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One of the foremost novelists of the last century, Graham Greene left an indelible mark on the world of fiction. In his many masterpieces, he introduced his fans to ‘Greeneland’ – a shadowy world of sin, redemption, treachery and sexual betrayal, occupied by complex, ambivalent characters. That world is brought vividly to life in these eight stunning BBC Radio productions. They represent the very best examples of his later work, written between 1951 and 1982, and together comprise nearly 17 hours of riveting drama.

Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.”

In A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf’s classic six-part essay, the iconic Modernist writer takes on the misogyny of writing, publishing, and creativity in her time. Through the imagined sister of William Shakespeare, who in her argument possesses the same talent and intellect as the famous playwright, Woolf lays out the fundamental truth that one requires room to express creativity and time to explore and see it through. Genius unexpressed is genius nonetheless, and had Shakespeare’s sister the means to make her own art, she would have had the same lasting legacy as her brother.

A classic coming-of-age narrative and part-autobiographical, David Copperfield details one man’s extraordinary life and adventures in Victorian England. Termed by Dickens as his ‘favourite child’, this novel was a turning point in Dickens’s career, considered one of his more mature works. The eponymous David Copperfield, born in rural Suffolk six months after his father passes away, undergoes a difficult childhood.

В Останкине, как известно, живут коты, псы, птицы, тараканы, люди, демоны, ведьмы, ангелы и привидения. Среди прочих и Шеврикука – домовой, приписанный к дому № 14 по 5-й Ново-Останкинской улице. Нрава добродушного, роста выше среднего, внешности обычной. Жизнь Шеврикуки полна тайн и загадок. В его непредсказуемом мире разномыслящих нечеловеческих существ то обостряются, то утихают конфликты, идет непрерывная борьба за существование и каждый день ставит перед выбором как жить дальше.

Elisa – orphaned as a child, raised by a ‘fallen woman’, fed by fairy tales – has lived in an outlandish imaginary world for years. When her guardian dies, she feels compelled to confront her family’s tortured and dramatic past, weaving the tale of her mother and grandmother through a history of intrigue, treachery, deception and desire. But as her saga of three generations of Sicilian women proceeds, it becomes something else entirely, taking in a whole legacy of oppression and injustice.

Written immediately before Ágota Kristóf's acclaimed Notebook trilogy, the works here oscillate between parables, surrealist anecdotes, and stories animated by a realism stripped to the bone. By turns harrowing and whimsical, cruel and sharply funny, Kristóf’s world shifts our gaze to a shared reality, past and present. Here exile and existential alienation are undeniable – as is the force of every sentence, making for extraordinary and essential reading.

Ce roman plonge le lecteur dans la folie du personnage principal, Goliadkine. Déjà fragile psychologiquement, ce dernier sombre progressivement dans la démence à la suite d'une série d'événements. L'auteur suit de près la dégradation de son état mental, sans jamais l'abandonner. Goliadkine est hanté par la vision constante de son double, qu'il tient pour responsable de tous ses malheurs. Cette obsession le conduit jusqu'à vouloir provoquer en duel cette apparition imaginaire, devenue son cauchemar permanent.

Обыкновенно в бракоразводных процессах имеешь дело с ненавистью, бесчестием, алчностью. В данном случае не было ненависти, не стоял вопрос о деньгах. Неверность - это бесчестие, но бесчестие в некоторых вопросах не является доказательством подлости человека. Эта женщина, во всех отношениях, кроме одного, сделала много хорошего: она помогла мужу укрепить общественное положение, она сделала его тем, кем он стал.

貴族・僧・武士・庶民・盗賊…さまざまな生を描く日本最大の説話集古典文学の主要作品をセレクトし、現代語訳と原文とで構成した「日本の古典をよむ」（全20冊）シリーズの1冊です。「今昔物語集」は平安末期に成立したと考えられている説話集。天竺＝インド、震旦＝中国、本朝＝日本の三地域にわけて収めた千を超える説話から、本朝部の著名な37話を選び出しました。

貴族・僧・武士・庶民・盗賊…さまざまな生を描く日本最大の説話集古文の響きを味わう「原文編」古典文学の主要作品をセレクトした「日本の古典をよむ」（全20冊）シリーズの1冊です。「今昔物語集」は平安末期に成立したと考えられている説話集。天竺＝インド、震旦＝中国、本朝＝日本の三地域にわけて収めた千を超える説話から、本朝部の著名な37話を選び出しました。

貴族・僧・武士・庶民・盗賊…さまざまな生を描く日本最大の説話集訳文で楽しむ「現代語訳編」古典文学の主要作品をセレクトした「日本の古典をよむ」（全20冊）シリーズの1冊です。「今昔物語集」は平安末期に成立したと考えられている説話集。天竺＝インド、震旦＝中国、本朝＝日本の三地域にわけて収めた千を超える説話から、本朝部の著名な37話を選び出しました。

As Pyle's naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as Fowler intervenes he wonders why: for the greater good, or something altogether more complicated?

Fitzwilliam Darcy's annual spring visit to Rosings is not going as planned. His aunt is behaving like a madwoman, his cousin Anne is sullen, and worst of all, he proposes to the woman he loves and is turned down quite vehemently. Darcy beats a hasty retreat to London, hoping to put the entire visit behind him, and to purge the elusive, lovely Elizabeth Bennet from his thoughts.

During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the 'whisky priest', is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being shut off, his chances getting fewer. But compassion and humanity force him along the road to his destiny, reluctant to abandon those who need him, and those he cares for.

In this collection you'll hear Stephen Fry narrating Great Expectations, Scrooge's ghostly journey narrated by Jason Isaacs, Juliet Stevenson leading us through The Old Curiosity Shop, and many more award-winning narrators bringing Dickens' words to life. Also included here is a short introduction to Dickens' life and works from Dr Pete Orford, an internationally renowned Dickens expert and the Course Director for the Charles Dickens Studies MA at the University of Buckingham.

Often referred to as the father of science fiction, Victorian author Jules Verne is renowned for his fantastical adventures imagining extraordinary voyages to strange new horizons. Prolific and prophetic, he wrote over 50 novels and numerous short stories, in which he foretold the skyscraper, the submarine, space missions and even the Internet. Featured here are contemporary adaptations of four of his most famous tales, as well as a special episode of The Forum examining the long-lasting appeal of his work.

Driven away from his parish by a censorious bishop, Monsignor Quixote sets off across Spain accompanied by a deposed renegade mayor as his own Sancho Panza, and his noble steed Rocinante – a faithful but antiquated SEAT 600. Like Cervantes’s classic, this comic, picaresque fable offers enduring insights into our life and times.

The War Collection: Essential Battlefield Classics is a collection of 13 works of fiction, philosophy, military strategy, and epic poetry, read by esteemed cast of award-winning narrators. Included here are novels from Ernest Hemingway; military strategy from Sun Tzu and Carl von Clausewitz; essays from Orwell; philosophy from Freud, and epic poetry from Homer, amongst much more.

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume Three is the third instalment of our wide-ranging classic collections. Volume Three features 10 essential works that reach further back into early Greek and Italian stories from Dante, Machiavelli, and Homer, as-well as comparatively modern works from Daniel Defoe, Henry David Thoreau, and others. Read by a cast of incredible narrators including David Rintoul; Daniel Weyman; Rachel Atkins; and more, this is a chance to expand your listening by going back to some of the earliest pieces of classic literature.