The Essential Classics: Volume 1
- Author Thomas Hardy
- Narrator Samuel West, Miranda Raison, Pearl Mackie, Jonathan Keeble, Peter Noble, Olivia Dowd
- Publisher SNR Audio
- Publish Date 11 September 2025
- Run Time 139 hours and 2 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Classic fiction, Fiction: general and literary.
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What to expect
The Essential Classics: Volume 1
brings together some of the most astute, gripping and tragic works written in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, beautifully read by Miranda Raison, Pearl Mackie, Jonathan Keeble, Peter Noble, and Olivia Dowd.
Spanning English, Russian and German literature, in this collection you will find the terrifying trials of iconic detective Sherlock Holmes, Dickens's cutting social commentary in
Bleak House, as well as classic coming-of-age narratives with
The Magic Mountain and Tolstoy's realist masterpiece in
Anna Karenina.
The titles included in this collection, in order of appearance, are:
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
- Bleak House by Charles Dickens
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