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A+ Audio is the innovative audio study guide series that will help you better understand, appreciate, and enjoy great works of literature.
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A+ Audio is the innovative audio study guide series that will help you better understand, appreciate, and enjoy great works of literature.
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A+ Audio is the innovative audio study guide series that will help you better understand, appreciate, and enjoy great works of literature.
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First published in 1885, 'Huckleberry Finn' is one of the undoubted masterpieces of American literature...
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Mark Twain's classic tale recounts the adventures of the ever resourceful Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn...
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These wonderful stories have delighted adults and children for centuries.
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Against a backdrop of delicate imagery, Willa Cather explores the tough inner terrain of a man in mid-life crisis. Bartley Alexander is a master bridge engineer at the height of his power, comfortable with success and all it brings. Yet he yearns for the lost vibrancy of his youth and so leads a...
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An anthology of Shakespearian speeches performed by the world's leading actors.
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Sian Phillips, Emma Fielding and Miriam Margolyes star in Shakespeare's comedy of men behaving badly and women doing it for themselves.
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Frances Barber and David Harewood star in Shakespeare's towering tale of great love, political intrigue and tragedy.
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Allow the Arabian Nights tales weave their enchantment.
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Classic story of a hasty world tour taken up on a gentelmen's club wager
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Helena Bonham Carter stars as Rosalind with David Morrissey as Orlando and Natasha Little as Celia in Shakespeare's festive comedy.
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Ballet Shoes is a classic of 20th-century children's literature. The lively humour and sense of fun that have made the novel such a favourite are brought to life in this enchanting dramatisation.
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This magnificent novel is a satirical comedy about the fight for ascendancy among the clergy in a cathedral city. The formidable Mrs. Proudie, the oily Mr. Slope, and the flamboyant Signora Neroni are among the memorable characters vying to be the dominant voice in the quiet diocese of Barchester.
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Without doubt, the greatest work of Geoffrey Chaucer. A brilliant picture of medieval life.
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Without doubt, the greatest work of Geoffrey Chaucer. A brilliant picture of medieval life.
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Without doubt, the greatest work of Geoffrey Chaucer. A brilliant picture of medieval life.
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A wonderful reading of the story of Scrooge, Tiny Tim and the Ghosts of Christmas.
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On this recording, Christmas past brings alive Christmas present.
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Narnia ... where owls speak, where evil weaves a spell ... where sorcery enslaves the land. Deep underground, a web of evil magic holds a prince in captivity.
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From the earliest poets of the 16th century to the present day.
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George Eliot’s last and undeniably great novel, which tells the story of young Daniel Deronda and his fateful relationship with the astonishing Gwendolen Harleth.
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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Mark Twain’s classic novel of adventure, loyalty and responsibility.
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A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Jane Austen's perceptive study of middle class morals and mores in the nineteenth century.
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This large-scale adaptation, recorded in America, skilfully reproduces the unique mixture of adventure, myth, history and philosophy in Melville's epic tale.
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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Mr Samuel Pickwick, retired businessman and confirmed batchelor, is determined that after a quiet life of enterprise the time has come to go out into the world.
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A new dramatisation of the Thomas Hardy classic, ‘Tess Of The d’Urbervilles’, transmitted as the BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial.
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Tom Baker stars as Sir Walter Bullivant with David Robb as man of action Richard Hannay in a thrilling BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of this classic tale of wartime espionage.
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Shows what can happen when two very different societies come together.
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A Yankee mechanic, knocked out in a fight, awakens at Camelot in A.D. 528. He saves himself from prison and death by posing as a magician and becoming minister to King Arthur. But when he attempts to help out the peasants, he meets opposition.
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Aldous Huxley here introduces us to an amiable group of artists and intellectuals engaged in the most free-thinking talk imaginable. Poetry, occultism, ancestral history, and Italian painting are just a few of the subjects for discussion among the eccentrics drawn together at Crome, an...
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Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. A community stands accused of witchcraft, and in the mood of fear and recrimination that quickly develops men denounce their neighbours...
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Cuculian, 'The Hound of Ulster', is the champion of Ireland and is best remembered for his single-handed defense of Ulster. This is the first time Cuculian’s story has been available in audio.
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In Daniel Deronda, George Eliot left behind the world of the Victorian middle classes that she explored so well in Middlemarch. Eliot, with her hero Deronda, attempts to come to terms with the English Jews, a society within a society, which the people of her time seemed either oblivious to or...
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John Wyndham's classic novel of man's struggle in a besieged world is dramatised by Giles Cooper in this classic 1968 recording.
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Children's story uses tragedy to underscore the gulf between devotion and selfishness.
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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...
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This stunning release includes the highly acclaimed re-make of Dylan's definitive play, Under Milk Wood...
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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.
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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
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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Fitzgerald's elegantly simple work captures the spirit of the Jazz Age and embodies America's obsessions with wealth, power, and the promise of new beginnings.
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Thomas Gradgrind is an eminently practical man who believes in facts and statistics and has brought up his two children, Louisa and Tom, accordingly, suppressing the imaginative sides of their nature. They are raised without love and affection, and the consequences are devastating.
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Father and son Julian and Jamie Glover star as King Henry and Prince Hal in Shakespeare's stirring history.
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Father and son Julian and Jamie Glover star as King Henry and his son, Hal, in this powerful production, which also stars Timothy West and Prunella Scales...
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The story of literature that has touched the hearts & stirred the minds of countless readers.
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The radio dramatisation of The Hobbit became a classic when it was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1968 and it continues to delight today.
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A court jester seeks revenge against the king, who brutalized his love.
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Ugly and deformed but humble and loyal, Quasimodo is the hunchback living in the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. He is trapped between his love for a Gypsy girl and his love for the archdeacon, his benefactor.
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This elaborate fabrication proceeds smoothly until Jack/Ernest falls in love and his fiancee’s mother discovers there is more – or, rather, less – to him than meets the eye.
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In Chancery is the second novel in John Galsworthy's epic Forsyte Saga, a brilliant social satire about an upper-class family. After suffering the death of her lover and abuse from her husband Soames, Irene Forsyte has finally left her marriage for good. Though disgraced by her affair, she forms...
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This boxed set features Jack London's thrilling classics, The Call of the Wild and White Fang. London’s adventurous nature, intuitive feeling for animal life, and superb storytelling skills have given his tales an enduring place in the annals of American literature.
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"Le Morte d'Arthur remains an enchanted sea for the reader to swim about in, delighting at the random beauties of fifteenth-century prose."--Robert Graves
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Suetonius wrote Lives of the Twelve Caesars in the reign of Vespasian around 70AD. He chronicled their extraordinary careers, presenting perspicacious insights into the men as much as their reigns.
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Richard Eyre directs Ken Stott as Macbeth and Phyllis Logan as Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's dramatic tale of greed and destiny...
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Maid in Waiting is the beginning novel in the last trilogy of John Galsworthy's Forsyte Chronicles. In this seventh installment, the story continues of the lives and times, loves and losses, fortunes and deaths of the fictional but entirely representative family of propertied Victorians,...
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This two-part adult fairytale by the author of The Secret Garden combines a charming Cinderella tale with an ironic look at class structure and the Edwardian marriage market in turn-of-the-century London. Emily Fox-Seton is distantly related to aristocracy, but she is struggling to make ends...
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When a young woman is offered the choice of saving a man's life at the price of her own chastity, what should she do?
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Shakespeare's dramatic and complex comedy.
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Here are the beloved adventures of the mischievous hero Robin Hood and his brave and merry band of outlaws who forged a chivalrous code to protect the oppressed and despoil the oppressors. Breathtaking escapes, hilarious escapades, and classic characters make this a favorite story everywhere.
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From her birth in Newgate Prison, where her mother is under sentence of death for theft, to her final position of wealth, Moll Flanders demonstrates a spirit of industry and an indomitable will. One of the earliest social novels of English life, Moll Flanders features one of the most lively,...
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David Tennant stars as Benedick with Samantha Spiro as Beatrice in Shakespeare's merry comedy of wit, words and romance.
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In this new translation, performed by an outstanding cast led by Michael Sheen, the searing inevitablity facing Oedipus proves as shocking as it was 2.500 years ago when it was first presented.
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The stormy passions of Shakespeare's tragedy resonate with powerful emotion in this BBC radio 3 production.
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This terse and startling novel is the story of a struggle for possession and of its devastating consequences. Three women seek to secure the affections of one man, while he, in turn, tries to satisfy them all. But in the middle of this contest of wills stands his unwitting and vulnerable young...
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Set in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful but love-starved Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic, where she is compelled by her awakening conscience to reassess her life and learn how...
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Paradise Lost is the greatest epic poem in the English language.
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Full-Cast. An indigestible tragic romantic comedy of love, jealousy, betrayal and murder.
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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of J. M. Barrie's tale of childhood adventure starring Toyah Willcox as Peter Pan and Ron Moody as Captain Hook
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Natty Bumppo in his ninetieth year is still competent as a frontiersman and trapper. He is drawn into conflict with society in the form of an immigrant party led by the surly Ishmael Bush. Once again this great man of nature is called upon to exhibit his courage and resourcefulness to rescue...
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Two Kidnappers learn their plan is less than perfect
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Anna Leath, an American widow living in France, has engaged in a love affair with George Darrow, a diplomat. However, when Darrow is on his way to consolidate marriage plans at Anna’s French chateau, he encounters Sophy Viner, who is as sprightly and spontaneous as Anna is restrained and demure....
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Clym Yeobright, a diamond merchant in Paris, returns to his home in Egdon where he falls in love with the sensuous Eustacia Vye. She marries him, hoping he will take her away to Paris. But Eustacia’s dreams of escape are not to be realized. Clym Yeobright, the returning native, cannot bring her...
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A comic masterpiece brimming with false identities!
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Mr. Frank Softly was sent to one of the most fashionable and famous of the great public schools. He said, “I ran away three times, and was flogged three times. I made four aristocratic connections, I learnt to play at cricket, to hate rich people. . . and to receive kicks and serious advice...
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Although Lawrence of Arabia died in 1935, the story of his life has captured the imagination of succeeding generations.
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With Denis Quilley as Macbeth, this recording from the BBC Sound Archives brings Shakespeare's memorable words to life.
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This impassioned speech is beautifully spoken by Fay Compton in this BBC Sound archives recording.
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“But, however much or little ‘A Modern Comedy’ may be deemed to reflect the spirit of an Age, it continues in the main to relate the tale of life which sprang from the meeting of Soames and Irene in a Bournemouth drawing-room in 1881….”—John Galsworthy
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The audiodrama of this twelfth-century French epic allows listeners to hear the story as they might have in medieval time, when a traveling troubador would recite the poem in the village square. It describes the heroic exploits of Roland and the campaign of Charlemagne. Fired by the religious...
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In his old age, Soames Forsyte has mellowed into a patient and benign figure, guarding with especial tenderness the welfare of his daughter, Fleur. But all his watchfulness and devotion are powerless to avert the tragedy when Fleur revives her old love affair with Jon Forsyte.
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The doctor has just been released, demented, when the story opens. He is brought to England where he gradually recovers his health and his sanity.
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In this episode from the series, Sir Laurence Olivier stars in a fully dramatised adaptation of the famous Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde classic by Robert Louis Stevenson...
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In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Thérèse Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. The numbing tedium of her life is suddenly shattered when she embarks on a turbulent affair with her husband’s earthy friend Laurent. But their passion for...
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Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There - the sequel to Alice in Wonderland.
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A literary as well as a philosophical masterpiece, Thus spoke Zarathustra survived an initially poor reception, to be recognised as a seminal text in modern culture.
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In To Let, Jon and Fleur, now both nineteen years old, fall in love. However, when Jolyon informs his son of the past feud between the families, Jon decides that he cannot marry Fleur. Meanwhile, Soames learns that his second wife, Annette, has been unfaithful to him, and the Forsyte family...
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Stephen Glennard, a young lawyer, sells a package of love letters, written to him over the years by distinguished novelist Margaret Aubyn, to raise money to pay for his forthcoming wedding to another woman. After the wedding, his secret comes back to haunt him, and when he confesses to his wife,...
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In this book that implicitly condemns slavery, David Wilson is called “Pudd’nhead” by the townspeople, who fail to understand his combination of wisdom and eccentricity. He redeems himself by solving a murder mystery and a case of transposed identities.
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Under Western Eyes, Conrad’s novel of political treachery and oppression, begins with a bomb that kills a hated Russian minister of police, along with innocent bystanders. A young student named Razumov hides the perpetrator, then betrays him and becomes a spy among his exiled comrades. He faces...
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Country vicar Dr. Primrose has a good heart, a good family and a good income, but suddenly, his idyllic life is cruelly devastated by a series of misfortunes. Despite all the calamity, however, he never loses sight of Christian morality, and this eventually brings him justice and the restoration...
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Lucy Snowe is a stoic young Englishwoman. Beset by adverse circumstances, on a momentary whim she travels to Belgium to seek her livelihood as a teacher in a girls’ boarding school. There, surrounded by giddy pupils, under the control of the cunning school matron, wooed by an...
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In 1845 Henry David Thoreau, one of the principal New England Transcendentalists, left the small town of Concord for the country. Beside the lake of Walden, he built himself a log cabin.
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War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit. Out of this complex narrative emerges a profound examination of each individual’s place in the historical process. War and Peace is an affirmation of life itself.
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What befalls a star-crossed triangle of friends and lovers in this novel illustrates exquisitely what happens when a woman’s desire for both her lover and riches makes the object of her affection question his own true worth in her eyes.
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Romantic and gothic elements combine in this tightly-constructed thriller which induces excitement and fear in its audience...
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