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Antigone by Sophocles

2 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
This is the final installment in Sophocles's Theban Plays, following Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus. Oedipus's daughter Antigone deliberately breaks the laws of Thebes when she buries her brot...

Love and Friendship by Jane Austen

3 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
Begun when she was just eleven years old, Love and Friendship is one of Jane Austen's stories that very few readers may have encountered before. Austen experts feel that this story was written, l...

An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

4 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
This story opens at a fashionable dinner party in Sir Robert Chiltern's home in the heart of London's stylish Grosvenor Square. One of Lady Chiltern's old school-friends, Mrs. Cheveley, a woman wit...

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 10 ratings
William Shakespeare’s most well-known play is more than most people realize. While it is the story of star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, it is also the story of two families in the middle of a...

King Richard II by William Shakespeare

5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 1 rating
The Tragedy of King Richard II, by William Shakespeare, is the first of the history series that continues with Parts 1 and 2 of King Henry IV and with The Life of King Henry V. At the beginning of ...

As You Like It by William Shakespeare

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In a tiny French dukedom, a younger brother usurps his elder brother's throne. Duke Senior is banished to the Forest of Arden along with his faithful retainers, leaving his lovely daughter Rosalind...

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Written around the middle of his career, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare's great festive comedies. The men are back from the war, and everyone is ready for romance. The dashing young...

Othello by William Shakespeare

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 5 ratings
In seventeenth century Venice, a wealthy and debauched man discovers that the woman he is infatuated with is secretly married to a Moorish general in the Venetian army. He shares his grief and rage...

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 8 ratings
Though it's titled The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, the man himself appears only in five scenes in the entire play! However, such is his impact on the events that surrounded him that he still remains ...

The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 11 ratings
Right from its famous opening scene which begins, “Thunder and lightning. Enter Three Witches” The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare holds the reader fast in a stirring, monumental experien...

Daisy Miller: A Study in Two Parts by Henry James

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
Daisy Miller is an 1878 novella by Henry James. It portrays the confused courtship of the eponymous American girl by Winterbourne, a compatriot of hers with much more sophistication. His pursuit of...

The Tempest by William Shakespeare

6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★ - 5 ratings
Banished from his own lands by a usurping brother, Prospero and his daughter Miranda have been living on a deserted island for years, until fate brings the brother within the range of Prospero's po...

What Katy Did at School by Susan Coolidge

13 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
The continuing story of Katy Carr, recounting the time she spent at boarding school with her sister Clover.

Railway Children by Edith Nesbit

14 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 25 ratings
A thrilling spy story, a children's adventure, a charming portrait of early twentieth century life in London and the countryside and a heart warming family tale are all combined in this classic of ...

Shakespeare Monologues by William Shakespeare

15 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
This is truly a delightful compilation of some of the best known and loved passages from William Shakespeare's plays. Most readers would be familiar with all or at least some of them. If you've stu...

His Last Bow by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

16 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 6 ratings
The disappearance of a German spy and the gathering storm that foretells the prelude to World War I is what greets you in this riveting book. The further you read the more mysteries unfold like se...

Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie

17 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
His name has become a metaphor for one who will never grow old. Peter Pan by JM Barrie is the story of a boy who remains a boy while the world around him changes. Sir James Mathew Barrie was a Sc...

An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott

19 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 14 ratings
Polly Milton, a 14-year-old country girl, visits her friend Fanny Shaw and her wealthy family in the city for the first time. Poor Polly is overwhelmed by the splendor at the Shaws’ and their urban...

Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott

22 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Jo’s Boys is the third book in the Little Women trilogy by Louisa May Alcott, published in 1886. In it, Jo’s “children”, now grown, are caught up in real world troubles. All three books – although ...

Chronicles of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery

28 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 8 ratings
A collection of short stories first published in 1912, the book focuses on events occurring in the popular fictional village of Avonlea, which is notorious as the hometown of Anne Shirley. Comprise...

Further Chronicles of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery

30 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Further Chronicles of Avonlea is a collection of short stories by L.M. Montgomery and is a sequel to Chronicles of Avonlea. Published in 1920, it includes a number of stories relating to the inhabi...

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

31 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★ - 10 ratings
Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey is a book about the life of Catherine Morland and her romantic relationships. The novel is divided into two parts; the first part begins with Catherine’s visit to Bat...

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin

31 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 5 ratings
Eleven year old Rebecca Rowena Randall travels to Riverboro, Maine, to live with her spinster aunts, Jane and Miranda Sawyer. Her father has been dead for three years and her mother is unable to co...

Rilla of Ingleside by Lucy Maud Montgomery

32 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
Rilla of Ingleside is the eighth book in the Anne of Green Gables series and focuses on the inspiring journey of Rilla Blythe, the youngest daughter of Anne and Gilbert, as she transforms from a ca...

Rainbow Valley by Lucy Maud Montgomery

35 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
If you've read and loved Anne of Green Gables, you'd definitely like to add Rainbow Valley by Lucy Maud Montgomery to your collection. Published in 1919, it is the seventh book in the series and f...

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

40 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★ - 24 ratings
A mysterious crime is being plotted in a tiny garret above a dilapidated apartment building in St Petersburg in Russia. The plotter, Rodion Raskolinikov, is a poor student who has delusions of ridd...

Villette by Charlotte Brontë

42 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Villette was Charlotte Bronte's last published novel. It came out in 1853, just two years before her death in 1855. It is a poignant, strangely lonely and sad work, steeped in conflict between soc...