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A Midsummers Night's Dream Retold by E. Nesbit: Easy Shakespeare Stories

Edith Nesbit (Author), Nicki White (Narrator)

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King Lear Retold by E. Nesbit: Easy Shakespeare Stories

Edith Nesbit (Author), Matt Stewart (Narrator)

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As You Like It Retold by E. Nesbit: Easy Shakespeare Stories

Edith Nesbit (Author), Matt Stewart (Narrator)

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The Merchant of Venice Retold by E. Nesbit: Easy Shakespeare Stories

Edith Nesbit (Author), Matt Stewart (Narrator)

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The Taming of the Shrew Retold by E. Nesbit: Easy Shakespeare Stories

Edith Nesbit (Author), Nicki White (Narrator)

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HG Wells TOP STORIES

Viking Tales, 10 classic children's stories. Myths & Legends from the Land of Ice and Fire : The Sea Fight, Olaf's Fight With Havard, The Tooth Thrall, The Baby, Harald is King, Harald's Battle ; KING HALFDAN lived in Norway long ago. One morning his queen said to him: 'I had a strange dream last night. I thought that I stood in the grass before my bower. I pulled a thorn from my dress. As I held it in my fingers, it grew into a tall tree. The trunk was thick and red as blood, but the lower limbs were fair and green, and the highest ones were white. I thought that the branches of this great tree spread so far that they covered all Norway and even more.'

H.G. Wells, Hg Wells (Author), Paul Spera (Narrator)

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The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

'As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes.' With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first opening, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing -- though absurdly comic -- meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, 'Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man.'

Franz Kafka (Author), Semih Owens (Narrator)

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Plato:The Republic

The Republic is a Socratic dialogue by Plato, written in approximately 380 BC. It is one of the most influential works of philosophy and political theory, and Plato's best known work. In Plato's fictional dialogues the characters of Socrates as well as various Athenians and foreigners discuss the meaning of justice and examine whether the just man is happier than the unjust man by imagining a society ruled by philosopher-kings and the guardians. The dialogue also discusses the role of the philosopher, Plato's Theory of Forms, the place of poetry, and the immortality of the soul.

Plato (Author), Samet Burke (Narrator)

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The Black Obelisk

A hardened young veteran from the First World War, Ludwig now works for a monument company, selling stone markers to the survivors of deceased loved ones. Though ambivalent about his job, he suspects there's more to life than earning a living off other people's misfortunes. A self-professed poet, Ludwig soon senses a growing change in his fatherland, a brutality brought upon it by inflation. When he falls in love with the beautiful but troubled Isabelle, Ludwig hopes he has found a soul who will offer him salvation-who will free him from his obsession to find meaning in a war-torn world. But there comes a time in every man's life when he must choose to live-despite the prevailing thread of history horrifically repeating itself.

Erich Maria Remarque (Author), T. Ryder Smith (Narrator)

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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter' - published first in 1850, was in its time considered as an innovative and at the same time scandalous novel, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This book was strongly disapproved by the fellow countrymen of the author and banned by the Russian tsars Now 'The Scarlet Letter' is included in the school curriculum. 'The Scarlet Letter' tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. For the Puritan Boston in the 17th century New England, this is a terrible violation of morality. Hester is therefore paraded through the town, holding her baby and wearing the red letter "A" that marks an adulteress. But she continues to fight for what and whom she loves 'The Scarlet Letter' is the first novel of Nathaniel Hawthorne and the first work, in which the Old World has opened towards a new American literature. The novel was made into a film seven times in the United States, as well as in Spain, France and South Korea.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (Author), Elly Leonard (Narrator)

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Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë's only novel, was published in 1847 under the pseudonym 'Ellis Bell'. It was written between October 1845 and June 1846. Although Wuthering Heights is now a classic of English literature, contemporary reviews were deeply polarised; it was controversial because of its unusually stark depiction of mental and physical cruelty, and it challenged strict Victorian ideals of the day regarding religious hypocrisy, morality, social classes, and gender inequality. The English poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, although an admirer of the book, referred to it as 'A fiend of a book - an incredible monster [...] The action is laid in hell, - only it seems places and people have English names there.

Emily Brontë (Author), Reza Emrani - Behnaz Bostan Doost (Narrator)

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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea & The Mysterious Island: Two BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations

Jules Verne's two novels featuring Captain Nemo (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island), condensed down to two thrilling hours. In 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Marine scientist Professor Aronnax and his stowaway daughter Connie join whaler Ned Land aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln to hunt an aggressive sea monster, believed to be a giant narwhale. When they engage the monster, they find to their astonishment it's an electrically-powered submarine, the Nautilus, technologically far superior to any vessel known. They are rescued by the ship's enigmatic captain, Nemo... In The Mysterious Island, military engineer Cyrus Smith, his freed slave Neb, and reporter Grace Spilett - flee the besieged city of Richmond in a balloon. Their vessel is caught in a vast storm and blown thousands of miles until it crashes on a remote Pacific island. But they soon realise that they are not alone on the island... Cast of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Captain Nemo - Sagar Arya Professor Pierre Aronnax - Neil McCaul Miss Connie Aronnax - Madeline Hatt Ned Land - David Seddon Captain Farragut - Philip Bretherton Cast of The Mysterious Island Cyrus Harding - Nathan Osgood Grace Spilett - Kerry Gooderson Neb - Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong Tom Ayrton - Rupert Holliday Evans Captain Nemo - Sagar Arya

Jules Verne (Author), , Kerry Gooderson, Madeline Hatt, Nathan Osgood, Neil Mccaul, Sagar Arya, Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong (Narrator)

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