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Oliver Twist
- By: Charles Dickens, Marty Ross - adaptation, Sam Mendes
- Narrated by: Brian Cox, Daniel Kaluuya, Nicola Coughlan, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall1,219
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Performance1,157
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Story1,150
Orphaned at birth, Oliver Twist is born into the grimmest of 19th century English workhouses with a life of grinding poverty ahead of him. But the boy is a fighter and after being evicted from the workhouse for asking for 'more' and surviving a stint as an undertaker’s assistant, he walks many miles to London and finds a whole new life with a gang of young pickpockets led by the Artful Dodger and their guardian Fagin.
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Lets see if Amazon are open about things again?
- By Alan. Hardman on 30-11-22
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Oliver Twist
- Narrated by: Brian Cox, Daniel Kaluuya, Nicola Coughlan, Adeel Akhtar, Lucian Msamati, Paapa Essiedu, Kit Connor, Diane Morgan, Julia Davis, Nick Mohammed, Patricia Allison, Emilio Villa Muhammad, Elijah Wolf
- Series: The Dickens Collection
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 30-11-22
- Language: English
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David Copperfield
- By: Charles Dickens, Sam Mendes, Marty Ross - adaptation
- Narrated by: Ncuti Gatwa, Helena Bonham Carter, Theo James, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall831
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Performance799
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Story799
Join David as he encounters his eccentric Aunt Betsey, faithful Peggotty and the villainous Uriah Heep, and as he falls in love with Little Em'ly, Dora and Agnes. And then there is old school friend James Steerforth: dashing, daring and seductive. This dramatisation explores the complexities and intimacies of that relationship beyond anything possible in Dickens' day, in an adaptation giving fresh life and vividness to this beloved tale.
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First class production standards. Excellent cast, superbly performed.
- By Charles A on 30-12-23
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David Copperfield
- Narrated by: Ncuti Gatwa, Helena Bonham Carter, Theo James, Richard Armitage, Jessie Buckley, Toby Jones, Jack Lowden
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 30-11-23
- Language: English
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Friday's Child
- Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance
- By: Georgette Heyer
- Narrated by: Owen Findlay
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall80
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Performance73
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Story73
Hero Wantage is desperate to change her fate. When the dashing Lord Sherry proposes out of the blue, Hero is overjoyed—she'll escape a life as a governess and, once they wed, he can finally claim his inheritance. But as Hero attempts to social climb in glamorous London society, Sherry is concerned that her naivety will ruin them both and takes drastic action. The chaos that follows will push friendships—and hearts—to breaking point.
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poor narration.
- By A Mac Cready on 06-05-21
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Friday's Child
- Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance
- Narrated by: Owen Findlay
- Series: Regency Romances, Book 6
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 01-04-21
- Language: English
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Bleak Expectations
- The Complete BBC Radio 4 Series
- By: Mark Evans
- Narrated by: Anthony Head, Celia Imrie, David Mitchell, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall481
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Performance407
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Story407
The complete collected series 1-5 of the gloriously daft Victorian romp Bleak Expectations. Gasp at the evil Mr Gently Benevolent, played by Mr Anthony Head! Weep at the trials of our young hero, Pip Bin, played by Master Tom Allen! Be moved to joy and sorrow by the remarkable narration of Mr Richard Johnson! Swoon at the fragile beauty of Pip's poor mama, played by Miss Celia Imrie! Wonder at the thespian prowess of Mr Geoffrey Whitehead as six different siblings!
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One small problem
- By Rian Peters on 01-08-17
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Bleak Expectations
- The Complete BBC Radio 4 Series
- Narrated by: Anthony Head, Celia Imrie, David Mitchell, Geoffrey Whitehead, Jane Asher, Raquel Cassidy, Richard Johnson
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 03-07-17
- Language: English
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Cotillion
- Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance
- By: Georgette Heyer
- Narrated by: Raj Ghatak
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall126
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Performance119
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Story118
Her eccentric and childless guardian, Mr. Penicuik, is leaving Kitty all of his vast fortune - but with one condition. She must marry one of his five grand-nephews. However, Kitty's clear favourite - the rakish Jack Westruther - doesn't appear at all interested in the arrangement. To make Jack jealous, Kitty impulsively convinces his cousin, the kind-hearted and chivalrous Freddy Standen, to enter into a pretend engagement. But the more time she spends with Freddy, the more Kitty wonders whether Jack is the right choice after all....
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Glorious!
- By Mandy on 18-04-21
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Cotillion
- Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance
- Narrated by: Raj Ghatak
- Series: Regency Romances, Book 12
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 01-04-21
- Language: English
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Dune: House Harkonnen
- DUNE: Prelude to Dune, Book 2
- By: Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 26 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall250
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Performance224
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Story222
As Shaddam sits at last on the Golden Lion Throne, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen plots against the new emperor and House Atreides - and against the mysterious Sisterhood of the Bene Gesserit. For Leto Atreides, grown complacent and comfortable as ruler of his House, it is a time of momentous choice: between friendship and duty, safety and destiny. But for the survival of House Atreides, there is just one choice - strive for greatness or be crushed.
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Sadistic, repetitive, over egged, plot armor
- By Mr on 29-09-21
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Dune: House Harkonnen
- DUNE: Prelude to Dune, Book 2
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Series: DUNE: Prelude to Dune, Book 2
- Length: 26 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 25-03-21
- Language: English
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East of Eden
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: John Steinbeck, David Wyatt - introduction
- Narrated by: Simon Manyonda
- Length: 26 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall693
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Performance630
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Story629
Brought to you by Penguin. 'There is only one book to a man,' Steinbeck wrote of East of Eden, his most ambitious novel. Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the intertwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons...
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Amazing writing, the narration disappointed me
- By Roger on 09-03-22
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East of Eden
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Narrated by: Simon Manyonda
- Length: 26 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 24-02-22
- Language: English
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4.50 from Paddington
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Emilia Fox
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall423
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Performance373
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Story372
For an instant the two trains ran together, side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth witnessed a murder. Helplessly, she stared out of her carriage window as a man remorselessly tightened his grip around a woman's throat. The body crumpled. Then the other train drew away. But who, apart from Miss Marple, would take her story seriously? After all, there were no suspects, no other witnesses… and no corpse.
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Good But!!
- By MR.K.GILL on 30-06-22
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4.50 from Paddington
- Narrated by: Emilia Fox
- Series: Miss Marple, Book 7
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 05-12-13
- Language: English
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The Magic Mountain
- By: Thomas Mann
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 37 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall427
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Performance382
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Story382
Hans Castorp is, on the face of it, an ordinary man in his early 20s, on course to start a career in ship engineering in his home town of Hamburg, when he decides to travel to the Berghof Santatorium in Davos. The year is 1912 and an oblivious world is on the brink of war. Castorp’s friend Joachim Ziemssen is taking the cure and a three-week visit seems a perfect break before work begins. But when Castorp arrives he is surprised to find an established community of patients, and little by little, he gets drawn into the closeted life and the individual personalities of the residents.
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Paint dries before the war.
- By Richard on 11-08-20
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The Magic Mountain
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 37 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 14-05-20
- Language: English
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A Far Cry from Kensington
- By: Muriel Spark
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall721
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Performance649
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Story644
First published in 1988 and described by Ali Smith as 'one of Muriel Spark's most liberating, and meditative novels' - A Far Cry from Kensington shows Muriel Spark at the mature height of her powers.The narrator is one Mrs. Hawkins. She writes from Italy, a far cry from Kensington indeed, taking us back to her threadbare years in postwar London. As a young, rather fat war-widow she spent her days working for a crazy, almost bankrupt publisher; and her nights offering advice from her boarding-house in South Kensington.
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some writer some narrator good story.
- By chris chubb on 16-04-18
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A Far Cry from Kensington
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 16-05-13
- Language: English
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Carry On, Jeeves
- By: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
- Highlights
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Overall161
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Performance98
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Story102
Listen to hilarious unabridged stories starring the ever-popular Jeeves and Wooster from the master of great British comedy: P. G. Wodehouse. Stories featured: "Jeeves Takes Charge", "Jeeves and The Unbidden Guest", "The Artistic Career of Corky", "The Aunt and the Sluggard", "Clustering Round Young Bingo", "Jeeves and the Hard-boiled Egg", and "The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy".
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Jarvis is the ultimate Jeeves and Wooster
- By Amazon Customer on 06-01-11
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Carry On, Jeeves
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Series: Jeeves & Wooster, Book 3
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 10-12-07
- Language: English
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The Honourable Schoolboy
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
- Length: 20 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance23
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Story23
Brought to you by Penguin. THE SIXTH GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL George Smiley, now acting head of the Circus, must rebuild its shattered reputation after one of the biggest betrayals in its history. Using the talents of journalist and occasional spy Jerry Westerby, Smiley launches a risky operation...
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Who know JLC could be so very dull
- By Ash on 27-09-25
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The Honourable Schoolboy
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
- Series: George Smiley, Book 6
- Length: 20 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 28-08-25
- Language: English
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Footsteps in the Dark
- By: Georgette Heyer
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall64
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Performance53
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Story53
The Priory may look ramshackle in appearance, but Peter, Margaret and Celia are totally charmed by their newly inherited country house. But there's more to The Priory than meets the eye. Left empty for years, hardly a single person has set foot inside, and down in the village, the locals whisper of a ghostly figure that roams the halls. When a murder is committed, the new owners start to fear the rumours are true - but is their new home really haunted, or is someone trying to scare them away?
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Oohh Scary...
- By Kimmsie on 17-01-22
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Footsteps in the Dark
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Series: Country House Mysteries, Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 30-09-21
- Language: English
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Faro's Daughter
- By: Georgette Heyer
- Narrated by: Daphne Kouma
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall89
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Performance81
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Story81
Renowned gamester and the first to admit that he is entirely void of a romantic disposition, Max Ravenscar regards all eligible females with indifference and unconcern. But when he meets the woman his young cousin Adrian is bent on marrying - the beautiful Deborah Grantham, mistress of her aunt's gaming house - he finds that none of his experience in risk and gambling has prepared him for such a worthy opponent.
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Classic Georgette Heyer, but …
- By Dr ANTONY GALIONE on 04-05-22
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Faro's Daughter
- Narrated by: Daphne Kouma
- Series: Regency Romances, Book 5
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 26-08-21
- Language: English
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After Midnight
- Thirteen Chilling Tales for the Dark Hours
- By: Daphne Du Maurier, Stephen King
- Narrated by: Ruth Lass, Jeff Harding, Cecilia Appiah, and others
- Length: 21 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance13
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Story13
Amid the reflections and twisting alleyways of Venice, a grieving couple are haunted by the past. On a sharp December day, the wind changes—and the birds begin to gather. A group of wartime scientists attempt to capture the power of death, an eye operation reveals a monstrous reality, and a woman returns home to find she doesn't exist.
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Chilling tales beautifully written and read
- By Shelley Dawson on 30-12-25
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After Midnight
- Thirteen Chilling Tales for the Dark Hours
- Narrated by: Ruth Lass, Jeff Harding, Cecilia Appiah, Matt Addis, Elliot Cowan, Sam Marks, Owen Findlay, Hattie Morahan
- Length: 21 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 01-10-25
- Language: English
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Jane Eyre
- By: Charlotte Brontë
- Narrated by: Anna Popplewell
- Length: 22 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall56
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Performance52
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Story52
Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Anna Popplewell, best known for her leading role as Susan Pevensie in The Chronicles of Narnia films. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Stevie Davies. Orphaned Jane Eyre grows up in the home of her heartless aunt...
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Brilliant
- By Susan Russell on 05-02-23
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Jane Eyre
- Narrated by: Anna Popplewell
- Length: 22 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 26-09-19
- Language: English
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24/7 Demon Mart: Publisher's Pack
- 24/7 Demon Mart, Book 1, 2, 0.1
- By: D.M. Guay
- Narrated by: Todd Haberkorn
- Length: 19 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall79
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Performance71
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Story70
24/7 Demon Mart: Publisher's Pack features two books from the 24/7 Demon Mart series: The Graveyard Shift, book one, and Monster Burger, book two. It also includes the bonus Hell for the Holidays, a 24/7 Demon Mart Christmas special. Lloyd Wallace is the most clueless crossing guard the intersection of hell and earth has ever seen. So clueless, that he doesn't even realize the beer cave in the corner store where he works is the gateway to hell.
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Entertaining high energy comedy
- By N. Stebbings on 29-04-21
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24/7 Demon Mart: Publisher's Pack
- 24/7 Demon Mart, Book 1, 2, 0.1
- Narrated by: Todd Haberkorn
- Series: 24/7 Demon Mart, Book 1-2
- Length: 19 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 18-08-20
- Language: English
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Fathers and Sons
- By: Ivan Turgenev
- Narrated by: David Horovitch
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall316
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Performance268
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Story269
When Arkady Petrovich comes home from college, his father finds his eager, naive son changed almost beyond recognition, for the impressionable Arkady has fallen under the powerful influence of the friend he has brought with him. A self-proclaimed nihilist, the ardent young Bazarov shocks Arkady's father by criticising the landowning way of life and by his outspoken determination to sweep away the traditional values of contemporary Russian society.
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leabhar síoraí
- By gearoid amazon on 19-05-20
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Fathers and Sons
- Narrated by: David Horovitch
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 01-10-09
- Language: English
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The Josephine Tey Collection: 6 Alan Grant Novels; Brat Farrar; & Miss Pym Disposes
- The Man in the Queue; A Shilling for Candles; The Franchise Affair; To Love and Be Wise; The Daughter of Time; The Singing Sands; Miss Pym Disposes; Brat Farrar
- By: Josephine Tey
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 61 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance27
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Story27
The Josephine Tey Collection includes unabridged recordings of Tey's 8 major novels in one audiobook, including all 6 of the novels in the Inspector Alan Grant series.
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Awful narration
- By George on 01-09-23
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The Josephine Tey Collection: 6 Alan Grant Novels; Brat Farrar; & Miss Pym Disposes
- The Man in the Queue; A Shilling for Candles; The Franchise Affair; To Love and Be Wise; The Daughter of Time; The Singing Sands; Miss Pym Disposes; Brat Farrar
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 61 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 20-04-23
- Language: English
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The Count of Monte Cristo
- By: Alexandre Dumas
- Narrated by: Andrew Timothy
- Length: 50 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall881
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Performance725
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Story724
The Count of Monte Cristo is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas.
Published in 1844, it is often considered one of the great thrillers of all time and, along with The Three Musketeers, Dumas' most popular work.
Falsely accused of treason, the young sailor Edmund Dantes is arrested on his wedding day and imprisoned in the island fortress of the Chateau d'If. After staging a dramatic escape, he sets out to discover the treasure of Monte Cristo and catch up with his enemies.
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Put it on your 'MUST' listen list!
- By Joe on 13-10-10
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The Count of Monte Cristo
- Narrated by: Andrew Timothy
- Series: The Seaside Library, Book 1
- Length: 50 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 14-08-09
- Language: English
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