Independent & Proudly Human Audiobooks
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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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Beyond Good and Evil
Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. Nietzsche demonstrates that the Christian world is steeped in a false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
In the sequel to Tom Sawyer, his sidekick Huckleberry Finn takes centre stage. Innocent and well-intentioned, Huck is brought face to face with the reality of slavery in the southern states as he helps his friend Jim escape to freedom.
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The Ultimate Ghost Stories Collection: Novels and Stories from Edgar Allan Poe, M.R. James, Charles Dickens, Henry James, and More
The Fall of the House of Usher; The Call of Cthulhu; The Turn of the Screw; The Mezzotint; and More
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The Leo Tolstoy Complete Collection
War and Peace; Anna Karenina; Resurrection; Short Stories; Novellas; and Non-Fiction
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The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons - the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded Dmitry, and the saintly novice Alyosha - are all at some level involved.
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