Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: In Aid of the Royal Theatrical Fund

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Oscar Wilde
• Narrated By Judi Dench, Jeremy Irons, Joanna Lumley, and others

Here is a collection of the Oscar Wilde's famous fairy tales, read by a cast of leading British actors. Additional narrators include Geoffrey Palmer O.B.E., Sir Donald Sinden, and Elaine Stritch. Music: 'Reverie De Sebastian' by Steve Davies.

The Tales of Max Carrados

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Ernest Bramah
• Narrated By Stephen Fry

Exclusive audio collection. Eleven Max Carrados stories - narrated by national treasure Stephen Fry. Max Carrados featured in a series of mystery stories that first appeared in 1914. Carrados featured alongside Sherlock Holmes in The Strand magazine, in which they both had top billing. The character often boasted how being blind meant his other senses were heightened. This exclusive audio collection features 11 Max Carrados stories.

The Foundations of Western Civilization

• ORIGINAL (24 hrs and 54 mins)
• By The Great Courses
• Narrated By Professor Thomas F. X. Noble

What is Western Civilization? According to Professor Noble, it is "much more than human and political geography," encompassing myriad forms of political and institutional structures - from monarchies to participatory republics - and its own traditions of political discourse. It involves choices about who gets to participate in any given society and the ways in which societies have resolved the tension between individual self-interest and the common good.

The House of Silk

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Anthony Horowitz
• Narrated By Derek Jacobi

It is November 1890 and London is gripped by a merciless winter. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are enjoying tea by the fire when an agitated gentleman arrives unannounced at 221b Baker Street. He begs Holmes for help, telling the unnerving story of a scar-faced man with piercing eyes who has stalked him in recent weeks.

Hard Times

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 41 mins)
• By Charles Dickens
• Narrated By Anton Lesser
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Hard Times is Dickens's most political novel. Set in the industrial north of England, in Coketown, he examines the lives of working people, who are taught by the capitalists Gradgrind and Bounderby to think only of the facts of life and not to indulge in imagination. Gradgrind’s own children have been so educated and as a result are dysfunctional and disconnected from their feelings. Only the travelling circus company of Sleary seems to offer any hope of humanity in Coketown.

Ghost Stories, Volume One

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 37 mins)
• By M. R. James
• Narrated By Derek Jacobi

Sir Derek Jacobi reads a collection of tales from the master of ghost stories, M. R. James, whose stories have for many years inspired the BBC's A Ghost Story for Christmas TV adaptations. M. R. James was described as "a man who, in company with Sheridan le Fanu, is the best ghost-story writer England has ever produced".

The Importance of Being Earnest

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 49 mins)
• By Oscar Wilde
• Narrated By Carson Beck
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

The four great comedies of Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, were all written at the height of the controversial Irish author's powers in his last, doomed decade, the 1890s.

Our Mutual Friend

• UNABRIDGED (36 hrs and 32 mins)
• By Charles Dickens
• Narrated By David Timson

A mysterious boatman on the Thames, a drowned heir, a dustman and his wife, and a host of other Dickens characters populate this novel of relationships between the classes, money, greed, and love. The 58 characters are presented with remarkable clarity by David Timson.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Oscar Wilde
• Narrated By Simon Prebble
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Oscar Wilde brings his enormous gifts for astute social observation and sparkling prose to The Picture of Dorian Gray, the dreamlike story of a young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty. This dandy, who remains forever unchanged---petulant, hedonistic, vain, and amoral---while a painting of him ages and grows increasingly hideous with the years, has been horrifying and enchanting readers for more than 100 years.

Whose Body?: The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Dorothy L. Sayers
• Narrated By David Case

Enter the 1920s Golden Age of Detection with this first novel from Dorothy L. Sayers, featuring the debut of a dashing gentleman detective, one of the great characters of mystery fiction - Lord Peter Wimsey. An unidentified corpse is found in a bathtub, and the police are jumping to conclusions about its identity and that of the murderer. Lord Peter Wimsey steps in and, with the help of his friend, Inspector Parker; and his manservant, Bunter, solves the mystery.

To the Lighthouse

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Virginia Woolf
• Narrated By Nicole Kidman
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

To the Lighthouse is Virginia Woolf’s arresting analysis of domestic family life, centering on the Ramseys and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland in the early 1900s. Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge, Eyes Wide Shut), who won an Oscar for her portrayal of Woolf in the film adaptation of Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Hours, brings the impressionistic prose of this classic to vibrant life.

Can You Forgive Her?

• UNABRIDGED (27 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Anthony Trollope
• Narrated By Simon Vance

Can You Forgive Her? is the first of the six Palliser novels. Here Trollope examines parliamentary election and marriage, politics and privacy. As he dissects the Victorian upper class, issues and people shed their pretenses under his patient, ironic probe.