Modern Classics

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: Robert DeMott - introduction, John Steinbeck
    • Narrated by: Richard Armitage
    • Length: 20 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 24-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 517 ratings
    • Shocking and controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck's Pultizer Prize-winning epic of the Joad family, forced to travel west from Dust Bowl-era Oklahoma in search of the promised land of California....

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: Patrick Süskind
    • Narrated by: Sean Barrett
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,170 ratings
    • A downloadable audiobook edition of the modern classic Perfume read by Sean Barrett....

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: Kingsley Amis
    • Narrated by: James Lailey
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 17-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 139 ratings
    • Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons....

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: Len Deighton
    • Narrated by: James Lailey
    • Series: Bernard Samson, Book 2
    • Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 27-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 160 ratings
    • World-weary agent Bernard Samson is losing control of his personal and professional life. Sent to Mexico to aid the defection of a KGB agent to the West, he has a chance to prove his worth. Instead, he is torn between conflicting loyalties and lost in a maze of duplicity....

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: Len Deighton
    • Narrated by: James Lailey
    • Series: Bernard Samson, Book 3
    • Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 27-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 160 ratings
    • Long-suffering spy Bernard Samson has, against all the odds, enticed a Soviet agent to defect to London - but this proves to be the start of something even bigger....

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: George Orwell
    • Narrated by: Peter Capaldi
    • Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party....

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: Jack Kerouac
    • Narrated by: Ethan Hawke
    • Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 20-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Driven mad by three years of endless telegrams, phonecalls, mail, reporters and snoopers in the wake of his hugely successful novel On the Road, Jack Kerouac, 'King of the Beats', needs peace, quiet and sobriety....

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: Len Deighton
    • Narrated by: James Lailey
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 29-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • 1963 Berlin is dark and dangerous. The anonymous hero of The IPCRESS File has been sent to help arrange the defection - in an elaborate mock coffin - of a leading Soviet scientist....

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: George Orwell
    • Narrated by: Rory Alexander
    • Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • Orwell chronicled his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War in Homage to Catalonia....

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: Audre Lorde
    • Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner
    • Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • The revolutionary writings of Audre Lorde gave voice to those 'outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women'....

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: Angela Y. Davis
    • Narrated by: Angela Y. Davis, Natalie Simpson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 15-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation....

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: George Orwell
    • Narrated by: Adam Buxton
    • Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality....

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: George Orwell
    • Narrated by: Catherine Bailey
    • Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • Intimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied housekeeper....

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    • By: John Wyndham
    • Narrated by: Zoe Telford
    • Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 19-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 350 ratings
    • Newly widowed Phyllida returns from India to visit her absent-minded father, Professor Woodbridge, only to find the house locked up and deserted....

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: John Steinbeck
    • Narrated by: Billy Howle
    • Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 15-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 630 ratings
    • Drifters in search of work, George and simple-minded friend Lennie have nothing in the world except each other - and a dream. A dream that one day they will have some land of their own....

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    • By: James Lovegrove
    • Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 866 ratings
    • New York Times best-selling author James Lovegrove’s continues the story of Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of the Baskervilles, as five years later, another monstrous creature stalks across Dartmoor....

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    • By: G. K. Chesterton
    • Narrated by: Toby Longworth
    • Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 20-08-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 252 ratings
    • Chesterton's allegorical masterpiece is a surreal, psychologically thrilling novel that centres on anarchists in turn of the century London who call themselves by the names of days of the week....

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: John Steinbeck, David Wyatt - introduction
    • Narrated by: Simon Manyonda
    • Length: 26 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 24-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 397 ratings
    • Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel....

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    • A Virago Modern Classic
    • By: Angela Thirkell
    • Narrated by: Jilly Bond
    • Series: Barsetshire
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • It's August in the Barsetshire village of Worsted, and Richard Tebben, just down from Oxford, is contemplating the gloomy prospect of a long summer in the parental home....

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: Eric Ambler
    • Narrated by: Mark Noble
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 30-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Josef Vadassy, a Hungarian refugee and language teacher living in France, is enjoying his first break for years in a small hotel on the Riviera. But when he takes his holiday photographs to be developed at a local chemists, he suddenly finds himself mistaken for a Gestapo agent....

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