Modern Classics Literature

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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: 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: 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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    • 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: 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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    • Collins Modern Classics
    • By: Berlie Doherty
    • Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
    • Length: 4 hrs
    • Release date: 16-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 116 ratings
    • An unforgettable tale of an orphan in Victorian London, based on the boy whose plight inspired Dr Barnardo to found his famous children's homes....

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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: Richard Burnip, Len Deighton
    • Length: 21 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • 31 June, 1943. An RAF crew prepare for their next bombing raid on Germany. It is a night that many will never forget....

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: Len Deighton
    • Narrated by: James Lailey
    • Series: Bernard Samson, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 27-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 341 ratings
    • Embattled agent Bernard Samson is used to being passed over for promotion as his younger, more ambitious colleagues - including his own wife, Fiona - rise up the ranks of MI6....

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: Len Deighton
    • Narrated by: James Lailey
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 29-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 124 ratings
    • A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped. A secret British intelligence agency must find out why....

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: Len Deighton
    • Narrated by: James Lailey
    • Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 124 ratings
    • It is 1941, and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed and the king imprisoned in the Tower of London. At Scotland Yard, Detective Inspector Archer tries to do his job and keep his head down....

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: Jack Kerouac, Ann Douglas
    • Narrated by: Ethan Hawke
    • Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 20-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • A witty, moving philosophical novel, Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums is a journey of self-discovery through the lens of Zen Buddhist thought. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Ann Douglas....

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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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    • A Virago Modern Classic
    • By: Angela Thirkell
    • Narrated by: Catrin Walker-Booth
    • Series: Barsetshire
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Edgewood Rectory may be set in an ancient landscape, but the Grantly family are very much of their time. Caught up in the uncertain world that has emerged since the outbreak of peace, the Rector and Mrs Grantly are bewildered by the challenges facing their eldest children....

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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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