The British Classics Collection – Volume One: 20+ Stories from Charles Dickens, Emily Brontë, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, George Orwell, & More
- Author Virginia Woolf
- Narrator Stephen Fry, Jason Isaacs, Joanne Froggatt, Jonathan Keeble, Adjoa Andoh, Emma Gregory, Rachel Atkins, Lucy Scott, full cast
- Publisher SNR Audio
- Publish Date 5 December 2024
- Run Time 224 hours and 6 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Classic fiction, Fiction: general and literary.
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The British Classics Collection: Volume One
is a century-spanning collection of 24 classic works of fiction and poetry by British authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Stephen Fry, Joanne Froggatt, Jason Isaacs, Adjoa Andoh, and many more. Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Charles Dickens; Emily Brontë; Jane Austen; Thomas Hardy; George Eliot; D.H. Lawrence; George Orwell; and Mary Shelley, amongst a host of others.
The titles included in this collection, in chronological order, are:
- 1984, by George Orwell (read by Hugh Kermode)
- A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens (read by Jason Isaacs)
- A Warning to the Curious, by M.R. James (read by Jonathan Keeble)
- Animal Farm, by George Orwell (read by Leighton Pugh)
- Barchester Towers, by Anthony Trollope (read by Barnaby Edwards)
- Christina Rossetti Poems (read by Emma Gregory)
- Diary of a Nobody, by George and Weedon Grossmith (read by Mark Elstob)
- Elizabeth Browning Poems (read by Emma Gregory)
- Emma, by Jane Austen (read by Rachel Atkins)
- Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley (read by Jonathan Keeble)
- Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens (read by Stephen Fry)
- Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë (read by Rachel Atkins)
- Lady Chatterly's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence (read by Emma Gregory)
- Middlemarch, by George Eliot (read by Lucy Scott)
- Number 13, by M.R. James (read by Jonathan Keeble)
- Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen (read by Joanne Froggatt)
- Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe (read by Jonathan Keeble)
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy (read by Oliva Dowd)
- The Mezzotint, by M.R. James (read by Jonathan Keeble)
- Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson (read by Jonathan Keeble)
- The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells (read by Malk Williams)
- To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf (read by Karen Cass)
- Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë (read by Adjoa Andoh)
The full cast includes: Stephen Fry; Jason Isaacs; Joanne Froggatt; Jonathan Keeble; Adjoa Andoh; Barnaby Edwards; Emma Gregory; Mark Elstob; Rachel Atkins; Barnaby Edwards; Lucy Scott; Julie Teal; Olivia Dowd; and Karen Cass.
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