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Author: Franz Kafka
Format: Online
Author Franz Kafka
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 2h 12m
Gregor Samsa, a seemingly typical man, wakes up one morning to discover he has been transformed into a gigantic insect. Frustrated and depressed about his physical alteration - and his family's rejection - Samsa's plight is filled with underlying meaning. This important literary work, written against the backdrop of increasing turmoil in central Eu...
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Author: Nicholas Searle
Format: Online
Author Nicholas Searle
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 11h 15m
This is a life told back to front. This is a man who has lied all his life. Roy is a conman living in a small English town, about to pull off his final con. He is going to meet and woo a beautiful woman and slip away with her life savings. But who is the man behind the con and what has he had to do to survive this life of lies? And why is this beau...
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Author: William Golding
Format: Online
Author William Golding
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 7h 2m
A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. As the boys' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are tr...
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Author: Rudyard Kipling
Format: Online
Author Rudyard Kipling
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 18m
Two sisters, Edith and Maud, are both in love with Saumarez. They have "a strong likeness between them in look and voice", and it is only a matter of time before they are mistaken for each other by the unlucky man. This was one of Rudyard Kipling's earlier tales, and made its first appearance in 'Plain Tales From the Hills', one of his celebrated c...
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Author: Rudyard Kipling
Format: Online
Author Rudyard Kipling
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 10m
The Kipling story Kidnapped was first published in the Civil and Military Gazette on March 21st 1887, in the first Indian edition of Plain Tales from the Hills in 1888, and in subsequent editions of that collection.
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