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George Eliot, Edith Wharton
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  • Published: 3 June 2021
  • ISBN: 9781529142518
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $34.99

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A series of high-value bundles of classic unabridged novels

Unabridged readings of four fictional masterpieces

Contained in this collection are four more enduring classics, read in full by some of the very best audiobook narrators. With over 32 hours of irresistible storytelling, tracked by chapter for ease of navigation, this is the perfect way to immerse yourself in these iconic works.

Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë's tempestuous tale of passions, betrayal and retribution on the wild Yorkshire moors. Read by Susan Jameson.

Silas Marner
George Eliot's heart-warming tour de force about a lonely weaver's search for redemption and hope. Read by Sean Baker.

Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton's powerful, affecting novella about a poverty-stricken young man attempting to escape a loveless marriage. Read by Joseph Ayre.

Orlando
Virginia Woolf's comic biography of a time-travelling hero whose adventures through the centuries include transforming into a heroine... Read by Clare Corbett.


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Wuthering Heights
Read by Susan Jameson
Produced by Ross Burman
First broadcast on BBC Sounds, 24 August 2019

Silas Marner
Read by Sean Baker
Produced by Martha Littlehailes
First broadcast on BBC Sounds, 22 August 2019

Ethan Frome
Read by Joseph Ayre
Produced by Julian Wilkinson
First broadcast on BBC Sounds, 1 November 2019

Orlando
Read by Clare Corbett
Produced by Simon Richardson
First broadcast on BBC Sounds, 1 November 2019

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  • Published: 3 June 2021
  • ISBN: 9781529142518
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $34.99
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About the authors

George Eliot

George Eliot was born Mary Anne Evans in Chilvers Coton, England in 1819 on an estate managed by her father. When her mother did she left school to run the household, continuing her education alone in the estate’s library. She was multi-lingual and steeped in classical literature by the time a series of her essays and translations led to an invitation to London to edit the prestigious Westminster Review—anonymously, for fear a female editor would put off readers. When nearly 40 she published the story collection Scenes of Clerical Life, under the pseudonym George Eliot, partly because she was living with a married man, radical publisher George Henry Lewes, and feared being shunned by the public. Bu tin 1849 her fist novel Adam Bede, with its startling realism and psychologically astute characterizations, caused a sensation—and prompted an imposter to claim authorship. Evans revealed herself and was indeed ostracized, although less so with each successful new book, from The Mill on the Floss to Silas Marner and Middlemarch. After 25 years together Lewes died and, still grieving, she married their banker, a man 20 years her junior. She died shortly thereafter in 1880.
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Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton was born on 24 January 1862 in New York. She was educated in both America and Europe. In 1885 she married Edward Robbins Wharton. In 1899 she published her first work, a collection of stories called The Greater Inclination. In 1900 she published her first novel, The Touchstone. She wrote many other works including travel writing, home decoration manuals, short stories and her famous novels The House of Mirth (1905), Ethan Frome (1911), The Custom of the Country (1913) and The Age of Innocence (1920). She lived in France from 1907. She was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1916 for her work helping refugees there during the war. Edith Wharton died on 11 August 1937.
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