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The Fellowship of the Ring
- The Lord of the Rings, Book 1
- By: J. R. R. Tolkien
- Narrated by: Andy Serkis
- Length: 22 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In a sleepy village in the Shire, a young hobbit is entrusted with an immense task. He must make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ruling Ring of Power - the only thing that prevents the Dark Lord Sauron’s evil dominion....
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Terrible - Andy Serkis shouldn’t have been asked to read this
- By Cal on 17-09-21
By: J. R. R. Tolkien
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Mythos
- By: Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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The Greek myths are amongst the greatest stories ever told, passed down through millennia and inspiring writers and artists as varied as Shakespeare, Michelangelo, James Joyce....
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I need more!
- By Lily on 08-11-17
By: Stephen Fry
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Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection
- By: Stephen Fry - introductions, Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 71 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Audible is proud to present Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection, read by Stephen Fry, a lifelong fan of Doyle's detective fiction....
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Brilliant audio book, shame about the navigation.
- By PJM on 10-03-17
By: Stephen Fry - introductions, and others
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The Two Towers
- The Lord of the Rings, Book 2
- By: J. R. R. Tolkien
- Narrated by: Andy Serkis
- Length: 20 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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The company of the Ring is torn asunder. Frodo and Sam continue their journey alone down the great River Anduin - alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go....
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Gollum!
- By Jens on 23-09-21
By: J. R. R. Tolkien
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The Hobbit
- By: J. R. R. Tolkien
- Narrated by: Andy Serkis
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End....
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Baggins of fun
- By Nidge on 03-09-20
By: J. R. R. Tolkien
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The Return of the King
- The Lord of the Rings, Book 3
- By: J. R. R. Tolkien
- Narrated by: Andy Serkis
- Length: 21 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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The armies of the Dark Lord are massing as his evil shadow spreads even wider. Men, Dwarves, Elves and Ents unite forces to battle against the Dark. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam struggle further into Mordor in their heroic quest to destroy the One Ring....
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Wonderful performance, but.....
- By ms.A on 31-10-21
By: J. R. R. Tolkien
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The Fellowship of the Ring
- The Lord of the Rings, Book 1
- By: J. R. R. Tolkien
- Narrated by: Andy Serkis
- Length: 22 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In a sleepy village in the Shire, a young hobbit is entrusted with an immense task. He must make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ruling Ring of Power - the only thing that prevents the Dark Lord Sauron’s evil dominion....
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Terrible - Andy Serkis shouldn’t have been asked to read this
- By Cal on 17-09-21
By: J. R. R. Tolkien
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Mythos
- By: Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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The Greek myths are amongst the greatest stories ever told, passed down through millennia and inspiring writers and artists as varied as Shakespeare, Michelangelo, James Joyce....
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I need more!
- By Lily on 08-11-17
By: Stephen Fry
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Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection
- By: Stephen Fry - introductions, Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 71 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Audible is proud to present Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection, read by Stephen Fry, a lifelong fan of Doyle's detective fiction....
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Brilliant audio book, shame about the navigation.
- By PJM on 10-03-17
By: Stephen Fry - introductions, and others
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The Two Towers
- The Lord of the Rings, Book 2
- By: J. R. R. Tolkien
- Narrated by: Andy Serkis
- Length: 20 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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The company of the Ring is torn asunder. Frodo and Sam continue their journey alone down the great River Anduin - alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go....
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Gollum!
- By Jens on 23-09-21
By: J. R. R. Tolkien
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The Hobbit
- By: J. R. R. Tolkien
- Narrated by: Andy Serkis
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End....
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Baggins of fun
- By Nidge on 03-09-20
By: J. R. R. Tolkien
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The Return of the King
- The Lord of the Rings, Book 3
- By: J. R. R. Tolkien
- Narrated by: Andy Serkis
- Length: 21 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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The armies of the Dark Lord are massing as his evil shadow spreads even wider. Men, Dwarves, Elves and Ents unite forces to battle against the Dark. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam struggle further into Mordor in their heroic quest to destroy the One Ring....
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Wonderful performance, but.....
- By ms.A on 31-10-21
By: J. R. R. Tolkien
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Heroes
- Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures
- By: Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 15 hrs
- Unabridged
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Read by Stephen Fry himself, Heroes harnesses the magic of ancient legends in an entertaining and modern retelling in Fry's iconic and captivating narration....
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Ancient Myths from a Modern Legend!
- By Simon on 02-11-18
By: Stephen Fry
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Animal Farm
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Simon Callow
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Animal Farm is George Orwell's great socio-political allegory set in a farmyard....
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Brilliant classic, superbly read by Simon Callow
- By Anthony on 15-06-14
By: George Orwell
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Dune Messiah
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Katherine Kellgren, Euan Morton, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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The second Dune installment explores new developments on the planet Arrakis, with its intricate social order and strange, threatening environment....
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What Matrix Revolution/Reloaded is to the Original
- By Mrs on 06-10-16
By: Frank Herbert
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P.G. Wodehouse Volume 1
- The Jeeves Collection
- By: P.G. Wodehouse
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 40 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Audible Studios presents this brand new performance by Stephen Fry of some of his favourite Jeeves stories from P.G. Wodehouse, with an exclusive introduction....
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Wrong voice...
- By TC on 19-12-20
By: P.G. Wodehouse
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1984
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Big Brother is watching you.... 1984 is the year in which it happens. The world is divided into three superstates....
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Big Brother is watching you!
- By Draycass on 28-01-16
By: George Orwell
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
- By: V. E. Schwab
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 17 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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When Addie La Rue makes a pact with the devil, she trades her soul for immortality. But there's always a price - the devil takes away her place in the world, cursing her to be forgotten by everyone....
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This is why words exist
- By FENARETI on 07-12-20
By: V. E. Schwab
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The Handmaid's Tale
- By: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Amy Landecker, Ann Dowd, Bradley Whitford, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness....
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Top 5 this year!
- By Anonymous User on 08-05-23
By: Margaret Atwood
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All the Light We Cannot See
- By: Anthony Doerr
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum)....
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Despite the narrator
- By JF7588 on 06-02-15
By: Anthony Doerr
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The George Orwell Complete Collection
- 1984; Animal Farm; Down and Out in Paris and London; The Road to Wigan Pier; Burmese Days; Homage to Catalonia; Essays; and More
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Peter Noble, Leighton Pugh, and others
- Length: 87 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook includes unabridged recordings of all George Orwell's greatest works: six novels, three books of non-fiction, a collection of his most well-renowned essays and the complete collection of his poetry....
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Best credit you can spend
- By Jack R. on 21-06-22
By: George Orwell
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Dramatised)
- By: J. R. R. Tolkien
- Narrated by: Ian Holm, Michael Hordern, Robert Stephens, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
- Original Recording
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Part One, The Fellowship of the Ring, introduces us to Frodo Baggins. With his uncle Bilbo having mysteriously disappeared, Frodo finds himself in possession of a simple gold ring that has great and evil power....
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Should have been published on Audible as a whole!
- By Amazon Customer on 07-08-16
By: J. R. R. Tolkien
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Whispers Under Ground
- Rivers of London, Book 3
- By: Ben Aaronovitch
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Peter Grant is learning magic fast. And it’s just as well - he's already had run-ins with the deadly supernatural children of the Thames and a terrifying killer in Soho....
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Wonderful story, wonderful narration
- By Jane on 04-07-12
By: Ben Aaronovitch
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The Godfather
- By: Mario Puzo
- Narrated by: Joe Mantegna
- Length: 18 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Tyrant, blackmailer, racketeer, murderer - his influence reaches every level of American society....
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DO NOT MISS THIS!
- By suze0501@aol.com on 26-02-15
By: Mario Puzo
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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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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 - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel....
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Amazing writing, the narration disappointed me
- By Roger on 09-03-22
By: John Steinbeck, and others
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To Kill a Mockingbird
- By: Harper Lee
- Narrated by: Sissy Spacek
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the '30s....
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One of the greats.
- By Simon on 05-10-15
By: Harper Lee
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Lord of the Flies
- By: William Golding
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assembles on the beach and waits to be rescued....
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Not a single word wasted.
- By stephen on 28-04-13
By: William Golding
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Children of Dune
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Simon Vance
- Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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The sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered, and fertile....
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A different experience
- By Richard on 19-06-12
By: Frank Herbert
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The Hanging Tree
- Rivers of London, Book 6
- By: Ben Aaronovitch
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Suspicious deaths are not usually the concern of PC Peter Grant or the Folly, even when they happen at an exclusive party in one of the most expensive apartment blocks in London....
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As usual, a great read.
- By Justine on 12-12-16
By: Ben Aaronovitch
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Broken Homes
- Rivers of London, Book 4
- By: Ben Aaronovitch
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Ben Aaronovitch has stormed the best-seller list with his superb London crime series - a unique blend of police procedural; loving detail about the greatest character of all, London; and a dash of the supernatural....
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Magic and Mayhem...
- By Sharon on 28-07-13
By: Ben Aaronovitch
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Rebecca
- By: Daphne Du Maurier
- Narrated by: Anna Massey
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Daphne du Maurier's young heroine meets the charming Maxim de Winter and despite her youth, they marry and go to Manderley, his home in Cornwall....
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A classic story of love and life.
- By Anthony, Bristol on 30-06-13
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Season of Storms
- By: Andrzej Sapkowski, David French - Translator
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Geralt. The witcher whose mission is to protect ordinary people from the monsters created with magic. A mutant who has the task of killing unnatural beings....
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I mistook the stars reflected in a pond at night..
- By Blackmixen on 23-05-20
By: Andrzej Sapkowski, and others
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The Tower of the Swallow
- A Witcher Novel
- By: Andrzej Sapkowski, David French - Translator
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 16 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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The world has fallen into war. Ciri, the child of prophecy, has vanished....
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Dandelion
- By Mr D B T on 06-02-20
By: Andrzej Sapkowski, and others
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Catch 22
- By: Joseph Heller
- Narrated by: Trevor White
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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At the heart of Joseph Heller's best-selling novel, first published in 1961, is a satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it....
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Wonderful
- By Keith on 25-05-09
By: Joseph Heller
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Foxglove Summer
- Rivers of London, Book 5
- By: Ben Aaronovitch
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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In the fifth of his best-selling series Ben Aaronovitch takes Peter Grant out of whatever comfort zone he might have found and takes him out of London.
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You can take a city wizard to the country but...
- By Sarah on 17-11-14
By: Ben Aaronovitch
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Of Mice and Men
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: John Steinbeck
- Narrated by: Billy Howle
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Drifters in search of work, George and simple-minded friend Lennie have nothing in the world except each other - and a dream. A dream that one day they will have some land of their own....
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Powerful
- By Mrs ML Denman on 03-08-21
By: John Steinbeck
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Vergil
- A Mythological Musical
- By: Maria Dahvana Headley
- Narrated by: Will Young, Claudia Kariuki, Derek Jacobi, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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You may think you know Vergil’s epic poem, The Aeneid - the story of Aeneas, a Trojan hero, prophesized to found Rome. Or maybe you’ve heard of the fearsome Cyclopes, the tragic queen Dido, the Trojan horse, the River Styx and the three headed dog who guards the underworld. But what of the man who wrote it and why? This is that story.
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- A World Tour Underwater
- By: Jules Verne
- Narrated by: Peter Silverleaf
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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When an unidentified "monster" threatens international shipping, French oceanographer Pierre Aronnax and his unflappable assistant Conseil join an expedition organized by the US Navy to hunt down and destroy the menace. After months of fruitless searching, they finally grapple with their quarry, but Aronnax, Conseil, and the brash Canadian harpooner Ned Land are thrown overboard in the attack, only to find that the "monster" is actually a futuristic submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by a shadowy, mystical, preternaturally imposing man who calls himself Captain Nemo.
By: Jules Verne
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The Wood Beyond the World
- By: William Morris
- Narrated by: Allan Monteiro
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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When the wife of Golden Walter betrays him for another man, he leaves home on a trading voyage to avoid the necessity of a feud with her family. However, his efforts are fruitless, as word comes to him en route that his wife's clan has killed his father. As a storm then carries him to a faraway country, the effect of this news is merely to sunder his last ties to his homeland. Walter comes to the castle of an enchantress, from which he rescues a captive maiden in a harrowing adventure (or rather, she rescues him).
By: William Morris
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
- By: Rudolf Erich Raspe
- Narrated by: Peter Wickham
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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From travelling to the moon to fighting a 40-foot-long crocodile and riding a cannonball through the air, Baron von Munchausen’s incredible account of his own adventures has entertained readers since its initial appearance in 1785. The obvious comedy of the book, which lies in Munchausen’s boasts about his own adventures, is heightened by the calm and objective way in which he frames his narrative. The Baron appears to fully believe the death-defying episodes with which he regales his listeners.
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Yarns of the Forecastle
- By: Cyrus Townsend Brady
- Narrated by: Ant Richards
- Length: 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Brady was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1883. In 1889, he was ordained a deacon in the Episcopal church, and was ordained a priest in 1890. His first wife was Clarissa Guthrie, who died in 1890. YARNS OF THE FORECASTLE: Most of us have passed through a period of life during which we have ardently longed to be, if not actually a rover, a buccaneer, or a pirate, at least and really a sailor!
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Thuvia, Maid of Mars
- Barsoom Series, Book 4
- By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Narrated by: Peter Silverleaf
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Thuvia, Maid of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the fourth of the Barsoom series. The principal characters are Carthoris (the son of John Carter of Mars) and Thuvia of Ptarth, each of whom appeared in the previous two novels.
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Vergil
- A Mythological Musical
- By: Maria Dahvana Headley
- Narrated by: Will Young, Claudia Kariuki, Derek Jacobi, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Original Recording
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You may think you know Vergil’s epic poem, The Aeneid - the story of Aeneas, a Trojan hero, prophesized to found Rome. Or maybe you’ve heard of the fearsome Cyclopes, the tragic queen Dido, the Trojan horse, the River Styx and the three headed dog who guards the underworld. But what of the man who wrote it and why? This is that story.
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- A World Tour Underwater
- By: Jules Verne
- Narrated by: Peter Silverleaf
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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When an unidentified "monster" threatens international shipping, French oceanographer Pierre Aronnax and his unflappable assistant Conseil join an expedition organized by the US Navy to hunt down and destroy the menace. After months of fruitless searching, they finally grapple with their quarry, but Aronnax, Conseil, and the brash Canadian harpooner Ned Land are thrown overboard in the attack, only to find that the "monster" is actually a futuristic submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by a shadowy, mystical, preternaturally imposing man who calls himself Captain Nemo.
By: Jules Verne
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The Wood Beyond the World
- By: William Morris
- Narrated by: Allan Monteiro
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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When the wife of Golden Walter betrays him for another man, he leaves home on a trading voyage to avoid the necessity of a feud with her family. However, his efforts are fruitless, as word comes to him en route that his wife's clan has killed his father. As a storm then carries him to a faraway country, the effect of this news is merely to sunder his last ties to his homeland. Walter comes to the castle of an enchantress, from which he rescues a captive maiden in a harrowing adventure (or rather, she rescues him).
By: William Morris
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
- By: Rudolf Erich Raspe
- Narrated by: Peter Wickham
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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From travelling to the moon to fighting a 40-foot-long crocodile and riding a cannonball through the air, Baron von Munchausen’s incredible account of his own adventures has entertained readers since its initial appearance in 1785. The obvious comedy of the book, which lies in Munchausen’s boasts about his own adventures, is heightened by the calm and objective way in which he frames his narrative. The Baron appears to fully believe the death-defying episodes with which he regales his listeners.
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Yarns of the Forecastle
- By: Cyrus Townsend Brady
- Narrated by: Ant Richards
- Length: 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Brady was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1883. In 1889, he was ordained a deacon in the Episcopal church, and was ordained a priest in 1890. His first wife was Clarissa Guthrie, who died in 1890. YARNS OF THE FORECASTLE: Most of us have passed through a period of life during which we have ardently longed to be, if not actually a rover, a buccaneer, or a pirate, at least and really a sailor!
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Thuvia, Maid of Mars
- Barsoom Series, Book 4
- By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Narrated by: Peter Silverleaf
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Thuvia, Maid of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the fourth of the Barsoom series. The principal characters are Carthoris (the son of John Carter of Mars) and Thuvia of Ptarth, each of whom appeared in the previous two novels.
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Three Men in a Boat
- To Say Nothing of the Dog
- By: Jerome K. Jerome
- Narrated by: Peter Silverleaf
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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There are four of them - George, Harris, the writer himself and that dog, Montmorency - all participants in a boating expedition on the Thames. The difficulties and vicissitudes heaped upon these innocents develop to epic proportions as they experience the hazards of the great English waterway. Their problems are in no way diminished by the outrageous behaviour of Montmorency, who lays waste several riverside communities in the course of their journey.
By: Jerome K. Jerome
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Treasure Island
- By: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Narrated by: Robin Nixon
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From the moment young Jim Hawkins first encounters the sinister Blind Pew at the Admiral Benbow Inn until the climactic battle for treasure on a tropic isle, the novel creates scenes and characters that have fired the imaginations of generations of readers and listeners. Written by a superb prose stylist, a master of both action and atmosphere, the story centers upon the conflict between good and evil - but in this case a particularly engaging form of evil.
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War and Peace - First Epilogue: 1813-20
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Peter Silverleaf
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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War and Peace is a literary work mixed with chapters on history and philosophy by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. It was first published serially, then published in its entirety in 1869. First Epilogue: 1813-20: Seven years had passed. The storm-tossed sea of European history had subsided within its shores and seemed to have become calm. But the mysterious forces that move humanity (mysterious because the laws of their motion are unknown to us) continued to operate.
By: Leo Tolstoy
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The Innocence of Father Brown
- By: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrated by: Allan Monteiro
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
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Chesterton portrays Father Brown as a short, stumpy Roman Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, and an uncanny insight into human evil. Not long after he published Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton moved from London to Beaconsfield, and met Father O'Connor. O'Connor had a shrewd insight to the darker side of man's nature and a mild appearance to go with it--and together those came together to become Chesterton's unassuming Father Brown. Chesterton loved the character, and the magazines he wrote for loved the stories.
By: G. K. Chesterton
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The Warlord of Mars
- Barsoom Series, Book 3
- By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Narrated by: Peter Silverleaf
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
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The Warlord of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the third of his Barsoom series. Burroughs began writing it in June, 1913, going through five working titles; Yellow Men of Barsoom, The Fighting Prince of Mars, Across Savage Mars, The Prince of Helium, and The War Lord of Mars.
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The Tempest
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Ant Richards
- Length: 23 mins
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It was a murky confusion here and there blotted with a color like the color of the smoke from damp fuel of flying clouds tossed up into most remarkable heaps, suggesting greater heights in the clouds than there were depths below them to the bottom of the deepest hollows in the earth, through which the wild moon seemed to plunge headlong, as if, in a dread disturbance of the laws of nature, she had lost her way and were frightened.
By: Charles Dickens
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The Mysterious Portrait
- By: Nikolai Gogol
- Narrated by: Allan Monteiro
- Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
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Nikolai Gogol was one of the first to use the technique of the grotesque. According to Viktor Shklovsky, Gogol's strange style of writing resembles the "ostranenie" technique of defamiliarization. THE MYSTERIOUS PORTRAIT: Nowhere did so many people pause as before the little picture-shop in the Shtchukinui Dvor. This little shop contained, indeed, the most varied collection of curiosities. The pictures were chiefly oil-paintings covered with dark varnish, in frames of dingy yellow.
By: Nikolai Gogol
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The Man and the Cannon
- By: Victor Hugo
- Narrated by: Ant Richards
- Length: 18 mins
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Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 - 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. THE MAN AND THE CANNON: One of the carronades of the battery, a twenty-four pounder, had broken loose. This is the most dangerous accident that can possibly take place on shipboard. Nothing more terrible can happen to a sloop of war in open sea and under full sail.
By: Victor Hugo
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The Loss of the Royal George
- By: W. H. G. Kingston
- Narrated by: Ant Richards
- Length: 19 mins
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I am not likely to forget that next morning, the 28th of August, (17). It was a fine summer's morning, and there was just a little sea on, with a strongish breeze blowing from the eastward, but not enough to prevent boats coming off from Portsmouth. I counted forty sail-of-the-line, a dozen frigates and smaller ships of war, and well-nigh three hundred merchant vessels, riding, as of course we were, to the flood with our heads towards Cowes.
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The Napoleon of Notting Hill
- By: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrated by: Sam Kusi
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
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In a London of the future, the drudgery of capitalism and bureaucracy have worn the human spirit down to the point where it can barely stand. When a pint-sized clerk named Auberon Quinn is randomly selected as head of state, he decides to turn London into a medieval carnival for his own amusement. One man, Adam Wayne, takes the new order of things seriously, organizing a Notting Hill army to fight invaders from other neighborhoods. At first his project baffles everyone, but eventually his dedication proves infectious, with delightful results.
By: G. K. Chesterton
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War and Peace - Book 15: 1812-13
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Peter Silverleaf
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
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War and Peace is a literary work mixed with chapters on history and philosophy by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. Book 15: 1812-13: When seeing a dying animal a man feels a sense of horror: substance similar to his own is perishing before his eyes. But when it is a beloved and intimate human being that is dying, besides this horror at the extinction of life there is a severance, a spiritual wound, which like a physical wound is sometimes fatal and sometimes heals, but always aches and shrinks at any external irritating touch.
By: Leo Tolstoy
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War and Peace - Second Epilogue
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Peter Silverleaf
- Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
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War and Peace is a literary work mixed with chapters on history and philosophy by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. Second Epilogue: History is the life of nations and of humanity. To seize and put into words, to describe directly the life of humanity or even of a single nation, appears impossible. The ancient historians all employed one and the same method to describe and seize the apparently elusive the life of a people. They described the activity of individuals who ruled the people, and regarded the activity of those men as representing the activity of the whole nation.
By: Leo Tolstoy