski, David French - translator
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,978
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Performance1,700
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Story1,698
Before he was Ciri's guardian, Geralt of Rivia was a legendary swordsman. Season of Storms is an adventure set in the world of the Witcher, the book series that inspired the hit Netflix show and bestselling video games. Geralt. The witcher whose mission is to protect ordinary people from the...
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I mistook the stars reflected in a pond at night..
- By Blackmixen on 23-05-20
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Season of Storms
- A Novel of the Witcher – Now a major Netflix show
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Series: The Witcher, Book 6
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 22-05-18
- Language: English
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The Wind in the Willows
- By: Kenneth Grahame
- Narrated by: Alan Bennett
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Abridged
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Overall158
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Performance115
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Story112
When the Water Rat invites the unassuming Mole to spend his first day ever in a boat on the river, and wise Badger comes along for the ride as well, so begins a marvellous season of adventure for the three friends. Mr Toad (he of Toad Hall) completes a happy foursome, but his tendency to get into hot water leads him into some rather hair-raising scrapes of his own.
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The definitive version!
- By Dr Featherweight on 06-07-06
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The Wind in the Willows
- Narrated by: Alan Bennett
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 06-04-05
- Language: English
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The World of Yesterday
- Memoirs of a European
- By: Stefan Zweig, Anthea Bell - translator
- Narrated by: David Horovitch
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall345
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Performance310
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Story309
Stefan Zweig's memoir, The World of Yesterday, recalls the golden age of prewar Europe - its seeming permanence, its promise and its devastating fall with the onset of two world wars. Zweig's passionate, evocative prose paints a stunning portrait of an era that danced brilliantly on the brink of extinction. It is an unusually humane account of Europe from the closing years of the 19th century through to World War II, seen through the eyes of one of the most famous writers of his era.
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The Brink of Destruction
- By Rachel Redford on 26-07-17
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The World of Yesterday
- Memoirs of a European
- Narrated by: David Horovitch
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 10-05-17
- Language: English
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Meditations
- By: Marcus Aurelius, George Long - translator, Duncan Steen - translator
- Narrated by: Duncan Steen
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,596
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Performance2,108
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Story2,089
One of the most significant books ever written by a head of state, the Meditations are a collection of philosophical thoughts by the Emperor Marcus Aurelius (121-180 ce). Covering issues such as duty, forgiveness, brotherhood, strength in adversity and the best way to approach life and death, the Meditations have inspired thinkers, poets and politicians since their first publication more than 500 years ago. Today, the book stands as one of the great guides and companions—a cornerstone of Western thought.
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A matter of life and death.
- By Paschal on 07-01-17
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Meditations
- Narrated by: Duncan Steen
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 07-01-11
- Language: English
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The Alchemist
- A Fable About Following Your Dream
- By: Paulo Coelho
- Narrated by: Jeremy Irons
- Length: 4 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall8,982
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Performance7,789
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Story7,777
AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER OVER 120 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE PUBLISHED IN 89 LANGUAGES “Teaches us about dreams, destiny, and the reason we are all here.”—Oprah Daily, “Best Self-Help Books of a Generation” A spellbinding audio presentation of the extraordinary bestseller...
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Life changing
- By Thomas on 14-04-15
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The Alchemist
- A Fable About Following Your Dream
- Narrated by: Jeremy Irons
- Length: 4 hrs
- Release date: 26-12-04
- Language: English
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Volume I: 1660 - 1663
- By: Samuel Pepys
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh, David Timson
- Length: 42 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall155
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Performance136
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Story137
The Diary of Samuel Pepys is one of the most entertaining documents in English history. Written between 1660 and 1669, as Pepys was establishing himself as a key administrator in the naval office, it is an intimate portrait of life in 17th-century England covering his professional and personal activities, including, famously, his love of music, theatre, food, wine and his peccadilloes.
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I am treating this like marathon training.
- By Alison on 16-09-15
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Volume I: 1660 - 1663
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh, David Timson
- Series: The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Book 1
- Length: 42 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 24-12-14
- Language: English
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The Sittaford Mystery
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall492
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Performance428
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Story428
Mystery and suspense surround a seance in a snowbound house on the edge of Dartmoor, where the prediction of a grisly murder is only the precursor to an ingenious deadly crime and one of Agatha Christie’s most gripping thrillers… In a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor, six shadowy...
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Perfect for winter evenings in front of the fire
- By Sue on 21-08-08
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The Sittaford Mystery
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 13-11-06
- Language: English
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The Complete Jane Austen Collection
- Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Sandition, Short Stories, Letters, & More
- By: Jane Austen
- Narrated by: Fenella Woolgar, Joanne Froggatt, Kristin Atherton, and others
- Length: 88 hrs and 7 mins
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Story5
The Complete Jane Austen Collection includes Austen's 7 novels, selected short fiction, and a selection of her letters. Read by an incredible cast including Joanne Froggatt and Fenella Woolgar, this collection is the perfect opportunity to listen beyond your favourite novel and discover Jane Austen's complete writings.
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Wonderful Readers and Amazing Stories
- By MLR59 on 01-04-25
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The Complete Jane Austen Collection
- Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Sandition, Short Stories, Letters, & More
- Narrated by: Fenella Woolgar, Joanne Froggatt, Kristin Atherton, Rachel Atkins, Karen Cass, Emma Gregory
- Length: 88 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 31-03-25
- Language: English
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The Land: Swarm
- Chaos Seeds, Book 5
- By: Aleron Kong
- Narrated by: Nick Podehl
- Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall998
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Performance897
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Story897
Aleron Kong's number-one best-selling LitRPG saga continues in The Land: Swarm. The enemies of the Mist Village are moving, the storm clouds are gathering, what are Richter and Sion to do? Crush the game, that's what! More of everything you love in LitRPG: powerful items, epic battles, awesome quests, and in-depth world building! What happened to Elora? Where is the swarm? Did the rock giant make Richter jelly? What are the colonel's secret spices?
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For lovers of incest and beastiality
- By Mr. L. HALL on 08-02-18
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The Land: Swarm
- Chaos Seeds, Book 5
- Narrated by: Nick Podehl
- Series: Chaos Seeds, Book 5
- Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 25-10-17
- Language: English
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Swann's Way
- Remembrance of Things Past, Book 1
- By: Marcel Proust
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 20 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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When the taste of a tea-soaked madeleine sends the narrator spiraling into recollections of his childhood in Combray, everyday life becomes something stranger and more profound: a landscape shaped by obsession, longing, social performance, and the fragile architecture of time itself. From sleepless nights and first loves to aristocratic salons glittering with vanity and wit, Swann's Way transforms ordinary experience into a hypnotic meditation on what it means to remember — and to live.
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Swann's Way
- Remembrance of Things Past, Book 1
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Series: Remembrance of Things Past, Book 1
- Length: 20 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 14-06-26
- Language: English
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Billion-Dollar Brain
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: Len Deighton
- Narrated by: James Lailey
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall48
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Performance42
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Texan billionaire General Midwinter will stop at nothing to bring down the USSR - even if it puts the whole world at risk. The fourth and final novel featuring the cynical, insolent narrator of The IPCRESS File sees him sent from his shabby Soho office to bone-freezing Helsinki in order to penetrate Midwinter's vast anti-Communist network - and stop a deadly virus from wiping out the planet.
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I knew it was good but this is better than I remem
- By D Lauchlan on 04-09-23
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Billion-Dollar Brain
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Narrated by: James Lailey
- Series: Harry Palmer, Book 4
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 29-04-21
- Language: English
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The Brothers Karamazov
- Penguin Classics
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, David McDuff - translator
- Narrated by: Luke Thompson
- Length: 43 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall230
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Performance198
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Story196
The murder of brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov changes the lives of his sons irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, driven to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha, who tries to heal the family's rifts; and the shadowy figure of their bastard half-brother, Smerdyakov. Dostoyevsky's dark masterwork evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil, blur and everyone's faith in humanity is tested.
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Best narrator I’ve ever heard
- By Benjamin Closier on 02-06-22
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The Brothers Karamazov
- Penguin Classics
- Narrated by: Luke Thompson
- Length: 43 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 05-08-21
- Language: English
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The Bell
- By: Iris Murdoch, A S Byatt - introduction
- Narrated by: Miriam Margoyles
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall252
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Performance220
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Story222
Brought to you by Penguin. VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels A lay...
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Absolute pleasure
- By Karen on 03-10-12
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The Bell
- Narrated by: Miriam Margoyles
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 07-07-11
- Language: English
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Cranford
- By: Elizabeth Gaskell
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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First serialised in Household Words in 1851, Cranford is a charming, episodic novel which has been adapted for the stage, radio and TV. Based on the small Cheshire town of Knutsford where Gaskell was raised, Cranford paints a tender, witty portrait of an English village and its beloved locals. Consisting of a series of sketches, the novel recounts the lives of the kind-hearted but anxious Miss Matty Jenkins, and her sharper, opinionated sister Miss Deborah.
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Cranford
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 14-06-26
- Language: English
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The Elizabeth Gaskell Collection
- A BBC Drama Collection Including North and South, Wives and Daughters & More
- By: Elizabeth Gaskell, Barry Campbell, Steve Wakelam, and others
- Narrated by: full cast, Jodie Comer, David Threlfall, and others
- Length: 23 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance7
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Elizabeth Gaskell was one of Victorian England's pre-eminent female novelists. Admired by Charles Dickens, who described her as his 'dear Scheherazade', she mingled storytelling and social realism to superb effect in her highly acclaimed fiction. This comprehensive collection comprises dramas and readings of her finest works and some lesser-known pieces.
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Varied performances
- By Bibi Green on 01-04-22
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The Elizabeth Gaskell Collection
- A BBC Drama Collection Including North and South, Wives and Daughters & More
- Narrated by: full cast, Jodie Comer, David Threlfall, Emily Mortimer, Sue Johnston, Kenneth Cranham, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Paul Copley, Rebecca Front
- Length: 23 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 21-10-21
- Language: English
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Mary Barton
- A Tale of Manchester Life
- By: Elizabeth Gaskell
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall664
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Performance589
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Story589
Elizabeth Gaskell's remarkable first novel, Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life portrays a love that defies the rigid boundaries of class with tragic consequences.
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Moments of wonderful intensity
- By Anthony Saville on 11-08-14
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Mary Barton
- A Tale of Manchester Life
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 01-08-10
- Language: English
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The Mysterious Island
- By: Jules Verne
- Narrated by: Berny Clark
- Length: 19 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall168
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Performance146
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Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne’s masterpiece. “Wide-eyed mid-nineteenth-century humanistic optimism in a breezy, blissfully readable translation by Stump” (Kirkus Reviews), here is the enthralling tale of five men and a dog who land in a balloon on a faraway, fantastic island of bewildering goings-on and their struggle to survive....
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in the words of Pencroft, Hoorah!
- By G. Stewart on 20-07-15
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The Mysterious Island
- Narrated by: Berny Clark
- Series: Captain Nemo, Book 2, Voyages Extraordinaires, Book 12
- Length: 19 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 21-03-12
- Language: English
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