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Oliver Twist Oliver Twist, Dickens' second novel, is a thrilling study of childhood innocence thrust into the darkly comic world of Fagin, his apprentice, the Artful Dodger, and their gang of child thieves. Who... Oliver Twist Tim McInnerny stars as the murderous Bill Sikes with Pam Ferris as Mrs Mann and Edward Long as Oliver in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of one of Dickens' best known novels... Odyssey Of Homer, The When this groundbreaking, serialized dramatization premiered on 320 U.S. radio stations, critics were unanimous in their praise, calling it "a feast for the ears" and "a magnificent blend of schola... Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens' classic tale of mystery, read by Alex Jennings. A body is found in the River Thames and is identified as John Harmon. He was due to inherit a great fortune on the condition.. Orlando Orlando is one of the most unforgettable creations of twentieth century literature. He emerges as a young man at the court of Queen Elizabeth I and progresses, with breathtaking ease, through three... Oliver Twist With the publication of this fiercely comic second novel, Charles Dickens's eminent literary reputation was firmly established. Oliver Twist is the story of a workhouse orphan captured and thrust i... Mysterious Affair at Styles, The Agatha Christie begins the illustrious career of detective extraordinaire Hercule Poirot in this 1920 mystery classic. My Ántonia My Ántonia chronicles the life of Ántonia, a Bohemian immigrant woman, as seen through the eyes of Jim, the man unable to forget her. Jim, now a successful New York lawyer, recollects his... Moon and Sixpence, The This novel follows the life of Paul Gauguin, famous French post-impressionist painter, but it is not a novelized biography of Gauguin. Rather it is a sharply delineated, carefully wrought "private ... Normandy Stories Maupassant is hailed as one of the greatest masters of the short story. This collection focusses upon the land he knew and loved so well - Normandy. Its people and its countryside are portrayed... Nicholas Nickleby One of Dickens's earlier novels, dating from 1839, it charts the fortunes of an honourable young man, Nicholas Nickleby, who has set out to make his way in the world. Dickens presents his... Mystery of Edwin Drood, The This mystery was Dickens's last novel, left unfinished at his death in 1870. The setting: the cathedral city of Cloisterham. The protagonist is the cathedral choirmaster and opium-addict John Jaspe... Paradise Lost The great epic Paradise Lost tells of the revolt of Satan and his banishment from heaven and the fall of man and his expulsion from Eden. Writing in blank verse of unsurpassed majesty, Milton demon... Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice captures the affectations of class-conscious eighteenth-century English families with matrimonial aims and rivalries. The story of the novel's two protagonists, Elizabeth Bennet... Pride and Prejudice A delightful novel about "how girls catch husbands." Listen in to find out: What will happen to sister Lydia? Will the arrogant Lady Catherine de Burgh's intrigues be foiled? Will sister Jane... Pride and Prejudice (Unabridged) Jane Austen's most popular novel, originally published in 1813, some 17 years after it was first written, presents the Bennet family of Longbourn. Against the background of gossipy Mrs Bennet and... Rainbow Valley The winsome Anne Shirley is grown, married, and the mother of six frolicsome children. When the Meredith family moves into a nearby mansion, the clever and mischievous Meredith kids join Anne's chi... Professor, The Written in a style both brief and realistic—and not in demand by publishers of her time—The Professor relates the experiences of a young man as he changes his life from dreary ancillary work in the... Picture of Dorian Gray, The The beautiful young Dorian Gray has his portrait painted by society art Basil Hallward. Admired by all, the dazzling, wealthy, handsome young man has everything anyone could wish for - or so it... Pickwick Papers, The The Pickwick Papers, Dickens' first novel, is a glorious romp through the pre-Reform Bill England of 1827. Travelling by stage-coach, the innocent but well-intentioned Pickwick and his equally... Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A Published in 1916, 'A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man' follows the progress... Poor People This work is remarkable for the vivid characterizations, especially of Dievushkin, solely by means of his letters to his love Barbara and her answers to him. Pilgrim's Progress For three hundred years The Pilgrim's Progress has remained perhaps the best-loved and most read of devotional fictions. In plain yet powerful and moving language. Bunyan tells the story of... Lady Susan Lady Susan was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed. An epistolary novel in eighteenth-century style, it tells the story of the recently-widowed Lady Susan Vernon, intelligent but... La Vagabonde Largely autobiographical, La Vagabonde recalls Colette's own years as a dance-hall performer in turn-of-the-century Paris, where she takes the listener backstage and into the demimonde of Renée Nér... Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle Two American classics which tell of the earliest days in Dutch New York: Inchabod Crane's encounter with the Headless Horseman and Rip's long nap. Journey to the Center of the Earth, A Professor Harry and Hans encounter a cave man and prehistoric monsters. John Bull's Other Island When Thomas Broadbent, an Englishman, visits Ireland for the first time, he is accompanied by his friend Larry Doyle, an Irishman who is returning to his homeland after being away for many years... Les Misérables Les Misérables is a romantic novel packed with revealing incidents of slum life and poverty in nineteenth-century France. The book follows the sins and redemptions of Jean Valjean, a criminal turne... Metamorphosis An extraordinary tale of imagination. Mary Barton Gaskell's powerful drama, adapted here for Woman's Hour, is regarded as one of the most important novels of its time... Mansfield Park Fanny Price is adopted by her rich relations and moved to the opulence of Mansfield Park. Mildred Pierce Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and to claw her way out of poverty. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men and an unreasoning devotion to her monstrous daughter. Midwich Cuckoos, The This is a dynamic, modern dramatisation of a classic book by John Wyndham.... Madame Bovary Set in the depths of rural France. Flaubert's masterpiece tells the story of a woman destroyed by love. In the context of provincial banality. Emma Bovary craves passion and intimacy, yet she finds... Lost Girl, The The Lost Girl is perhaps D.H. Lawrence's most beautiful, thoroughly contemporary love story. This captivating novel charts the journey of a woman caught between two worlds and two lives, one mired ... Little Dorrit Little Dorrit is Amy, born in debtor's prison, the youngest child of debtor William Dorrit, an inmate of the Marshalsea. The two are befriended by a man whose wife hires Little Dorrit as a seamstre... Man of Property, The: Book One of The Forsyte Saga This first novel in John Galsworthy's epic social satire The Forsyte Saga introduces us to Soames Forsyte, a prominent man of an important moneyed family. Accustomed to getting what he wants, Soame... Main Street Carol Kennicott, caught between her desires for social reform and happiness, reflects the dilemma of America's early emancipated woman. Main Street attacks the complacency of those who are under th... Madame de Treymes and Two Novellas Madame de Treymes follows the fortunes of two Americans in Paris: Fanny Frisbee, unhappily married to a Frenchman, and John Durham, a childhood friend, who hopes to win her for himself instead. Her... Their Eyes Were Watching God Their Eyes Were Watching God, an American classic, is the luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern Black woman in the 1930s, whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman... Theatre Royale: The Happy Hypocrite First broadcast as an half-hour radio programme in the 1950's, this performance captures the marvellous theatrical style of post-war radio before the advent of television and offers the experience... Tess of the D'Urbervilles A moving and unforgettable classic. Time Regained Lost in the blacked-out streets of Paris during the First World War Marcel stumbles into a brothel and accidentally witnesses a shocking scene involving the Baron de Charlus. Later, at a reception... Three Musketeers, The In The Three Musketeers, one of the greatest adventure stories ever written, we follow the fortunes of the dashing young swordsman D'Artagnan and his daredevil companions Athos, Aramis and Porthos.... Tale of Two Cities, A This captivating tale, set in London and Paris at the time of the French Revolution, uses the contrasts between the cities' "beliefs" to reveal the central choice confronting all of society: should... Swann in Love Swann in Love is the continuation of Swann's Way. the first part of Marcel Proust' s monumental cycle Remembrance of Things Past. It tells the story of man-about-town Charles Swann's passionate,... Tess of the D'Urbervilles Tess, the young and lovely heroine of Hardy's classic tale, knows instinctively that the path she is choosing is the wrong one... Tales of the Alhambra: A Series of Tales and Sketches of the Moors and Spaniards This travelogue of Spain's Granada and the Alhambra depicts secret chambers, desperate battles, imprisoned princesses, palace ghosts, and fragrant gardens, described in a dreamlike eloquence that w... Tale of Two Cities, A The "two cities" are Paris in the time of the French Revolution, and London. Dr. Manette, a French physician, having been called in to treat a young peasant and his sister, realizes that they have... To The Lighthouse To The Lighthouse is Virginia Woolf's most accomplished novel, and her most autobiographical. Within A Budding Grove - Part II In Part Two of Within a Budding Grove, young Marcel falls under the spell of an enchanting group of adolescent girls. At first, intoxicated by their beauty and athletic energy, he finds it... War Of The Worlds, The When a Martian spacecraft lands on Woking Common, mankind is terrorised by aliens in tall, armoured capsules which stalk the countryside on three legs... War and Peace War and Peace is one of the greatest monuments in world literature. Wuthering Heights The story of the passionate relationship between Cathy Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff. Wuthering Heights The saga of two Yorkshire families in the remote Pennine Hills. The story has been interpreted as an historical romance... Woodlanders, The Grace Melbury, the only daughter of a timber-merchant, arrives home in Little Hintock after an expensive education and her father... Uncle Tom's Cabin Published in 1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin brought the abolitionists' message to the public conscience - no woman before or since has so moved America to take action against an injustice. Indeed,... Ulysses (Unabridged) Ulysses is regarded by many as the single most important novel of the 20th century. It tells the story of one day in Dublin, 16 June 1904, largely through the eyes of Stephen Dedalus (Joyce's alter... Tristram Shandy Tristram Shandy is an ironic masterpiece, a work of extraordinary originality and wit. Vanity Fair Set against the background of the Napoleonic wars, 'Vanity Fair ' follows the contrasting fortunes of two young women... Uncle Tom's Cabin Published in 1852, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' was an immediate success, was influential in securing the abolition of slavery... Uncle Tom's Cabin This intensely dramatic and moving novel has remained a best-selling classic since it was first published in 1852. The slaves Eliza and George make a desperate bid to escape to Canada, while 'Uncle... Scenes of Clerical Life George Eliot's fiction debut work contains three stories of the lives of clergymen, with the aim of disclosing the value hidden in the commonplace. "The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton" portra... Scarlet Pimpernel, The Perhaps the most famous alias of all time, "The Scarlet Pimpernel" hides the identity of a British nobleman who, masked by various disguises, leads a band of young men to undermine the Reign of... Scarlet Letter, The The classic American story of Hester Prynne, accused of adultery, ostracized by her Puritan community, and abandoned by both her lover and her husband. The story opens in Puritan Boston, a... Sense and Sensibility In Sense and Sensibility, the first of Jane Austen's novels to be published, Austen created a brilliant tragicomedy of flirtation and folly. Genteel dinner parties and romantic walks through luxuri... Sense and Sensibility Elinor and Marianne struggle to cope with the cruel events which fate has in store. Rebecca 'Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again' These famous words open the most popular novel by Daphne du Maurier, the story of an intense romance set in a mysterious house in Cornwall.... Scarlet Letter, The A young woman gives birth to an illegitimate child in seventeenth century New England and she must endure public condemnation and the burden of a terrible secret. Scaramouche Raphael Sabatini rescued the historical novel from the literary dustbin. In his colorful work Scaramouche, the hero is the attorney André-Louis. His best friend, an activist, has been murdered by a... Room with a View, A The romantic story of Lucy Honeychurch set in Italy and England is a cherished classic. Earphone Award - AudioFile Magazine Seven Classic Plays Here in one volume are seven great plays: Medea, The Tempest, The Imaginary Invalid, Camille, An Enemy of the People, Arms and the Man, and Uncle Vanya, all under the direction of veteran producer ... Sodom and Gomorrah (Cities of the Plain) Part I Accidentally witnessing an encounter between the Baron de Charlus and the tailor Jupien opens Marcel's eyes to a world hidden from him until now. Meanwhile his love for Albertine is poisoned... Smoke Set in Baden-Baden, Smoke is Turgenev's most cosmopolitan novel. It is an exquisite study of politics and society as well as an enduringly poignant love story. Smoke, with its European setting and ... Sign of Four, The The second novel by Doyle about the exploits of Sherlock Holmes. Study in Scarlet, A 'Dr Watson, Mr Sherlock Holmes,' said Stamford introducing us... and with these words the world is also introduced for the first time to the great detective and his indefatigable assistant. A Study... Son of the Middle Border, A Drawing on the history of his own family, Pulitzer Prize winner Hamlin Garland chronicles the experiences of a generation. A Son of the Middle Border, Garland's bittersweet narrative of growing up ... Sodom and Gomorrah (Cities of the Plain) Part II In Sodom and Gommorah (Cities of the Plain) Part Two Marcel continues his voyage of discovery through the homosexual world, where the affairs of the ageing Baron de Charlus lead to unexpected and... Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Bohemia Full-Cast. Is it possible Holmes can be bested ... by a woman no less? Shadows A gifted boy must save the children at his school from an evil genius Seven Poor Travellers, The A lesser known but heart warming Charles Dickens Christmas story, set on Christmas Eve. Short Stories by Saki Hector Munro, writing under the pseudonym of Saki, is justly renowned for his urbane and witty short stories. Saki leads the listener from garden party to pig sty to political convention with the e... Sherlock Holmes: The Speckled Band Full-Cast. Holmes and Watson investigate the terrible doings at Stoke Moran manor Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure Full-Cast. Holmes engages his arch enemy Professor Moriarty in a deadly battle of wits Captain David Grief This book's eight tales of danger and adventure feature David Grief, who came to the South Pacific at the age of twenty and two decades later owned a vast trading empire. He played the South Sea ga... Captain Blood Doctor Peter Blood's quiet life is shattered when he is convicted of treason for helping a wounded nobleman. He's swept into a slave ship but escapes from slavery during a pirate attack. He becomes... Christmas Stories, The Dickens wrote these stories during the 1850s as contributions to Christmas issues of Household Words, the weekly magazine he founded and edited. Included are fictional sketches verging on the autob... Christmas Carol, A A wonderful reading of the story of Scrooge, Tiny Tim and the Ghosts of Christmas. Cave Girl, The Back home in Boston, U.S.A., he was a blueblood named Waldo Smith-Jones, but when he found himself in a desperate effort to survive on a lost island of primitive men and beasts, he won not only a n... Canterbury Tales - Volume I, The Without doubt, the greatest work of Geoffrey Chaucer. A brilliant picture of medieval life. Canterbury Tales, Selected This modern translation of these sometimes bawdy stories, written in the 14th century by the Father of English Poetry, entertain while telling us about England before the Renaissance. Canterbury Tales, The In this classic, the narrator tells of making the usual April pilgrimage to Becket's shrine at Canterbury with thirty others. Each traveler is to tell four tales during the course of the trip, and ... Canterbury Tales - Volume III, The Without doubt, the greatest work of Geoffrey Chaucer. A brilliant picture of medieval life. Canterbury Tales - Volume II, The Without doubt, the greatest work of Geoffrey Chaucer. A brilliant picture of medieval life. Chronicles of Avonlea While Anne Shirley does appear in these stories of Avonlea and Spencerville, most of the people here are new to listeners. There are "Old Lady Lloyd"and Sylvia Gray, Felix Moore and his grandfather... Cranford Elizabeth Gaskell's comic portrait of early Victorian life in a country town describes with poignant wit the uneventful lives of its lady-like inhabitants, offering an ironic commentary on the sepa... Country Doctor, A In this important American author's first novel, Nan struggles to choose between marriage and a career as a professional doctor. It is also a luminous portrayal of rural Maine with perfect details ... Confessions of an English Opium-Eater Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Thomas De Quincey's best-known work, is an account of his early life and opium addiction, in prose that is by turns witty, conversational, and nightmarish. David Copperfield This much-loved novel was, by Dickens' own admission, his 'favourite child'. David Copperfield David Copperfield's experiences—his early rejection, child labor in a warehouse, work as a journalist, and success as a novelist—are strikingly similar to Dickens's own. The novel reveals David's g... Cricket on the Hearth Another Charles Dickens holiday classic brimming with holiday charm. Chronicles of Narnia - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe When Lucy comes across an old wardrobe standing alone in the spare room, she thinks she has found a good place for hide and seek. But then she tumbles headlong into a magical world of fauns,... Chronicles of Narnia - The Last Battle Many Narnian years have passed since Eustace and Jill helped ensure the Royal line. But when they are jerked back violently into this strangest of lands they find the present King in danger and... Chronicles of Narnia - The Horse and His Boy Shasta has a lonely and hardworking life in the small fishing village in the south of Calorman and it is all that young Shasta knows until, one day, he overhears his father planning to sell him... Classic Women's Short Stories Five stories from women writers of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th. Chronicles of Narnia - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader In the enchanted land of Narnia, Edmund and Lucy join King Caspian on a sworn mission to find the seven lost Lords of Narnia. So begins a perilous new quest that takes them to the farthest edge of... Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the story of a boy's adventures growing up in a small town on the banks of the Mississippi river over a hundred years ago. The cheerful, adventurous hero plays... Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a humorous and nostalgic book depicting the carefree days of boyhood in a small Midwestern town. The characters are based on Twain's schoolmates, and the town is Han... Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Volume VI, The Four of the finest cases of Mr Sherlock Holmes. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass First published in 1865, these endearing tales of an imaginative child's dream world by Lewis Carroll, pen name for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, are written with charming simplicity. While delighting... Agnes Grey Agnes Grey is Anne Brontë's first novel, centering around a rector's daughter working as a governess. Drawing directly from her own experiences, Anne Brontë set out to describe the immense pressure... Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Mark Twain's classic tale recounts the adventures of the ever resourceful Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn... Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Winner of AudioFile's Earphones Award. Huck Finn is an engaging young rebel who isn't above lying and stealing, but he faces a battle of conscience over a runaway slave who provides him with his fi... Adam Bede Adam Bede is the moving story of three people troubled by unwise love. Adam Bede, the young village carpenter, loves pretty, vain Hetty Sorrel. Hetty's seduction by another leads Adam through a cal... Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Volume V, The Four of the finest cases of Mr Sherlock Holmes. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Volume IV, The Four of the finest cases of Mr Sherlock Holmes. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Volume III, The Four of the finest cases of Mr Sherlock Holmes. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland The fantasy worlds in which Alice finds herself introduce her to some well known characters! Beowulf Beowulf is considered the finest heroic poem in Old English. It celebrates the character and exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman and warrior who proves his superhuman strength and endurance in hi... Ben-Hur Born the son of a nobleman, Ben-Hur is condemned to the galleys for life after he accidentally dislodges a piece of tile which falls on the Roman procurator. He is betrayed by his best friend, mana... Beau Geste Beau Geste is the world-famous novel of suspense and adventure, love and glory, courage and treachery. It is the thrilling story of three men who brave the hellish brutality and ruthless savagery o... Brothers Karamazov, The The Brothers Karamazov is often hailed as Fyodor Dostoyevsky's finest novel. Brideshead Revisited A full-cast dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's great classic story of a lost golden age. Bleak House The novel follows the fortunes of three characters, Esther Summerson, Ada Clare, and Richard Carstone, and the relations of these three young people in the Jarndyce household. The story they tell e... Arabian Nights, The: Their Best-Known Tales Here is a selection of some of the best-known and best-loved tales of The Arabian Nights, including "Sinbad," "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," "Aladdin," "The Talking Bird," and "The Fisherman and... Anna Karenina Anna Karenina has been described as the perfect Russian novel. Almayer's Folly Set in Malaya, Almayer's Folly is Joseph Conrad's first novel. In it he charts the decline of a Dutch merchant after a twenty-five-year struggle against overwhelming odds. Unhappily married to a bi... Around the World in Eighty Days Phileas Fogg, a distinguished member of London's Reform Club, takes up a wager to circle the globe in just eighty days. Fogg makes a fantastic world tour utilizing every means of transportation ava... Great Expectations Great Expectations traces the development of Philip Pirrip, called Pip, from a boy of shallow aspirations to a man of depth and character. Pip is reared by his sister and her husband, Joe Gargery, ... Great Expectations Great Expectations chronicles the progress of Pip from childhood through adulthood. As he moves from the marshes of Kent to London society, he encounters a variety of extraordinary characters:... Great Expectations Perhaps Dickens' most profound and personal novel Guermantes Way - Part II The Guermantes Way Part Two continues the story of Marcel's entry into the highest circles of French aristocracy. Having renewed his acquaintance with the enchanting Albertine who now submits to... Guermantes Way - Part I The fifth part of Naxos Audiobooks' recording of Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. Greek Interpreter, The Adventure of the A Grecian interpreter's bizarre story draws Holmes and Watson into a case of kidnapping and violence Frankenstein Dr. Frankenstein learns the secret of imparting life to inanimate matter. To test his theories, he collects bones from the charnel-houses to construct a "human" being, and then gives it life. The... Four Short Stories In these stories, Conan Doyle draws the listener in to experience drama, suspense and, ultimately, the shock of surprise. Here is a unique combination of a famous analytical intellect telling... Great Detective Stories Poe's 'The Purloined Letter', Doyle's 'The Crooked Man' and Chesterton's 'The Man in the Passage'. Fugitive, The Albertine has finally made her escape from Marcel's Paris apartment, where his obsessive jealousy had turned her into a virtual prisoner. Not only is Marcel quite unprepared for the effect on him... Free Air Claire Boltwood and her father drive their roadster cross country, exposing themselves to all the perils of early motoring. But with both the Boltwoods, the greatest distance to be overcome is the ... Gulliver's Travels 'Gulliver's travels' describes the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship’s surgeon. In Lilliput he discovers a world in miniature... Imagination-X: Poe's The Tell Tale Heart A reading of this classic tale by Edgar Allen Poe with eerie sound effects. House on the Strand, The Dick Young stays in his friend Professor Magnus Lane's house in Cornwall, on the understanding he will be a guinea pig for a new drug that Magnus has developed. As a result of the experiment he is... House of Mirth, The An immensely popular best-seller when published in 1905, The House of Mirth was Edith Wharton's first great novel. Set among the elegant brownstones of New York City and opulent country houses like... Jane Eyre (Unabridged) One of the greatest love stories ever written, Jane Eyre is the tale of a young woman entangled with the powerful Mr Rochester. What lurks in the attic at Thornfield, the ancestral home of the... Jane Eyre Jane Eyre is one of the greatest love stories ever written. Ivanhoe Returning from the Crusades, Ivanhoe fights to win the hand of the fair Rowena. Heart of Darkness The story of the enigmatic Kurtz and his outpost in deepest Congo. Audio Best of the Year - Publishers Weekly Hard Times Dickens' most openly political novel. Happy Prince, The Oscar Wilde's collection of fairy stories are among the greatest and most poignant classics for children and adults alike. Humour, pathos, delightful little characters abound in the stories of The... Hound of the Baskervilles, The The legend of the hound which has brought terror to the Baskerville family for generations brings Sherlock Holmes up against... History of Tom Jones, A Foundling The touching story of Tom Jones, a foundling. Dracula Patricia Gaffney's sensational national bestseller, The Saving Graces, won the hearts of readers everywhere and propelled her into the first ranks of contemporary women writers. Now this gifted... Don Quixote De La Mancha Don Quixote dons rusty armor to become a knight-errant, roaming the world to right wrongs. From his first encounter with a score of windmills to the night he takes a funeral procession to be a para... Dying Detective, The Adventure of the Watson arrives back at Baker Street to discover Holmes is dying from a mysterious disease Dubliners In this work, James Joyce portrays the inhabitants of the city of his birth. From the first story, of a young boy encountering death, to the haunting final story, involving the middle-aged Gabriel,... Dracula For a century Bram Stoker' s Dracula has reigned supreme as the undisputed masterpiece of horror writing. We have all grown up under the shadow of the elegant Count, at once an attractive, brutal... Death of Arthur, The The glorious but tragic story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Death in Venice The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann in a new translation. Dead Souls A great comic masterpiece. An hilariously satirical picture of life in 19th century Russia. Dombey and Son A sensitive family drama unfolds between a stern father, Paul Dombey, and his two children and aloof wife. In Paul Dombey, we witness the force of social and personal arrogance ("For Dombey is as p... Divine Comedy, The Perhaps no other work of literature has aroused so much admiration in so many countries and so many readers as The Divine Comedy. A single listening will reveal its universality as well as Dante's ... Deerslayer, The In this, the first of the Leatherstocking Tales, we meet Natty Bumppo as a young man living in upstate New York in the early 1740s. Bumppo, called Deerslayer, and his friend Hurry Harry approach La... Far from the Madding Crowd Far from the Madding Crowd established Thomas Hardy as one of Britain's foremost novelists. F. Scott Fitzgerald: Stories Two great stories from the Jazz Age: 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair' and 'The Jelly Bean'. Ethan Frome Ethan Frome is a keenly etched portrait of the simple inhabitants of a nineteenth-century New England village. Ethan, a gaunt, patient New Englander, is a man tormented by a passionate love for hi... Four Feathers, The Just before his regiment sails off to war in the Sudan, British officer Harry Feversham quits the military. He is immediately given four white feathers—symbols of cowardice—one each by his three be... Forsyte Saga, The John Galsworthy, a Nobel Prize-winning author, chronicles the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle-class Forsyte family through three generations, beginning in Victorian London during... Farewell to Arms (Unabridged), A A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse... Emma Arrogant, self-willed and egotistical, Emma is Jane Austen's most unusual heroine. Elizabeth And Her German Garden Indoors are her duties. Outdoors she can escape, to read favorite books, play with her three babies, and garden to her heart's content. Through Elizabeth's eyes we watch the seasons, and the events... Edith Wharton: Stories With an unfailing eye for folly and pretentiousness, Wharton gives us four wonderful stories: 'The Eyes', 'The Daunt Diana', 'The Debt' and 'The Moving Finger'. Empty House, The Adventure of the Watson is drawn into Holme's plot to deceive his enemies and foil a probable attempt on his life Emma Generally considered Jane Austen's finest work, Emma is a portrayal of a heroine whose interferences in the life of a young friend in a neighboring village often lead to substantial predicaments. D... Emma The funny and heartwarming story of a young lady whose zeal, snobbishness and self-satisfaction lead to several errors in judgment. Emma takes Harriet Smith, a parlour boarder and unknown, under...