James Joyce's Dubliners is a collection of short stories about the lives of the people of Dublin around the turn of the century.
Each story describes a small but significant moment of crisis or revelation in the life of a particular Dubliner, sympathetically but always with stark honesty. Many of the characters are desperate to escape the confines of their humdrum lives, though those that have the opportunity to do so seem unable to take it.
This book holds none of the difficulties of Joyce's later novels, such as Ulysses, yet in its way it is just as radical.
These stories introduce us to the city which fed Joyce's entire creative output, and to many of the characters who made it such a well of Iiterary inspiration.
Leo Tolstoy
Narrator : Laura Paton
Published By : Select Music & Distribution
Runtime : 5 hours 10 minutes
Categories : Classics
Classic
Price : $18.75
Anna Karenina has been described as the perfect Russian novel. View... |
John Galsworthy
Narrator : Fred Williams
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Runtime : 43 hours
Categories : Classics
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John Galsworthy, a Nobel Prize-winning author, chronicles the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle-class Forsyte family through three generations, beginning in Victorian London during... View... |
Jack London
Narrator : Lloyd James
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Runtime : 7 hours
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A rare pearl is fought over during a hurricane on a South Sea island. A zealous missionary sets out to spread the Gospel in a land of cannibals. The son of a Polynesian chief becomes the slave of a... View... |
Jane Austen
Narrator : Juliet Stevenson
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Runtime : 3 hours 45 minutes
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Arrogant, self-willed and egotistical, Emma is Jane Austen's most unusual heroine. View... |
Oscar Wilde
Narrator : Michael Sheen
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Runtime : 3 hours 20 minutes
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Horror & Suspense
Horror & Suspense
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Oscar Wilde's novel is a masterly study of moral corruption, a tour-de-force suspense and surprise. View...
Written By : Pete McCarthy
Narrated By : Pete McCarthy
Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Length : 2 hours
Type : Autobiography
Biographical
Travel
Price : $16.75
The audio of the million-selling book - Pete McCarthy's hilarious journey in search of his Irish roots.
McCarthy's tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world.
Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways.
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