The British Classics Collection - Volume One: 20+ Stories from Charles Dickens, Emily Brontë, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, George Orwell, & More
Great Expectations, Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Lady Chatterly’s Lover, Middlemarch, Pride and Prejudice, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Wuthering Heights, To the Lighthouse, 1984, & More
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The British Classics Collection: Volume One is a century-spanning collection of 24 classic works of fiction and poetry by British authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Stephen Fry, Joanne Froggatt, Jason Isaacs, Adjoa Andoh, and many more. Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Charles Dickens; Emily Brontë; Jane Austen; Thomas Hardy; George Eliot; D.H. Lawrence; George Orwell; and Mary Shelley, amongst a host of others. The titles included in this collection, in chronological order, are:
- 1984, by George Orwell
- A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
- A Warning to the Curious, by M.R. James
- Animal Farm, by George Orwell
- Barchester Towers, by Anthony Trollope
- Christina Rossetti Poems
- Diary of a Nobody, by George and Weedon Grossmith
- Elizabeth Browning Poems
- Emma, by Jane Austen
- Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
- Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
- Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë
- Lady Chatterly’s Lover, by D.H. Lawrence
- Middlemarch, by George Eliot
- Number 13, by M.R. James
- Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
- Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy
- The Mezzotint, by M.R. James
- Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells
- To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
- Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë
The full cast includes: Stephen Fry; Jason Isaacs; Joanne Froggatt; Jonathan Keeble; Adjoa Andoh; Barnaby Edwards; Emma Gregory; Mark Elstob; Rachel Atkins; Barnaby Edwards; Lucy Scott; Julie Teal; Olivia Dowd; and Karen Cass.
This audiobook is fully indexed. Once downloaded, each book and chapter will be listed so you can easily navigate to the individual section.
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