Century Classics

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    • The Story of a Murderer
    • By: Patrick Süskind, John E. Woods - translator
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 10-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,601 ratings
    • Told with dazzling narrative brilliance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity in 18th-century France....

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    • Valancourt 20th Century Classics
    • By: Michael McDowell
    • Narrated by: R. C. Bray
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Welcome to the Black Triangle, New York's decadent district of opium dens, gambling casinos, drunken sailors, gaudy hookers, and back room abortions. The queen of this unsavory neighborhood is Black Lena Shanks, whose family leads a ring of female criminals-women skilled in the art of cruelty.

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    • A Novel
    • By: Margery Sharp
    • Narrated by: Anna Parker-Naples
    • Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • Cluny Brown refuses to know her place in society. Last week, she took herself to tea at the Ritz. Then she spent almost an entire day in bed eating oranges. So, to teach her discipline, her uncle sends her into service as a parlor maid at one of England's stately manor houses....

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    • From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century
    • By: Helena Rosenblatt
    • Narrated by: Xe Sands
    • Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • The Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a political creed that has become a rallying cry - and a term of derision - in today's increasingly divided public square....

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    • By: Elizabeth Bowen
    • Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • In this piercing story of innocence betrayed set in the 30s, the orphaned Portia is stranded in the sophisticated and politely treacherous world of her wealthy half-brother's home in London....

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    • By: Halldór Laxness
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 20 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 406 ratings
    • Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, but his flinty determination to achieve independence is genuinely heroic....

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    • By: William Lindsay Gresham
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • One of the 20th-century's most darkly beautiful works of crime fiction - a story of carny life, spiritualism, and a con man of merciless resolve....

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    • Shakespeare in 1606
    • By: James Shapiro
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 193 ratings
    • In the years leading up to 1606, since the death of Queen Elizabeth and the arrival in England of her successor, King James, Shakespeare's great productivity had ebbed....

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    • A Pride & Prejudice Variation
    • By: Allison Smith, Cora Aston
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-25
    • Language: English
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    • Darcy desires to claim his bride. Elizabeth’s heart agrees, but not her mind. Will personal disaster, and Caroline’s machinations, keep them ...

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    • Valancourt 20th Century Classics
    • By: Joan Samson
    • Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 07-17-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 607 ratings
    • In the isolated farming community of Harlowe, John Moore and his wife work the land in his family for generations. From the moment the charismatic Perly Dinsmore arrives in town and starts soliciting donations for his auctions, things begin slowly and insidiously to change in Harlowe....

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    • Valancourt 20th Century Classics
    • By: Michael McDowell
    • Narrated by: Kimberly M. Wetherell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 177 ratings
    • When Philo Drax receives a letter from her wealthy grandfather saying he fears for his life at the hands of the vicious Slape family, she rushes to the rescue. But too late....

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    • A book based on the characters of Pride and Prejudice.
    • By: Miranda Flan
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Mr. Bennet is not only the father of five daughters because he has a son from his first marriage, the legitimate heir to the Bennet family and its ...

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    • Valancourt 20th Century Classics
    • By: Michael McDowell
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,423 ratings
    • Welcome to Babylon, a typical sleepy Alabama small town, where years earlier the Larkin family suffered a terrible tragedy. Now they are about to endure another:...

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    • By: Ford Madox Ford
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Series: Parade's End Tetralogy, Book 1-4
    • Length: 38 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 284 ratings
    • Ford Madox Ford’s tetralogy, set in England during World War I, is widely considered one of the best novels of the 20th century....

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    • Valancourt 20th Century Classics
    • By: Fred Hoyle
    • Narrated by: David Pickering
    • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Astronomers in England and America have made a terrifying discovery: an ominous black cloud the size of Jupiter is travelling straight towards our solar system....

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    • Extraordinaries Series, Book 1
    • By: Melissa McShane
    • Narrated by: Cat Gould
    • Series: Extraordinaries, Book 1
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 229 ratings
    • Elinor is an Extraordinary, the only one in England capable of wielding fire in over 100 years. As an Extraordinary she is respected and feared, but to her father she represents power for himself....

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    • Valancourt 20th Century Classics
    • By: Robert Marasco, Stephen Graham Jones
    • Narrated by: R.C. Bray
    • Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • Ben and Marian Rolfe are desperate to escape a stifling summer in their tiny Brooklyn apartment, so when they get the chance to rent a mansion in Upstate New York for the entire summer for only $900, it’s an offer that’s too good to refuse....

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    • By: L.A. Moore
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 12-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • When his mentor asks U.S. Marshal Grover Rayborn to escort a gang leader from Laramie to Denver for trial, he readily agrees. What was supposed to ...

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