Modern Classics Literature

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: John Steinbeck, David Wyatt - introduction
    • Narrated by: Simon Manyonda
    • Length: 26 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 24-02-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel....

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: John Steinbeck
    • Narrated by: Billy Howle
    • Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 15-07-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 109 ratings
    • Drifters in search of work, George and simple-minded friend Lennie have nothing in the world except each other - and a dream. A dream that one day they will have some land of their own....

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    • By: John Wyndham
    • Narrated by: Zoe Telford
    • Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 19-05-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • Newly widowed Phyllida returns from India to visit her absent-minded father, Professor Woodbridge, only to find the house locked up and deserted....

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: Robert DeMott - introduction, John Steinbeck
    • Narrated by: Richard Armitage
    • Length: 20 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 24-02-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 97 ratings
    • Shocking and controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck's Pultizer Prize-winning epic of the Joad family, forced to travel west from Dust Bowl-era Oklahoma in search of the promised land of California....

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    • By: G. K. Chesterton
    • Narrated by: Toby Longworth
    • Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 20-08-2007
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Chesterton's allegorical masterpiece is a surreal, psychologically thrilling novel that centres on anarchists in turn of the century London who call themselves by the names of days of the week....

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    • By: Sylvia Plath
    • Narrated by: Maggie Gyllenhaal
    • Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 16-07-2015
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 502 ratings
    • When Esther Greenwood wins an internship at a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer....

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: Patrick Süskind
    • Narrated by: Sean Barrett
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 255 ratings
    • A downloadable audiobook edition of the modern classic Perfume read by Sean Barrett....

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: Len Deighton
    • Narrated by: James Lailey
    • Series: Bernard Samson, Book 3
    • Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 27-05-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Long-suffering spy Bernard Samson has, against all the odds, enticed a Soviet agent to defect to London - but this proves to be the start of something even bigger....

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: Len Deighton
    • Narrated by: James Lailey
    • Series: Bernard Samson, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 27-05-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Embattled agent Bernard Samson is used to being passed over for promotion as his younger, more ambitious colleagues - including his own wife, Fiona - rise up the ranks of MI6....

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: Len Deighton
    • Narrated by: James Lailey
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 29-04-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped. A secret British intelligence agency must find out why....

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    • By: John Irving
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 27 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-2009
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 128 ratings
    • Of all of John Irving's books, this is the one that lends itself best to audio. In print, Owen Meany's dialogue is set in capital letters; for this production, Irving himself selected Joe Barrett to deliver Meany's difficult voice as intended.....

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: Jack Kerouac, Ann Douglas
    • Narrated by: Ethan Hawke
    • Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 20-05-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • A witty, moving philosophical novel, Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums is a journey of self-discovery through the lens of Zen Buddhist thought. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Ann Douglas....

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    • By: Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder - translator
    • Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 19-10-2023
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Hat, ribbon, bird rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river or handed over to the Memory Police....

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: Len Deighton
    • Narrated by: James Lailey
    • Series: Bernard Samson, Book 4
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 29-07-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Millions of pounds have gone missing, and the Department have sent agent Bernard Samson to Washington to track them down. But this mission is just the start of something far deeper and darker....

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    • A Virago Modern Classic
    • By: Patricia Highsmith
    • Narrated by: Adam Sims
    • Series: Ripley, Book 2
    • Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 15-12-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Tom Ripley is now the owner of a beautiful estate in France, a wealthy art collector and married to an heiress....

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: Len Deighton
    • Narrated by: James Lailey
    • Length: 24 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Peter and Paul, the two sons of German businessman Harald Winter, are bonded together by a childhood trauma....

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: Len Deighton
    • Narrated by: Richard Burnip, Len Deighton
    • Length: 21 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • 31 June, 1943. An RAF crew prepare for their next bombing raid on Germany. It is a night that many will never forget....

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: Audre Lorde
    • Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner
    • Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • The revolutionary writings of Audre Lorde gave voice to those 'outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women'....

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