Classic Literature Audio

• Day of the Triffids, The
  John Wyndham's classic novel of man's struggle in a besieged world is dramatised by Giles Cooper in this classic 1968 recording.
  
  
• Death of Arthur, The
  The glorious but tragic story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
  
  
• Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Part II, The
  Gibbon's work occupies an immortal place in the pantheon of historical masterpieces.
  
  
• Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The
  One of the greatest texts in the English language.
  
  
• Devoted Friend, The
  Children's story uses tragedy to underscore the gulf between devotion and selfishness.
  
  
• Diary of Samuel Pepys, The
  Perhaps the most well-known collection of reminiscences.
  
  
• Doctor Thorne
  Doctor Thorne adopts his niece Mary, keeping secret her illegitimate birth as he introduces her to the best local social circles. There she meets and falls in love with Frank Gresham, who is intent on marrying her despite her seeming poverty. Only Doctor Thorne knows that Mary is to inherit a...
  
  
• Dylan Thomas: Under Milk Wood
  This stunning release includes the highly acclaimed re-make of Dylan's definitive play, Under Milk Wood...
  
  
• Elsie in New York and The Purple Dress
  In “Elsie in New York,” Elsie is an innocent young woman who must look for work to make a living. Although she applies for several positions, do-gooders interfere. Thinking they are saving her soul, in actuality they point her to her destruction. In “The Purple Dress,” two young women clerks...
  
  
• Elusive Pimpernel, The
  In this sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel, Sir Percy Blakeney’s arch- enemy travels to England in pursuit of the impudent enemy of the French Republic. Monsieur Chauvelin devises a dastardly plot to annihilate, once and for all, both Sir Percy and his beautiful wife, Marguerite.
  
  
• Emma (mp3)
  Jane Austen’s engaging and infuriating heroine sparkles in this superb full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisation...
  
  
• Essential Dylan Thomas, The
  Its intimate blend of poetry and drama made it an instant classic; and so it remains in this unmatched recording with a perfect cast led by Richard Burton.
  
  
• Farmer Giles of Ham
  Farmer Giles of Ham is one of Tolkien’s most popular stories, full of wit and humour, set in the days when giants and dragons walked...
  
  
• Felix Holt, The Radical
  Two men vying for the hand of Esther, a young woman of charm and virtue, are Felix Holt, an idealistic young artisan, and Harold Transome, the intelligent heir to an estate. She is drawn to Holt yet has dreams of marrying into a life of refinement.
  
  
• Flowering Wilderness: The Forsyte Chronicles (Book 8)
  John Galsworthy devoted virtually his entire professional career to creating a fictional but entirely representative family of propertied Victorians, the Forsytes. Flowering Wilderness is the eighth novel in his Forsyte Chronicles, which has become established as one of the most popular and...
  
  
• Framley Parsonage
  Mark Robarts, the new young vicar in the village, seeks high connections to further his career but is preyed upon to guarantee a substantial loan, which brings Mark to the brink of ruin. Meanwhile, romances are in bloom, including between Mark's sister, Lucy, and Lord Lufton, with a marriage in...
  
  
• Garden Party and Other Stories, The
  The fifteen stories collected here demonstrate the genius of Katherine Mansfield, who was compared to Chekhov. These are not tales of violent incidents or dexterous plot but sensitive revelations of human behavior in ordinary situations. The men, women, and children whom Mansfield portrays are...
  
  
• Germinal
  In the Maheus family, the father and three of seven children work brutal hours to extract coal far beneath the earth amid hazards of landslides, fire, poisoned air, and poisoned health. Then comes the idea of a workers’ revolt, and soon the settlement is aflame. Zola chronicles the conflicts,...
  
  
• Gin Palace, The
  This work is one of the most starkly realistic dissections of men and women possessed by sensuality and alcoholism ever attempted.
  
  
• Glimpses of the Moon, The
  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.
  
  
• Gulliver' s Travels
  Thus gentle reader, I have given thee faithful history of my travels for sixteen years and above seven months; wherein I have not been so studious of ornament as truth.
  
  
• Gulliver's Travels
  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...