"The novel...was most enthusiastically admired by Henry James, and one can see
why, for it is most Jamesian...It marks the peak of her most brilliant period of creativity...And for us
it is a chance to see what can be achieved in the pursuit of moral truths."--Anita Brookner
A challenge to the moral climate of the day, The Reef follows the fancies of George Darrow,
a young diplomat en route from London to France, intent on proposing to the widowed Anna Leath.
Unsettled by Anna's reticence, Darrow drifts into an affair with Sophy Viner, a charmingly naive and
impecunious young woman whose relations with Darrow and Anna's family threaten his prospects for
success.
The affair becomes the reef on which four lives are in danger of foundering: two of them innocent, and
two of whom are burdened with experience and tinged with desperation. This is a story of the drastic
effects of a casual sexual betrayal and a clear-eyed assessment of the possibilities and limitations
of human love.
Written By : Anthony Trollope
Narrator : Simon Vance
Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc
Length : 23 hours
Type : Classic Literature
Price : $59.95 $43.95
Squire Dale, the embittered old bachelor who lives in the great house at Allington, has loaned the nearby small house rent free to his widowed sister-in-law and her two daughters, Lily and Bell. The action centers on the strained relations between the two houses and on the romantic entanglements... More... |
Written By : Lewis Carroll
Narrator : Various
Published By : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Length : 1 hour 55 minutes
Type : Classics
Classic Literature
Drama
British
Price : $13.49
When Alice sees the White Rabbit run by, it occurs to her that she's never seen a rabbit with a watch before. Burning with curiosity, she jumps up and follows him into a rabbit-hole of enchantment... More... |
Written By : William Shakespeare
Narrator : Full-Cast Production
Published By : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Length : 3 hours
Type : Shakespeare
Dramatizations
Classic Literature
Price : $22.25
The stormy passions of Shakespeare's tragedy resonate with powerful emotion in this BBC radio 3 production.
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Written By : William Shakespeare
Narrator : Peggy Ashcroft
Published By : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Length : 5 minutes
Type : Shakespeare
Classic Literature
Price : $1.65
From the BBC Sound Archives, one of Shakespeare's most famous and memorable speeches, with Paul Scofield and Peggy Ashcroft as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, bringing these ominous words vividly to life. More... |
Written By : William Shakespeare
Narrator : Full Cast Production
Published By : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Length : 1 hour 50 minutes
Type : Classic Literature
Shakespeare
Dramatizations
Price : $13.49
Richard Eyre directs Ken Stott as Macbeth and Phyllis Logan as Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's dramatic tale of greed and destiny... More... |
