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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...
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Four of the finest cases of Mr Sherlock Holmes.
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Aesop's Fables is a collection of tales from the sixth century B.C. in which the animal characters talk and act like humans. Each story has moral lessons as true today as ever.
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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...
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Allow the Arabian Nights tales weave their enchantment.
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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...
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To take on the bet - to go around the world in eighty days, was madness!
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Before the turn of the century Phileas Fogg circumnavigates the globe racing against time to win a wager.
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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...
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On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed under mysterious circumstances. His calculating father, Manfred, fears that his dynasty will now come to an end and determ...
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A wonderful reading of the story of Scrooge, Tiny Tim and the Ghosts of Christmas.
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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...
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The Count of Monte Cristo is a tale of revenge and retribution.
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Giovanni Boccaccio, Dante, and Petrarch were the leading lights in a century that is considered the beginning of the Italian Renaissance. The Decameron, or Ten Days' Entertainment, is Boccaccio's m...
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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...
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The Dracula mythology has inspired a vast subculture, but the story has never been better told than by Bram Stoker. His myth is powerful because it allows evil to remain mysterious. The high virtue...
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Watson arrives back at Baker Street to discover Holmes is dying from a mysterious disease
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Watson is drawn into Holme's plot to deceive his enemies and foil a probable attempt on his life
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An immediate success when it was first published in 1874, Thomas Hardy's 'pastoral tale'...
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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...
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The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's portrait of the Jazz Age in all its decadence and excess, is, as editor Maxwell Perkins praised it in 1924, "a wonder." It remains one of the most widely...
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A Grecian interpreter's bizarre story draws Holmes and Watson into a case of kidnapping and violence
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'Gulliver's travels' describes the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship’s surgeon. In Lilliput he discovers a world in miniature...
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Gulliver's Travels is renowned as a playful and comic children's classic.
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A wonderful collection of short stories written by Anton Chekhov.
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Young David Balfour escapes on the high seas to return to Scotland.
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Set in the days of the British Raj, Kipling's finest novel is an exciting and touching tale.
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Fanny Price is adopted by her rich relations and moved to the opulence of Mansfield Park.
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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...
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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...
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First published in 1904, 'Nostromo' is set in the South American republic of Costaguana. In the province of Sulaco everyone's life...
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Told in language of great simplicity and power, It is the story of an old fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal—a relentless battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream...
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A sinister masterpiece, this chilling tale unfolds around drowning, disguises, and doubles, violence, murder, and triumphant love. Characters include young John Harmon, presumed killed on his retur...
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The last novel completed by Jane Austen before she died, unmarried, in her early forties, Persuasion is often thought to be the story of the author's own lost love. After years apart, the book's he...
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A ghost is thought to be the cause of the discomfort of performers in the the Paris Opera house. then the beautiful young star disappears.
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Condemned as immoral when it was first published in 1890, Oscar Wilde's tale of the beautiful young man who 'sold himself...
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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...
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Through Henry Fleming, Crane creates a great and realistic study of an inexperienced soldier trapped in the fury and turmoil of war and its horrors, both within and without. This superb and excitin...
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No case is too slight for the mental powers of the Great Detective, in this second selection from The Return of Sherlock Holmes. A young girl is stalked by a 'solitary cyclist' whilst the 'dancing...
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The romantic story of Lucy Honeychurch set in Italy and England is a cherished classic. Earphone Award - AudioFile Magazine
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Sheila Hancock stars in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of E. M. Forster’s glorious tale of love in Italy and England...
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Humphrey van Weyden led a privileged existence during his early life, but suddenly finds himself cast into the sea, fighting for survival. Pitted against ruthless but educated captain Wolf Larsen,...
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A gifted boy must save the children at his school from an evil genius
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Dreiser transforms the conventional "fallen woman" story into a genuinely original work of imaginative fiction. He hurls his impressionable eighteen-year-old heroine into the amoral world of the bi...
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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 ...
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Both a cracking tale of horror and a deeply audacious account of the human psyche.
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Ulysses is one of the greatest literary works in the English language.
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War and Peace is one of the greatest monuments in world literature.
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Born in the wild, the wolf-dog White Fang quickly learns the law of nature: eat or be eaten. Captured by Indians, bullied by another dog. and then turned into a killer, he becomes vicious and...
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The saga of two Yorkshire families in the remote Pennine Hills. The story has been interpreted as an historical romance...
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