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Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

53 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 23 ratings
Set in the first half of the 19th century, the classic novel presents the story of young orphan Oliver Twist, who endures tumultuous events in a society burdened by poverty, crime and malice. After...

Last Days of Pompeii by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

56 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
The Last Days of Pompeii, a novel by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton tells the love story of the Greeks Glaucus and Ione who were living in Pompeii when Mt. Vesuvius erupted and destroyed the city. Bu...

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

68 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 6 ratings
As the last published novel of a writer whose career spanned over a dozen novels, innumerable short stories, plays and nonfiction, Our Mutual Friend is indeed a great composition by Charles Dickens...

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

69 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 19 ratings
The Three Musketeers follows the adventures of the young Gascon nobleman, D’Artagnan and his three trusted friends who served as musketeers in the king’s regiment – Athos, Porthos & Aramis. Written...

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

71 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 9 ratings
Victor Hugo's Les Misérables is a novel which tells the story of ex-convict Jean Valjean, his struggles and eventual redemption. It's hailed by many critics as not just Victor Hugo's finest work bu...

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, Volumes 1 & 2 by Mark Twain

75 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Mark Twain’s work on Joan of Arc is titled in full “Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte.” De Conte is identified as Joan’s page and secretary. For those who’ve always...

Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor by Richard D. Blackmore

76 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
“If anybody cares to read a simple tale told simply” … thus opens Lorna Doone, one of the best love stories ever written. The novel has inspired at least ten movies and mini-series. “John (in West ...

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace

81 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 13 ratings
Ben-Hur is a story of two very different heroes. Judah Ben-Hur, a prince of Jerusalem, is involved in an accident to the Roman procurator which is taken to be intentional. He is seized and sent to ...

Letters from Egypt by Lady Lucie Duff-Gordon

124 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
As a girl, Lady Duff-Gordon was noted both for her beauty and intelligence. As an author, she is most famous for this collection of letters from Egypt. Lady Duff-Gordon had tuberculosis, and went t...

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

238 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 53 ratings
Leo Tolstoy’s psychological novel Anna Karenina follows the life of the enchanting and rebellious Anna who seeks to break free from the shackles of society. Set in late 19th century Russia, Anna is...