Independent & Proudly Human Audiobooks
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The Village of Stepanchikovo
The young Sergei is summoned from St Petersburg by his uncle, the retired colonel Yegor Rostanev, to the remote country estate of Stepanchikovo. Rostanev’s household, populated by a medley of remarkable characters, is dominated by the figure of Foma Opiskin, a devious, manipulative hanger-on who has everyone in thrall and plots to marry the colonel to the woman of his choice, Tatyana Ivanovna. When Opiskin finds that his plans are being thwarted, a confrontation with Rostanev ensues, and all hell is let loose.
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The Fyodor Dostoyevsky Complete Collection
The Brothers Karamazov; Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; Notes from the Underground; The Demons; Novellas; Complete Short Stories; Essays; and Letters
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The Republic
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classic text is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it.
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The Idiot
Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women—the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia—both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. Blackmail, betrayal, and murder follow in the footsteps of his dangerous and all-consuming journey.
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The Philosophy Collection
Meditations; The Book of Five Rings; Self Reliance; Beyond Good and Evil; Fear and Trembling; The Art of War; The Enchiridion & Discourses; The Analects of Confucius; The Republic; On the Nature of Things; & Letters from a Stoic
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Howards End
The disregard of a dying woman's bequest, a girl's attempt to help an impoverished clerk, and the marriage of an idealist and a materialist - all these narratives intersect at an estate called Howards End. The fate of this country home symbolises the future of England in an exploration of social, economic, and philosophical trends during the post-Victorian era.
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The E.M. Forster Collection
Howards End; A Room with a View; A Passage to India; Where Angels Fear to Tread; The Longest Journey; The Eternal Moment; The Celestial Omnibus
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Great Expectations
The inimitable Stephen Fry reads this definitive edition of Dickens' most beloved novel, Great Expectations.
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Winnie the Pooh: The Collected Stories
This audiobook includes unabridged recordings of A.A. Milne's first two collections of Pooh stories, Winnie the Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner.
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Virginia Woolf: 3 Essays on Dostoyevsky
Presented here are 3 short works by Virginia Woolf, each a unique consideration of the work of Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
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The Longest Journey
E. M. Forster once described The Longest Journey as the book "I am most glad to have written." An introspective novel of manners at once comic and tragic, it tells of a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent.
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Old New York
Spanning four decades in the mid-nineteenth century, the interconnected novellas of Old New York lay out the complex and inscrutable codes, customs, and taboos of New York society in classic Wharton style.
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The Lord Peter Wimsey Collection: Books 1-5
Whose Body?; Clouds of Witness; Unnatural Death; Lord Peter Views the Body; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Essays Collection
Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Essays includes unabridged recordings of Dostoyevsky's letters and travelogue across Europe, giving us a deeper insight into the life and times of one of the greatest novelists of all time. Also included are three short essays on Dostoyevsky and his work by master of the modernist novel, Virginia Woolf.
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Decline and Fall
Sent down from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals, and fools, including Prendy and Captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just plain drunk).
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Meditations
Written in Greek by the only Roman emperor who was also a philosopher, without any intention of publication, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offer a remarkable series of challenging spiritual reflections and exercises developed as the emperor struggled to understand himself and make sense of the universe.
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Winter Notes on Summer Impressions
In June 1862, Dostoevsky left St. Petersburg on his first excursion to Western Europe. Ostensibly making the trip to consult Western specialists about his epilepsy, he also wished to see the source of the Western ideas he believed were corrupting Russia.
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Crime and Punishment
Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Daring young Tom Sawyer is a hero to his friends and a torment to his relations. During one hot summer, Tom witnesses a murder, attends his own funeral, rescues an innocent man from the gallows, searches for treasure in a haunted house, foils a devilish plot and discovers a box of gold. But can he escape his nemesis, the villainous Injun Joe?
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