The Essential Classics Collection
- Author H. G. Wells
- Narrator Joanne Froggatt, Stephen Fry, David Rintoul, Hugh Kermode, Malk Williams
- Publisher SNR Audio
- Publish Date 11 September 2025
- Run Time 90 hours and 24 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Classic fiction, Fiction: general and literary.
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What to expect
The Essential Classics Collection
is a continent-hopping, century-spanning collection of five of the greatest novels ever written, and the perfect way to listen to those classics you've always been meaning to read but never cracked open.
Read by a cast of incredible narrators including Joanne Froggatt, Stephen Fry, David Rintoul, Hugh Kermode, and Malk Williams.
Included here are stories of love, war, ambition and family, authored by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jane Austen, H. G. Wells, and George Orwell.
The titles included in this collection, in order of appearance, are:
- 1984, by George Orwell
- Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
- Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
- The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells
The Essential Classics Collection: Volumes 1-5 are also available to pre-order now.
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