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Wuthering Heights, Silas Marner, Ethan Frome & Orlando

Summary

Unabridged readings of four fictional masterpieces

Contained in this collection are four more enduring classics, read in full by some of the very best audiobook narrators. With over 32 hours of irresistible storytelling, tracked by chapter for ease of navigation, this is the perfect way to immerse yourself in these iconic works.

Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë's tempestuous tale of passions, betrayal and retribution on the wild Yorkshire moors. Read by Susan Jameson.

Silas Marner
George Eliot's heart-warming tour de force about a lonely weaver's search for redemption and hope. Read by Sean Baker.

Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton's powerful, affecting novella about a poverty-stricken young man attempting to escape a loveless marriage. Read by Joseph Ayre.

Orlando
Virginia Woolf's comic biography of a time-travelling hero whose adventures through the centuries include transforming into a heroine... Read by Clare Corbett.


Credits:

Wuthering Heights
Read by Susan Jameson
Produced by Ross Burman
First broadcast on BBC Sounds, 24 August 2019

Silas Marner
Read by Sean Baker
Produced by Martha Littlehailes
First broadcast on BBC Sounds, 22 August 2019

Ethan Frome
Read by Joseph Ayre
Produced by Julian Wilkinson
First broadcast on BBC Sounds, 1 November 2019

Orlando
Read by Clare Corbett
Produced by Simon Richardson
First broadcast on BBC Sounds, 1 November 2019

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About the authors

Emily Brontë

Emily Brontë (1818-48). Best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, and a collection of surviving poems, she remains one of the most intensely original and passionate voices in English literature.
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George Eliot

Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) (1819-80) was a philosopher, journalist and translator before she became a novelist, her first stories being published in 1856. She led an unconventional life, co-editing the liberal journal Westminster Review for three years and living with the married man and philosopher George Henry Lewes. Her novels are among the greatest of the nineteenth century
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Edith Wharton

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Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf, born in 1882, was the major novelist at the heart of the inter-war Bloomsbury Group. Her early novels include The Voyage Out, Night and Day and Jacob's Room. Between 1925 and 1931 she produced her finest masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando and the experimental The Waves. Her later novels include The Years and Between the Acts, and she also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, journalism and biography, including the passionate feminist essay A Room of One's Own. Suffering from depression, she drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941.
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