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Written by the author of the ever-popular Jane Eyre, The story follows the fortunes of a young teacher at a girls school in the French town of Villette and is superbly told by Mandy Weston. It is an adventure story, a romance and a French lesson all in...

When Sylvester, the Duke of Salford, first meets Phoebe Marlow, he finds her dull and insipid. She thinks he is insufferably arrogant.

War and Peace is one of the greatest monuments in world literature. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, it examines the relationship between the individual and the relentless march of history. Here are the universal themes of love...

Virgil's Aeneid, one of the greatest Classical poems, tells the story of Aeneas, son of Priam, after the fall of Troy. His quest is to find the site ‘in the west where he will find a new town prophesied to be the seat of a world empire—Rome...

Vanity Fair, with it's rich cast of characters, takes place on the snakes-and-ladders board of life. Amelia Sedley, daughter of a wealthy merchant, has a loving mother to supervise her courtship. Becky Sharp, an orphan, has to use her wit, charm, and...

This sequel to Five Children and It sees the four children finding a carpet—and then being told by a Phoenix that it is a magic carpet. It means a series of adventures. Anna Bentinck reads the tale with great charm. With delightful music of the...

This is the foundation of all: that we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover what nature does, or may be made to do. Thus did Francis Bacon, early in the 17th century, outline the future of science and technology. This drive for knowledge and...

This delightful selection of stories by one of the classic masters of the genre includes some well-known and lesser known tales, presented in lively Naxos Audiobooks style with music and sound effects.

The unremarkable Catholic priest, Father Brown, combines intuition and a profound interest in human nature to solve more crimes that are seemingly improbable. A prophet of a new religion appears in Westminster. Why does an Italian Prince seek exile in...

The popularity of Robin Hood endures forever. In this bright re-telling for audiobook by Benedict Flynn, complete with sound effects, Robin Hood steals from the rich and gives to the poor, faces and overcomes the Sheriff of Nottingham, is supported by...

The politics of love, the intrigues of desire love and murder, moved obscurely in the dark corners of Alexandria's streets and squares, brothels and drawing-rooms moved like a great congress of eels in the slime of plot and counter-plot in Balthazar, the...

The Neville Jason performance of Tolstoy's War & Peace has been selected as a Top 12 Fiction title for Best Audiobooks of 2007 by AudioFile magazine. War and Peace is one of the greatest monuments in world literature. Set against the dramatic backdrop of...