Classics

SmartPass Plus Audio Education Study Guide to Macbeth (Unabridged, Dramatised, Commentary Options)

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 7 mins)
• By William Shakespeare, Simon Potter
• Narrated By Full-Cast featuring Joan Walker, Nick Murchie, Coralyn Sheldon

Combined for great value! The multi-award-winning SmartPass study guide with and without commentary options. Full-cast, unabridged performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis for any student to fully understand and appreciate the play.

"And nothing is, but what is not." Macbeth may be mystified by the Weird Sisters' words but this intense performance with incisive commentary cuts to the heart of Shakespeare's complex psychological tragedy.

SmartPass Plus Audio Education Study Guide to Romeo and Juliet (Unabridged, Dramatised, Commentary Options)

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 51 mins)
• By William Shakespeare, Simon Potter
• Narrated By Full-Cast featuring Joan Walker, Chris Kelham, Sara Bowes

Combined for great value! The multi-award-winning SmartPass study guide with and without commentary options. Full-cast, unabridged performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis for any student to fully understand and appreciate the play. The poetry of Shakespeare's star crossed lovers is poignantly performed and expertly explained in this unique production: "Passion lends them power."

A Christmas Carol

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Charles Dickens
• Narrated By Simon Vance
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Chapman and Hall and first released on 19 December 1843. The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation after the supernatural visitations of Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present, and Yet to Come.

Tales from Shakespeare: The Lambs' Tales

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, William Shakespeare
• Narrated By Alan Cumming, Nigel Davenport, Andrew Sachs, and others

A perfect introduction for all ages to the breadth and beauty of Shakespeare's work, Tales from Shakespearehas become a classic work in its own right. The tales bring vividly alive the power of Hamlet and Macbeth, the fun of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the drama of The Tempest. Blending detailed narrative with original dialogue and poetic language, they fully convey the wit, wisdom, and imagination of Shakespeare's magnificent plays.

Captains Courageous

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Rudyard Kipling
• Narrated By George Guidall
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Captains Courageous is Rudyard Kipling’s classic fable of a boy’s initiation into the fellowship of men, played out on the high seas of the late 1800s. When he falls overboard from a luxury liner, Harvey Cheyne, the spoiled son of an American millionaire, is rescued by a small New England fishing schooner. To earn his keep, Harvey must prove his worth in the only way the skipper and his hardy crew will accept: through the grueling mastery of a fisherman’s skills.

The Hobbit

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 8 mins)
• By J. R. R. Tolkien
• Narrated By Rob Inglis
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Like every other hobbit, Bilbo Baggins likes nothing better than a quiet evening in his snug hole in the ground, dining on a sumptuous dinner in front of a fire. But when a wandering wizard captivates him with tales of the unknown, Bilbo becomes restless. Soon he joins the wizard’s band of homeless dwarves in search of giant spiders, savage wolves, and other dangers. Bilbo quickly tires of the quest for adventure and longs for the security of his familiar home. But before he can return to his life of comfort, he must face the greatest threat of all.

The Wings of the Dove (Dramatised)

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Henry James, Linda Marshall Griff (dramatisation)
• Narrated By Lyndsey Marshal

Kate and Merton need money. Milly needs love. How far will they go to get what they want? Kate Croy is in love with Merton Densher; a poor writer. Her rich aunt Maud disapproves. Maud has offered Kate a wealthy existence but if Kate chooses to marry Merton she risks losing it all. When American Heiress Milly Theale steps into her London society, Kate sees a way out. Milly confides in Kate that she believes herself to be gravely ill and Kate begins to see a way for her and Merton to have a future. When Merton returns to London, Kate sets out to bring her lover and her friend together.

Edgar Allan Poe Audiobook Collection 3: The Fall of the House of Usher/The Imp of the Perverse

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 2 mins)
• By Edgar Allan Poe, Christopher Aruffo
• Narrated By Christopher Aruffo

This audiobook is a collection of two short stories by author, Edgar Allan Poe. The Fall of the House of Usher: At his friend's dire pleading, a man braves a living tomb now beset by madness and unknowable disease. The Imp of the Perverse: Blinded by the promise of wealth, a man commits the perfect murder... but how will he keep his secret when his own soul turns against him?

The Great Gatsby

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 10 mins)
• By F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Narrated By Dan Russell

The Great Gatsby, first Published in 1925 and probably F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, is set on Long Island's North shore, where Nick Carraway begins a new life in New York in the "roaring 20's".

Carraway is invited to join his new neighbour Jay Gatsby's social circle, including the self-made millionaire's legendary parties, and bears witness to Gatsby's rekindled love affair with the unhappily married Daisy, which ends in tragedy. Today the novel is widely regarded as a paragon of the Great American Novel and a literary classic.

Gargantua & Pantagruel (Classic Serial)

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 53 mins)
• By Francois Rabelais, Lavinia Murray (dramatisation)
• Narrated By David Troughton, full cast

Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais. Dramatised by Lavinia Murray. Episode 1: Gargantua. The bawdy, exuburant adventures of medieval giants. A dizzying blend of fantasy, comedy, philosophy and scatological humour. The world's a messy place. The first episode depicts the young life of the giant Gargantua, who is reduced to laughable insanity by an education at the hands of paternal ignorance, old crones and syphilitic professors. Episode 2: - Pantagruel. Concluding the bawdy and scatological adventures of Medieval giants.

The Sphinx Without a Secret

• UNABRIDGED (13 mins)
• By Oscar Wilde
• Narrated By Cathy Dobson

When Lord Muchison catches sight of a mysterious and beautiful lady in a carriage on London's Bond Street, he is captivated and spends the next few days on the lookout for her again. A week later, by chance he finds himself at a dinner party where Lady Alroy is present, who he immediately recognizes as the lady from Bond Street. But her mysterious behaviour and insistence on secrecy puzzles him greatly.

The Ambassadors (Dramatised)

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 53 mins)
• By Henry James, Graham White (dramatisation)
• Narrated By Henry Goodman, full cast

Adapted by Graham White from the Henry James novel that centres on the predicament of Lambert Strether, a 50-something New Englander lately arrived in Paris. Henry Goodman stars as the hapless protagonist in a novel many critics find James' finest.