The dramatic and sombre story of Wuthering Heights is dominated by Heathcliffe, a passionate and embittered soul, picked up as a gypsy waif by Mr Earnshaw and then reared in the bosom of his own...

Katherine Mansfield was compared by contemporary critics to Chekhov for her insights into ordinary events, and this recording contains four of her best stories.

In ‘The Daughters of...

'Typhoon' is the story of a steamship and her crew beset by a tempest and of the captain whose dogged courage is tested to the limit.

Captain MacWhirr was an ordinary man. However,...

John Harmon, in exile for many years, discovers that by a curious quirk in his father’s will he must marry Bella Wilfer, a girl he has never met, in order to claim his inheritance. Mistakenly...

In this brilliant piece of social comedy, E. M. Forster is concerned with one of his favourite themes: the ‘undeveloped heart’ of the English middle classes, who are here represented by a...

The difference between the two sisters, Elinor and Marianne, lies not only in their appearance but also in their temperament. Elinor’s good sense contrasts with Marianne’s impulsive candour....

It is over 500 years since Duke Claudio the Falcon lived his brutal, twisted life in Ruffano, Italy. Now, the modern–day town has forgotten its violent history. Its university has a shiny new...

Written at the end of the World War II, this work mourns the passing of the aristocratic world which Waugh knew in his youth and recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by the austerities of war.

Hornblower becomes a national hero when he escapes a French firing squad. But the Terror of the Mediterranean becomes Europe's most wanted man, forced to fight alone for England - and liberty.

An unabridged reading of the classic novel by Thomas Hardy.

Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate...

His acceptance of all the realities of life principally recommends what many regard as a more mature work than ‘Madame Bovary’. In this story, of a young man’s romantic attachment to an...

Entertaining stories which Jameson describes as 'easy to pick up and more tantalising for one's bedside table than a novel'.

This selection of Winifred Holtby's short stories is drawn...

George Eliot’s most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose...

Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is shell-shocked and on the brink of...

When Helen Schlegel falls suddenly in love with Paul Wilcox she breaks off the engagement almost at once, perceiving the spiritual gulf between their two families. But when her sister, Margaret,...