Embittered by a false accusation, disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a long twilight life alone with his loom. . . and his gold.
Silas hoards a treasure that destroys his spirit until fate steals it from him and replaces it with a golden-haired child. Where she came from, who her parents were, and who really stole the gold are the secrets that fill this moving tale of guilt and innocence.
A moral allegory of the redemptive power of love, it is also a finely drawn portrait of early nineteenth-century England in the days when spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses, and of a simple way of life that was soon to disappear.
Walter Scott
Narrator : Brian Cox
Published By : Harper Collins UK
Runtime : 3 hours 8 minutes
Categories : Classics
Historical
Price : $12.75
'The love of battle is the food upon which we live – the dust of the melee is the breath of our nostrils! we live not – we wish not to live... View... |
Hamlin Garland
Narrator : Grover Gardner
Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc
Runtime : 13 hours 30 minutes
Categories : Classics
Price : $39.95 $26.95
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 ... View... |
George Eliot
Narrator : Full Cast Production
Published By : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 3 hours
Categories : Classic Literature
Classics
Classic
Historical
Price : $22.75
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. View... |
Jerome K Jerome
Narrator : Martin Jarvis
Published By : Select Music & Distribution
Runtime : 6 hours 35 minutes
Categories : Classics
Comedy
Price : $27.25
Here is one of the greatest English comic novels read by incontrovertible King of English comic audiobook readers - Martin Jarvis. Jerome's delightful novel paints a vivid picture of innocent fun. 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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